... 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of the minutes which had reference to the vestinz of the Old and New Water Coin- panies in a public trust should bc rescinded.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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ADMIRALTY COURT-Dec. 1. THE MATCHLESS. This was originally a cause of collision. The action was brought by the owners of the Joseph; and at the hearing, the court, aided by Trinity Masters, pronounced in favour of the claim. A reference was then made to the registrar and mer- chants to assess the amount of damage. In their report they disallowed various sums claimed by the owner of the Joseph, ...

... JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT- GRANTON PIER ACT. On Tuesday last, a complaint was broughr before Captain 33oswall of 'Wardie, and amother of her Majesty's Justices, at the instance of Mr List. Procurator-Fiscal for the Public in- terest, and as acting under a Commission from his Grace the -Duke of Buccleuch, in refermnee to contraventions of the ?? Pier Act. against the Captain or M1aster of the ...

... The Justices of the Peace for the city held a general quar- ter sessions on Thursday. In consequence of the new regula- tions which the Magistrates recently laid down for the granting of licenses, and the great number of appeals which had on that account been taken, the crowd of persons was so great that it became necessary to adjourn the meeting from the Council Chambers to the court room of ...

... 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 ...

... ELINflCGRIE ASD NORTHERN RSAILIVATYCOMSPANY V. LEVEN. This-was a case at theinatance of the Edinburgh and Nor- thern Railway Company against Air John Leven, W.S. who is proprietor of eer taln subjects in the neighiboiurhood of Barnt- island through which the railway passes. Tile railway com- pany, as a preliminary to their requiring possession, and until the actual value of the subjects should ...

... HIGH CO URT OF JESTICIARY. mur poiw)T, A-t mrncir racr.. Tire Got ft mlet on2 Moda-. Te jues present aerer ale Lard Jo-ri cc Clerk. Loral Mackenzie, and LorI Munin-eciff. f Marihtos e Clark. Potrick hiauns, G eni-ge D~unn, Felix Mare- rae'. Petrit k Savage, and Peter Rhou, lulanurces on tiac Ilen-- i ick Railw' iv, avere placed at rite liar. dllargeti stitht lrobtian a n rlriot in c asa'aiul. ...