... POLICE COURIT-TaURSDAT. (Before Sheriff Hallard.) A YOUTHFUL REPROBATE. A boy named Thomas O'Neill was brought up for the third time on a charge of theft, and remitted to the Procurator Fiscal. The circumstances of the present charge are as follows:-A country farmer was in town making domestic purchases, &c. He had completed his rounds, packed his carts, and was ready for starting. He made a ...

... POLICE COURTr-MoNDAY. (Before Sheriff Hallard.) ILAM1 STEALING. Ilutph F.inn, a stalwart son of Erin, vla remitted to the Procurator-Fiscal on a charge of theft, aggra- vated by previous conviction. He was sauntering down the Cowgate on Friday night, when a large roll of bacon hanging from a shop-door excited his ac- quisitiveness. He removed the roll, weighing about 1 cwt., and decamped, but ...

... A meeting of this Board was held yesterday-the Lord Provost occupying the chair. wmATER dOMPANY'S NEW BILL. Mr FORD moved that the copy of the new Bill in- tended to be applied for by the Water Company be remitted to the Law Committee, with instructions to watch its progress, as a measure of precaution, and as a duty which they owed to the public. Mr TuLLis supported Mr Ford, considering it ...

... ne HOUSE OF LORDS. he The case of Dixon v. Bovill, and Mackenzie v, .l Dunlop will appear in our Law Reports of to-mor- el. row. COURT OF SESSION. b- JURY TRIALS. rS- SECOND DivisioN. >11. (Before the Lord Justice-Clerk and a Jury) -NI'LAREN V. RITCHIE AND RUSSELL. This case, which has already been noticed in the 8Ss Calendonia Mercury, came on for trial yesterday. The tr- pursuer alleges that ...

... THIRD EDITION, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. ti TRIAL OF MISS SMITH, 1 A FOURTH DAY. The Court resumed at ten o'clock this morning- t] the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lord Ivory, and Lord Han. b dyside, as on the previous days, presiding. s The DEAN of FAcuLTY ?? Lords, before I proceeding with the evidence, I wish to direct your ao Lordship's attention to an occasion of a very unusual a kind. There has ...

... 1 ; itt tutt.,; -COURT OF-SHSSION-JuLY 1'4. . . .F!RST .D)VI~SrON. ADVOOA O S AND GEORGE; TN0MON V. - DVIDROLLO AND MADTORY. Rollo. was, fbr som.,e years prior to 7th April 18 54, in the employ~menttof Messrs6. &. G. Thomson, en- gineers, 0Cydebank Foundry, Glasgow, in. the Capa- city, of for'esan draughtsmau, when it was his duty to get up for his empleyers drawings of everything 'made by ...

... 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 ...

... SUSPECTED MURDER1 IN ABERDEENSHIRE. Under the heading ' Drink and IDeath, the follo7ingpara- graph appeared about the beginning of July last ili one of the Aberdeen papers:- An occurrence which has just taken place in a rural district C about seventeen miles from this town exhibits in bold relief E the sad results of drunkenness. The occurrence to which wve D refer toolk plice at the house ...

... (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 ...

... 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 COURT AT BALMOR1AL. (From tMe Aberdeen Journal of yesterday.) Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, went out riding on Thursday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer-stalking. The dinner party on Thursday included Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Baroness Speth, the Right EOn. Fox Maule and Sir Edwin Landseer. Her Majesty, His Roval ...

... f HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. TRIAL OF MISS 'SITH. THURSDAY-NINTH DAEY-; The'Court'inet'asgain at 9 o'clock this morning, when the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lords Ivory and' -Handyside, as on the previous occasions, occupied the bench. The Loa> JusTzcE-CLFna resumed his charge to the jury.: In adverting to the letters, he said it did not appear to hint-and he did not think it had been made to 'appear ...