... House of Lords, Monday. Their Lordships heard appeal cases to-day. The Lords pre- sent were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and Lord Kenyon. They proceeded to bear the residue of the argument for the appellant in the case of STIRLING a. SI0RAY AND OTHERS. This-appeal from the decree of the Court of Session in Scotland arose out of a note of suspension presented to the Court appealed from ...

... Rouse of Lords, April S. LA3PSs! AnD OHttt5 V. w5$RCsON ASOan 0okra-XAflO- LI&GUIACy. This was an appeal against an interlocutor of the Court of Session, and was opened act Tuesday, and further heard on Thursday. The question, which involves the legitimacy of the appellants, was raised in this way :-William sapsley, formerly merchant in flasgow, died in the year 1798. having by trust- ...

... THE CHIARTIST PETITIOX. }tIS monster manifesto having been referred to the Committee of the House of Commons on public petitions, that body made a special report on it to the House, on .Thursday last. It will be borne in mind, that Feargus 4 OWPonnor affirmed that the number of signatures amounted to 5,706,000. Now these, accurately counted, amounted to 1,975,496! ! A large proportion were the ...

... The ordinary meeting of this Board was held on Monday- Bailie Stewart in the chair. The minutes were read as usual, and approved of. WATCHING AND FIRE ENGMISES. Mr. BURNETT, the Clerk, read a minute of the Committee of Watching and Fire Engines, from which it appeared that Com- mittee had instructed the Superintendent to avail himself of the offer of the Gerbals Graviation Water Company in so ...

... House of Lords, Monday. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, and Lord Kenmare, 3 Their Lordships resumed the hearing of the arguments in the part-heard appeal dause. LAPSLEY AND OTHERiS V. GrTESSON-VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE. This was an appeal against an interlocutory judgment of the Court of Session, in Scotland. In this case it appeared that one John Lapsly Grove, of Glasgow ...

... AGRICTtTr'RE. REVIEW OF TIE BRIT19S AND FORNEEGH COlN TRADE DURING TEMf PAST WEEK. (From the Mark Lane Express of M1fonday-) The weather has undergone a decided improvement during the last few days; indeed, but little rain has fallen since -the com- mencement of the week, and though the land is soill very wet in some districts, in others it has become sufficiently dry to allow of field work ...

... House of Lords, April 15. the WI FLESITEO & CO. ?? SMITH AND OTHEZRS. 8th N This case having been fully heard, Ore The Lord Chancellor moved the judgment of the house, after in the observing, that he did not consider it necessary to cive any opi- May, nioa on the point ralsed as to the necessity of- a notice of O re abandonment in the case of a claim for a total loss, because gow, i the ...

... (Concluded from our Lasit.) e Wednesday, Apr'Il 12. THlE STOVEIIAVYE RIOTEXIS. The Cort metagain th is orning at 10 o'clock, when the fOur Prisonera Concerned ilt the Stonehaven riots. viz. : ,!Donald Davidson, William M'Donaod, John MIKinnon. Iand Colin Munro, who were found guilty -of the crimes of h, mobbing, rioting, mnalicious mischief, assault, and culpable eh!omicide'. were brought up ...

... SdO+S APPEALgS Honae'of Lords, Mondtay, April 17. tSALEY AND OTHERS V. GRIERSON AND OTHERS. This we5 an appeal against an inteilocutor of the Court of Session. William Lapsley, formerly merchant in Glasgow, died itn toie year 1798, having by will disposed of all his heritable pro- sE perty to trustees for his children, William, Robert, James, and Oi John Lapsley, for life, and to their ...

... The following extract of a letter in the Times, dated Tuesday, front Tenaliely, county of Wicklow, reveals a state of society which speaks little for the progress of civilisation on the very borders, it may be said, of the Irish metropolis. It is doubtful whether greater atrocities were ever perpetrated by the bushmen of South Africa or Yew Zealand:- I We are in a great way endeavouring to ...

... THE BISHOP OF EXETER t. LATIMR, PUBLISER i OF THE WESTEBN, TIMES. SHE At the Wcsterni Circuit Tury Court, held at Exeter on Mon- day last. Mr Thomas Latimer, publitsher of the Western Times, I was indicted for libel at the instance of the Bishop of Exeter. The case arose out of the proceedings instituted by the Bishop against Mr Shore. The Duke of Somerset having built a church near Totnes for ...

... SOOTS APPEALS. House of Lords, April 17. LAPSSLE A-ND OTHERS, V. GRIlaSON AND OTHERS. This appeal, the nature of which we described in a former paper, came up this day for judgment. The Lord Chancellor moved the j odgunent of the house. The question raised here was in truth one of fact alone, and that question was, whether the parties, the parents of the appellants, had been married at the ...