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COURT OF COMMOM COUNCIL

... ' ' CO-URT; -OF COMMON COUNCIL. - . , -s- u 'CoRPOR'ATION iiOoRm.-A Court was held on Toes. day.q The asuteimonsa stated that the Court would be spe ial, for tbe' eliction of the various city officers, and oen-';n ,otber business. -Mr. J. Dixon, on the Lord Mayor taking-the chair, expressed regret that the feeling of some'of the. members had 'manifested itself in so objectionable a manner at ...

Published: Sunday 21 February 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1025 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW AND POLICE

... L A COURT OF- BANKR1UPTCY. IN Ric HEaRsuNG.-..The insolvent, a gentleman of good family, came up for his final order on Tuesday. The debts were 2,294; the assets none. Many of the debts were law costs, with which the schedule was filled. He has been for the last five years and a half in the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons. The statement made by his advocate (Mr. Cooke) was, that his mother ...

Published: Sunday 28 March 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5930 | Page: Page 13, 14 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LIEUT. MUNRO AND DUELLING

... WIEUT. MUNRO ANDWDUELLING. In another part of our paper will be seen a report of the trial of Lieutenant MtTNBO, for, the murder. of Colonel FAWCETT, a trial which ended in the condemnation ofthe prisoner. He was found Guilty, and his sentence is deferrede We are not disposed to question the legality or the justice of a verdict given by twelve .men, whom we believe to have been unanimous in ...

Published: Sunday 22 August 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE MARYLEBONE MURDER

... I L- HEMRLEOE MURWDER.i~' .I'MarrA taed thirty, was indicted, on Thurs ; | day,.at thef entcel ,Criminal Cotirt f&r the murder of ?? Stowell, on the 2d. o~f J;ule ate ,Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Plarke appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Clark- eon- iid Itir. Ballantine for the prisoner. ?? Mr. Bodkin briefy stated the facts o- the case against the prisoner. He said, deceased wasa feeble person that ...

Published: Sunday 22 August 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1412 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

OUR HUMANE LAWS

... 1 IIn our law -report of last week the following mild and gentle intimation appeared CAITION To DX33TORS .-THE NEwV SYSTEM OF IMrRI- ONxmNT.-Oa the judge (A. AAmos,JEsq.,) taking his seat in the Marylebone County Court, he begged of all pre- sent to take notice that in every case were default was made in obeying the orders of the court he should for the future send the parties so disobeying to ...

Published: Sunday 19 September 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW AND POLICE

... ^\JSW AND POLICE. : = I COURT OF. QUEEN'S BENCH-- - W1Dr.1r V. Tiax DUKE o( BRUNSWIcM-'AsTION ON A CONTRACT MADE BY-A dSoEP-E1GN PsINcE. _.This WaS an action on an annuity bond. The defendant pleaded that be was a sovereign prince, and that the contraet had been made by him when within the limits of the dukedom of whicb he was sovereign. To this the plaintiff replien that the contract did not ...

Published: Sunday 30 May 1847
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7872 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

IRELAND

... MaUrDES PoeR LAND.-Air William Roe, of Rockwell, a landed proprietor in the South Riding of Tipperary (Barrister and ?? was murdered near his own seat on Saturday last, at twelve o'clock in the day. His having served an ejectment on a tenant named Lenergan, (since absconded) residing at a place called Boytonrath, adjacent to the scene of the recent ' tenant-right demonstration at Holycross, ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1847
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3490 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 27

... In the House of Lords, yesterday, a discussion arose at the instance of Lord Colville, who complained of a fraudulent asumption of his title by an individual who had voted as Lord Colville, of Ochiltree, at the late election of a representative peer for Scotland, at the conclusion of which the noble lord gave notice of motion on the subject for Monday next. Earl Fitzwilliam, on presenting ...

MARYLEBONE VESTRY

... The State of Ireland.—On Saturday a meeting of the Marylebone vestry took place the Court-house, Marylebone. The Rev. Dr. Spry, the rector, in the chair. Mr. George Darnell rote to move that the proposition of Lord George Bentinck to expend sixteen millions of money in the construction of railways in Ireland is unjust in principle, impolitic, and detrimental to the empire at large, and that ...

GENERAL CONFERENCE OF OPPONENTS TO GOVERNMENT EDUCATION

... GENERAL CONFERENCE OF OPPONENTS GOVERNMENT EDUCATION. About forty members of the conference met at ten o'clock yesterday morning, at the King's Head, Poultry, to arrange future business. The Rev. S. took the chair. Mr. Alexander suggested that a fund should be raised for three purposes: oppose the government measure: to repay, for such schools as were willing, money received from government; ...

COLONIAL

... WEST INDIES. GUIANA.—Public meetings were held in Georgetown (Demerara) on the 13th of October, and in New Amsterdam (Berbice) on the 2nd of the same month. At both of these, petitions to parliament for assistance were adopted. The Demerara petition prays for two loans, to be applied the one to promote African immigration, the other to promote thorough drainage; the removal the duty from ...

OPENING OF THE LYNN AND ELY RAILWAY

... The line from Lynn to Ely, where it joins the Counties, was opened yesterday, and twenty, first and second-class carriages started from the station, at half-past ten o'clock, filled with ladies and MBtlemen, comprising many of the principal inhabitants of that lirge mercantile town, pay visit to Ely. The carriage- which are painted chocolate, certainly present ny an handsome appearance : they ...