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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 ...

EDINBURGH GAZETTE

... qi WAL rrk aTiors. Jawes & Sox, working jewellers, Clyde Street, az a Company, and James M*Kenzie and Thomas working there, the individual of that Company, as partners, and as individuals—Creditors in Dowells and Lyon's Rooms, George Street there, 13th May and Sth Jane, one o'clock, Towan & Sox, sailmakers and ship chandlers in Glas- gow, and Diggiel Touch, sailinaker, ship chandler, and ...

POLICE COURT—WEDNESDAY

... 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 APPEALS

... 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 COURT—MONDAY

... 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 ...

MORE BANK REVELATIONS

... 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

... 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—THURSDAY, Jan. 23

... 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 ...

Shipping Intelligence

... Shipping Entelligence. — SOUND LIST. January 4.—See Nymphe, Kornehl, Ioverkeithing, Copen- ‘eu. Winds at Elsinore. — January 4. SW. W.—5 and 6. WSW. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Liverpool, Jan. 12.—The sloop Lactura, Jarvis, from Se- ville to the Clyde, was seen in lat. 50, long. 8., by the Arabian (st.), arrived at this port from Smyrna, steering for her daring a heavy gale from NW., when the sloop was ...

EDINBURGH GAZETTE

... EDINBURG H GAZETTE SEQUENTRATION. James Morure & Co., merchants, fancy silk manufacturers, agents, and w , Buchanan Street, Glasgow, and James Mutrie aud Wm. Mutrie, the individual partners of the said Company—Creditors meet in the Crow Hotel, Square there, 11th October and 2d November, one o'clock. BXAMIBNATIONS. Mrs Jann Hastie, innkeeper and merchant, Carluke, in the county of Lanark— to be ...

MISS SMITH'S TRIAL

... 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 ...

POLICE COURT—SATURDAY

... 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 ...