... JUSTICE OF PEACE COUURT. boat, rOLLOKSHAWS DlISTRICT, RENrREWVSURE. ?? oar The following cases were tried, at a Court held at Polloksheaws the on the 19th instant, before John Walker, Jamues Barudae, Thomals soon Corbett, John Willox, and Widliata Calledie, Esqrs., Justices of oiy, Peace for Renfrewshire, on complaints at the instance of AMr. v Heector, District Fiscal. Jacmes Al' feini and ...

... THE STATE TRIALS IN IRELAND. Tine Special Commission at Clonmel has been occupied luring the whole of the past week in the trial of Mr Smith O'Brien, for high treason. From the examination of the witnesses for the prosecution, various strong facts have been clearly established against the prisoner, which show how deeply ho is implicated in the late acts of treason and rebellion. Documents and ...

... nIGHl COURT OF JUSTICIARY. Wednesday, Merr.7 15. oSTAiRE OF CUixABLA I ITOMICID. The Court met this day at 1o-Lords Justice-Clerk, Mon- crieff',and Wood on the bench. thigh fleugh IM'Lure, civil engineer, Dunfries, lately the resident engineer on the Dcndee and Perth Railway; George Simmie, inspector on that line; and Richard Baird, superintendent of passenger traffic; were placed at the bar ...

... PRISONS' BOARD. A meeting of the Prisons' Board. was held on Wednesday -Sir MICHAEL BnUcE in the chair. A plan, furnished by Messrs Smith, architects, of a new washing-house in the East Prison, the expense of which was estimated at £89, or, with some modifications, £77, was re-t sitted to the Committee ol Aberdeen Prisons. A report from the committee just mentioned was then read, which was ...

... I-- - . _ The Cout met OaNAY, JULY 24. prsnbeg .h Th Cour metto-day at ton o'clock, the judgespeet en 4the Lord Juistice Clerk, Lord Cockburn, and Lord, Wood. U, ugk M'1Avirara, hawker, pleaded niot guilty to a charge of criminal assault popn a girl of imbecile intellect. After bearing2 $tire evidence, the jury returnied a verdict unanimously finding tireI 8prisoner guilty aslibelled. ...

... IARY. it __ VV WIz- ~l~t\I Ie- TETE CHARTTST TRIALS. ie The Court met to-day at ten o'clock. Edinburgh, Thursday. 'd It having been resolsed on Tuesday that the objections raised t, the relevancy of the indictment in the case of Cummings, the e. Chartist, should come on for debate to-day before the full bench, dv all the Lords of Justiciarywere present, namely, the Lord Justice ch lerk, Lord ...

... A meeting of the general oomrnmissioners of police was held on Monday, the Lord Provost in the chair. APPt330xa7wr no ISPErCToR OF STREES. The Clerk intimated, that 12 candidates had applied for the situation of inspector of streets and lanes, an office created by the late police act. The Lord Provost, seconded by Bailie Stott, proposed Mr Robert Blytb, merchant, Hligih Sueer, who had been ...

... CASE OF DR H1AMPDEN. The Court of Qaeen's Beach was occupied in hearing coun- sel in this case. At the close of the pleadings on Thursday, The Attorney-General rose to reply, when Lord Denman observed, that he and his brother judges were not prepared to say that be had the right to reply. The Attorney-General submitted that he had the right to reply. The present proceeding was an attack upon ...

... House of Lords, March IS. GRABAI5 V. MaCX. This was an appeal against a decree of the Court of Session, by which the judgment of a Small Debt Court had been sus- tained after an objection taken bs the appellant against it, on the ground of want of jurisdiction. qr Anderson proceeded to state the case. The appellant was domiciled in Fifeshire, but a summons was issued against him in the Court ...

... MUiCIZARItDt V. DIusSOr. Sit: This was an action of damages raised at the instance of GI a si George Muckarsie, innkeeper and farmer in Auchtermuchity, a~Sr: for himself and Andrew Muckarsie, his son, against Archibald at Pt Dickson, parochial schoolmaster of Aocbtermnchtt-. stt The issue, which was tried before the Lord President and a decas jury on the 25th inst. was as follows:- 1 It being ...

... I I COJPRT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-Nov. 18. The Attorney-General having asked until this morning to consider the errors assigned by Mr S. O'Brien, and the other prisoners, yesterday, before he put in his joinder in error, and the court also having intimated that judgment, would be de- livered in the case of Mr Martin, all those gentlemen were ac- cordingly brought into court about ten o'clock. The ...

... EXCREQUER CHlAMBER-3ine 24. [Barons Parke, Alderson, Rolfe, and Platt, and Justices Colt- man, Maule, and Cresswell, sat in Error this morning.] JUDGMENT-DOUGLAS V. TFo QUEEN. This matter has been before this court during two days of the present week. Captain Douglas had been committed upon an information charging that he, being an officer in the service of the East India Company, and resident ...