... During the past week, the weather has been on the whole r favomnable for the Royal visitors pursuing their usual out-door f recreations, f On Tuesday and Wednesday, lis lloval Highness Prince Albert went deer-stalking in the forest, and met with his usunl c success; while Her Majesty drove out, attended by her ladies of t honour, visiting Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at I Abergeldie ...

... THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR. -I PArs. Sanday.-Tbe following are the, authentic details of this event:- Tbe Emperor, yesterday, ahont five n'cloek, was riding slowly up the Champs ElseRs. on his way to .join the Empress in the Boie d(e Ito'ilone. He was aecompalied by Colonel Nev and M. de Valabreque. As he approached the Arc de Triomphe, a well-dressed4 mnn was seen to advance to ...

... TIHE BURDON SLOW POISONING CASE. Lers This ease came on for trial at the Durbain Assizes on Fri- V of day. The prisoner, Mr Joseph Snaith Woole, was injicted for the wilful murder of iis wife, Jane Wooler. The circumstances rns of the case, which we formerly detailed, are briefly these:- tir Mrs Wooler, the decrased, was the daughter of a medical o man, and mnarried the presoner eighteen years ...

... ': At the usual sitting of the Court on Wednesday last-Sheriff Watson presidng-Mr John Blaikie, Advocate, presented her Majesty's Commission, appointing him Commissary Clerk of Aberdeeushire, in room of the late Mr Ale ander Gor- don. ! The Commission having been read, and Mr Blakie having taken the oaths prescribed by law, .Sheriff Watson said that he could. net allow the opportunity to pass ...

... THE SUNDAY iSTEt19R CASE. I Lord Benholme has pronounced the following interlocutor in Ai e the suspension and interdict, Sir James Colqurloun of Luss, Sp Bart., against Andrew Paton and'others, proprietors of the fol steam-boat Emperor:- sie ,1 3th March, 155-The Lord Ordinary having again beard th , parties pronurators, with reference to his interlocutor and note ta of 31st January last, ...

... Tiff iegistfiaicod Appeal Court for thle Counties of Aberdeen, Bf Baniff, and ltincaeclins, was held in the Court- House here en t Saturday-tile Sheriffs of these counties Presiding. Tilere were Rf .no cases from tile city or- Comity of Aberdeen, isor from Kincar- co' dineshire. From the county of B~anff there were 10 appeals. tic The first cans takcn up was an apincal by Tames Simpson, sti ...

... i- A cunious case was decided in Ithe Burgh Court here t- last week. Two months ago there was a ball given in the ,e Royal Hotel, by the officers of the Aberdeenshire Militia, ly in honour of the presentation of a pair of colours to the o. Regiment by Lady Saltoun. There were present the ic eliW of the town and county, and all went merry as a te, marriage bell, till the sun put out the gas ...

... A CAsE which has created considerable interest in this quarter, came on for trial at the Perth Circuit Court, on Thursday: we allude to the charges of forgery against Messrs James and Georga Brown, jun., tanners and leattler.mercihants, Arbroatb. In the indictment against these persons, the names of. 207 several witnesses to be nddaicrd against them are given, as also a list or inventory of ...

... COURT OF SEssiwON-SECOND DIVISiON. 'ing Taureday, De. 20. 2fte- MITCHIELL V5. MITCHELL'S TRUSTBES. 5. This was an action ofcount and reckoning and payment, at the the instance of Mrs PNielope Grassick or zMitchell, against ber. John Grassick, her brother ; Patrick Davidson, advocate a as Aberdeen; and Dr Robifb'Mitchlell, brother of her late husband a and -the survivirg trustees in tMO ...

... .; COUR. I t UI TCIAR HIGHt COURT-.OF FTUSTIA&RY. IOn Saturday week the High Court met, on the risinI Of the Second Division, to take up a note of suspension and-liberaion previously before them in preliminary stages, of Mr Qjj' Gerard, lately residing i now a Prisoner in Morinside Asylum, against Mr William Grigor, Procurator-Fisael -o Elgin. The complainer, a gentleman of independent fortune ...

... on Nveeitesdaly the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert was ox- th, ,anineci. The firnt portion oflhis evidlence we give entire, as it tic j50 tes about which there has been so much riansuder- Pe eiaed pol a Secretary at War uinder Lord Aberdeen's tic fJtealoda nt an loa member of that Government. After at ~ rakng upl alof LOrd Aberdeen's Gov'erncnent, I left the Co ~jtef ofSeretryatWar, and became ...

... COURT OF SESSION- THY ABERDEEN BANK CASE. he | This important ease, which has been in dependance for se- b veral years, and has as yet only reached a preliminary stage, p has been debated' for five days this week before the whole Court f, as on the reclaiming note of the pursuers ngaiust Lord Handy. v 31- side's interlocutor; which found that the averments of the 1 its pursuer were not ...