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GLASGOW AUTUMN CIRCUIT

... 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, ?? ...

SHERIFF CRIMINAL COURT

... 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 ...

JEDBURGH REGISTRATION APPEAL COURT

... 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 ...

PROGRESS TO BALMORAL

... 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 ...

GLASGOW MUNICIPAL POLICE BOARD

... On Monday, the quarterly statutory' meeting of this Board wtas held in the chlamber of the Board, Scuds Albion Streer-Bailie I Stewart in the chair. A The minutes of last meetingweere read lnod approved of. n COoOO5TTEE ON; LtIlHTtIO AND CLEANSING. v A reference made by this committee in regard to a claim for -a £29 for watering the streets of Andereton threel years ago, was,t on thle motion ...

DREADFUL MURDER AND MUTILATION

... DREADFtTL MASUEflR AND MUTILATION. (Frrom the Times.) iluntingford, Hsrts, August 30. On Thursday evening last, between 6 and 7 o'clock, a child oF William Game, servant to Mr. Greg, of Coles Park, Westmill, was found dead in the lodge occupied by its parents. The rnother and one daugfiter were absent gleaning, and left William Game, a boy nine years old, to take carn of his three sisters, ...

JURY COURT

... I ENCROACHMENTS TIZROOGU MIN ING OPERATIONS, I ; Thefollowing issuesweretried at the last Sittlngs,in Edinburgh, in an action at the instance of Mrs. Colonel Robertson, of Hall- Craig, and her daughter, acainst the Shotts Iron Company:_ It being admitted that the pursuers are joint proprietors of the lands and estate of Halloraig, and that the defenders are lessees of the mines and minerals in ...

LONDON CHARTIST TRIALS

... s8vTsDAY. auc Mir Justice Erie and Mr Justice Williams took their seats in cobI court this morning at a few minutes bsefore ten o,'clock, when te the trial of William fowling wvas resum ed. res The evidence for the prosecution having been beard, did Mr Kenecaley addressed the jory on behalf of the prisoner. 32z Several witnesses were examined in defence, who stated their to belief that the ...

NEW POLICE ACT—BENEFICIAL RESULTS

... NEW POLICE ACT-BENEFICIAL RESULTS. Nothing can better show the salutary changes arising from the clauses in this act which refer to public-houses than the fact, that while, for the last few years, the average number of l persons brought on Saturday evenings in a state of intoxication to the Police Office for protection has been twenty-tw.o, and frequently from thirty to forty, on Saturday ...

INQUEST ON LORD G. BBNTINCK

... INQUJEST ON LOIRD G. BBNTINCK. The inquisition upon the deceasedl noblemaan wras held at I11 o'clock on Saturday, at Welbeck Abbey. before Mir F aulk- ner, the coroner for ithe district, and a highly respectable jury. The jury having been swborn, the coroner briefly detailed to them the melancholy circumstances which had called them to- gecher, and they then proceeded to view the body which ...

MUNICIPAL POLICE BOARD

... M1TNIIT'AL POTTCE BOAMD. . . . . - I . . On Monday the weekly meeting of this Board was held in the usual place, the Lord Provost in the chair. SAM TATY :tY tPE OVE MEN TS. Bailie MACMNctALY said a report had been laid on the table at last meeting from Air. Carrick, superintendent of streets, and he believed had also been read. The report stated what had been pt done during the past year, and ...

JURY TRIAL

... (From a Legal Correspondent) WE have just been favoured with a perusal of a very valuable I Treatise on the Form of Process in Sheriff Courts, by Mr. Mfac-l laurin,the respected Sheriff-Substitute of Argyllshire;* and fromt the experience which we believe too many of our readers have I now had of the Trial by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland, we are z tempted to extract the following ...