... POLICE C&SES DURING THE WEEK. OBTAINING GOODS UNDoE FALsr PRETENCES.-Yester- day, a man of the name of John Law, was charged, at Si the Police Office, with obtaining, on Thursday last, from a Messrs. Pickup, Wraith, and Critchley, druggists, in the name of Messrs. R. & B. Walmsley, cotton spinners, a large quantity of glue. The suspicion of the parties was E excited, and information was given ...

... CORONER'S INQUEST. A highly-respectable jury was empannelled by Mr. Grimsisaw, on Saturday afternoon last, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances attending the death of John Daniels, an infant, who had only survived its birth a few hours. The jury assembled at the house of Mr. William Singleton, the Dray mad Horses Inn, Standish- gate; and after viewing the body of the child, they ...

... The fortnightly sitting of this court was held on Mon- day last, before John Addison, Esq., judge. JORN SMITH V. BICAD. TnOmPSON AND RICRD. HACKING. Mr. Ainsworth was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Clough for the defendants. This was an action in trover to recover £1 19s. Gd., for damages sustained by the defen- dants trespassing on the quarry of the plaintiff, at Pleas- ington.-Mr. Ainsworth ...

... The usual fortnightly meeting of the Preston county to t court took, place on Monday last, before John Addison, not Esq., judge. There were 57 original plaints furl hearing. are Thle advocates in attendance were-Messrs. Banks, yH. lette Harrison, Charroley, Ascroft, Dodd, J. Blackhlurst; and for t Ratcliff, uf Blackburn. PARKINSON V. TAYLOOXR.. In this case the plaintiff is a veterinary ...

... THE CHRONICLE. 1 PRESTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1851. ?? - - - - - - - - Is Among the many subjects which have been started of late to distract the attention of Parlia- meat at its meeting within the next few days, there is scarcely one which deserves more attention than the dry one of a Reform of the Law. It is, more- over, a topic which seems to have been entered upon by an unusually large ...

... FPLorfious ASSAULT.-JaMes Pennington was indicted sh for a felonious assault on a girl under twelve years of Jul age. The offence was committed at the Wigan Union tic Workhouse, of which the parties were inmates. The pr1.. id( soner expressed a hope that the judges would not send m( him away from his native land, but send him to a lunatic re., asylum or a workhouse for life, where he would get ...

... I THE NEW RULES FOR COUNTY COURTS, A code of new rules for regulating the proceedings of county courts has just been issued, which will altogether supersede the regulations by which they have hitherto been conducted. They came into operation on the 3rd of July. The bailiff to attend at the office of the clerk once in every day, to pay all moneys into the hands of the clerk within twernty-four ...

... COUNTY COURT.-TUESDAY LAST. I ?? .. ?? .. ._ , .. ._ This court was held In the Afoot Hall, on Tuesday last, before W. A. Holton, Esq., judge.- The gentlemen of the bear present were Messrs. Aston and Leroiche, but no briefs being forthcosn- log, they very shortly retired. There were sixty-two plaints entered for trial, exclusive of six adjourned cases, and fourteen commsitments. Mr. Hilton, ...

... TLIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT JUDGE I INQUIRY BEFORE THE EARL OF CARLISLE. SATURDAY LAST. The Earl of Carlisle entered the court in this town, and resumed his seat shortly before eleven o'clock. Mr. Serjeant Wilkins was not present, and Mr. Ovens ex- plained that the learned serjeant had been compelled to return to London, his attendance being imperatively required in town, and had left to Mr. Ovens ...

... COUNTY COURT.-MXONDAY LAST. I IXP ?? A IJ..A .. (before A. Hulton, Esq.) ROBINSON V. OOCOMB. The plaintiff formerly occupied a shoemaker's shop in Salford, and before he left the premises he sold the fix- tures, valued at £6 Is., to the incoming tenant, a grocer of the name of Cocker, froin Over Darwen. The de- fendant alleged that he bought the fixtures on condition that he took the shop, ...

... I COUNTY COURT.-MONDAW LAST. This court was held on Monday last, before John Addison, Esq, c judge. 102 original ?? were entered for trial (in one half ofe which a travelling draper was the plaintiff), and 1e summonses after judgment; making a total of 119 cases. AITKEN, MARSHIALL, AND CO., ?? THSOMAS WARD. The plaintilfs are wholesale merchant,, in' Market-street, Blackburn. The defendant to ...

... In A tailor, of the name of Thomas Bell, was chargedat the Town-hall, on Wednesday, with receiving from Ur, Lewis Taylor, pawnbroker, Friargate, under false pre tences, the sum of £2; and 'with compounding a pena offence.-Mr. J. Blackhurst, who prosecuted, stated tht the defendant. on the 21st of March, laid an information against Mr. Lewis Taylor, for an offence eommintd against the 39th and ...