... COURtT OF SESSION. IFIST D)IVIS1ON-TsvSDly, February 27. he N ?? the 1. .PRetDOT.r Llords ADAM for anid 711 aAnS t) iff B .-TURNER V. SS1,lGMA1N~. Wa - A settlafielt wa intimated to-day of thesact'et w3 tronblit by William Seligmnno, insurance breker, lie' 4Ulasgowv, against Jasmes William Turner, writer, p5r Greenrck, for payment of £770 14a Gd. On 2Stb cir October. 188c, Peter Macara, ...

... THE PETERErtAD WHALE CASE. Further proof was led on Friday before Lord Trayner in the actlin, lib thi Court of Session, at W the instance of the Arctic Fisheries Company against Captain Marshall, ,James Urqhibart, baker, and W. H. Leask, comrisilon aKgOU, lPtethead, as owners of the sohodnesie Gatriailli, ef thOA prt, Tb otbjso b ' of the action was to obtain declareton to the effect D that ...

... MAGISTERALi INQUIRY. TflU OONYESSIoNS OF THE PRIBONirits. Cousiderisble exoitensent prevailed in Crew. yester-a day, which was appointed for the preliminary hearing b of the charge against the two men charged with the wilful murder of their father, Richard Davies. The investigation did 'not commence till one a o'clock, but before that honr an immense d meb had assembled round the Police Court, ...

... On the 7ch of this month a young lad of respect- I able appearance was convicted in the Pelice Court I of Ediaburgh-before Bailie M'Lachlan-ef the r theft of a gold watch and chain from the dwelling. I house of the keeper of the Young Mlen's Christian 4 Association Rooms, South St Andrew Street, Edinburgh, on evidence which seemed to he of t the most conclusive nature. It was stated t in ...

... FtBST DIISION-TuxsnAy, February 18. (Before the LORD-P MMDENT, Lords Sna1vD, ADAM, and M'LAnxEs,) ABREDZEN COUNTY CLERK OF PEACE. Mr Wallace, Advocate-Depute, to-day intimated to the First Division, that Mr Sinclair, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Aberdeen, bad resigned that office in consequence of his elevation to the peerage s Earl of Coithness, and asked the Court to appoint Mr Wre. ...

... GLASGOW RHERIPF CRIMLNaUI 0OU3tT. I ?? A pleading diet of this Court was LoUd yeday, in the Juatidas'y Ccnmrt-howaf at wbekhOisr' Speus dipesed Gelb* foa D g ses ?? MA ComRm=A. TnAvzLfLs TIO SA . J. young manna omed ?? pleaded gulilty to having, hetwseex l6ti Octbee and 19th Decmber.whil employed as traveller by Messrs ows & Ce., manufcturers, 130 Gagd Road and 8 Brunswick Lane. pretended that ...

... JURY TRIAILS. FRAUD B Y A COACHISKITIT. Jas Ritohle (32), coacharnith, Aberdeen, was ohlbirged before Sheriff Wilson and a jnry yesterday with a haing on 27th January, in tibe shop in Skene Street J ocoupsed by John Bowman, grocer, pretended to Wms it Woolbouse, asistnt, that his name vras Sutherland ; a that be renided lu Skens Square; that hiY wife wasa ait regular customer of Mr Bowman's. ...

... TUB GOUROOK BRUAOCI o0 PAOMISE CAED. In the Court of Session on Friday LorA Weliwond bi And a istry beard ovidonce Ins the action by Oatherioe it Manfarlane, Avondale Place, Queen Street, Duncous, ti againeli William M'Millap. hotelkeepar, Vitoi lt Hotel, Shore itirest, Gourocl;, 1I4rouser concluded for p500 damagee for alleged breaoh of promiaq of j marriage' M'Millan admitted having promised ...

... t t I OAD OF TRADE INQUIRY AT it 1.i GREENOC. ?? The Beard of Trade inquiry into the loss et the eship Irex was resumod is the Sherif Court, 9 Greenock, this forenoon. Dominio Joseph M'Cready, outdoor superintend- sot withl Messrs Mulholland, stevedores, Glasgow, tdeponed that the cargo was properly stowed when the frex left Glasgow, awd evidence was led to showx that on the vessel's return to ...

... GLASGOW SHERIFF CTI MAL COUnT.f' I . . X. n. I . _ , _ L _ I 1 - -- t J. ~ ~ ~ -the A pleading diet of this Court was held yesterday in the County Buildings, at which the following PM te, cases wers brought before Sheriff Balfour of- o EMBEZZLnErT Br A BaaEwna:B TBAvm an o- James MDlsDirraid, a respectable-looking mn of ?? middle age, admitted having, betwveen May and of I at October, ...

... SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS IN BANFF, Since the New Year a Perivs of thefts of a more or less serious character has been perpetrated from shops in Bauff, and it was only the other day that, on Mrs Marshall, a enmall dealer in Strait Pati, giving information to the police that same fish had been stolen from her shop, the thefte were dis- covered. Constable Davidson was the tirst to tako up the Cue, ...

... STONEIIAVrEN SHIFRIFF COURT. In Stonehavell Sheriff Conrt yeterday, before an Sheriff brown. J'dwvard lianisay Wood, baker, ilervie, du failed tO appea r on a otarge of coinrnittiotg n breach of In tilte peace it] Johbslsinven, and hin bail of X1 was declkrmd forfeited. Alexander Porter, labourer, Ca Allardice Street. Stonehavee, was eharged, At the intaanot, of Fotterese,, and li ukarton ...