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POLICE COURT-SATURDAY

... POLICE iCOU:RT-SATup.DAY. (Before Bailie Johnston.) THE LATE BRE.ACg OF PEACE IN THE SOLTHERY CLUB. Robert We8tonuJohn Forsyth, Wm. Kennedy Robert Nisbet, Robert Gibson, William Kerr, James K~err, George Thomson, James Alexander, John Mqntyre, Wm: Muirhead, Wmi Suther. land, Andrew Alexander, Andrew Ramsay, Tlios Hope, Thomas Moffat, David Bowerball, and George Smith, were placed at the bar ...

CURIOUS SMALL DEBT COURT ACTION

... CURIOUT S.SYALL DEBT COURT ACTION. JAMIESON V. FLOG. This was an action heard before Mr Sheriff- Y substitu'te Bome, in the Small Debt Court at Linlithgoaw on Friday, in which M~r Alexander 3 Jrimies6n, 'of Glasgoiv, an agent of the Scottish g 1eformation Society, pursued Edward Garland t Figg, M.D., residing in Borrowstounness, for e £15, as damages or solathitu to his feelings and reputation ...

THE YELVERTON CASE

... THE YELVER1TON CASE. The dcbate on the objections taken to the proof in this ease was resumed yesterday. Mr MILLAR proceeded with his arguiment in regard to the objection brought by Mr Fra.ser against the evi- dlence of Mr Tippets, on the grouad that he had at one time acted us agent for Mrs (Forbes) Yelverton. Having argued the eurstion at some length, he smiuled up his remarks by submitting ...

Law Intelligence

... , aw ?Attlligmrt , , 3 -COUT OF SESSION-SATURDAY. r } PFIRST DIVISION. a i' ' SIR P. M. THRIEPLAND V. MONROS. t In 1839 Sir P. M. Thriepland let the farm of' a Spitall, in the county of Caithness, to the late | e- Donald Monro. 'The lease-was for nineteen years, i and it was stipulated that during the last sixl g years the farm should be cropped in a certain r way, under the penalty 'of £5 for ...

Lsw Intelligence

... 0 COURT OF. SESSION-WRENESDAY. .- : FIRST-DIVISION.: ' .=E LOR'ADYIOCATEV. VIONC I1oxNERM OF sPPir' - POF TE 'COUNTY OF BDINBDU :RG ': This was a petition by the Lord. Advocate on behalf of 'the 4Jzown to have; the Commissioners of Supply of the county of Edinburgh ordained to 'furuish'to the 'colleotor of the LandTa 'for .the .county, and .to his snecessors in offlee anknally, a correct. ...

ELDINBURGH BANKRUPTCY COURT

... ELDINBURG.H BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Sheriff Arkley.) Yesterday, Mr Robert Kay. Kinninmont, mer- chant, Broughton Street, appeared for examina- tion. The sederunt included MIr Thomas S. Lindsay, accountant, trustee ; Mr John Gardiner, .S.C., agent in the sequestration; Mr James B. Sutherland, S.S.C., for Messrs It. and J. Beve- ridge, merchants, Leith, creditors; Mr Archibald Reid, for G. Hay ...

EDINBURGH BANKRUPTCY COURT

... At this Court yesterday, the examination in bankruptcy of Mr Robert Innes, portrait painter, took place before Sheriff Hallard, The sederunt comprised Mr James Nisbett, S.S.C., agent in the sequestration; Mr Wim. Myrtle, C.A., trus- tee; Mr Hislop, furniture dealer, a creditor; and Mr Bell, for Messrs Kennington and Jenner, creditors. The state of affairs showed that the total debts amounted ...

THE ALLEGED CASE OF CHILD-STEALING FROM EDINBURGH

... We have received from Mr Dymock, Procu- rator-fiscal for the city of Edinburgh, copies of correspondence which has passed between him and Mr Selfe, the presiding magistrate in the Thames Police Court, London, on the subject of the alleged case of child-stealing from this city. Mr Selfe first writes to Mr Dymock, directing his attention to the report in the Tinmes, which he says is accurate, ...

THE COCKBURNSPATH CASE

... A meeting of the Established Preshytery of Dninbar-Mr Saiellie, 1Iinerwick, moderator- was held yesterday in Cossar's Hotel, Dunbar, for the purpose of proceeding in a libel at the in- stance of the rev. Court against the Rev, William Paterson, minister of Cockburnspath, The libel, which at a previous meeting had been held rele- vant by the Court, and denied on the part of thie defender, ...

STATISTICS OF JUVENILE CRIME

... The following are the returns referred to by The Rev. Dr Guthrie at the meeting yesterday in reference to the proposed establishment of a Ragged Sbhool in Leith:- ' -t Prison of Edinburgh, 17th Jonuao 1861. efetrn of the number of Commitments of Criminal Prisoners to the Prison of Edinburgh from the Burgh of Leith for Ten Years, ending 31st De- cember 1860 ; showing the Number under 14 Years ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... HIGH COUPRT OF JUSTICIARY. I The high Court of Justiciary sat yesterday-the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lord Deas, and Lord Ardinillan on the bench. Andrew Doonan, alias Farrel, pled guilty to the charge of stealing a gold watch from the shop of a watchmaker in West Nicolsbn Street, on the 7th October last, and having been previously convicted of theft, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. ...

THE POISONING CASE IN GLASGOW

... As previously intimated, the evidence taken in this case, which was most voluminous, was despatched by the Procurator-Fiscal to the Lord-Advocate, iho it has come to the conclu ion that the case must go to trial, and that the accused must be committed ac-t cordingly. The case will be tried before the High n Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, and- it will be pro- tl ceeded with as soon as the ...