... POLICE COrIISStONTERS. Monday, Fcct 21. Spet THER Nvas a Special Meeting of the Cohasissionlers this pax imorniing-the Lord Provost presiding. Wei PEESENT :--Troasurer Ross; Dr Jackson~ ; lST I M'Donald, Fyfe, Anderso n, Keith, Sutherland, far 'Urcjuhort, Fraser, itainnie, Eddie, Clyne, and P.0! Shearer. hoi ROA.D AT GREAT NORTH STATION. Go The PROVOST Said lie hela converned thle mieeting on ...

... saw COUR1T OF SESSION.-FnrIDI. FIRST DIVISION. B. T,-ALEX. MORTON V. JESS A'COLL OR NOBLE. This was an action of filiation and aliment, at the instance of Jess MDColl or Noble, residing at Back- muir, near Dunfermline, against Alexander Morton, Sawmills, Dunfermline, on account of the birth of an illegitimate child of the pursuer, in the end of 1856, of which she alleges the defender to be the ...

... SUSPENSION AND LIBERATION, PETER BRUCE V. THOMAS LINTON AND ALEXANDER U DOUtGALL. The proceedings which took place beafre the Police Court, at Mr LintonSs instance, against Bruce, for thej alleged sale of spirits without a certificate, have been already noticed in this paper. Bruce was convicted .before Bailie- Russell on the 29th ult. as for a third offence, although, ;n DOint of fLct, it was ...

... gaby COUTRT OF SESSION-XHRasn ay. FIRST DIVISION. COCHEANE V. FErlaIER. The stake in this action is the estate -of Clippens, in Renfrewshire, and the question relates to the heri- table succession of the late Dr Peter Cochrane, with regard to -whose personal succession the case of Lord v. Colvin, between other parties, is going on in Eng- land in the Equity Courts, before Vice-Ohancellor Sir R ...

... FEI S FOR BUSINESS IN stiE IFF CUTIURTS. (From ?? Law Jwot::,il fr ?? Glasgovw: malnray Thc Court of Session is now about to frame a table of feer for business done in the Sheriff Court, and wi h tlis vielv the Sheriffs have been reuestede ti consiler an-ld report upon the subject. The matter deeply anects the lcal pracijijoner, and it is desirable that the various facnltics and eoa eties ...

... IMPORTANT TO LANDLORDS AND LODGRUS. J. MUIR WOOD & COMPANY V. ROBERT AUSTvN. Landlord's Elypothec-Held that the keeper of a boarding house has no right of hypothec over.a piano brought to 'his house by a lodger. This action, it will be remembered, arose under the follow- ing ?? pursuers hired a piano to a lady, who went as a lodger and boarder to the defender's houe, and took the piano along ...

... COURT OF SESSION-SATUiDAr, JuLY 2. VMQ1 ?? FIRST DIVISION. PETN.-Mnis. M'IVnE, ron ACOcSS TO CHILDRES.. The Court to-day decided unanimously that the petitioner; the wife of John Atilver, banker, Dingwall, the respondent,. whom he lately sought to divorce, and failed, is entitled to. access to her children at convenient times, and under the regulation of the Court. The LOAD PRESIDEUT said that ...

... TBE CASE OF DR' ShIETHUR&ST .12 a, H ~ -i , -21 .L. _ : i ;: _ I _ li ii. o :: in great diffieiilty uas'to the coirhse that should be take -with athis prisoner under the peculiar circumstanees gf the case; and not the slightest intimation' has heed givea nastwhat ie lik~ely to be his ultimate fate.** 'A gaUman' persbns ap- . ear, to think thatj as the fact of his bcinj reprae~ved neces, ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FRIDAY, Nol'. M3. V CT-1 T t'rcl. .x- FIRST DIVISIi-). PnnrnoobL r. M'lKcrezzL & Co. The advocator in this action is Peter Primrose, merchant, Glasgow, and the respondents are also merchants there. The action related to the retirc -nt (f a bill, and Sherill Glassford Bell allowed a proof lkr writ or oath. An objec- tion to the competency wvas stated, that the Sheriff's judg- ...

... THE POL'E AND_ THE FORBES MACKENZIEn At a meeting of the Edin~aurglh Town Council on Tuesday, the following discussion ensued on the above subject:- Mr. IRIDPATH wished to ask the Lord Provost by what authority the police officers were employed as detectives andpai by the inhabitants of Edialxargh for a matter tliit they bad no earthly business to pay fumt (Hear hear.) L1.3 should like very ...

... SIIEIlIFF SMALL DEBT, CO U RT-YlXBTEI DAY. /1S.AAC~~n.: l4 - --s \ (Before Sheriff MloassoN,) AitacuueuLD ScoTr, 418 Clyde Street, Anderston 2' ISAMJSLLA and JEAYJE SUoTT. The lpursuer was the fathcriof the defenders, and sued them for the sum of £1, 4s. for board and lodgings. It was stated for the defendersethat they were apparently under I6 years of age, and that the pursuer had turncd them ...

... * _ A -From the Times,) gre The official reportlupon the loss of the Royal tot Charter is now before, the world, and all is known Eu that ever can be known of the circumstances con- Uln nected with this tragical event. The~few poor cra- au tures who succeeded in getting on shore on the morn- eitl ing of that fatal 26th of October last told us within a the few hours as much an ',we now know of ...