... POLICE COMNIIS9ION-DEATH OF LORD JEFFREY. The Commissioners of Police met in the boar'l-oooj on Monday at the usual hour, when Mr Sheriff Gordon, on taking the chair, said-I rise to move, in n vary few words, that except for the despatch of ab- solutely necessary business, this meeting do stand adjourned till this dacv neck. It has pleased Providence to afflict this city, and the whole country ...

... CouRT OF EXCanQUER, Jan. 28. ADVOCATE GENERAL V. SCOTT. This was a prosecution instituted by the commissioners of inland revenue to recover penalties from James Scott, writer in Perth, for having acted as a procurator before the Sheriff Court at Perth, without being possessed of an attorney license. Mr Clezhorn opened the case fur the Crown, and read the statutes founded on. Tb e Sheriff-Clerk ...

... HIGIH COURT OF JUSTICIARY |CSE OF JOHN 3 CAVRON. The Couot met on Thursday morning at half-past nine to dispose of the objection raised on Monday by Mlr Neaves in the case of John Cameron, the Glasgow policeman, who was charged with the murder of Peter .I1GilL on the night of the I th of August last. The objection, it will bh remembered, was to the effect that as the criminal letters served on ...

... The Commissioners of P1sice met on Monday-t.e Lord3 Provost in the chair. TIlE LATE LORD .t-ireFFt,'Y. 1)D fleaton propstosd ldi tbit a rcsuilutinn to the followsing' C- feet shlO lihi he- entcre I pno tClL 1ttil2 zl rs:- Tiat the b-.min renariiintt jvirh felhic-s of deep regr ;h! grun lassi wich e publie have SU~znia- by the dcath of ! rid .Tcff e , beg In rr- cord tli-jr highl opiill DI the ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION. IBOARD OF SUPERlISION V. ANDERSON. This was a petition end complaint frorn the Bnard of Su- pervision against lfr William Anderson, appointed in No- vember last by tire Parochial Board of the City of Glasgow as co-ondinate inspector along with the inspector previously ap- pointed (Dr Adams), the board assigning to the former the indoor duties of keeping the ...

... aIGrI COURT OF JUSTICIARY. The court met on Monday morning at ten o'clock, and sat in full bench (the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lords Mackenzie, Moncreiff, Cockhbur, and Ivory, being present), to hear the case of Alex- ander Fraser Crawford, described as a clerk or writer in Edin- burgh, who was accused of snding threatening letters to Mr Crawford of Cartsburo, with the view of extorting money from ...

... I PIGl COURT OF JUSTICIARY. TRIAL FOR MURDER AiD ROBBERY. The court niet on Monday onorning at tell o'clock, the judges present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Mloncreiff, and Lord Mackenzie. William M'Kew was placed at the bar, charged with the crimes of murder and robbery, in so far as, on the 23d of Sept. 1849, he dii. in a fipld or piece of ground known by the name of Easter Field or ...

... LEITHi POLICE COMMISSION. On Wednesday a special meeting of the Town Council and Police Commission of Leith was called by the Provost. for the consideration of the bye-laws and regulations relating to the police of the harbour, &c. The hour of meeting was three ?? clock, hut after waiting for a quarter of an hoar, there was not a sufficient attendance of members to form a meeting of the Town ...

... POLICE COMMUISSION. A special meeting of the Commissioners of Police was held on Friday, ' for the purpose of taking into consideration the summons which has been served, at the instance of Mr Deas, surgeon, for professional remuneration in inspecting and giving evidence in cases of nuisances, on Mr Murray, inspector of lighting and cleaning. Mir D. Smith, WTIS. was called to the chair. A ...

... EIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. The court met on Monday, the Lords present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Wood, and Lord Ivory. Elizabeth Walker or Cairns, was placed at the bar, charged with falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition, as also theft, and previous conviction ; in so far as, in the months of November and December 1849, she at various periods represented herself asa servant to ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY, FRIDAY, IARCEa 1. (Before Sir J. Knight Bruce.) StEBfElING V. TIM EARL OF BALCARRAS. The object of this suit was to declare void, on the ground of fraud and want of adequate consideration, a purchase mode by the late Lord Balcarras in 1822, of an e'tate at Blaelrod, near Wigan, Lancashire. It appeared that the Grandfather of the plaintiff devised the property to the hon. Rt ...

... HIGH COUJRT OF JUSTICIARY. The following cases were tried in this court on Monnday, be- fore the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lors Mdacdkenzie, anti Lord Cdck- burn:- John M'1Leood, charged with stealing, three pieces of iron, form- ing pact of a steam-boiller, on the 28Sh January last, from the banks of the Canal Basin,. wras found, guilty ; and as five previ- ous convictions 'ere recorded against ...