... TIHE CUSTOMS' DEPARTMENT-FRAUDS UPON THIE REVENUE. It must be readily conceded that when investiga- tions are carried on relative to abuses in any of the public departments, in a secret manner, any report orsuch abuses, made through private sources, may be at times subject to misconstruction, and doubtless partial contradiction. We were therefore prepared for a host of communications denying ...

... ,nd Chester, Wednesday evening. we The Special Commission issued for the trial of `ae the prisoners charged whith the commission of aer cffente i variouspat of Chieshire, during thle re-, ley opened this afternoon with the customary formali- BY ties at Chester Castle. Tue Judges appointed to ' try the prisoners aire Lord Abinger, Sir E. IH. Al- rtb derson, and Sir C. Cressw'eli. They arrived ...

... BURGLARY, EXTENSIVE ROBBERY, AND GALTTEmpED MURDER. (From the Weorceser Chirousile.) r It is our painful duty to record the particulars 3 of a daring burglary and robbery, accompanied with brutal violence, perpetrated in this county s, yesterday se'ennight, which, but for the merciful ly interposition of Providence, might have been D. equally dceadful in its results with the atrocious murder ...

... ( Concltrden.) b TltURSDfAY, OCT. I3. e lobert Henderson, grocer in Leven, Fife, and Wil liam Lawstin, his shopman, accused of culpable homi r cide; the ?? having sold to Ann Johnston, on the Y 2ititl January 1942, 60 grains of Tartar emetic, for her father, who, on taking it, died in censequence. Botli ?? pleaded N.,t Guilty. The Ad,,ocate-Depurte then ntated to the Court, that it was his ...

... (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 ...

... The Council met at the usual hour cn Tuesday, the Lord Provost in the chair. Mr M'AULAY called the notice of the Council to the present scarcity oF water in the citv, which bad arisen entirely fronm the neglect of the Water Com- pany, in not adding the other springs at their comn- mand, to their sole resource of the Crawley Spring. The LonD PROVOST, as the only official connected with the ...

... STAFFORD, The tiial of the rioters chsrged with the burning and demolition or the Rev. Mr Aitken's house again occupied the Court all day on Saturday, without ra coming to n terminat:on. to Samutel Jnnes, William Gittenc, Thomas Byrnes, C John Griffihis, John Morris, Thomas Pitt, Thomaq of Walker, Sdmpzon Bates, William Jones, Thomas in Hughes, Benjrmit Lordling, John Symonds, and v Soloimon ...

... At Guildhall on Friday, Mary Ann Wooley, otherwise Morgan, and Ann Bryers, the heroines in ii the extraordinary matrimonial hoax at Bristol, were brought up in custody, having been given in charge at the Post Office by Mr Wooley. The officer said, that Mr Wooley had gone to Union Hall, to fetch Mr Clarkson, whom he had retained to prosecute the prisoners. ?? knew no- thing of the charge, ...

... INFLAMMATORY APPEALS-THE SPECIAL COMMISSION AT STAFFORD (Dublin Evening Mail.) The mildness of his country's laws has left Mr Feargus O'Connor-charged with high crimes and misdemeanors against the State-at large upon such moderate securities as may pro- bably suffice to insure his appearance when call- ed upon to take his trial. Consideration for his health and comfort was, doubtless, the ...

... JIMDBURGII CIRCUIT COURT. On Tste~day list the Circuit Court Of Joetirrary was opened here Ity the light Haln, Lord AMoneceiff-Dlavid lint Milne, Esq. Advocaste Dopute 11ls Charles Hall, accused of stealing, on the 6th of April last, from the farm of Kelso Cleuch, in the parish of Howman, 19 Cheviot gimmers belonging to Thomas El- liot, tenant there, and one Cheviot gimmer belonging to Richard ...

... -MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT DUNDSE.. The followin, particulars of the muiderous as- lsult at I)undee appeared in a second edition of our Monday's paper:- (From our own Correspondent.) Dundee, 15th Oct. 1842. James Duff, cattle-dealer in the neighlbourhood of Kirkmiclhael, near Blsirgoweie, had, it seems; been in the Custom Of transatatingbusiness with Alexander Mackenzie, a cattle-dealer from the ...

... Stafford, Thursday. Yesterday the greatest excitement prevailed amongst the authorities of this county and the per. sons in charge of the jail, in consequence of the Go- vernor, Mr Brutton, having detected a deep-laid and well concocted plan of the rioters confined in it to effect their escape. At an early hour a letter, said to be written by a prisoner named O'Meill, who is under sentence, ...