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LORD KINNAIRD'S BILL—MEETING OF JUSTICES

... LORD KINNAIRD'S BILL-ATEETING OF JUSTICES. A meeting of the Justices of' tile City of Edlinburgh was held on Thursdaing foreooc in the Council-Chamber, for the purposc sof taki'ing hco consideration the provisions of Lord Kinnaird's bill. The mceeting was well attended, and on taking tise chair, The Lord Provost stated that he had convened the meeting in consequence oi' a iequisition which had ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... TEE ROYAL BALMORAL ENTERTAINMENT. | tat. BARROWMIAN AND OTHERS -D PROCURATOR-FISCAL | how AND MAGISTRATES OF AYh th e This case, which appears to have excited great interest in rot the town of Ayr, was oF the following nature :-The com-wo plainer, Barrovrinan, with the two other parties, all Professors of Natural Magic, as their counsel styled them in pleading ser their case, on Thursday ...

THE ORION TRIAL

... (From the Times.) The verdict in this case cannot but be accepted by the public as most satisfactory. The persons in charge of such vessels as the Orion must be made to feel most keenly that if they neglect the important duties of their charge they are criminally responsible to the laws of their coun- try. There is not a single day throughout the year on which many thousand lives are not ...

CRIME IN ENGLAND

... CURIME IN' ENGLAND. (Arom th. Ipectatr.) The 3Doddinghurst murder, the ?? murder, ;the Regent's Park. burglary4 the Birmingham bur- glary,J ;the Liverpool plate roboberies,?-the plots thick~en to such a degree that society turns still paler ; and having last week ask ed for ideas on the subject of better security for life and property, asks i-this wseek, still more urgently, for ...

THE FORREST DIVORCE CASE

... TS -Di; C C- THE FORREST DIV6RCE CASE. . This case is at present exciting a great sensation in the era- States, as may be gathered froin the lengthened details pub- lished in the New York lieeraid. The fact of Mr Forrest's ious application to the Senate of Pennsylvania for a divorce against )st. his wife, on certain alleged grounds of incompatibility of ion temper and improper conduct on her ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... HIGH 'COURT OF JUSTICIARY. *6 t TSE JUNIPER GREEN MURDERS, O This Court met at ten o'clock on Thursday last - Lords 0 Moncreif, Cockburn, and Ivory on the ?? Mon- 0 creiff presiding. o P r Pearson, a stout, able-bodied oan, seemingly about o fifty years of age, with a manacle on his right hand, his left ha nd being also secured, was placed at the bar, on a charge o of murder. The indictment ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... Hooase of Lords, Monday, July 25. CLELAND V. CLASON. This was an appeal against a decree of the Court ?? in a case in which execution had issued. The matters involv- ed were whollv of a technical nature. Mr Anderson appeared for the anpellaet, and Mr Rolt end Mr J. L. Adolphus for the respondent. Lord Brougham on the gtound that the appeal really in- volved nothings but matters of practice, ...

THE COURT AT BALMORAL

... ASCENT OF HER hMAJESTY TO THlE SUMMIT OF BEnN-NA-BOURD. Friday the 6th being the day chosen for the ascent of the mountain, the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the eldest son of Prince Liniongen and the Marchioness of Douro, and attended by a few gillies, left Balmoral at an early hour in the forenoon, and drove up the south side of the Dee till they reached the bridge of Inrvercauld, ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTIC

... IARY. This court met on Monday. Present-the Lord Jestice- Clerk, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord Cockburn. No fewer than twenty-one cases were disposed of, consist- ing, with one exception, of aggravated charges of theft. The . following parties received sentence of transportation for seven I ?? Taggart and Eliza Thomson or Livingstone, for I stealing a purse containing ten L.5 and three L.t notes, f ...

COURT OF SESSION

... THE KIRM1i4IfLLOCI-I CHURCH- CASE CRAlGIE ANb OTS1ERS i. OkiR SttfAtn Ax oTetris. In this case, which it will be recollected was argued at great length before the Second Division oP the Court of Session prior to the Christmas recess, judgment was pronounced on Friday. The question at issue was whether tile chapel at Kirkiritilloch, which in its title was stated to be held in trust for behoof ...

COURT OF SESSION—JURY TRIAL

... COURTIT OF SESSION-JUIRY TRIAL. ANDREW fELROSE & COMPANY. Metchari tS in Edinbar!!b, maust iosenr l:HasrTs. & CocPAsxY, Merchaltr in Glas-gow, and DoNCAor FERGruS.)ON & ComcANY, A gents, Greenock. In this case, which was tried before Lord Dundrensnan and a special jury, on Thursday, in the Fifit Division, the following issues were sent to trial It being admitted. that on or about 15th June ...

COURT OF SESSION JURY TRIALS

... COURT OF SESSMON JURY TIIALS. MOENDAY, DEC. i] i. & G. GRAY it. Jtarts SUTHEttLAND. This cause was tried by the Lord President and a jury on Mon day last. Tie defender, who is a sitipmassler in Aberdeen, had en. tered into guano spieculations in oha a-ear I S44. On the 1t Jtrla 18-14, bacing then at Jeitch1 ' on iteC coast of Africa, he addrressedI a loiter to Imlrie &, Tomlinsun, shipbrokers ...