... TIHE TRIAL OF SIMON BERNARID. Io O~~tPIgcsNTel OF 'THE iPECIAC C02I I'tIfTON. to C A silt Lin g of the Central Crimintal Court took place onl FridiayI It' tttItt:tiu, lt ?? ton1 O'Clock, by a special COtuntIission Inne .a itudabr titot Great ilcal. for the pttrposo of trying Sintoen Blernard for thle - the oflihnce of being anl accessory before the fact to the contutiisiroti wvat of the Crimoe ...

... This Court met on Monday-the Lord Justice-General, Lords Ivory and Ardmillan, presiding. The principal case before the Court was that of Alexander Smith or Tazzard, who was placed at the bar on a charge of murder, in so far as, on the 28th May last, lie stabbed Charles Angus, a police constable in Edinburghl, and inflicted on him several wounds in the side and thigh, which proved fatal. A plea ...

... GLASGOW EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE i . ON BILLETING. We have received a copy of the evideiice taken before the LI Committee which sat last session on this important subject, from which we select the testimony giren by our townsman, Councillor Dreghorn. The proceedings are reported as fol- lows in the blue book THURSDAY, 22D APnsL, 1858. entbcrs Present-- Mr. Black, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Smith ...

... {7P ran -1. A- -A ?? _- . (From the Times of Yesterday.) The bill introduced by Lord Palmerston n Monday night is of so reasonable a character, that had it been broughtlin by the law officers of the Crown as supplying a defect in our Criminal Code, or as harmonisingtthe law of the two islands, no one could decently have objected to it. It would rather have been a matter of surprise that such ...

... HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY-SATURDAT. No___ - A _, _ a SSP.L-.GRAY V. M'GtrLn. (hn the morning of the 5th November, at eight o'clock, a Glasgow police officer took Thomas Gray, a boy of eight years of age, son of Henry Gray, grain weigher, Edinburgh and go ?? Railwa station,. 61asgow, and carred him to the ohi Police Office. 11 was then for the first time charged with 95 theft, along with another ...

... M')U.RT OF SESSION---THUR.,.DAY. JUNE 17. is SECOND DIVIsrTOW. 11 ~iY'DONALD ?? GALBRAITH. k Dunoan M'Donald, contractor, Glasgow, and William '3 Galbraith, cook and confectioner, Buichanan Street, who had Lt taken a shop by lease, of date 29th June, 1853, from MI'Donald, ts at a rent of £105, for the year as ending Whitsuwday 1854, n the rent Ijeing payable half-yealrly, at I¶] artiamas aand ...

... ,: ;U -.J bJ 1E1 UL n n Uk uil. j FWT-rnmAINweG THE POuIC--Yesterday at this Court, before James Craig and Peter White, Esqrs., I nstices, J olin Buchanan, spirit dealer, Carntyne, was accused of haviiigi on the 80th ult., entertained two constables of the I~Linark- sbire police while on duty, and supplied them with lijuor. ' The defendant, who is an elderly man, admnitted the charge, anid ...

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH-WESTFMNSTBE, Nov. 23. I -r- - - - ?? ,1 1) I . .- A I . (Before Lord CAMPBELL and Justices WVIGHTsmN, EiLE, and HILL.) Ex PARTE THE REv. ALPRED POOLE. Mr. BoVILL, Q.C. (with whom were Dr. Phillimore and Mr. Co]eridge), said he had to apply to the Court on the part of the Rev. Alfred Poole, for a rule, calling upon his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to show cause why ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY-SATURDAY. IMPORTflANT JUDGMENT. In the Matter Of the O'MAIanLYS, Minors. (From thle Dublin Daily Express.) Tue Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in this matter, -which was discussed in the early hart of the week, and' which has excited considerable interest. There was a large attendlance of the members of the liar and the general public.1 His Lordship proceeded to deliver ...

... * RTHURSDAY, 18Tr NOV. rs EXAINATION OF WHITEHEAD, KERR & COMPANY. 1e The company carried on l usiness under the firm of White- 'rt head Kerr & Co., and in Singapore and Double Island, id Swatow, under the firm of Kerr, Whitehead & Co., as boer- IP chants and commission agents, and XVm. Cullen Whitebead, re merchant in Glasgow, one of the partners of said company, is, as such partner, and as ...

... ?? U OF SEoiON. i.i.D1 .JA ~ 6. ; W ?? k . ;;Ve s sq-?la *f~ ! U.:OjJ}L ~AOU V^ An L a : .S.S T: ?? FIRST:.DIVI&O?t).vi?; ?? ?? WAW~iiam Aiton,. iomitne: ?? bar - gainfed for'four ricki of fiay frsii ;John fGrahani, AVhitburfn e Houv~e Litlith7-,in Dec- 1853. T6 of tfherickswvieire de- :t livered by' Giaham, according -1;:coDitract., Aiton' asked t Graham to kepp the other'tWo- until 'he ...

... (The following appeared in our Late Edition of Wedneday:) 4 I ?? I LY ?? tho Toese.) The case of the En glish engineers arrested on board the c: 'i Ongliari is at length brought, in a Parliamentary pahier jusfrI0 Stpublished, to an advanced, and in some respects not unsatis- r-factory stage. In these documents we find official record ofI a, the arrival of one of thbs two sufferrar in Lhondon, ...