... SHERiH ORIMINAL C6URE. id The following cases was tried before Sherif Watson and A a Jury, on Friday. last:- 'w iBenjamin Essemon4,farm-servant frem'the parish of Tar- ves, wascharged with falsehood,fraud,and wilfal impoition, r as also forgery, arid ubing and uttering.; There wierethree S different charges in the indictment:-(tl That on. the 15th a, Oct. last, in the shop in Oldmeldrum, ...

... POLICE OFFICE, DERBY, Monday, Dec. 30th. Before the Mayor and other Magistrates. Thomas Barker, of Derby (known as a pig-jobber), and an elderly woman named Else, whose residence is at Birmingham, were brought from the lock-up, for examination, charged with passing several five pound notes as genuine ones, belonging to the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, at the same time they ...

... of Mr. Carden, an Alderman of London and a Conservative, the numbers being 276, and 147 —majority, j 129. The cry of the Quaker was The Queen and the Constitution, and that of the Conservative, ** The Rights of the People. Mr. Bell's election is to be petitioned against, on the ground of gross bribery and cor- , ruption. Representation of Glamorganshire.—The anticipated resignation of ...

... IfIE CASE OP jIe. SLOAKE ,I A-D JANE W1zr/IARED. Yesterday afternoon a special general nieetirg of the Board of Guairdians of the West holidon Utll; ?? field at their honse in IVe't-strcot, for tile puipose of taking into consi. deriition, Mutat steps should be ?? by th li guardians (of wvhose Union, it will be recollected, the ?? girl Jane Wrilbred. wis formerly ari inliate) to ensure the ...

... DUBLIN POLICE-YEsTERDA1r. COLLGoR-ST5RIE.T OFFICE. WEALTOI AND WANT.-John Byrne and Mary Byrne, brother and sister, were brought before the bench, in custody, by Constable 119 B, under the following rather extraordinary circumstances :-The respective dges of the prisoners seemed to be over 50 years; their appearance presented proof ofi the most squalid poverty-the very extreme of misery and ...

... TH1 POLICB COUBTS. e, CGUILDHALL. HAe E zouR CoAs WEIGHED.-Captain William Ray, coal and coke merchant, advertising as of 30, Robert-street, S, Roxton, was summoned for delivering 40 sacks of coals of less than the legal weight to Messrs. Cuthbert, tallow- melters, of Paternoster-row, The summons had been served at the nominal address of , the defendant, when it was found that Captain Ray did ...

... I,, A_ - Friday, Dec. 27th, 1850. Magistrates ?? Hon. Earl Fingall, Chairman Lord Dunmany, Thomas Butler, Esq., and Captain King Resident Magistrate. EVAIOON OF TURNPIKE ToLLS. Henry GarneU, Fsq., Secretary to the Dublin, Slane, and Drop ghaede Turnpike Trustees against Richard E. Bourne, Esq., o Ashbourne. Lawrence Kelly, Mr. Bonrne's steward, stated le had ap. peared by Mr. Bourne's ...

... THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH GAOL itito IMPUTATION AGAINST THE CHAPLAIN OF INDUODMG mrch, PRISONERS TO PLEAD GUILTY. total At the borough sessions, which were being held cm Monday, two prisoners, one a young man aged 19, named cab. Robert Blurgess, and William Hewitt, were tried on a charge ~rday of steeling, on the 27th of November last, 60113of wrappering, twon value Ds. the property of Thomas ...

... MfEETTNG OF SURREY MAGISTRATBS. Yesterday, the first dav of the Epiphany sessions for the county ot Surrey, an extraordinary number of county ma- gistrates assembled for tlie purpose of electing the chief con- stable to govern, the new rural police force about to be esta- blished in the county without the metropolitan district, and the transaction of other countty business; Mr. Thomas Puckle ...

... CQMPARATIVE STATE OF CRIME. The state of erime is 'virtually an expression for the state of civilization, and correctly measures its chief .constituent- elements of general intelligence, social order, and'ucU- being. 'If unusual destqtution,, ignorance, or discontent prevail, the malignity -and extent of these disordetrivill as- suredly be denoted by, the number' and chirititeroe the offences ...

... In the very instructive Scientific Almanack for 1851, edited by Mr. Bogerson, one of the Superintendents of the Observatory, at Greenwich, its eminently talented author says, The planet Mercury, on account of the nearness of his orbit to the Sun, is seldom visible to the naked eye; but I find he will be favourably situated for observation during the first half of January, when he will ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE-TUMSY. BOW-STRESM.-Char'les Dar'dens, keeper of the Somerset- s'hire beer-shop, in Johi-street, Tottenhaam-court-road, was placed tit the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with stabbing a police constable in the thigh with a knife. The constable, wvhose iaume is Davis, of the F division, was unable to attend from extreme weakness and loss of blood. The principal circumstances ...