... (Before Mr. Commissioner Xi1.) The court was engaged for some time on Wednesday and Thursday with the ease of Jonathan Thomas Owen, Swansea, optician, who was committed to prison on the 16th nit. for not answering, to the satisfaction of his Honour, questions relating to the disposal of his books and papers. Evidence was now tendered in behalf of his statement, Mr. Stone (instructed by Messrs. ...

... (Before f. B. Grifndonfl, .lq,, Coroner.) IOn Frida ian Inquest Was held at die Iadls'uiry, on the body of Edward rice, aged 70. nosed tht he Lusband Magre rce, widow of deceased, depre hthrubn bad been of unsoand mind, and wasn ordkter tro the Luatic9 IAsylum of St. Peter's hospital, ya re from the justices, on the lath May; on the 13th June he was disoharged, as she considered prematurely; ...

... I rOT ~ P4ICE IGENCE.` 'C _ C^~ D-;o-wLE1sB, FPirohJ'(Julp 18., I' ?resentfi-r itfs. bw d llughes. - ' .,HiBenryctark,.R0bert &snningibam,. Thomaa;Pgya1ten5' awnd ?? Mathewas, were charged with wilfully5ftmaging the baiiks of the river oifthe New Cut. It appeared that. tr some time past the dredging machine: of the dook company had diseharged itself on the Cut, near to asluice whioh was made ...

... (Before Sir J. E. Eardle!) Wiltnot, Judge.) : ~~~THlURSIAY. John Kendall, Staple-hill, Stapleton, horse-dealer, and Geo. Rowe, St. Paul's, horse-dealer, and Henry Williams, Saint Mi- chel's hill; fly-proprletor, passed their firat examinations with- out opposition, and had the 11th of December named for their final orders. Mary Ann Thomas, late of Kingsdown-parade, domestic ser- vant. The ...

... Scarcely has this neighbourhood recovered from the ex-11 h citement occasioned by the murder of two sisters by a soldier in .s of the Swiss Legion, than it is again aroused into consterna* e tion by another murder almost as horrible and cold-blooded in its details, the scene being a meadow in front of the mili-w tary hospital at Archcliffe Fort, in which the 49th Regiment g *e is encamped. The ...

... 'IHE PUNISHMAENT OF DEATH. t ~(From the M1orning loose.) M r. Ewart, it seems, has received from various ac- quaintances abroad several letters upon the question, i which he has so perseveringly vexed, of capital punish- 1 ments: and as they contain, as far as can be judged of ethem from the portions communicated by the lion, gentle- man, litttle or nothing beyond broad and general assertion, ...

... WIRKtESWVORTII GREAT BARMOTE C:OURTr. This Court was held on Wednesday last, in the Moot-hall, pa? - James C. Naweorn, Esq., the steward, presiding. the The following is a list of the barmastero and jurymen by r present - am Bormasters, Messrs. John Alsop, of Weusley (head-bar- ear master, and also deputy for Bonsall, Brassingeon, Elton, Mid- Sm dlston, and Wirksworth); John Hodgkinsou, ...

... COUNTY HALL, DERBY, FRIDAY, DeT. 5. no_- - - - .r ?? - 1 [Blefore J. R4OFoaD, Esq., W. MUsNDY, Esq., IM.P., W. ry Cox, Esq., and T. 0. BATrEmiN, Esq.] on STEALING BaAss.-JaMes Campbell, a servant in the he employ of the Midland Railway Company, was charged with was stealing31b. weight of brass, the property of the company.- ta. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' !v. ...

... ?? AS BrrOaT0P ?? ?? the Staffordshire w e Assizes3, Thomas Woodward, aged 15, a sweep, was indicted tt ?? for unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to two buildings, le on the 31st May last, at Burtota-upOO-Trent, the property or it r William Swindatc.-Th5 jury found the prisoner Guilty, and at .his Lordship in a feeling address, sentenced him to eighteen s t °Bias'Acts mOF Ptnoaetae. ...

... THE RUGELEY POISONING CASES. to It will be observed, by our parliamentary report, that the ev hle Lord Chancellor has introduced a bill into the Hou-cof Lords Of he for the purpose of removing the trials of prisoners committed a he in the country, when any serious prejudice existed against Be them in the neighbourhood where the offences were alleged hle to have been committed, into the Central ...

... YosscssiRE, TUESnAY, Dec. 9. (Before Air. Commissioner GusNeEY.) l 55ARl5SON, THE LEEDS ?? A5ID H15 THIREE WIVES. Hlenry Hlarrisol, 40, was charged with Isaviog onl the 18th ck of May, 1846, at Leeds, married one Sarah Ann Brown, he i' having a former wife thenualive. l3 This case excited a considerable degree of interest, the Court being crowded during its hearing. 'The prisoner, t ?? as the ...

... 2HE POLICE COUB28* BOW-STREET. Thomas Akehurst, a boy of about fifteen years of age, dressed in a suit of corduroy, was brought before Mr Hall, charged with firing a pistol in the Green-park, to the c dauger of her Miajesty's subjects, and further, upon hise own confession, with stealing 41., the property of his fat her, a working man, in the service of a tradesman at Brighton- Henry ...