... 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, ...

... 0 . | 0 . 0 (FSromx tX >Tmes.)' ' '' is Itwial by jryadapte telaeoeistry mactate ofrebellionl.' Is it adapten for.poitioal-esesinacrisis like that of IrelandI That is the question whicI rmost people are asking, and an-' s verufgwfoihemselveewitlrresaect t o Ireland. For some months past it hassbeen thought strange, that to the ordi- nary process andl; the ord nay forms of law should be left ...

... POLCE REPORT. Mr Moxey, Superintendent of Police, has just published his half-yearly report on the state of crime and adequacy of the police force, for the six months, ending August 14. The re- port which will be brought before the commission at its next veeting, contains a great number of important details with regard to the working of the system and of the duties of the different classes of ...

... THE TRACY PEERAGE-EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. A committee for privileges of the House of Lords assembled last week, the Earl of Shafteshury in the chair. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Camp. bell, and other lords were present. The further consideration of the Tracy Peerege was re- sumed. It should be stated, that on two or three former hearings, a tombstone, purporting to ...

... j :VY. SIR ?? -SDBARt, V. MaRIGT REV. BISsOP SI3NREH- The follouinn interlocutor has been pronoanced by the Lord Ordinary in this ease:- Edinburgh, 2Sh July 1848.-The Lord Ordinary having beard counsel for the parties, and considered the closed record, relatire productions, and wbole cause. repels the defence pleaded. in respect of privilege, sustains the competency of the action as well as ...

... 1~ This morning nine of the young men employed a' AMessrs. Phin's P- extensive establishment in South George's Street were arrested to and brought before the police commissioners, who committed them; Ig to Kilmain beant' gaol. on a charge of high treason. Col. Mac- ~O Greger, inspector-genieral ofconstabular-y, was in attendanice. It :01 is said that one of the nine had received the commission ...

... TIlE ARREST OF O'BRIEN. (Tiles.) The thousand and one romances about Mr Smith ?? Brien have suddenly given way to a most simple and un- romantic conclusion. The unfortunate gentleman strayed into Thurles on Saturday, walked down the principal street, and asked a railway guard the way to the station. Ile was recognised, and eventually apprelended in the quietest manner possible just as he had ...

... The following is the application which we intimated had b'een made on Wednesday by Mr Duncan, ?? in behalf of the respondent:- The respondent is advised to bring the interlocutor under the review of the Inner House, and be is in course of preparing the necessary reclaiming note; but as it mnay take a few days to get that note prepared, printed, and lodged, be is under the necessity of makinu ...

... MUNICIPAL POLICE. BO.ATD. An ordinary meeting of the Police Board was held on Monday, the elon. the Lord Provost in the chair. FINANCE COMMIrTEE. This Committee reported that they had instructed the Clerk, in answer to a letter from Mr. Towers, agent for the millowners, to intimate that the proposed valuation of mill property could only be made by means of the surveyers acting uinder the au- ...

... Abstract of Bill to Facilitate and Simplify Procedure in the Court of Justiciary in Scotland. It shall be lawful to use printed copies, or copies partly print- ed and partly written, of all indictments and criminal letters before the High Court of Justiciary and Circuit Courts of Jus- ticiary in Scotland, as the principal or record copies of such writs, instead of the written copies thereof ...

... VTNICIPAL POLICE BOARD. On Monday the weekly meeting of this Board. was held in the usual place-the Lord Provost in the chair. Several accounts of' and police pay-bills were passed, after which the minutes of last oth meeting were read and approved of- of ASSISTANT-rOLICE-ClBRK. fin' Bailie ORR rose to move, in terms of notice given at a former me meeting, that Mr. Thomison be relieved from ...

... EXCISE LAWS-THE PATENT STILL. Any method by whicA the consumption of Coax in distillation can be saved, adds to oul notional well-being and wealt. TO TTIES EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIANI IErtCURY. Sim-We are now a population of about thirty millions, and in the course of thirty-fiee, or at mostforty years, we shall in all human probability and calculation be a nation of sixty millions, and this, ...