... {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 ...

... PUBLIC MIEETING-INEW POLICE BILL. WvI Last night (Tuesday) a public meeting was held in the ar ?? Hall, Coatbridge, for the purpose of considering r what measures should be adopted to resist the amalgamation s) of the Airdric Rural Police District with the remainder of 31 the county under the new Police Act for Scotland; and also to solicit explanations in reference to the expenditure in con- ...

... mornAv- FTn RA le MONDAY, FEB. 8. K- (Before Mr. Sheriff TENNENT.) se THE AFFRAY ON BOARD THE AMERICAN SIIP OPHIELIA. Ly Benjamin Lewis, seaman, was brought up charged with le assault, in having, on the 4th December last, on board of a the shlp Ophelia, then lying at the Tail of the Bajik, attacked and assaulted Daniel F'raser, seaman on board the said vessel, x with his fists and feet, and ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FEmRUtI n 5, | IRST DIVISION. n THF NATIONAL EXCEi.ANNG C01FPANY OF GL.ASnOW lrflillst y Picsam DREW AND, MATTUEIV DIcK, Merchants, Glasgow. e The defenders came forward to-day wxith a motion for a e warrant or second diligence against Jamne. Gourlav. bauk n agent, Glasgow, for not produciln, when examineid as a haver for the defenders, the detailed balance ?? ?? L relative ...

... ?? 1.- OAARM ~4-h 1-1. - at _ i ?? ~1- 1 ?? Ld .1. AL ± v2 ' v 1 X1 . A Petition having been presented to the Sheriff praying that the Row Churchyard Burying-ground should be ordered to be shut up, according to arrangement, Sheriff Hunter held a court at Dumbarton on Wednesday to hear evidence as to its condition. Mr. John Denny, town-clerk, Dumbarton, appeared for the petitioners; and Mr. ...

... POLICE COURT-FRIDAT. (Before Sheriff Hallard.) PUBLIC-1IOUSE CONTRAVENTION CASE. A man named Thomas M'Neill, and his wife, were were charged with contravening the Act for the Better Regulation of Public-houses, in so far as, on the morning of Sunday the 7th instant, they supplied whisky to a number of individuals in their premises in Toddrick's Wynd, without having obtained a license. They ...

... AANIKr.UPTCY PROCEEDIN6S. GLASGOW SHIERIFF COURT-TuESDAY, FEB1. 9. (Before Sheriff S31IT1.) EXAMITNATiON OF MURPHY &- CUNNINGHAM, T¶hc individual partners of the company are Archibald jlw-r~by, Robert Cunningham, ad John Cumming, stair si+ nd chair makers, Gasgow. iretM.Mann, accouLntant, trustee; and Mr. Buchan, Jaw ellt in the sequestration. ?? Cunningham, interrogated by Mr. Bc&nANI a a ...

... POLICE COTJRT-%vED SDAY , ESD-&. e- (Before Sheriff Millard.) ad AGGRAVATED CASE OP THEFT. )se A servant girl, of respectable appearance, named. le Barbara Lumaden, was charged with absconding frour. rs the house. of her mistress in Tobago Street, -on 'he- he 24th uilt., with a dress coat, a cloth vest, and a silk et, velvet bonnet. She pled guilty, and the Courts e, official stated that she ...

... COURT OF SESSION-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. SECOND DIVISION. b IHUTCHINSON V. FRASER. , This is a poor law question between the parishes of Old b Deer and Boharm. A pauper female had a settlement in Boharm; she then went into service in Old Deer, and resid- ed there, as the Boharm Parochial Board aver, for the five years required to shift her settlement from Boharm to that of Old Deer. But Old Deer ...

... GLAsGOW SHERnFF COURT, SAuntAy, FIB. 6. (Before Sheriff SmrrsH.) ADJOURNED EXAM INATION OF DAVID Prm'rnr. The bankrupt was examined to-day at twelve o'clock. Present-Mr. J. R. Swan, accountant, trustee, Mr. Robert Dunlop, writer, agent, and several creditors. The ankrupt ?? one other occasion than that spoken to at the last diet, I signed blank bill stamps-either two or three 3s. stamps. So ...

... IGRtE.NLOCK PrESBYTJ~,..y, KILDIALCMAf CASE. TvESDAY, JT11 Fr.BRUARY. The cask *r iresnxed to-day at half-past-ten i~eleik Alexander Gibhb faisner, Old Place. being sworh and ill. terrogated for the objectors, ?? :5 years of ag, and has been a einllnunicant for ll years in Kibnalcolsn pa. rish church. Is an objector, and adheres to, the objectijn0 Heard Mr. Leek preach on Sunday and Monday in ...

... I Yalu COURT OF SESSION. .FrRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12. C FIRST DIVISION. 3 JAMES SUTTERt AND OTHERS V. THE ABERDEEN ARCTIC COMtPANY. This is an action for the purpqse of determining whether a whale captured in the Greenland seas on 13th Oct. 1856, truly belonged to the pursuers as the owners of the Clara of Peterhead, or totbe defenders, l who are the proprietors of the Alibi of Aberdeen, and ` tor ...