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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 ...

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, ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... SCOTS APPEEA ..J VI~E n-Tor, OF RO'o.SLNe %NHn,,ofIt 'Ibis cane w~a p00rtl VIer' . 0 - bor's illnet-t, atnd tV herosil~ 61r ?? again tin Thuirsdaty la~t. hot ti1. 1t Sil,f, 'It ; was tn addrless the fltI ei ilt~t in the etiuoiry tn a st~e.id ret 4 lkt. aTI Ctounsel t aeedled nit, their e, 1, that thle Sulit-itti-Gesro loodha 1 , steal of the Attorney. Gceytn, si, , n 1 i Ce pellauts' ease. .1 ...

SESSIONAL CURIOSITIES

... (Frmrn tire Atlas.) Among tile original and odd things which trans- pired during the session, and which have amused, if not surprisesl us, may be classed the following cu- rious and singular petitions, presented at different periods to the House:- 1. Petition from Charles Bradley, for a law de- clhring it blaospleiny in any one who shall teach any tlrirsg contrary to sound doctrine. 2. ...

THE AUCHTERARDER CASE

... ,r 1jOIlTFUARPER CASE. floute of Lords, August 9. m *~ 5liu~s~Isl ER~~ lIa.'eOUL AND tb 0T 05 E' F COF rso. of 10,~s T i ll; t ;dnout of thle well-known co bi ~at ?? ;1B39,. the Earl of i al sh T~j~r~lr C5~ ~bertoyung to the Presbytery eii ~ ted te U ?? to hsis admission pi oir theparish, talnd on their refusal to pa ~~ eatr;'til wa made to the oh e ' nterlocutor Was proutOluI- 'lturtofse;ilt ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Aug. 25

... CENTRAL CRIMINAL cOURT-Aug. 25. (Before Lord Abinger, Nr Baron Rolfe, and Mr Justice Williams.) TRIIAL, OF JOIN BEAN FOR ATTEMPTING TO SHOOT THE QUEEN. John William Bean, the deformed boy, aged 16, a %wretched and diminutive looking being, apparent- ly not more than 12 or 13 years of age, was this morning indicted for a misdemeatour, in having presented a pistol at her Majesty the Queen, on ...

EXTRAORDINARY CORONER'S INQUEST —THE LATE MR BYRNE OF DUBLIN

... EXTRAORDINARY CORONISR'S INQUEST -TIHE LATE MIR BYRNE OF DUBLIN. r This inquest, which closed its proceedings in Dub- lin on Friday lost, sat for the unprecedented spave of twenty-one dnys. The particulars of the case are sbortly these. The late Mr Byrne married it widow lady (Mrs Byrne), the wife of a deceased pawnbro. ker, who was said to have left her a 6-rtune of up- wards of L.20,001. ...

COMMISSION COURT, DUBLIN—Aug. 10

... COmi]MISSION COURT, DUBLIN-Aug. 10. Chief Justice Doherty and Baron Pennefatber took their seats on the bench at halfpast ten o' (dock. DlGANT A young mran named Bailey was placed at the traversers' bar on a charge of bigamy. Mr Brewster, Q.C., said, he did not feel himself justified in bringirsg the case forward at present, as it was one of those cases which depended upon the validity of the ...

SANITARY INQUIRY—SCOTLAND

... SANITARY INQUIRY-SCOTLAND. The report on the sanitary condition of the la. bouring population of Scotland, in consequence of an inquiry directed to be made by tbe Poor Law Commissioners, has just made its appearance, bav- ing been presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty, a few days previous to the prorogation. This report contains a mass of most valuable information, ...

FRENCH POLICE

... The Correctional Tribunal of Bayonne was lest week occupied with a curious case of fraud, prac- tised by a mail residing in the neighlourhood. The prisoner, named Castella, was a tailor by trade, but at the same time was a manl of many other profes- sions. Professing the doctrines of Pythagoras, lie thought that the souls of men passed into the bodies of ogas, cats, and other animals, in order ...

TIPPERARY ASSIZES

... Nenagh, Monday. James Shea, alias Smytha, was placed at the bar, charged in two counts with the wilful murder of Rody Kennedy, of Lougliane, in this county, on the 21st of Mav last. It appeared that previous to the murder, Kennedy disapproved of an intercourse which had sprung up between the prisoner and his eldest daughter, and he threatened her that if she had any thing to (to with the ...

POLICE-INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS

... POLICEEINFLAMIMATORY PLACARDS. BOIwSTREET.-On Thursday morning, immediately on Mr Jardine taking his seat, William Chilling- worth, a weaver, John Palmer, a weaver, and Fre- derick Cartwright, who described himselfas a con fectioner, wasl placed at the bar, charged on the po- lice sheet with unlawfully carrying through the streets placards of an inflammatory character, with intent to incite ...