... CE[ARGE AGAINST TWO SOLICITORS. Friday was the day appointed by the9oort of Session for Mir Daniel Taylor, S.S.C., to appear at the bar to beer the bepaain b a ie decision of the Court respecting the explntosh a ie of1 his conduct in regard to the forged signatore of James B.t Dow, ewricten ait the end of a note of suspension. In connec- tion with the sante melter, it wee understood that Mr ...

... THE EUrSO COAhI1R TEN ulrVnESITn. I I 'On Tuesdav a note seas presented to the First Division of she Court of Session, at the instance of the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council. relative to the fund left by General Reid for founding a Professorship of the Theory of Music in the University. The note set forth that, in this action, Lord Robertson (the Lord Ordinary), on the 29th November ...

... TOWN-COUNCIL PROC EBINGS. A special meeting of Councl was held on Tuesday for the purpose of considering the p''tns and specificeaions of the new Slaughterhlznses-the Lord Provnst occupied the chair. The LOrD PROVOST said, the. plans had be'en prepared by Mr Cousin, and they are such 1s mnight have been expected from a cea tleman of his eminence in his prnfession-(biear). Throughout the ...

... MRS a'CULLOCE AND HUSBAND v. tRS LITTLt-DEFAMATION. On Saturday this case was tried before Lord Wood and A1 a jury, on the following issues:- 1. Whether, on or about the 22d day of March 1850, or on Al one or other of the days of the said month of March, or of the month of February preceding, or April following, the defender did, in the course of a conversation which took place within her ...

... TRLIENNIAL PRE5C~rITIoNS-RBLCACI)DER V.. MiLK A.YD h COMPANY. rc The decision in. this case determines an important point in oi the law of prescription. It was pronounced in an action pi raised in 1844 by Mrfllackadder, CMiilEngineerGlanmmis, be- fe forethe Magistrates of Dendee, against Mrflavia Milri, hanker, pi Dundlee, and others ,- which concluded for L.S53, ise., with interest from 1st ...

... EIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. This Court met on Monday-the Lord-Justice Clerk, and lords Wood andIvoryon thebench. Lord Dundrennan, having mn s been appointed as one of the Lords Commissioners of Justici- ca acy inrroom of Lord Mackenzie, resigned, was expected to sit wbt on the assizes, but was prevented by slight indisposition. fou Robert Warner. soldier in the 13th Regiment of Foot, was ...

... TOWN-COUNCDI PROCEEDINGS. A meeting of Council was held on Tuesday-the Lord Pro- VOst in the chair. C mLECTRtC TELEGRAPH. Councillor HILL called attention to the position of the te- legraph wires, leading to the Telegraph Office, which be con- ceived to be somewhat dangerous. The LOiRD PROVOST said that the Electric Telegraph Corn- pany was the proper body to apply to. TItE-BALL ON THsE ...

... ZZILWAY COMI-ANUB ANDW THE 0OIETANCE OF THr JlJAL. On Tuesday, the case between the Post-Office and the Edin. burgb, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company, as to the con- veyance of the mail, was debated and decided in the First Di- vision of the Court of Session. It will be recollected that the dispute oat of which this action has arisen occurred so far back as the spring of 1849 ; and that it ...

... HIGH COURT OF TUSTICIARY. T7HURSDA, MAARC 1. The Coont sat again this OrrnOig at ten o'clock-the Lord Jnstice-Cierk, Lord Wood, and Lord Ivory on the Bench. There were seven cases of theft, witah greater or less aggrava- tioa. Sentence of transportation for seven years was passed upon John Baker, John MsAulay, Hugh Brown. James Pick. Lauchlan Galbraitb, JaMes M'Lure, and Agnea' Crawford or ...

... JURY COURT-FIRST DIVISION. 4 1 5 CAMERON V. CAMERON'S TRUSTEES. 9This cace, which had reference to the validity of a trust dis. D position andsettlementwas, afterathree days debate, brought a to a close on Friday, by the jury returning a verdict for the 2 defenders on all the issues. 2 __ 5 QUESTION OF CONTRACT-MILLER V. WILSON. 3 This case was tried before Lord Robertson and a jury in the 3 ...

... CASrT (I 9ESSION-JURY TRIALS. oBD ie Cut M dyM-DEFA3rLsIHoar which camne before Lord Robertson and a jury, In ibtis c- - -iio of ths, Court on hMondiav, Mrs H~arriaet he~ ir , toilet of the deceased Adam Aird, shoe-mer- P ica dee, and now residing at Strentian, Argyleshire, eb, iir and Kr William Kennedy. sometime residing PrP *,factor for Sir J. M. Riddell of Ardnatiturchan t Strotla'for ...

... COUPT OF SESSION-JURY TRIALS. OIRAINGER tv. THE PRtOVIStONAL OOMCIXTTEE OF THE DU7NDEE gate AND NORTtjEfl JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Ti This case was beard before 'Lord Robertson and a jury in SeqY the First Division of the Court on Friday. The pursuer was maul Thomas Greinger, Esq., civil engineer, Edinburgh ; and the exee defenders ware the members of the provisional committee of liqut the ...