... 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 ...

... . 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, ...

... iRfnlNTAT. PI)Ann) (!ArEA 2 av e - --O- - PAROCHIAL BOARD CASES. IIhy On Tuesday afternoon, athbree o'clock, the Hon. Sheriff Bell, in hole terins of previous notice, gave judgment upon the points of objec- ngs, ca tion raised by Mr. Crawford, writer, as to the validity of the votes given by Mr. James Taylor in the recent Glasgow Parochial Board been election. The Conrte was filled byealarg ...

... - THE PAROCHIAL BOARD ELECTIOX. On Saturday, Sheriff Bell delivered judgment on the objectionc raised by Mr. Crawfurd, on the part of Mr. M'Lelian, against the validity of several votes tendered for Mr Callander. The facts of the case, his lordship observed, were, that Roger Langlands, a voter in the second ward, had paid all his assessments for the relief of the poor, for the current year, ...

... JURY COURT-EDINBURGH. M-- - , T - - In :d. JIJ UuUtr-DLthnnLaugur. THURSDAY; JANUARY 10. BREACH OF CONTRACT.-ICIHOLSON, &C., -J. KENNEDY. In this case, which w as tried before the Lord Justice-Clerk and I ajuryyesterday, Mr. Francis Nicholson, merchant, Dumfries (as. representing the deceased James Henderson, merchant, there), wvas. pursuer, and Mr. James Kennedy, nurserymuan, Dumfries, wvas ...

... WINTER CIRCUIT. FPIDAY, JANUARY 11. The Court resumed to-day at ten o'clock. - John Cameron, lately a police constable hi the Glasgow Police establishment, was placed at the bar, charged with the crime of murder, in so far as, on the morning of the 12th of August last, while near Little Dovehill Street, Glasgow, he attacked and as- sanited, with a stick or some other weapon, Peter M'Gill, boot ...

... (From the Times.) The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Novelli was held on Wednesday evening, at the Griffin Inn, Lower Brough- ton, before Mr. W. S. Putter, county coroner. Mr. J. H. Ham son, june, who acted as the s6lieitor to the exe- cutors of the late Mr. Lewis Novelli, husband to the deceased Mrs. Novelli, deposed that he had been in the habit of seeing Mr. A. Novelli on ...

... ;-THE KIRKINTILLOCH CHURCH.CASE. InAIIEN AN(D OTHEMS %i DR. KARUKALL AND OTHERS. ?? case, which- it will be recollected, w as argued at great lngth before the Second Division of the Court of Session prior to the Christucass recess, judgment was pronounced on Friday. - The question at issue was whether-the chapel at Kirkintilloch, which in its title was stated to be held in trust for behoof of ...

... DEAN OP GUILD COURT. 0 STMhLtYG' ROAD-TUE ThONOGATE-5T. ENiOCHtS BURN AND SQUARE - ~ ~ ~ _CARRtoN itimi COmrLAYY; &C. The ausnal fortnightly meeting of the Court Was held son There- daycthe 17th curr~ent. Present-the Lord Dean. Galhraith, Mr.' M'Nangit, 'and Deacons Christie, Craig, Miller, and Solanldars. ?? cuses before the Court to-day were not numerous;I bat still the sgceneral business ...