... 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 ...

... ESTABLISHED PRESBYTERY OF PATSLEY. con- CASE OF MtR. WOOD. rully T~he Presbyte7y met on Wednesday, pursuant to adjournment, leak- to giv jugent in the ease of Mr. Wood of Renfrewy-che Rev. ~pect Mr. Dickson, moderator. Parties having been removed, that Dr. M'NAIRi, according to seniori ty, addressed the Presbytery. He acyalluded, in the first place, to the very painful circumstances in which I ...

... The Court met on Monday, the Lords present being the Lord a Justice-Clerk, Lord Wood, and Lord Ivory. Eiziabetls Walker or Cairns was placed at the bar, charged with falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition, as also theft, and previous conviction. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven years transportation. h Antoscy Sims& pleaded guilty to two acts of theft from places in ...

... EXTENSIYE BEANM FORGERIES. ,- 1 ?? ii (From the Morning Chronicle.) et Brighton, Sunday, Feb. 24. This town was thrown into a state of great excitement on Sattir- Leday evening, by the discovery that a gang of swindlers were exten- rs sively and successfully, in part at all events, uttering forged notes a- of the Brighton Union Bank. in Mr. T. H. Chase, the active and intelligent chief officer ...

... IMAN OF GUILD COURT. W]IST-aNnD WYExn~ WLtOVFBANK-SAUCR1HALL SmEr, The Court held, its usual sitting on Thirsday ?? Lord Dean Galbraith presiding, assisted by Messrs. M-rray &ZI'Ewen, Merohant-]ynars; and by Deacons Miller, Christie, Sclanderse and 0rai-the Trades-lynars. : The business consisted chiefly of petitiots for the erection of newv bl dEfrgs)- and the altering and moderising. of ...

... 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 ...

... ?? 1 -1 - - CONFESSION OF MlURDER. (From the Times.) It has within the last two or three days been made known that John liaguley, aged 70, who died at Chilweil, four miles south of Nottingham, on the 16th instant, confessed on his death bed that 23 years ago he murdereda hawker of shawlts, blankets, &c., and disposed of the body. This announcement loss caused the greatest possible excitement. ...

... | COURT OF SESSION-FrBRUARY 27. I NOTES OF SPEECHES .OF THE JUDGES OF THE FIRST DIVISION, Al Advising Reclaiminrg Note, ALEx. AvDEreso;% Esq., sldvoudie, Aberdeen, for' JAmES SnANlks' ExECUTORS, ageiflst Lor'd Dandrenna n's Interlocutsor, i's process of 8USIuenesion, and Interdict al their inslanwe, Againset( THlE ABERDEEN RAILWAY C0O1PAN17. The Lord Justice General said-I have no difficulty ...

... I|- - - The following cases were tried before Sheriff DAVIDSON and a jury on Friday list:- Murfargetr-c Smith oil Spaldin q, residing in Park Lane, pled Guilty to n charge of stealing a silk handkerchief, the pro- perty of Margaret M'Kenzie or Joiner, broker, Lodge Walk, aggravated by being habit and repute a thief. Tbe prisoner was sentenced to be committed to prison for nine months. James ...

... 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 ...