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HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... HIGH COURT OI.JUSTICIARY. On Monday, Margarnrte Henderson, Jilnet Jack or 1ilCol,, and William' Johnston, letter founder, evren ?? at the bar, charged with assaulting a gentleman in a notorious house in North Foulis' Close, into which le had been led under false pretences, and with rob. bing him of his purse containing a Bank note, a half sovereign, ail about fifteen shillings in silver, eggra ...

ADMIRALTY COURT—Dec. 2

... ADMIRALTY COURT-Dec. 2. THE ANN-SALVAGE. Thin was a suit by the officers and crew of her Mla- jesty's steamer Pluto against the brig Ann and part of her cargo, for remuneration for salvage services render- ed in the river Boasy, Africa. It appeared that the Ann, a vessel of 340 taons, belonging to Liverpool, bad arrived on the conast of Africa with an assorted cargo, when, on the 25th of April ...

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ABDUCTION

... EXTRAORDINARY CASE, OF ABDUCTION. Mr Rushton, and other Liverpool Magistrates, have been for some days past employed in the in- vestigation of a most extraordinary case of abduc- tion, and concerning witich tiere has been much curious gossip. The names of the parties in cus- tody are John Orr M'Gill, John Osborne Quick, ThoDmas Wormand Rogerson, Richard Jones, Mlar- garet Jones, and Jane ...

COURT OF SESSION—STEWARTON CASE

... COURT OF SESSION-STrEWARTON CASE I ?? zi~r On Tuesday the pleadings in this important case w. commenced in presence of the whole thirteen Judges. rat It was arranged by their Lordships, that only the re- fie spective senior Counsel should be heard ; and it w ?? expected that Mr P. Robertson, for the heritors ar.e' minister of Stewarton, Suspeaders, and Mr Rute; - aci furil, fear the Presbytery ...

GLASGOW CIRCUIT COURT

... FRIWAY. Joseph Paterson or Perton was plaedn at the tiar, charged w'ith having upon the 21,J or 24th dnys of July 1841, feloniolusly broken open a letter addrossed to Joseph Peytrt, and abstracted therefrom a pest nfhie order fer the sum of 6r. He was further charged whit having on a suhbequrent day of the same mnonth adhihited the ?? *- Joseph Peyton to the reeeipt appended to thn raid poet ...

SIR CHARLES SHAW AND THE MAGISTRATES OF MANCHESTER

... (Globe.) Sir Charles Shaw, the late Chief Commission- er of Police of the borough of Manchester. (the term of his official connection with that bo- ge0 rough having expired), has published a narrative del, in vindication of his own conduct with reference tell to the recent disturbances. Nothing can be con more complete than the demonstration afforded pri, by this narrative of the promptitude ...

COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE

... Alu adjourned meeting of Commisslinors of Police took place on Mlornday-the LOaD PROVOST in the chair. The consideration of the minutes of the Paving Com- mittre gave rice tox vonidno discennns noid divisions. A proprietor io Greenside Street hnd refused to bear his proportion of the elpense of repairing pavement, on the ground tmt it vas not nut of repair; and a visitation of the street took ...

APPALLING MURDER

... 'rataca CItILD REN MURDERED BY THEIR F .ATIIER- SUICIDE OF TUBF. MIiDhtEti.E1 Onl Sunday morning, about a quarter before nine o'clock, a catastrophe took place in A iderinanbury, whith, as regards determination an1(d atrocity, lies scarcely ever been equalled, at least since the Stein- herg tragedy at Pentoniville, involving, as it does, the horrible murder of three helpless children by their ...

ADMIRALTY COURT—Aug. 3

... ADMIRA LTY COURr-Aiig. 3. TIHE PANDvra.-Tlie question at issue in thti case was, whether certain property taken from this pirate vessel hy I. M.S. Cudesr, was droits of thd Crown or draits of thei Quaet' in her olfice of Aduiralty, and belonged by pa- tent to the Lorl High Admt iral. The case was argued some months since. The Court now delivered its jodg. meat, and pronosusced in favour of the ...

MURDER BY A HIGHWAYMAN

... MURDER BY A HfGI117AYMAN. EXTRAOR1DINARfV CASti' On Thursday afternoon thc titlilinp rl Hornsey, I ighbury, and Islington, were z1 'f into a state of the most painful alarmn alod citement, by a report, which ohrail(,(I circulation, that a most determoinedi mor1;' s of policeman had taken place, and shot asitlir liceman aml a baker, resitling at eorn, been shot, near Highbury Birn, by a, man, ...

ENGLISH NORTHERN CIRCUIT

... (Befsore Lord Deniana.) Francis Bradley wag indicted for the wilful mur- i der of his wife, Alice Bradley, by the administration of arsenic. Mr WVilkinsi and Mr Monk conducted the prose- 0 cutiou ; Dr Brown was assigned as Counsel for the n prisitrier. The prisoner arid his wife lo(lged, iteaPpesred, at the house of a Mr and Mrs Lee, Golden Street, Mancliester. On Saturday the 19th March last, ...

JEDBURGH SPRING CIRCUIT

... JI'DBURG11 SPRING CIRCUIT. The Circuit Court at Jedburgh was opened on Monday last, belbre the Honourable Lord Mac- kenzie, Chlarlsi Neaves, Esq. Advocate-Depute. Several cases of petty larceny were disposed of, when the culprits were sentenced to various pe- riods of imprisonment, none of them extending beyond eighteen months. Two of the prisoners are to be sent to the Perth Penitentiary, ...