... 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 ...

... rOLICE COUIRT-WjYnSDAYr. (Before Bailie Stevenson.) s8o0PLIFTING DETECTED. A female named Mary Paterson or Pyne was in- dicted on a charge founded on the follo'wing occur- ?? Monday, the Ist inst., she went into a grocery store, in LeggaL's Lend, Stockhrldge, to make a stnall purchase; aihd finding no one in attendance, I she lifted a pair of shoe-brushcs from the counter, and hid themn ...

... JUSTICIARY APri?ALs. [Before Lorda Ivory5 Cowvan, Deas, 'Lrdmillao, and ' Neaves,7, rETIrI0N-MS St. L. WEBSTi'i AHD OTHRilS. Mr G.srOsRD, for the petitioner, stated the facts of this case. The petition was one for recal olf out-. lawry. In January 1856, Alexcander Webster bad been apprehended on a charge of reset of theft. H~e formd bail, and was liberated. He was cited to ap- pear at the ...

... POLICE COURJT-MONDAY. (Before Bailie Russel.) CASES Or THErT. Eliza Gilroy was charged with having stolen, on or since the 19th of August, from the Crown Hotel, 'shere she was a servant, a linen table-napkin and a white straw-bonnet. She had been twice previously convicted of theft. Mary Murphy or Gilroy, lher mother, was also brought up on a charge of resetting the stolen property. Both ...

... THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND. 3IR ROBERTSON'S EVIDENCE. We continue to give the evidence tendered to the Commissioners appointed to inquire in the working of the Bank Acts:- James Robertso n, Esq., manager in Glasgow of the Union Bank, was called in, and examined. Chairman-You are the manager of the Union Bank of Glasgow? -I am. Before you became so you bad considerable expel rience in the ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION. ~~~~ - ma si Ws m THEZ RMV.1 LDrOCKHART 0B' TRASERBURG11. On Saturday an appeal against a decision of the Lord Or- dinarv. refusing to grant a suspension and interdict in the case of the Rev. Dr Lockhart of Fraserburgh, who, as may be remembered, was one of the ministers deposed at last General Assembly, for certain delinquencies, was heard before their ...

... COURT OF SESSION-TFcnsDAY. Jao. 23. THE 1tADDINGTONSHIaE tARS.. The debate was resumed to-day at eleven o'clock before the whole Bench (with the exception of Lord Cockburn), when The DEAN OF Fmcu-Tr addressed the Court for the petition- ers. He commenced by referring to the importance of an in- quirr into the mode of striking the fiars, either in the case of a particular county, or of Scotland ...

... If on Monday the interest of the public had par- tiallv declined, it was yesterday greater than ever. From an early hour, a crowd besieged the doors of the J3usticiary %ourt; standing room was hardly to be ob tained; andthepressure from behindbecame verysevere. At last, the doors were opened ; iike a pent-up moun- tain torrent, when swollen' by mienting snows, it sweeps away an obstacle ...

... P O L I C E C O U R T-SATURDAT. (Before Sheriff Lorimer.) THlE ADJOURNED STUDENT CASE. This case was again brought up to-day, the pan:its having failed to come to any understanding. TIe charge was mutual, and the nature of the charge .be same-assault. The case, Bowstead v. Grabani, weg investigated yesterday, and it only remained to din- pose of the counter-charge. Witnesses were es- amined at ...

... At a special general meeting of the Society of Soli- citors before the Supreme Courts of Scotland, held within their Hall, in the Parliament House, on the 22d of April 1856- The subject of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords being at present under the considera- tion of a Committee of their Lordships'most honour- ale House, and alterations thereon having been sug- gested from ...

... COURT OF SESSION. ROLLS. Notices this day Thursday, 26thb June Jury Sittings-Second Division. The sittings of the Second Division of the Court, for the trial of civil causes by Jury, during the ensuing vacation, will commence on Tuesday, the 22d day of July next; and notice of trial must be given on or before Monday, the 7th day of July next. INNEU HOUSE. First Division Single Bills. C. ...

... I TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDIN\GS. The Council met yesterday-the Lord Provost in the chair. TRINITY COLLEGE CIIURCII. Councillor BELL gave in reasons of dissent from the resolution of last meeting, regarding the building of Trinity College Church on the site at the Calton Hill. Treasurer Dickson adhered. A letter was read from Sir George Grey, acknow- ledging the receipt of the address voted to her ...