... I TOWN COUNCIL piOCEEDI;GS. Tihe Council taet on Tuesday at the usual hour-the Lord Provost i-a the chiir. '!,11E _1VATrn.1 co(rr. On the minutes of last meeting having been read, the Lord Provost rose and moved, that the part of the minutes which had reference to the vestinz of the Old and New Water Coin- panies in a public trust should bc rescinded. At the time Treasurer Thomnsonl made the ...

... THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSIRATE THE KING OF THE FRENCH. The following particulars are from tie JoutrnatdesDebluts: | Yesterday afternoon the Roval Family had made a pro- menadc, after a hunting party, Which bh'd lasted until near five o'clock. The King, Queen. Prince.is Adelaide, the Prince and Princess of Salerno, and the Dnchess de Netnours, were in a char-a-banc. The Duke de Ncinours and Prince ...

... ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KINtG OF THE FRENCH. (Prom the Tl1nes.) We received by extraordinary express last evening, but too late for publication, a letter from our correspondent in Paris, dated 10 o'clock P.r.. Wednesday, July 29. Itis asfollow-s: At seven o'clock this evening, -hen the Zing and the royal family had entered the baleoony of the Palace of the Taileries overlooking the ...

... BUSINESS O1F THE COURT OP SESSItON. Qa, Thursdav last, a motion havintg been made in a case b'rorc e!l Fir't Division of the Court of Session, as to 'the- tber a x lict slhould be applied bh the First or the Second sorne observations fell from the Court in regard to hle state ofttoc lttsines% of some iumportance to the prblic. T!:e 1erd President said, that this proceeding rendered it frcepr ...

... MODATY, NOVE fBER 9. The court met again to-day, the judges present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord Wood. Ann Temple pleaded guilty to several charges of theft, as also to falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition ; aggravated by previous conviction, and was sentenced to 10 years' tran- sportation. Robert Watson, David Menzies, and George Hobson, plead- ed not guilty to a ...

... C C ! - =IL Ph CiJ-lj . COUN\- !T CLl!-svI>E-ag T( 1-511A1. IS-T nI:c. 1.ort Prol-xit ill the Chair. i PVtTO. ON Tlt.A * p - 1'W-0-~sa~ai~ef'cc Tnni-> : thie busimss ofl I tU brixi. -U btftlx Xiial Matter xc ?? o -I b I Mt1 0II rehU x ti-nlace inl il~rerelr ettOWIzr. to1- (t~lL (lit- en t~his article redou lit- ' v Ci'V ?? as igha 400 ?? c-- litton the ocicinliza teaot of the - ncori ned i hz ...

... INSOLVENT IDEB13TORS COURT-Sept. 25. nq Rz JOHN MACLEOD. WI This insolvent applied for his discharge. There was no op- co position. The Learned Chief Commissioner, upon looking through Of the insolvent's schedule, made some inquiries as to how his ra debts were contracted, and what had become of the large C amount of property which he hpd obtained from various m tradesmen. 11 The insolvent, in ...

... COURT OF SESSION-SECON-D DIVISION. Sus-pension and Interdict-Jourx ToD, Esq. W.S. v. Esix- ?? AIND ANVIE ERA.ILWAY COMPANYY This was an application, at the complainer's instance, for in- terdict against the Edinburgli and Hawick Railway Company carrving their railwv.y across his approach in the manner they now proposed. In the plan lodged with the Sheriff Clerk-, in compliance wvith the ...

... A special meeting of the Town Council wvas held Oi Thurs- day, for the purpose of taking into consideration a proposal to transfer both the Edinburgh and the Edinburgh'and Leith Water Companies to a public trust. The Lord Provost pre- sided. The Chairman explained, that he had called the meeting in consequence of a correspondence which had taken place be- tween the two Water Companies, in ...

... CASE OF THE GLASGOW CHURCH BUILDING SOCITY. The First Division of the Supreme Court were to have pronounced judgment on Friday last. in the case of the quoad sacra churches of the Glasgow Church Building Society, but on Thursday the Lord President intimated, that in consequence of the state of Lord Jeffrey's health the iudgment in this case, and in some others, must be postponed till next ...

... I DISCOVERY OF TILE STOLEN PROPERTY The excitement created in the town of Berfwick-upon- Tweed, by the robbery of the North of England Joint Stock Bank, has been sustained by the discovery at intervals, during the course of the rigid investigation which was being pursued, of circumstalnes which seemed to indicate ver' clearly that the plot was circumscribed by the scene of its execution, and ...

... IHGH COURT OF J1USTICURY. I The Court met on Monday, the judges present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Moncreiff, and Lord Medwyn. Euphemia Haxton pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing forty-nine table cloths, sixty towels, twenty-four pairs of linen sheets, and a great many similar articles, from the house of a Writer to the Signet, by whom the prisoner -was employed. Having been ...