... I| POLICE COMMISSiOMRS. | ti A meeting of tha Police Board vwas held onday The LordIFrovost'in the chair. - 9 M d . I - h s'b Present.-The Dean of Guild, Treasurer Nicol; -Sheriff b Watson, Dr Matthew, Meisrs Bisset, Matthews,. o M'Hardy, Rose, Ness, Gray, Gordon, Sherar,' t( Calder,-Wisely, Simpson, Notman, Buyers, Mit- b shell, Sutherlind, Spark, and Topp. ei A report was given in from the ...

... 5, ?? _ ' I At a' Justice of Peace Court, 'held here on Wednesi day ?? Humphrey, Esquire, presiding-3 coml plaiht was brought against Francis Afon tgomery, pawn. broker in Aberdeen, founded on the 90th section of the Prisons Mutiny Act charging him with having received is pawn an old rug, befonging to the barracks,and under bar. rack regulations, and conleuding for a penalty of £2d. Ar ...

... VILLE3O1S, THE SMUGGLER. I ~ ~ -- - I All the world is acquainted with the history of Peter I., that Emperor who was a sailor,soldiertuwuer, meclianic'an, 0 and toe perseverhig civulizer of a savage people, exhibitigr - in the execution of his plans of reform, the ferocity of the O lion and the eye of the eage, holding in one hand the lig-lt 0 which dazzled, by blinding. his stupid subjects,, ...

... COURT OF SESSMON JURY TIIALS. MOENDAY, DEC. i] i. & G. GRAY it. Jtarts SUTHEttLAND. This cause was tried by the Lord President and a jury on Mon day last. Tie defender, who is a sitipmassler in Aberdeen, had en. tered into guano spieculations in oha a-ear I S44. On the 1t Jtrla 18-14, bacing then at Jeitch1 ' on iteC coast of Africa, he addrressedI a loiter to Imlrie &, Tomlinsun, shipbrokers ...

... STATISTICS OF CRIME IN THE EASTERN OR | POLLOKSHIAWS DISTRICT OF RENFREWSHIRE. 7S To t7le Editor of tee Glasgow Herald. Y Procurator Fiscal's Office, Polloksbaws, 31st Dec., 1849. Sim,-The criminal statistics of this suburban district of Glas- gow, for such the district is, may interest some of your readers, and I therefore solicit a place in your columns for the prefixed tables. The ...

... CENTRAL POLICE COURT-REMARKS BY BAILIES SMITH. il. ,t I'd ?? -1 b:A_* af-l- a;; A-?+f l . in m . Lt the-CenaPolid' CeCort, oni M3onday Bailie Smith, inpreo - sence of the Lord Provost; Mr Davis, the assessor, Mrf Burnet, fiscal, and other. offlcials,'made the following ?? 8 business before the Court, he said, during the month, -had been . various and important. No fewer than-710 cases had been ...

... AVINTER CIRCUIT COURT. ;5U9. The folloowing is a full list of the indictments for our Winter S~s. Circuit Court whiciih still be opened here to-morrow, by Lords Cockburn and Ivory; (sen. YTunis, Esq., advocate-depute. Con- sidering the short period which ha, elapsed since the Autumn Cireuit, the roll is an excecdinglV heavy osne, containing 79 cases, in which 125 ?? are impiicated. It will be ...

... litt' ~~~SATURDAY, JANUAOY 5. the This day the trial of A'adere.Porteet, blacksmithI charged, 1ith bethe murder of Joseph Kitby, gaffnekeeper at (Giibrtfield' Castle, ?? of Cambaslang, took plate in the High Court of Justiciary, Ion Edinb11urgh. the The libel set forth that on the 5th of September last, the prlsonrt, tien on the road which leads from Stoneymneadlovi Toll by etooked: bo shields ...

... HIGH .COURTFe.F::IUSTICIARY. This court met on Thursday morning at ten o'clock, when George Martin pleaded guilty et the charge of stealing a pair of trousers from the shop of William Watson, tailor, Kelso, on the 6th of October last, and of afterwards seriously assaelting two constables while engaged in apprehending him. Several previous convictions were recorded against the prisoner, and he ...

... The sittings of the First Division 'for the trial of civil causes by Jury, commenced on Wednesday week-the Lord President presiding. MONDAY, DCEMDint 31. Robert and George Gray, wood-merohants in Dundee, and others, v. James Sutherland, shipmaster in Aber- deen. In this case the Issue sent for trial was the following:- Whether the pursuers, Robert and George Gray, and the deceased Thomas ...

... JURY COURT-SECON7D DIVISION. TURSDAY, JAN. 8 STUTtirtOCl V. GREIG AND OTHERS. A case of some interest came on before the Lord Justice Clerk en). a jitV, inl the Second Division, of the, Court of Sossion. tlis da~y, beinig the cause in which Mr Peter Sturrock, assistant and successor to thle plarochial schoolmaster of the pari.li of BLairguwnrir. was pursuer, and the 11ev. Archibald Or-itircre ...

... . 1WINTER ConCUIT. A TUESDAY, JANUARY 8S This Conrtwas opened here this forenoon at io'clocl, bythe lion. CC Lords Cockburn and Ivory; George Young, Esq., Advocate-depute. pi Their Lordships, as usual, were accompanied on their way to the s Court-house by the Hon. the Sheriffs of the Counties of Lauark, | s Renfrew, and Dumbarton; the Hon. Sir James Anderson, the w h Lord Provost of the city, ...