... A meeting of Po'ice Commissioners was hold on Mon- day, tbe Lord Provost in the chair. SURGEON OP POLICE. A report by the Committee appointed ta inquire with respectto thu doties rhich ought to be imposed on the Surgeon of Polire, &e. nas readi, recommending thai the salara' should he L. 120, anti among ether things, that AMr Black, during bis life-time, should have L.80 ot that sum. After ?? ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... HIGHl COURT OF JUSTICIARY. TruAL OF SIVUTH AiND WISHAtRT, In our last paper we gave the vreliminary proeeadings in this caie. T.re Court, as fnrmerly stated, was nceut fied uttil its adjournment with the evidence for the prossecution. The first witness railed was Alexander 'iodd-Hns been accountaentin the Glat- gnw and Ship Bank siece 1st July 1836, when the two annks were united. Had beenr ...

... C{OMM1SSIONERS OF POLICE. An adjourned meeting of tihe Police Commission Was beld on Monday, the Lilrd Provost in the Chair. The report of the Fire Engine Committee gave rise to same discussion. One of ?? usual turns-out for practis- ing tookl place on FIriday, whren the enginee assembled in the Parliament Squnre, but not beilng able to Obtain e sufficient supply of water, it was resolved to ...

... TIHE EOEITAMPTON MURDEn-TRIAL OF DANIEL GOOD. CrNTRAL C RIMINA1 COURT, MA3Y 13. It having been arranged, that the trial of Daniel Good, for the murder nt Roehamptoi, should come on this morning long before the usual hour for the commencement of business every avenue of the Court was besieged by persons anxious to obtain admission to hear the proceedings. Shortly before ten his Royal Highness ...

... JURY COURT, Alay 13. The LonD JUSTICEcCLERK andI a Jury trier! the fol- losing issues in the cause in which Andrew Donaldleon, farmer at Henthryford, nenr Kinrosr, nearest and lawful heir of the late John Donaldson of St Mary's in the pa. sish of Monimail and county of Fife, and William Do- naliison, farmer at Bowden, parish nt Kettle, son of the decoased William Dananlson, brother of the said ...

... PRISONS IN KCOTLAN). The following, extracte Irom the flilrd report of the Gene ral Board of Directors of Pri~ons: in, Scat- Leg land, addressed to the Right Hlonourabile Sir James Graham, Secretary oif State for the I-omre Depart- tnent, and presented to both hlouses of Parliament, calk will be read with interest. The report takes it cio-n F prehiensive view of the state of the prisons in ...

... Tbe C.rt ?? on Monday, and proceeded witl the trial of tie fol o;ng' cnres :- ?? S'nat. clerk, was accused of forging four reiaqtes e n Si Williaim Foboesand Co., bankers, in the ?? of his emalucer, Air John GrindIny, leather-mer- cliert, West Bexv. The rheques were for L.90, ?? L.40, nrtd L.30, the dates extending from 17th Janeary last to the 28th of Mnarh. The prisoner pleaded Guilty, and ...

... (Globe.) The conclusion to which Lord Brougham ar- rived will be agreed on by men of all parties:- This system, I have not the least doubt, is one that cannot last. It will become necessary that these cases be dealt with judicialiy, by tribunals composed of persons unconnected with party. So long as the .Judges continue to be Members of the other House of Parliament, so long will it be ...

... ADMIRALTY COURT, MIAY 21. TIHE ITARRItlt. Ir this case, which was a proceeding to enforce ft claim for salvage services rendered by the Folleestone, a South Sea whaler, to tile Harriot, another South Sea whaler, and which was resisted by the owner of the lat- ter, on the ground that it was a custom in the fishery for whalers to render such services to each other mutually, without claiming or ...

... ADMIRALTY COURT-WEDNESDAY, MAX 25. THE VOLANT-COLLISION. In this case two collierr, the Beatitude, laden, the Volant, in bailast, the formner enoing up the river, the Intter going down came in collision in the Srin, on the night of the 2ith iof February laet, in consecuenie of which the Beatitude went down. The Volanit had the wind free, and wtn on the lirjoraid taek the other ver- rel was ...