... . COURT O4? :04kWNKRUFTY. TN rr DAVIES.-C. W. Davies, victualler, of Brown- low-street, applied for his certificate. His debts were 1,096; assets, 367. Mr. Lawrance urged that one of the bankrupt's former failures was owing to the stoppage of a bank in Shropshire ; a large dividend was then paid. On his second failure there was a great deal of litigation, and that bad prevented any dividend ...

... COURT OFr SANSRUPTCY. TIIF: bMl.Di nio TRAns.-Rli RAYXnIA.-i-The bankrupt, a builder at Notting-hill, came up at the Court of Bankruptcy for the purpose of passing his last examination. Mr. Archbold appeared for the assigrsecs: Mr. Duncan supported the bank- rapt. The grounds of oppositioci wero principally the conceal- ment of property. Baiikrupt stated that Mrs. Sawyer, of the Ladbroke Arms, ...

... P')LIVE IN TELLIG'N GE. MANSION-HOUSE. CAUTION TO THE PaEYNOLENT.-On Monday, the Lord Mavor stated that he had received from Mr. Dew- hurst, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, a letter, to which his lordship said he would be obliged to the newspapers to convey an answer, for the satisfaction of his correspond- ent, as well as for the information of the public. The letter was as follows- Mr. Dewhurst ...

... REMAB:EABLE CASE OF DIVOrcCF. PARKS V. PARKSB-This was a divorce suit in the Commissary Court of Surrey, by the wife against her husband, on the ground of adultery. The case, as set forth in the libel. brought in on behalf of Mrs. Mary Ann Parks, was to the effect that the marriage between the parties took place in 1844, and that after a short cohabitation, in consequence of her husband's ill ...

... LAW dNID POLICr.-SATURDAT, COURT Or' EXCHEQUER. 'NEa&IOENT DRIMstG.-HEDGES v. COWntROY.- This action was brought to recover 24 les , for the lose ,of a horse, whose death was alleged to have been occa- sioned by the negligence of the defendant.-Mr. James, in stating the case to the jury, said as the cab of the plain- tiff was being driven at a slow pace along Pall-mall, on the 24th of February ...

... A^LARMING MUTUNY BY PRlSOiS IN APPLEBY GAOL. John Jackson, John Hart, and John Wall, under ser., tence of transportation, and John Wilson and Richard Morgan, under senterce of imprisonment, five most desperate and ruffianly characters, were confined in the same ward of Appleby gaol. They had been punished more than once for insubordination, and on Wednesday, after they had taken their dinner ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENOR XANUj1ONq.HOUS3 ASSAULT ON A C624iTABLR.- OnWdesa,. Hackett, a desperate fellow, who a short time ago contrived to escape from the lock-upB at palborough-stroet police-court, together with a confernlerte, altbeorg te Aldck to the door wag Chubb't patent, was ?? be teA roan Humphery, upon the charge of haiving made a mur- derous assault upon Storey, one of themost active ...

... POLIE 1NTTELLIGE)1OXE MANSION-HOUSE. IM]PUDENT ROBBEPsr-8O, Monday, Mark Benjaeiln was charged with having robbed Samuel Rathbone of a silver watch and a key. The prisoner was defended by a ?? complainant went on Sunday into Petticoat-lane, for the purpose of making some pur- chase, and upon being asked what o'clock it was, pulled out his watch; which was suspended by a guard round his neck, ...

... IHORRIBLE5 CASE O CHILD TORTURE. Ann Bird, a woman about forty-five years old, and who resides at No. 10, Horace.street, Edgware-road, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Friday, on a warrant by Jesse, one of the officers of the court, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having barbarously ill-used Ellen Walsh, a delicate- looking infant, only two years of ...

... GOVERNMEJNT INTERFERENCE. NEWPORT, EssEx, SEPr. 4. No small sensation has been caused in this district by the apprehension, at the instance of the secretary of state, of Sarah Cheshamn (who, at the Spring Assizes for the county, in 1848, was tried for the murder of her two children, and acquitted), on suspicion of having destroyed her ?? Cheshbm, by administenng arsenic to him. At the gaol of ...

... 3REACH OF PROMISE OP MARRIAGE. HAL'sIDE v. BAXTER.-This was an action brought In the Queen's Bench, on Friday, to recover moo enpe- tion In damages for an alleged breach of promnise of mar- siage made by the defendant to the plaintiff From the statements of the learned counsel for the plaintiff, it ap- pared that the plaintiff, Matilda Mary Halfhide, is the daughter of a respectable tradesman, ...

... -r VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MONDAY. TENACITY Or A MrAYOR TO IceS INSIGNIA OF OFFICE.- QUcEe aV. 1oculs- r.1'e reliley said, on the part of tie Mayor of Downton, in Wiltshire, lie lead to move for a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding Mr. James Hobbs, the late Mayor of that place, to deliver up to the ilsesent Mayor certain insignia of tliat office, consisting ...