... L A : . COURT OF EXCHEQUER-SATURD&Y, DEC. 28. THlE SLANDERe CASE. Prederick Beverley Dixon v. Daniel Brudenell Pranks. Tits case was resumed at the sitting oF the court, at half-past ten o'clock in the morning, when the Lord Chief Baron commenced his charge to the jury, minutely reviewing and commenting on the volu- minous mass of oral end documentary evidence ad- duced on the part both of ...

... I MAURDER IN ENGLAND. (,rain the Taxes) Scarcely a week passes wblch is nor marked by the corn- mission of some atrocious murdtr. The famous Arago used to MIke out a connexion in in Franco between the beat of tie dog-days and crimes of vi enue; but the falling mercury appears to accompany the outbreak of the homicidal spirit in our inbular climate, To-day we would ask attention to the ...

... I [Before T',Eornhrius JONEIS, ESQ.] TnE learned Barrister took his seat yesterday on the Bench shortly bef'ore ten o'clock, and proceeded to hear civil bills. Tho ma3nority of the eases brought forward wero for small suMS, and destitute of gene. ral interest. SELTINO RAPE FOR TURNIP-SEED. FrnOcis Eivart, plteint '/; JohaL Camlbell, (djendent. This was an application for a decree for £3 9s, ...

... I ?? DRO4HEDA 1,ETTY' He. ,tOI$. 0051PLUONITAUY VOTEor TZE~ANOSK To, TAKOMA HAMIOONI, ~EsQ MAYOR, Or DROOREDA. These sessions canme off on Monday last, Thomas Hlammsond, Zzq., Mayor; presiding.- beg leave to move ~that your worship do-leave the oliail, and that JamessMathows, Esq., do take the same. Thishlovinglbeen done, DdM~tkfsf proceeded to ?? eeigafregret his id ad asistnce f hs ...

... BELFAST POLICE] COURT-YESTEnuAY. [Before W. S. TRACY, Esq.] Tho New Year opened with only four criminals in tile deckt of the Police-court. They were charged as follows:-- ROiHBIRY BY A SEIRGEANT OF MILITIA. Thoeas Bonnor, a sergeant in tile G0th Rifles, of middle age, was brought up under the following circumstaiiees:- On the previous evening, he went into a public- house, in Donegall Pass, ...

... CITY OF DUBLIN MAYORALTY FOR THE YEAR 1866-INAU(iURATION OF THE NEW CHIEF M1ASK1S rRATE. ion The iuductiosi into office of our truch esteemed and re. Lbe spected fallowycotizen, Alderman Fergna Farrell, as Lord of Mayor of Diblin eit, took plqce on yesterday, with all the ian accessories of civic pomp and 8plendour wbich time hoooured iil usage hbs rendered ?? on such occasions. It is, Of mne ...

... THE BE GELTY POISONING CASES. 1 - Exertions are being- n-w mad by th cif constable of lyI the Staffordshire' Police force, and 'by the varions officers ce I nder im, i the: neighbourhood of Rugeley, 'to 'seti a. Iwhat has become of the large sum ofirmoney which tie tie- =Icesd g(Cooki) had in his possession at, Shrewsbury after the 1ewnnn ofh hs 'borse Polestar. A witness, who saw Palmer i; ...

... LAW AGAINST JUTO~B SITAIT-BAR-I RITTER A FOP. DOWNi 0Oq THE LAW OF EJECT- I * MENT. - a r - nen , ;ii1- The position of a judge 1s never so paintu pros as when he is coerced by law to give a decree which' alen lhis judgment tells him is contrary to justice and publ to sound ~polioc. Against such co jutraint there is pria do resource save an appeal to the judgment and. of t conscien8e of the ...

... BELFAST POLICE COUTRT-YESTRDIAY'. [Before W. S. TRAcy, Esq., R.31.] TimIls wvere only four cases, two of which welre upon chalrges of *hrunienness, Margaret Lennon wvas charg(el Nvith stealing a pail 'if shoes, and somie articles of wearing apparel. The prisoner Sias re- manded, that she might have an opportlnity, if so disposed, of giving somc information resp(cting the stoleu property. Mary ...

... * THE RUGELEY POISONINIG CASE.' Within thse last few days considerable ?? ugee neu -_ been throvwn upon the eperations of William Palmer in con- sm nection with hia transactions with the various life assurance da offcesof the metropolis. The following facts relating to abi them may be relied or as aunhentic:-ft appears thst, in bl tho'earlyzpart of il65, Mr. Walter Palmrer; the brother of tbl ...

... l XfNHWTOWNARDS QUARTER SESSIONS. MONDAY, Viro u liato. ?? (l3aferr Thteop4llls Jones, Eaq, Assistant B~rrister> affi FJf,'IMtONT OARI,-TARP TENANT RhtCK OF ULT9JZ. FPi hi ,vfibi AInnatqoter;y, E99, v: I'ml Price. for 'i'lia wan i ?? brought on a six nlonths' notica to ihl qril,, wiitoh ilypp'l-1, in Lile let Nevemuber, 1866, to recover ha p iOI tf in imusll farim (if 4a 2r 12p, situate in the ...

... 1DUBLIN POL.CB,-_Ym5TZDAY. A CAPEL-aTSEXT OFuroa-Cherge of EVmbezXcrMsO&-A young man of respectable appearance, wwho gave his name as a James Germain, was brought up in custody charged with r having embezzled several sums of money the property of the ( Ragged Schools Broomer and Messengers' Society, No. 8, Strand-street, of which he was master and collector of eub- scriptions. The treasurer, B ...