... COURT OF QUIEEN'S BENCH. -FRIDAY. GORDON V. THE NOET3 STAFFORDSHIBE HnlLWAY COMPANY. This was a special case for the opinion of this Court, and whichr aised the question whether the plaintliff was entitled to recover in the action which he had brought against the North Staffordshire Railway Company for damage done to bis trucks by the alleged negligence of' the company. It was stated in the ...

... EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER. I ?? f -- e On the 27th ult., a person in the garb of a gentlemrn called at the establishment of Messrs Hyam and Co,, Clnthiers, Dublin, and gave orders for the supply of a large quantity of ready-made clothing, which he ordered to he sent to his hotel. He paid Ss as a deposit for the - bond fide character of his order, and left Mr Hyam's establishment. The ...

... v. Bellew and Eden. This suit, heard in the Divorce Court yesterday, was instituted by Rev. John Shepp&rd Montague Bel lew against his wife, Maria, for a dissolution of his marriage by reason of her adultery with the co-respondent, the Hon. Ashlej E lon, officer in the civil service the Crown in India. Mr* - . Bellew Lad enteroi an appe \rance, but tiled plea. The co-respondent had put in a ...

... YORE DEATHS FROM THE WEATHER. On Friday morning, Mr. Brent attended at the George, Dudley-street, Seven-dials, for the purpose of investigating the cause of death in three oases in which the deceased were found dead, such deaths being supposed to have been produced or accelerated by the severity of the weather. The first case was that of Margaret Condon, aged forty-six, a charwoman, who lived ...

... I GLA24GOW CIRCUIT COURT, Dec. 29. Munloan Bi DnowvrOie.-The court was engaged yesterday and to-day in the trial of a young man, named Tolen M'Fadyen, who was accused of having, on the 26th of August last, on the south-west bank of the river Clyde, opposite to Clydevale Works, Hutchesontown, Glasgow, stripped a boy named Alexander Shields, about two and a half years old, of his clothes, ...

... The inquest on the body of Edward Ogden, one of the three un- fortunate men who where killed by the dreadful accident which took place on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, near Teynham station, on Saturday night last, was held on Tuesday morning, at the Railway Tavern, T'ynhamn, before Thomas Hills, Esq., one of the coroners for the county, and a jury. Prior to the commencement of the ...

... IPqJACB :COURTS-YESTnRDAY. I . . . : 1 - x' L L. . ;. IEAD O'I6tCE. C'eribsos Caoe.iCharles Tb6rn, 'a serrant'of Mr. Win. Smitb, ?? 5Xerrion.sqiare, South, came beforb the pre- sildiig magistrate, Mr.' Wyse, dnd deposed as follows:- About 12 o'clock on'the night of the 6th of January, at the residence of mypy iaeter, Mr.'8mith?,at 'Merrion. square, myj fellow satyant, John Neill, informed me ...

... * IbMPORTANT RAILWA.Y CASE. A case'of public intereet was tried before the Justice of Peace Court, Edinburgh, on Monday, the question at issue being the liability or non-liability of railway companies for irregularities in the arrival of their pessenger trains. Mr. Mackay, chemist and druggist, GeorgeStreet, purchased a through ticket from Edinburgh to Inverness, on Taesday the 13th November ...

... WESTNINSTER COUNTY COURT-JAN. 16. ACeIERLEY V. VEBSTER. This was a suit commenced by the ?? Captain Aclherley against Mr. Webster, president oe the Dramatic Coelege, the summons having been grinted for moneys had and received. Mr. Benjamin Webster, of the Adelphi, and other members of the council, were represented by Alr. IR.,binson; Captain Acherley conducted his ooNI case. The plaintiff said ...

... POLIOB LVTBLLlG-ENCh'-YESTER.DAY. 0 - MANSION-HOUSE. B.E~~vOa~c.-Te folowng umshave been received for~h :~rhx -Mc:e 7~ t~suinPeters, and Co., Lib;. Edwcds and .Su, £10; Mesrs. Bassand Co., Bar- ton-n-Tent,£5 ?? . C, Crydo, S.; frain some of he stalismen ofMesrs.Coo, Snand Co., l0s. Gatherings on the Rail, iso. ; Rouse, 2s . 6; from some of thle e.,athlisuient of XMbsra. D64a. and Sv, LuI8ure ...

... NOTICES.-THIS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, BASINGRALL-STREET. Bnrsosir BI. ?? EvANs9-T. Barton, last exssai., nation, at II-C. West, choice of aselgniees, at II-T. B. Pickles, coi tifliate, at IIX-,T. Tooney, last exassination, at 12-Auberl and Co., auditL., at 12-J. Arnold, adjourned examination, at 12i -T, Loo, adjourned examination, ait I-J. T. Russell, dividend, at 1-Dodge and Co., choice of ...

... TWE SUSPECTED MURDER AT ERITH. I ?? Is; An inquest was held on Saturday last, before Mr. C. hl IJ. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, touching the death of ar William Muons, a bargeman, residing at a locality termed ° Botany Bay, in the parish of Crayford, near the village of he Erith, whose body was found in a ditch on the morning of de the previous Wednesday under circumstances wvhich led to a ...