... TO THE EDITOR O TILE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. In his speech on the rum duties on Monday evening (I 7th), whilst arguing the case against protection to British and Irish distillers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is reported to have stated, that the whole sum lost by decreases on spirits in Scot- land did not amount to more than 33 hundredth parts of a farthing per gallon, being exastly one-third ...

... HiGfl COURT OF JUSTICIARY. The court resumed on Monday at ten o'clock. The first case appointed for trial was that of James Mathew- son. Helensdale, near Lerwick, who was accused of theft and prison breaking, but as neither the accused nor the witnesses had arrived from Zetland, the case was postponed. ?? ASSAULT. Archibald Burke atlas Macdonald was next placed at the bar, charged with ...

... The court met on Monday-the judges present were the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord Wood. William Mason pleaded guilty of stealing a bridle and some other articles from a stable in the High Street of Mus- selburgh, aggravated by previous conviction, and was senten- ced to seven years' transportation. Agnes M'Cormick pleaded guilty of robbing another woman of half a sovereign, four ...

... 7OURT OF SESSION-SECOND DIVISION. DECESI:0n 5. CAAGUILL v. DUNDEE AND VERTH RAILWYT COMreA. This was an action of assythment, brought by the factor tono tutorm of the infant son of the deceased James Cargill, f who, when travelling from Perth to Dundee, by the railway of I the defenders, had been killed on the spotby the train running off she rails. L.5ooo was claimed as damages, and the ques- ...

... The High Court of Justiciarv met on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. The Lord Justice Clerk presided. assisted by Lords Mackenzie and .Medwyn. The following cases were disposed of:- Jane Moffat and Helen Anderson or Hamilton, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of blankets from a house in Bank Street. Hoffiat, in regard to whom there was the aggravation of being habit and repute a thief, was ...

... LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY-IMPORTANT DECISION. VICE-CHANCERY CounT, JuNE 7. (BLfore dte Vice-Clia ncellorofEngland.) THEX ATTORNEY-GENERALIV. WILSON-LADY HEWLEY'S CHABRTY. Mr Betheli replied to-day in this case at considerable length. The arguments have occupied nine or ten days, and the learn- ed counsels reply lasted to-day from ten till nearly three o'clock. The Vice-Chancellor, at the ...

... SHERIFF cRrMINANL COURT. On Satulrday a well knowsn thiimblier niamed Duncan Cowran who is also a lodging-hlouse keeper in West Port, wvas sum. mcclily chzargedl before Shleriff A:rkley with conspiring, 51Qfl with twvo others, to defraud pers:mns of thleir money by Cfltiting |thorn to play at a gamne of chance, commonly called thirnbl& rig, andl with having succeceded in defrauding a mierchant ...

... JED13UJsjfI REGISTRATION APPEAL COURT. A On Tuesday the Sibta ta~sgeni, the Sheriff, for the counties of Roseburgh, Ilarwick, and Peeiftas, beld their annual rcegis- tration court at Jledhurgit. During nearly the whole of Tues- day the court wzas engaged in hearing appeals from tie taunty of 1'oebles. untie uf whiich were of much public interest. On Wednesday morning the court met for the ...

... The court met on Monday. The Judges present were the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord MedwVn.- John Hutchison and Alexander Henderson pleaded guilty to poaching in the Long Green Plantation, and the Lintland Burn Plantation, the property of the Right nlon. the Earl of Rosebery, parish of Crarnond, and were sentenced to four months' imprisonment. TUESDAY, Aitacn 14. A case of ...

... PROGIIESS TO BALMORAL. (t;'oii the Abxerdeen Herald) After the magistrates had left, the r'nal carriages, follow- ed at a respectful distarnce by the carriages containing her Majesty's attenldants, proceeded along, the ?? road- the first object of attention being thle triumnphll arch, at Cu- parston. where an immense crowd was assembhled, and re- ceived her MSajesty with loud cheers. At the ...

... Archibald Davidson, Esq. formerly Sheriffof Kincardineshire, now Sheriff of this courvt twok his seat on the bench for the first time on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of members of the Society of Advocates. MIr A. Gordon, Presi- dent of that bodv, in their nanie, in the course of a few re- marks, corgraturated Sheriff Davidson on his appoiatmeur, I and. after alludinme in appropriate ...

... SHERUF COURT. The first ordinary Court after the Christmas recess, was held yesterday in the Hail, County Buildings, when John Thomson Gordon, Esq. Sheriff of the county, took his seat on the bench for the fiest time. The Court was very fully at- tended by the solicitors who practise before the bar of the Sheriff. On the entrance of Mr Gordon, about half-past ten, all who were present rose and ...