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of the minutes which had reference to the vestinz of the Old and New Water Coin- panies in a public trust should bc rescinded.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

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TOIVY COUNCIL RHOCEEDI.NGS. TuuSDnA, FsU. 3. The Lord Provost in the Chair. d Treasure EDLNBURGE AND GLASGOW rNION CANAL. Ireasurer Thomson asked permission, before the regular d business set down in the programme was taken up, to call the uattention of the Council to a matter of vero great importance to the inhabitants of Edinburgh. It was well known, be said, that an arrangement bad been ...

... OLD P3BtSSTNS. UJaJJ ?? (Fromn; Skarpe's Leadon Afayazine.) tr There are some old punishments which have equally bh fallen into oblivion, hut are rather of a facetious than a a cruel nature, and were so popular among our rough, JC jnvial ancestors, as to deserve some notice in our columns- (I Such, for example, was that of the Cucking, or Ducking d Stool, an engine invented for taming female ...

... TlE REV . SIR VI LLIAM D§UN1AR ANDi BIS1IOP SKINNERS. There is a case now depending in the Court of Session before Lord Ivory, and the First Division of the Court, at the instance of the Rev. Fir WVilliaim Dunbar against Bishop Skinner of Aber- deen, in which his Lordship, on the 22d January, pronounced a |adgnent. which will be interesting to many of our readers. Bishop Skinner's pleas in bar ...

... THE LATE MURDERS AND SUICIDE AT CAMBER WELL. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Wm. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, and a highly-respectable jury, assembled at the Brick- layers' Arms Tavern, Southampton Street, Camberwell, for the purpose of investigating into the circumstances attending the death of Philarete Horeau, aged 52, and his two children, Belve- tinS, aged 12, and Wilhelm, aged eight ...

... Ab ft this Ciourt, on Monday, the following cases came to tria before Sheriff Alison and a jury 1)l Sarah Camphlbl or MI'Aiister pleaded guilty to two separate Gi1 acts of theft of articles of wearinig apparel, ngttravaied by previous I Pa sentence of outlawry. Six months' imprisonment. Pei John .f7'iNelaqs pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of articles of stearing aplparel. Six months' ...

... COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-Feb. 3. (Before 3itr Commissioner Fonidangee.) THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE FORTE CTARITNE InSUM&NCE grit - COMPANY. Toi Thu sittinig ta-day was to consider the question of the pass- '3 ing9 Of the last examination of the parties appointed to repro- ma' sent this company in bankruptcy. The court was crowded alir with creditors and others interested in the proceedings. The the ...

... TRI At CAtAts 3iNSONi FOPE MItsfl - ibENTRAL CRIMINiL CoRT, a dn Thiirsday mornmig, at the sitting of the Central Criminaii Court, Captain Johnstone, late of the ship Tory, cas placed at n the bar, before Air. Justice Williams and Air. Justice Cresswell, a chlarged w% ith the wvilfuil murder of Thomas lReason. The Attorney- a =GeimcralI ~ith Whom were r. Boditin and Mr. Clark, conducted the ...

... IEXTRAORDINARY TEUAL I'OR .J5EEACH OF PRoOMISE or 3ARx- fX11AGE. On Saturday week, a very extraordinary trial of this nature cormnenced in thle Court of ~Queen's Bench before Mr. Justice Wigh-itman antl a special jury. The plaintiff wras Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, aged twenty-one, the daughter of a respectable private gentleman in Warwickshire; the defendant was Wash- ington, Earl of Ferrers, ...

... COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-Feb. 7. FORTH MARINE IXISUDACE COOMPAfYl. This case was resumed to-day before his Honour, by the further examination of Mr Rainie, the accountant to the company. Mr Lawrance submitted that he had proved 'his case, that abuses had existed in the management of the company, and that the whole affair was pregnant with reckless and improvi- dent trading. Mr Cooke, for the ...