... THE CRIMINAL STATISTiCS OF LIVERPOOL. I IC appears fro. the retarns tabulated in :the new I volume of statistics, Just issued by the statistical de- .i partment of the Board of Trade, that the number of per. eons apprehended by the Liverpool police in the year o ended September 29tb, 1857, wee 24i876, being. a dimi- a' nution of more than a tboueand as compared with the a two preceding yewsr. ...

... ALLEGED EXTENSIVE RO13BEIRY AT PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD. At thle M),ansion-bouse police court on. Monday last, se: Angel H1yan Cohen, of 5, Windsor-street, Bishopsgate. hrl street Without, London, was broug ht before the Lord ch Maocarged with havi ng received two casks of copper 'wi bo~lt1s,r screws, anid other articles, which had been stolen of froml Her Majesty's Dockyard ait Portsmouth. - at ...

... (CONTINUED.) PORTSMOUTH POLICE.. SATURDAY LAST.-Before lajor Travers and Cap- tain Xc. Coy,- ix William Cox, laborer, for an assault on Win. Everson, 1 pensioner, on Wednesday last, at Southsea, was fined 2s. Gd. and costs, or five days' imprisonment. A John Nesbett, a stranger, and one of a gang of pick- fi pockets intesting the borough, pleaded guilty to a charge f of stealing a purse, ...

... Ln'.1-I an 1.1_ _ ?? I . an 1 . I Befoe n Thos. Id urnpnbreys, Eq., Deputy Judge, This Court was beld cil Fridav, 27th nit, Thirty-five plaints veare entered, but only 13 came ont for hearing. Evans v. ()wen..-This was an nction to recover £-1 lo . 2d., balance for work antd labour. Mr. Owen, on defendant's part, admitted the debt, and applied for tirme to pay, w hich wvas grante.(1 Edwards V. ...

... SHOCKING SUICIDE BY A CIHEIMIST'S C ASSISTANT. on Ini inquest was held on Monday at the Lion Inin, ,h St. James's-street, Brighton, before D. Black, Esq*, borough coroner, on the body of Charles Cope, au assistant to Mr. M~u rial, chemist, Marine-parade, who committed suicideon Saturday morni ng by taking a quantity of prussic ,acid. The circum- be stances under which the dreadful act was ...

... -SOUTH LAICASHIRE ASSIZES. . - . - - NISI PRIIUS :OURT.-SATTYBDAY. (Before Mr. Baron Marfsn.) A BAleEnuPT's ESTATE. e-sing and ethers (aesiqnees) v. Park eranej 7f ?? plaintifts are assignees of two Dersons n),med Swire * and of~two-other persons named Blair and W'htlson,-who ca~rried on bu'sincss as contractors at Shipley, ?? The ,doftridants atre persons consteoted' with the Oddfellows' ...

... THE TOBERMORY BANKRUPTCY CA i- |Mr William Gill has addressed a letter to tbh ;r YZmes in reference to the remarks which appeared in f that lttrnal on his ease. He says- e Had my ease been a true illustration of the an- fair working of the Scotch Bankruptcy Act towards g English creditors, I vould not have troubled you with this letter ; bat the write, of the paragraph in your s paper has ...

... POLICE CO URT-WEDNESDAY. (Before Bailie Russel.) POCKETPXCKING. A boy named James Duff, 14 years of age, was brought up on a charge of attempting to pick the pocket of a lady in the High Street on the 4th inst, He pleaded guilty, and having been previously con- victed of theft on seven occasions, he was sent to prison for sixty days. WARNING TO BILL-STICKERS. John Lister was charged with ...

... On Monday, the 6th, an inquest was held at the house of Mr John Benner, farmer, Bolton Wood Hall, near Ainwick, before Mr Hardy coroner, on the body of Mr Robert Cairns, butcher, Embleton, aged 61 years. On the day previous deceased with his nephew left home and went to Bolton Wood Hall, to remain all night with Mr Renner, who was an old friend, for the ,urpose of buying stock from him the ...

... ij ioyXlE HILL CONESS1x AL INQUIRY 1IAI1)1,NlllEAD, FBIDA k AFTERNOON. gr .iirl into tie charges preferrec againlst tile Rew. , Io e, curate of Boy ne 11ill, in the county lii ,l edseitg colifess tm into the Church of ha :uI pee tl if ning at tho Townv Hall, be i befrt ?? appointed by the at , '*,iest) frd for tt~t~t purpose, Dr. Philliiuore, Q(t., i * ru AtCi''jeti James Randall, Rev. J. E. A ...

... THE POLICE COUR7S. el MANSION-HOUSE. tI A ferocious looking fellow named John Car r a porter at tl Billingsgate Market, was charged before the Lord Mayor vvith 5 assaulting Mr. Benjamin Gain, butcher, of Cole-street, g Borough, under the following circumstances. p The complainant, the left side of whose face was covered e- with clotted blood, which had flowed from a wound on the cheek-bone, ...

... Inuen as iey uieseryi_ n (Saturday's, Monday's, Tuesday's, and Wednesday's Police b le wil be found in our sixth page.) o id THURSDAY.-Before the Mayor, Major Travers. A, v 10 Nance, and E. Stokes, Esqs. a Thomas Carter and Joseph Lewes, cab drivers, were convicted of using insulting and abusive language at Southsea, whilst having the care of their cabs, and were syeach fined 5s. and costs. t ...