... IJMFORTAT CASE ON THE GAME LAWS. The suspender, Gavin Sniellie, farmer at Hazledean, in the parish of Stonehouse, and county of Lanark, was charged at the instance of the respondent,~ Robert Lockhart, Esq. of Cas- flehill,, with concourse of the Procurator-Fiscal of Court, for of the nublie interest, before the Justices of the Peace for the of said county, with contravention of the first ...

... (Froni the Scotsman.) The following cases, relative to the allowances for destitute persons in Scotland, will illustrate the benefit produced by the re- vival of the ancient poor law, in consequence of the noted decision in the case of Widowv Duncan against the parish of Ceres, finding that the heritors and kirk-sessions are cot the final juidges of the amount of aliment to paupers, and that ...

... The Court met on Monday-present the LordJnstice Clerk, Lords Moncreiff and Cockburn. THE LEITH STREET ROBBERY. Alex. Cowie, Charles M'Kay, Peter Kelly, George Metcalfe, and W. Irvine, were charged with the crime of theft by house- breaking, and with reset of theft, in so far as the said Alex- ander Cowie, Charles M'Kay, Peter Kelly. and George Met- calfe, did on 5th May last, wickedly and ...

... SIGH COURT OF JUSTICIA~Y. R1.- a.. . CHARORC O5V 'irROR. On Mondpy weeLk, John Balfour, shoemaker. residing In Caa murder of E niz inr was out to the bar, charged with the murdr o ~iiabeh Dckson or' 133tfonr, his wife, on the night of the V7, th (.S.attrday > or morning of the 181b Auguist ia~t, by a'riiing her with a lnammer or poker, or sonme other instrument, a severe blow on tier head. or ...

... GIX AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPAN-YV. ThU TRUSTEES OF ST MARX'S UNITARIAN CtTAPEL. On Monday last, a trial took place before Mr.Sheriff Speirs n and a special jury, in reference to the compensation to be paid D to the trustees of St Mark's Unitari.n Chapel, Castle Terrace, bythe Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, in conse- quence of the formation of the tunnel which is to be made 5e about 13 ...

... Il1NMIAV- I),, O'k I IMONDAY, DEC. 23. e nI LFUL FIRE-RAISING. I Giaso, weaver, was placed at the bar, charged with t ilii hli e-raisiog, irt so far as, ol the night of Sunday thle 28th, or s mrnie- of Monday the 29th day of April, 1844, he did wickedly, n n ilfulls maliciousiy. and feloniously set fire to the warehouse or prentises in Sentbesk Street of Brechil, occupied by 'Messrs. Guthrie ...

... JUUY TR]AL. t s .ISun ?? Ier,.,rrt of tihe farm and landr eof Auehtenny ai th- cerritv *f Kinross, pursuer, r TtRot.S Dicx, ceacher in ])rrn~eo, and Dr. DlAVIr,) lUSttrtAA, physician in Forfar, de- fe;irlers. This was an action raise(d by the pursuer, narrating that he had blecorne tiialt of the farm of Anchtennvat >Iartirnnas, 1840, atthe 1 Yearly rent of £2r35, and nithough the defenders ...

... JURY COURT-SECOND DIVISION. On Friday last the following issue was tried before Lord MIoncreiff and a jury. in the case Edward Elnilton, writer in Glasgow, pursnCer; Thoomas G. Matthews and Robert Leonard, drysaltars in Bristol, and Alexander M1orrison, writer in Glas- gow, their mandatory, d'efdeidcs:- 'It being admitted that, on the 21st day of Septembernnd l0th October 1835. the bond of ...

... NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY-JURY TRIAL. I NORTH BRITISH RAILWAT COMPANT V. NISBET. I On Thursday the 28th November a jury was empannelled in the Town House at Dunse, in compliance with a petition presented to the Sheriff of Berwickshire, to assess the value of certain lands belonging to John Nisbet, Esq. of Shawbraes, required for the purposes of the railway and the damage con- nected therewith. ...

... CENTRAL CAIMINAL COURT-Dnc. 19. William Burgess was placed at the bar, on the sitting of the court this morning, and given in charge to the jury on an in- dictment for feloniously uttering a forged warrant of attorney for the transfer of L.6305 3s. 5d. Bank Stock, standing in the name of William Oxenford, with intent to defraud him of the same. The prisoner, who still appeared to suffer both ...

... MUR)DER OF THE EARL OF HADDINGTON'S COACHMAN. FARTHER PARTICULARS. The name of the unfortunate victim was John Habert, not Abbot, as formerly stated. He had been for some time in the noble Earl's employment, and still longer in that of the Earl of Macclesfield, the Countess of Haddington's father, and wvas much respected in both families. It appears, that on the evening of Friday week, two or ...

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