... TRIALS AT TME OLD BATLEY. The June sessions were opened on Monday. The calendar contained fewer eases than ordinary, and they were not only fewer in number8 but none of them were of a serious character. FORGINe A Diivivy ?? BurchcA, twentybnine, was charged with forging an order for the delivery of six reams of paper, with intent to de. ?? prosecutor was Mr. Northery, a chemist, who resides in ...

... I . The county of Stafford has again been the scene of a brutal murder. The particular spot at which the tragedy occurred in called Broekmeor. It is an out- lying district in the parish of Kingswinford, on the confines of. Worcestershire, a few yards within the Staffordshire boundary, and about three miles from Dudley. It is a popujous locality within the South Stafford mihing diatrict. The ...

... THE LATE FATAL PRIZE FIGET. The prisoners, James .Jonovan and Thomas Oakey were brought up at the Gravesend town hall on Mon- day, on remand, charged with the manslaughter of Philip Redwood. It will be recollected that the two prisoners were taken into custody charged with the above offence, in consequence of their having brought a man named Philip Redwood in a boat from the Essex chore, and ...

... THE STATE PESS PRO8BCUTIONS. The trial ci Mr. Truelove, bookseller, 8&e, 'of the Strand, took place on Tuesday morning at the Queen's Bench. The defendant, it will be recollected, was held to bail to answer any indictments that might be preferred againstt bin, charging him with publishing certain libels upon the Emperor Of the French. There was but little excitement manifested by the public ...

... A MODEL RFORBTORY. I - . - _ .. . Sheriff Ogilvy has just beetn dealing with an extra. ordinary case of prisot disciptiue at Forfar. A child, naded William Burne, only ten years old was broiught before him cbhiged with running away from a place called ' The PIstie Reformatory to ehich he hid been commoitted by the police nagistrates at Dundee, after a tortuight's previous improelnment. It ...

... I I The arguments in this divorce suit having stood over for the decision of the full court, with regard to the dismission of Dr. Lane from the case, in order that he might be examined as a witness on behalf of ht re Robinson, on Monday morning Sir A. Cockburn said it bad been contended that the co-respondent should be admitted as, a witness, although he was a party to the suit; and it had ...

... I HETEPE&I~C JBE C l . naction for libel (tried in the Court of er before Mr. Baron Martin and a special 515obe~ which Mr. Gough, temperance lecturer, orecover damages gainst Dr. Lees, an ad- o! S the Maine liqnor lavw, for a series of libels, S t2 she plaintiff with being narcoticaly and H81g intoxicated, with getting drunk on drugs, btlpleB5 ylt &c. The defendant pleaded several ?? Pwhich he ...

... I An attempt was made on Thursday to perpetsate the heinous crime of murder in this usually peaceful county. The iuitended victim was a gentleman named Mathers, who farnis extensively in Scotland, and has lately carried out on his Irish property a sys- tem of improvements, employing a large number of labourers. From the accounts at present available, there would seemx to have been a ...

... 1 . . . .. Our readers will probably recollect that in the summer of 1846 great excitement existed in Dzgen- hsm, in consequence of the discovery of the body of George Clarke, a policeman of the K division, whose body was found amongst some standing corn, in a field on his best.. His head was nearly severed from his body, his skull was broken, and there were other marks and injuries upon his ...

... At the Leeds court-house, Sarah Ann Hartley, a girl of fourteen, charged with administering arsenic with a felonious intention to Miss Woodcock, was placed in the dock. She was not defended, her pa- rents alone being in ourt on her behalf She was Crying bitterly during nearly whole of the-investi- gton. Elizabeth Woodcock deposed *I reside at 2, Bruns. wick-street, with the Rev. Robert Jackson ...

... EXTENSIVE ROBBERY B I An Mandv- At tina ' ._ ms UQ1y, as Woe UlerlenweU police. fasbionably-dressed young man natned ah,, t; 4 aged twenty-one, a clerk, residing at Co&l.-__e._go tage, Great Northern railway, was pliged atte h before Mre. Corrie, charged with ?? oixt the bar of May, 1858, from the premises of the reat the railway company, King's-crwe, St. PCarem, the of S5OI. and other ...

... INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. IMPRICONUXZT OF A LMVoTIC - lI BE WILIArt Aantsny.-Thiw was an application for the discharge of the insolvent, who was confined in Oakham gaol, on a certificate that he had become insane since his imn I pridonmient. The insolvent was a toll.gate keeper, and arrested some time ago, an which he went to prison. From something that transpired, the keeper of the prison ...