... k rt The annual sessions wsre hehldat Preston, onl WednuesdlaN .e last, T. B3. Addison, Esq. inl tile chair. A full attendance o f 1s magistrates was present. .e ASYLUMS ~.T SALFORD AND WEST DEnBY. d The. ssual routine business having been gone through1, 11the Rev. J. S. BIRLtPY rose to introduce his motion on this La le sublject . H le first read e, number of letters from the union it clerks ...

... COU HT 0F QUEEN'S BENCH.-MosDay. (Sit/ings 'In Banco.) The court prnIn0eredIICL julig11set onl a v-ariety of caS bio standinqg over los judgiiient, iusiongnzt others is thie follow- iii, ing w Il1l313L-TSIE QUEEN V. JESSE HALL. This walS a elase where the Rev. Dr. Molesiwortli hadl ant- pilied for aI rtle to chow cause why at crhinfiai information shold t~tha roghit Pgainist the lefendalit for ...

... CHARGE OF ATTEMIPTING TO POISON. CUR1?oUS C4SB. A mechanic named Jamres Clark, in the emplo of Messrs. Bow and Jenkinson, maeiriuit*,, f brought before Mr. Maude, at the Boroufh Saiford, was Thursday, oil a very serious charge of attempting to ad- minister prussic acid to his wife. He had been takeninto custody on the previous day, by Mr. Chief Superintendent Besivick, who had had the ...

... I M4ANCHESTER BOROUGH COURT. _ T. FRIDAY. Before Daniel Maude, Esq., and John Ryde, Esq. SERIOUS CHstGE OF INTI5MIDATION BY TURN-our WHEEL WRIIGHTS. In our second edition of last week we gave a brief account of the hearing of a case in which James JaggaraL, Evan Jones, and Ellis Thornton, wheelwrights, were charged with violently and forcibly taking from his lodgings a wheelwright named Joseph ...

... le, i, e I R ?? as, . _i * - ffiSO-UTF--LA-NGCASHIR-E=- SI-ZE ?? | A~bout half-.past I Y ?? afternoon Mr. ;,3ar6h'Rolf and MiJojustc W'i1stmnan, the judgesap pointed'to pside WI ~Sitts fort SothLt0~ ?? ?? Liver- *Pool;ifeidiLUndoll- Th' 4 ey vere riiot1by thit high sheriff (WD. Standish 8 ndighi, Et, f tadish -Hail),- the Relariis. I1stier'bet Qhfrlorey, (the high sheriff's chaplan),. G L ren~ ...

... THE WIGAN ELECTION' PETITION. The committee appointed to try th Ie petition againlst the return of the Hon. Captain ITND9sAY, decided ou Wedtnesday that that gentlermna wns duly returned at the election in Octob'er last., When the evidence is printed we shall be surprised if this decision is not considered a most extraordinary oue, in the face of the abundant proof of treating which was ...

... SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES, | ars ~~~(Cosntinuedffronm the 61h, p~age.) ad. fr. CROWN COURT.-YE STERDAY. nd (Before Mr1,. Justice Wigkbtnao.) r's T5UALS FIXED. ,11, The trial of Dajin and Seddon, two alads charged with a SI, murder at Ms'anchester, was fixed for Monday next, on the of applie alof Clapharn, for the wilful mur-der of Abraham re Tweedate, at Salfurd, wvas fixed for Tuesday next, on ...

... THE MANCHESTER PETITION. INTERVIEW WITH SIR ROBERT PEEL. A meetiug of bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, was on Saturday last held at the Town-hall, in orderto determine inpon the time and mode of presenting the petition for the inmnediate enactmeint of the Corn and Customs' Act, a copy Dat I of which appeared in the last number of the Examnler. Mr. Amim Robert Gardner presided; aud, ...

... SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZE S. i - 1)hostd A ?? %a* . .I T1 CROWN COURT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22. Ti (Before Mr. JIstice Wightiaon.) do, ATTEMPTED INFANtrsornE, AT WAVERTRuE-.Elizabeth tll Davidson, 22, was iudicted for having unlawfully exposed tht and left in a field her miale infant, with intent to cause its so' death and to conceal its birth. Mr. Hulton appeared for the Oil prosecution. The ...

... |Erreta.-In our last we stated that John Westwood weas charged with an assault, It appears that the pri- soirer lad given tire name of another member of his family to screen his own: it should have been Edward Westweod, MONDAY. The magistrates on the bench were Daniel Maude, Esq. Thomas Townend, Esq., W. R. Callendar, Esq., and John' Burt, Esq. A STRIKING CASE. Two men. named John ...

... I Saturday, June 27. MR. 0. MILNE'S CLAiM TO COMPENSATION. TIlE qUrEN V. THE CORPORATION OF MANOCIESTER. Judgment in this case was delivered in the following terms, by Lord Chief Justice Denman :--This was an application for a mandamus to assess compensation to Mr. Oswald Milne, for the loss of the profits and emoluments of the several offices of clerk to the magistrates for the division of ...

... CHESHIRE ASSIZES.-AVEDNESDAY. flT. 4E BflaoCIt OF FRUOMM5E OF MARIIAGE. Smith V. Iliyginbottomn.- Mir. Townsend stated that this action had been broughlt for a breach of promise, to which the defendailt had pleaded in the usual way, but which pleas lie had subsequently withdrawn, and the only question for the jury was, what was the amount of damage the plaintiff had sustained.-Wr. Evans, Q.C., ...