... * 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 ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FRIDAY, JATUARY 11. ; SECQND DIVISION. so PETITION--THi ASSXGNES OF THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW :h BANK V. MCRUMMON'S TRUSTRES. is Tbis was an action of reduction and declarator in which in the Second Division pronounced an interlocutor on 5th b February, 18506, disposing of the whole cause. After that P( interlocutor had been extracted the case was carried' by ap- e peal to ...

... To the EDITOR of the ABERDEmN JOURNAL. COURT OF SESSION.-BARONY OF GARTLY. r iSm.-With reference to your notice in the Joewnsol of 26th inst., I beg to hand you copy of a further Interlocutor in this case, of date 22d inst.:- L The Lord Ordinary finds the defenders, Alexander Thom- son end others, on behalf of the County of Aberdeen, liable to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox in expenses is the ...

... BRCOVY OT THE STOLEN PBOPERTY. Since the discovery of the daring burglary which wasv per. petrated on Sunday morning within the premises of Messrs John Millar & Son, warehouismnen, High Street, the deteo- tive police have been on the alert, and apprehended a large number of suspected persons; but nothing definite transpired tillyesterday. Sub-InspeotorsSmithandHugh a impbell, and: Messrs. ...

... ITTHE CAsE UN' DITIOD RE &T,.i3Ix T L. WI TH THE'UNITED S3TATES..I.. : ,z 7 I (From the Times.) i According to a decisiijon jus,''gi-ven by the Judges of the Court of UQueen's Bench' i Canada, we are about to deliver up a 'blaok' man to be burnt alive by tee 'slave-6wners of Missouri. The public aroalready~ familiar with $he' fetr 6f s the ?? they'maY be recapitulated in a ?? words. It.Msunew ...

... . ThE ASCERTAINED MIND AND WILL Or CHRIST. - (From the Scotsman.) ;- Take 'note-that it is t'he same thing-to wit, a sen- tence-of a 'Church Court-which is assailed or. viewed as peecant in the kind of action of which the. Chur'ch denies and in' the kind off which she, admits the .com, petency., in ,both cases alike, the thing~in ques ioni is* an eccle~siastical. sentene, which Dr. ...

... The following are the returns referred to by The Rev. Dr Guthrie at the meeting yesterday in reference to the proposed establishment of a Ragged Sbhool in Leith:- ' -t Prison of Edinburgh, 17th Jonuao 1861. efetrn of the number of Commitments of Criminal Prisoners to the Prison of Edinburgh from the Burgh of Leith for Ten Years, ending 31st De- cember 1860 ; showing the Number under 14 Years ...

... hTHE REV. ADAM1 CORBET AND OTHERS, MEIMERS OF THE r- IRi-SE5SION OF DRtIOOAK again.St ALEX. P. InflecT, ESQ. OF DRtJM. d A CASE, relating to an important bequest for the parish of r.Drunesak, has recently beers decided by the turd Ordinary Ardinillan, of whose judgment, with the relative note, a 5copy is subjoined. The case is this. Alexander Irvirec of -Draun, by Isis testament of 1629, made ...

... GLASGOW BANKRUPTCY COURT-YESTERDAY. f ,~Fr ?? klo I ao ^a (Befor'e Mr. Shieriff MuieRni'.) nXA31INrTION Or WILLIMI WAALTON, WRIGHT AND BUIL;DER IN GLASGOW. There were present:-Mr. Jas. Ebenezer Dunn, saw.- miller, Glasgow, trustee: Mr. Robert Stewart, writer, law agenst in the sequcstration; Mr. Roine, a creditor; and Alr. Win. Adam, for creditors. The baukrupt ?? January, 1860, I commenced ...

... ,; .6SL&VE CASE--5GODA.MM&GES. of -Yu'bive ~taken noticed. the~casq of A nderson,'the fugitive p srlave, at'eprtsent conffined in Toronto, iqn'whos fiavour Mr. | 0i Eidwin.Ju ~amea has applied in.the CAurtof Queu an' Bench for ol .a'writ df,:HIabsbas1:Corpus; diireted-tfo' the Goye'rnoro hi Ca- w Kga, 1 tsbenrff , and iaile if Torouto, o6mra dinig them ' tl to Wbrig up'the6bcdy of the said ...

... --COURT OF SESSION-OUTER HOUSE. (tBefore Lord JER1VISWODB,) - . ( r ?? :FAIR. V. MutEBn'S BXExCU g,, 'The pursuer, who is proprietor of extensive eatates in South :Ameriia, alleges that, at'tbe request of hia intimate friend, . .the'laWe4r. A.'Hdnter,'W.S~,hb 'ave Mr. J. HIunter( fr b; A.~lluntesason)% who was about to set out for that country L- to pueb his fortune, leteres of credit and ...

... MIURDER AT PLYMOUTU. ±lU fL flZi3 L t i A L1.XJU it. (Broe the Times.) On Saturday evening Robert Racked, private in a detach, ment of the W1st Regjiuuent, stationed in lillbay Barracks, deliberately shot liti sergeant, Henry Jones, through the body, who died en the spot. It appeared that at noon, insteac of eating his4 disner, Hacked gave at to an old Irish ?? named Purcell, who was in the ...