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THE SERMONDSEY MURDER

... THE BERITONDSEY MURDER. FURTHER EXAMINATION 07 M1AWNING ANID DIII WIVZ, (From the Standard.) Southmark Police Court, 'Wednesday. Tt will be recollected by our readers that the prisoners wveres en Friday last, remanded titl this afternoon, at three o'clocls but, in consequence of this day lieving been appointed hr the Bishop of Wirrobsater for a day of humiliation on account o~f the cholera, it ...

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF A MURDER

... EXTRALORDINARY DISCOVERY OF A MURDER. {ALPS -.T _ 1:_- It (Yrom the Times.) On Friday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, the neighbour heod of New Weston Street, Bermondsey, was alarmed in conse- II quence of the mutilated remains of a man being discovered in one of the houses in M.ini ver Place, near the ?New Leather Market. The house in question is at present unoccupied. but belong, to ...

IRELAND

... IREL A ND. I - - - - . - . _, . , .. t Froam t1c Correspmndence Of tie Mrorning Chron;le.) I STATE OF TOE COUNTaY-DnoRDEnn OF A LAND flAlIFI. D Tine ?? Of crop?-p lunder' SCill ?? maeextenldedpar- tinily to some counties Inenetolore rernmrkltble for the orderly e habitsof the paasnntcrv,and the punctinal discharge of their engIge- , mneets. The Xi/kernny Modvrator contaias the following ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... r SATURDAY, MAY 19. I l The Court met to-day for the trial of the following curious CASE OP FALSEHOOD AND FRAUD. George Kippen, writer, Glasgow, was indicted upon a charge of falsehood and fraud, committed in the form and under colour of legal proceedings. and for the purpose of obstructing or defeating the course of justice, to the lesion, injury, and oppression of the lieges, under the ...

SHERIFF CRIMINAL COURT

... SHERIFF CRUMIINAL COURT. The following cases were on Wednesday disposed of before I Sheriff Bell and a jury .abert Mifeell and Sarah Jit Ginaeite or Afitcdell, pleaded guilty to a charge of thelt, by means of hoeseoreolsing coeisnicted on lhe 4th of C. March. from the protnises of 26r. Barr bhaker, Nicholson Street. Laur- I F ston; oil Which occasion there was stolen upuards of £3R. The pri- I ...

JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT

... POLLOKiAWiS DISTRICT, RZIN EWSWIEZZ. h At a Court held at Pollekshaws on the 4the intant by James s Barclay, John Willo, Thomas Corbett, Arthur Mather, and Lt Malcolm InHnter, Esquires, Justices for Itenfrewshire, the foi- ls lowing cases, under 1t The ltenfrewshire Justice of Peace Courts' d Act, were tried, on complaints at the instanoe of the Procurator- Fiscal. . Andrew Stewart and EHelh ...

HORRIBLE MURDER AT BOSTON

... I- HORRIBLE MURDER AT MUMTUtN. S (From the Bosbton (America) Evening Transcript of Dec. 1.) r Our whole population bas been in atate of the gr itest por- sible excitement, in consequence of the astounding rumoun r that Dr. Parkman has been murdered, and that Dr. John WV. Web- ster, professor of chemistry in the medical school of Harvard Y Coflege, and a gentlensas connected by marriage with ...

SHERIFF CRIMINAL COURT

... SHERIFF CRIMNNAL COURT. The followving cases were tried, on Friday and Saturday, be- form~ Sheriff Alison and a jury : WValter Max well, accused cif breach of trust and embilezzlement., wee first placed cci the bar. HeI harl been emiployed as n salesmoan in the shop of Messrs. A. Walker & Co., warehousceemen. aind had been i cccrccsied mo~leeceive payr-etit of certain sumis fromt 1 debtors to ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... House of Lords, Thursday. .BONARt V. MACDONALD. This was an appeal against a decision of the first division of the Court of Session, which had dismissed a suit instituted against I the respondents, under thefollowing circumstances :-Mr. i)avid Bird, in the month of November, 183S, received an appointment as one of the tellers of the Edirburgh and Leith Bank, a condi- tion of which appointment ...

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A RAILWAY DIRECTOR

... l SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A RAILWAY DIRECTOR- I _ _ . ?? . .. . ~ . . . I . .. . I . . York, Predaesday Night-The melancholy death by drowning of Mr. Richard Yicholson, one of the directors of-the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, an nuditor to the York and North Midland Company, and the brother-in-law -of Mr. Hudson, has caused a good deal of excitement here. The deceased 'gentleman ...

EDUCATION AND CRIME

... (From the Atlas.) Amidst all the boasted advances of civilization, contem- poraneously with a marked improvement in the general i standard of virtue and integrity, and in spite of all that laws can do to repress or education to correct, the annual returns from out prison-houses and assize-courts present no filling off in the melancholv array of criminality. The gross number oscillates from ...

POLICE CASES

... Important to trind Mlerchanrts, Caorters, atnl ?? the Acderstorr Police Court. oil Tuesday forenoon, a cartel, named Alexander Finilar, was accused of contravenirig part of tire 240th section of the Police Act, in so far as on the prerioria daiy lie car- ried or conveyd Ollo a sinigle cart, ill St. George's RomdL, rr quan- tity of timber exceedinjg 2-1 feet iii length, to the danger of the iae ...