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... ESTIMATES are Wanted for Supplying the WORKS of the HARBOUR for One Y’ear, from 16th February, 1848, to 16th February, 1849, with the following Articles, &c., viz;— Ordinary BLACKSMITH WORK. REPAIRS to BOILERS and MACHINERY of Dredging Barge. Scotch FIR TIMBER. Foreign TIMBER. Ordinary CARPENTER WORK. ROPES. SLATER WORK. PAINTER’S WORK. PAINTS, OILS, &c. BOOKS and STATIONERY. GAS Ordinary CAST ...
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... DECISIO5N OF THE COURT OF SESSION - ?? ON THE CLAID OF THE UN'EMMtOTED TO RELIEF FROM a THE PARISH FUNDS. bh This important question, which has for many years agitated nt Scotland, is at last set at rest. The Gorbals case, which fully embraces the merits of the question, has been decided against the w parish by the Lord Ordinary; and, from another decision against the parish of Glasgow in the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... IM iORTAS~T TO 1\xENF;PI'R8. On Tnesdav aftcrnoon, tiree licens ed spirit-dealer fron r G nora wer e brought Leforp the Justice's of Peace Court, at the illst nce of the Procuraor-Fiesral, tinder Henry loein Drutmnonats Act. charged with havtinig sold spirits on Sunrlas (ulring the hoUr,2 of Divine Servico on the PLh current. The OldV cake onc ijnte wvasF that of MNr. Walter Leitch, the ...
... TRE ?? STATir TREISS; (FromO the Time-S.) Spa Trhe trials. of Messrs. S. O'Brien and Meagher have ended ?? most personissupposed they would. The jury have agreedmor ffibernico-tO disagree, and this almost amiounts to ano acuta;ord( ifor the accused can hardly be put upon their trial agaifoth broi gmane cause of offence,. and to prefer a seoond and distinct oharge poli, ,.gainst them would only ...
... GLASGOW AtTUDIN CIRCUIT. 0 ~~(Conuluded from eke RleroIdqof Monday.) AMONDASErTaclaun 25. CZ The Court resumed this morninef at half-p ant ten o'clock. ir Jo/tn Absernit/iq, a %wearer, and ?? Rogc'r or Reynolds, and in ElizaOted Snin, mother and daughter, pleaded-sot guilty of theft u- by housebreaking, in stealing fifty-two night and day shirts, and a 'Y quantity of sheets, table-covers, ?? ...
... YORE CIRCUIT-Jlnly 29. SENTEINCES OS THE CHARTIST IRIOTERS. The prisoners first placed at the bar to receive sentence were John Johnson, Francis Vicory, Henry Whitcombe, Wil- 11am Sagar, William Smith, James Downes, Isaiah Heaton, William Connor, and William Winterburn, who were charged nith rioting at Horton and Bradford; Sagar and Johnson, to be imprisoned for two Years, with hard labour, ...
... JUJDICIAL INVESTIGATION-VISCOUNT ARBUTHNOT. On Tuesday last. a commission under the Great Sea], ad- dressed to the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, constitut- ing them justices, and directing them to inquire by the oath of a grand jury of the counties of Kincardine, Forfar, and Aiberdeen, into all felonious forgeries, and utterings of hills of exchange and promissory notes committed by John ...
... JU~RY COIJRT-Decew1ber 20. i , WHITE V. CLS3UG1. ?? was an action brought at the instance of Robert White, (engineer in Gklasgow. against Roblert Cleugh, meanager of the Gllasgow Pottery, to recover damages front the latter for certain accu sationus which it was alleged he had mrade against White, and, in particular, that W~hite ha d gagged the safety valves of the boiler of the steam engine ...
... OFFICE-BEAPERS OF COURT SIR JOHN 31OORE OF ANCIENT FORESTERS V. STLE. A question of much nicety in a legal point of view, and of general importance, was discussed before and adjudicated by Mr Sheriff Bell, in the Sheriff Court, Glasgow, on Thursday lIst. The pursuers, three office-bearers in one of the Courts of Ancient Foresters, were authorised by a general meeting of the court to prosecute ...