... 3EOREhIBLE MURDEBS rK SCOTLAND. AbE;RD)EEN, THURSDAY. The ancient Court of Justiciary, under Lords Mon- crieff and Mackenzie, were engaged yesterday with the trial of one of the most cold blooded and revolting mur- derers that ever stained the annals of crime. The facts of the case as disclosed in evidence are briefly these:- The prisoner, James Burnett, aged fifty-three, is a crofter and farm ...

... This court was opened on Monday by the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Wood—E. F. Maitland, Esq. Advocate-Depute. A number of petty cases were disposed of, chietly thefis, after which Thomas Macintosh, collier, residing at Baillieston, was placed at the bar, charged with culpable homicide. From the statement of Mr Mackenzie, counsel for the prisoner, it appear- ed that the pannel had, in the month ...

... SPICIDES AT THE DUKE OF DrVONSEHIRE's-At the Rising Sun, Charles street Grosvenor-square, an inquest was held before Mr. Bedford, on the body of Mr. William e, aged fifty-four, clerk to Mr. Ridgeway, steward to is race the Duke of Devonshire. John Fellowes, a gardener of Chiswick, said that on Thursday week lie was at work in the garden at the back of Devonshire house, Piccadilly, when he saw ...

... SINGULAR CASE OF OBTAIMINj MOEY Iro - on UNDER FALSE PRETENCcS. CarTedIOn TO CLERGYMEN,-P. Hay and J. Alfes were chtarged~on Touesday, at Bow-street police-court, with obtainin,,g oftley and securities for raoney irons thle Vicar o Hselor by false representati on. TheRev ConelusGriffin, who resides at the above place, near Stratford-upon Avon, stated that a few weeks hack his attentlou being ...

... LORD BROUGHAM AND THI- IRISH COUR'PS OF JUSTICE. The above-named noble lord has a claim upon our space to-day, and that claim shall be allowed. It is not often now-a-days that anything said or done by the ?? deserves notice; his eloquence haes long since evaporated, leaving nothing behind but a residuum of the grossest scurrility, and his public. conduct has ceased to be considered in any ...

... Rab3 Intettaecue. NOTICES-THis DAY. The Lord Chancellor will hear appeals in the Rouse of Lords. VtCao.CiIA.NCoL5.r0s, WErSTMINaSTER, I.-Sir L. 6iADWOrLL will not attend court to-day. (Katasjr 8nucE.)-Notions by order: Piper v. Soycr; biddulph v. Shrewabury and Chester Iailwav. Causes: Harmner v. Gooding; W~hile v. Everest; ?? v. IMount; Bun. bury v. Btunbury; Duncan v. Ogston (2); atenolin v. ...

... . . -11, I . . - I, T,-. - In their fifth tract onl dlirect taxation, the Liver- pool Financial Reform Association state :-It would be at valuable service of diplomacy to the country if it procure-d annually from all other countries a return of the goods shipped to Britain frons their parts respectively. A compaps risen of these goods on which an import duty is levied with the returns of toe ...

... At the opening of the Middlesex Sessions, on Tues- day, the assistant judge, in his address to the jury, made some remarks respecting the state of juvenile crime in the metropolis, which are deserving of attention. He commenced by stating that the act which came into operation on the ist of last August, and which gave to police magistrates the power, without the intervention of a jury, of ...

... turday, at the ?? District Police Court, James Brydon ond Johnstone Hare were charged with having, on Tues- y day and Wednesday last, stolen two shawls from the sirop of a r broker in Anderston. They were convicted, and sentenced each to d60 days' Jessie Lamont wsechargedwith the ?? ofa quantity ofwearing apparel,on Tuesday last, ftom the house of MIrs. Henderson. Cheapside Street. Tile ...

... 1 E&*TURDA's POLICE INTELLIGENCE. I ' DW-SThEET.' ASSAULT ON A PUBLICAN. BY AN. ITALIAN. - Nivan Harman, an Italian youth, was placed at the bar of this office, before Mr. Henry, and charged by a pub- lican inl Long-acre, with having assaulted him. Pro- secutor deposed, that last night when his house was elosing, the prisoner walked up to the bar and asked to be accommodated with a lodging-on ...

... BERDEEN IRCUIT., SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR MURDER. The Court of Justiciary met at Aberdeen on Tuesday last. It was presided over by Lords Mackenzie and Moncreiff. On Wednesday James Burnett was charged with having adminis- tered to his wife, Margaret Murray or Burnett, a quantity of arsenic as medicine, on the night of the Ist November last, in consequence of which she died on the following ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS-IN RSE THE ANSTEYS,. This case was brought under the attention ofthe court in A consequence of the disclosures respecting the management % of the Fishponds Lunatic Asylum, near Bristol, which A were elicited by the exertions of Mr. Purnell, and other tl magistrates of the county of Gloucester. The lunatics ft are two brothers, relatives of the Bompasses ...