... On Thursday last the Cromford Philharmonic Society held a vocal and instrumental concert in the School-room, North- street Cromford. The society had secured the valuable ser- vices of Mr. Marshall, as leader, as well as the attractive co- operation of Messrs. Brooks, Taylor, Handley, and Turner, the Sutton-in.Ashfield glee singers. The performances of the gentlemen composing the orchestra ...

... 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 ...

... THE ECESTERFIELD TRAGEDY. 'the trial of John Platts, for the inhuman murder and mutilation of Qfeorge Collis, in the Butchere'-shambles at h Chesterfield,iin the didnth of December, 1845, commenced t] on Friday morning, in the crdvtn court, at the County Hall, t Derby, before Mr. Justice Pattegon. The court was F crowded to great excess, the case creating thrilling interest fr throughout the ...

... ztfumtal ofrmntxaa DUBLIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 187. REMEMBER TEE 3011 OF MAY, 18441 THE NEW POOR LAW-THE RATING CLAUSES| One of the objections most strongly urged against the details of the new poor law bill is the objection to the injustice of the proposed rating clauses. It has been proved by the experience of the working of the present law, that the burden of supporting the poor falls most ...

... 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 ...

... UPFFOLK QUARTER SESSTONS. IPSWICkI, Saturday, March 13. (Concludedfrom our last Journal) Before Sir A. B. Henniker, Bart., and a lull bench of magistrates. Zachariak Childs, 25, and William Durrant, 33, pleaded guilty of having stolen from a barn at Mendlesham, a uantit of peas,the property of the Executors of Mr. Win. Wilson,dec., of Mendlesham - six months imprisonment. SamDel Bice, 29, ...

... DURHAM SPRING ASSIZES.-(Cocladed.) n T Y T A T- IA T. 1 } CIVIL SIDE.-llefors Mr BAnmoi ALDERSON. THURSDAY. PI1.CNE5S AND ANOTHEItM V. CHLYTOR. This was action to recover thee sun of 6C34. for goods l ordered and delivered, Mr AruariToIN, for the plain- Ifilll, said that they resided in Liverpool, anl ivere co- lour manufacturers, and that the defendants, Mr John Hudson Chaytor and Mr Wm. ...

... TRANSPORIATION.A ND REFORM OF I CRIMINALS. . CR1Mi At., A letter has been lately addressed by the §doipiari fob the Home Department to the Secretary for the CoioDdgI developing new arrabgecsenta respecting persons sentenced to transportation. The letter is very lengthy, and trabe% with onasiderable prehision the various measures hitherto adopted. The injury which colonoes reoeilf frtii being ...

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH- LONDON, SATURBDAY. S EXTRAORDINARY CABE. The Queen v Dunn. i This case being specially appointed for trial this morning, the court was crowded at an early hour. ' The indictment charging the defendant with perjury was read. The defendant had pleaded not guilty. ?? Burdett Couttes. Mr. Otway Cave, and Lord Sandon were accommodated ithseiats on the bench. Sir Frederick ...

... HOME CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONX, MAncRC 17. HyDEaiz v. DxxoN.-This was an action brought by Capt. Hyder, formerly of the 10th Dragoons, against Mr. Alfred Dixon, the son of the proprietor of the well known horse repository in Barbican, to recover the value of a race horse, known by the name of A The Devil among the Tdilors, sold to'him by the defendant, and warranted sound. Mr. 'Montague Chambers and ...

... HIE FLYING-POS.I , WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1847. THE ASSIZES. Wi elsewhere duly chronicle the particulars which are matters of interest at the commencement of the Assizes, such as the Calendar of the Prisoners, the Law Business, &c. In neither case is there much to call for particular comment-there is the usual amount of crime, and in one instance, at least, the offence (if proved) involves the ...

... HULL POLICE COURT't. FRIDAY. Before the Et-Mayor and Mar. Firbank. TRIAL OF PENIT'NrEc-A. girl of the town named Ann Burt, was charged by P.C. 61 with being drunk and incapable in a square in West-Btreet the preceding evening, about six o'clock. She had been several 'times be- fore the bench, and the last time expressed great penitence, and said she would go to her friends in Liverpool. Whieni ...