... J. ?? COURT, POLLOKSHAWS. Justices ?? Watson, James Barclay, William Colledge, Janics Flleming, and John Whyte, Eiquires-Alex- ander bitson, Esq., Clerk. Jailes8 Gray, accused of assault, by striking his wife with a stool on helr head, and sevcrely woundilig her to the great effusion of her bleed-pleaded guilty, aind was fined in £5, or to be mi- prisoled G0 days. Graiy bad previously been ...

... Yesterday, at tbo. Gorbals Polien Court, James Scanlan, pawnbroker, a Nvoll-drossed individual, sporting anmassive signet i ring, was accused, before Baile Gilniour, of having, on same morninig, committed a cruel and treacherous assault on the person of Hellry Murphy, pawnbroker, while in Eglinton Street, Laurloaton. Oil being called upon by the Bailie to plead, the defendant stated thatlh bed ...

... THIE CASE OF SURGEON ELLIOTT. (From tho Daily News.)I When the result of the court-martial upon Surgeon Elliott, of the Royal Navy, was promulgated in July, we felt it to be our duty to call attention to certain circumstances connected with the proceedings which excited a strong suspicion that he had been dealt with, at least harshly, if not unjustly. It may be in the re- collection of our ...

... :RENFREWSHIRE-COUNTY POLICE. A letter of the Rev. Mir. Aird of Neilston recently ap. peaied in our columns giving extrao7dinary details of crime committed in his Parish, including several recent daring house. breakings, the perpetrators of which in almost every case being allowed to escape from the deficiency of tile means on tle spot for investigating end detecting crime; and other housebroak ...

... WVe regrot to state that a murder of a savage, and apparently premeditated, character, was perpetrated in this city on the night of Wednesday last. For the lastfour or five days large crowds of idle persons have assembled in Buchan Street, Gorbals, to gaze on a tenement in which it was said a ghost had been seen, tand these numbers had latterly been largely increased, especi- ally after work ...

... t Yesterday, at the Southern Police Court, William Johnston e was charged with having on Tuesday last feloniously stolen from the premises of' Mrs. Jaine E rskine, situated in Eglinton Street, a silk cloak and a cloth polka. The prisoner had stealthily crept into the house and secreted himself in a room. He had bundled up the articles, and was preparing to depart, when a young girl, Mirs. ...

... CONVICTION OF TWO POLICE CONSTABLES FOR EMBEZZ1EMENT. On Saturday, at this Court, before Bailies Wright and Young, John Fraser and Daniel M'lInnes,.constables of the Clyde Division of the Glasgow Police, were accused of the crime of breach of trust and embezzlement; or, otherwise, with the crime of theft, in so far as, on Wednesday the 7th of Nov. last, they having, in the execution of their ...

... CUURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION.-TuESDAr. e| CAMPBriELL v. ALLAN. of The question in this ease, which was an action at the instaIncO Las of Mr. Campbell of Blythswood against one of his fears, was of Whether thu conditions of a feo, limiting a house to be erected c r to a height of three square stories and a sunk story, were vio- d lated by the orection of a blocking course five fect in height ...

... .! fLhSJ4 Vu 11LE -u~,J * OENTRAL POLICE COUIT.. Yesterday forenoon, before Bailies Wright and Gilmour, Daniel Knighlt, a middle-aged man, Michael Knight, his son, Daniel Docherty, and Thomas Garraty, all Irishmen, were placed at the bar, accused of having, on the morning o Sunday .last, in Villiers Street, near to Thruslgrove House, been gailty of riotous and disorderly oonduct, and with ...

... TIHE MURDER NEAR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. The coroner's inquest upon the body of Mri. Robert Stirling, the assistant to Mr. Watson, of Burnopfield, surgeon, whose murder we have before reported, was resumed on Thursday in the village. Major White, the head of the county constabulary force, and Mr. Ramsey, the chairman of the county magistrates, wevere present ed took part irn the inquiry, the ...

... On Monday afternoon, the wife of Alexander Lennain, a dog- fancier, living at 35 Gallowgate, called at the Town's Hospital, with the view ofobtaining relief, having, as she stated, been deserted by her husband, who had left her with three children. She was informed that her case would receive attention ; and, accordingly, on the day following, Mr. Williamson, Assistant- inspector, proceeded to ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST:DIVISION. * 11 ~ - -MM IAT. MOTION 1'OR A NEW TlIAL. JOimN HILL ?? VrWl CALiDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY. [In this case the pursuer, who was a porter in the defenders' emiiloymcnt, was rendered lamle for life by a chest of drawers falling on him. Thledrawers had been placed on the defenders' platform wanting a foot. The jury awarded damages to the extent of £2300.3 Air. PATTON ...