... * 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... I ,THE CARDROSS CASE-THE EDINBURGH MEETING. (From the Courant of Wednesday.) Having given some nine or ten columns of our space yesterday to the members of dissenting bodies who discussed the Cardross Case on Monday night, we shall perhaps be allowed to take a column or so to our- nelieO, for the purpose of commenting upon them. We ought perhaps to ask the favour with hesitation- fob most of ...

... THUrtSDAY AND FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 AND 11. FIRST DIVISION. SUTTAR AND OTHERS V. TEE ABERDEEN ARCrIC COMPANY. This case, which was heard last week, involves the ques. f tion of property in a whale valued at £1200, and raises various questions of interest to parties engaged in the whale fishing.. Ftrom the proof, which extends to upwards of 160 peges of print, it appears that at Cuenberlanld Sound ...

... '1 | l t-E - KV 2i; E -i1: .4i. ?? - 1' ?? 1 .. . ?? .: I ?? i ?? :. I E~urI&bj A~r~iK LUNAY. hm zug i 9 go i ig iI it f e h ,T ,, 6 morn ilg ?? eht0 'ok Lun vee WhO w~an convicted, get the ?? Winter ?? CoueW,t, Re , for the m~urd~er of James Vasidy, maaoAe;:fxandrin, Dmam- 'wh - batosisbr oo the1th' beu st, Voe edttheextreme h- ,peaty of tlhe lawi front .. t VCiint a Bulldings, Dam., t. e ...