... P RESTON JULY SESSIONS. I The Court of Quarter Sessions for the Hundreds of Ley- land, Blaclcburn, and Amounderness, was held by adjourn- ment, at the Court House, House of Correction, on Thuts- day morning last. There having been an intermediate session, the number of prisoners to try on this occasion, between sixty and seventy, presented rather a heavy calendar. About half-past ten o'clock, ...

... MONDAY. BURGLAnr.-Michael Dunn was brought up, charged with breaking into and entering the house of John Gar- nctt, and stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel. John Garmett stated he lived in Ann-street. About one o'clock ol Sunday morning lie retired to bed, after having made the windows and doors safe and se- cure. About six o'clock he got up, and found that the house had been ...

... At this court, which was held on Tuesday ast, J. ADDSONs, Esq. presided, In the absence of W. A. Hulton, Esq., tie Sheriff's Amosor HAYI5VIRST V. OIBBOS. Mr. lan..s stated the caue. The action was brought by ?? Hayhurst, a sawyer at Blackburn, to recover compensation in da. mages for the ceduction of his daughter by the defendant Robert Gibbons, the son of a cotton manufacturer, residing in ...

... - 4'NAvVjsY-Fcui-'of the workmen employed ih the widening 'of the Longridge 6alway were brought up; on Saturday, charged wvith creating a' disturbance early that morning.. They acaht declared they had dun Rout ; but the policemen who apprehended them deposed to their having been very noisy. They were reprimanded, and discharged. STEALING EXPosED DRAPEnr GOODs.-James Mitchell and John ...

... 11 XE5TERDAY. [Before W. Turner and George Hargreaves, EsqrF.] THE RELAY SYSTEM IN FACTORIES. Messrs. Abram Whitehead and Co., cottonr manufac- turers, of New Church, were summoned by Mr. Thomas D.udley Ryder, sab-inspector of factories, for a breach of the Factory Act, in allowing children and young persons- eu'ployed by them to work beyond the time specified by Act of Parliament. Mr. Robert ...

... : PRiESTONr QUIARTER SESSIONS. TheEpiphany Qariter Sessions were held on Wedncsday last, at the Sessions House, ia this town, before the fol- lowing magistrates :_T, B. Addison, Esq., in the chair; the Rev. C. E. Kendal; R. Newshara, Esq., JDO. E ccles, Esq;; Jno. Bairstow, Esq.; W. Cairow,, Esq.; 5W. 'Vin- stanley, jun., Esq.;, Thomas Lowndes, Esq.; &c. The calendar was not so heavy as ...

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY, DEc. 4. THE QUEEN V. HULTON. Mr. Martin, Q.C., appeared in support of a demurrer to a return made to a mandamus calling upon the defendant, the treasurer of the county of Lancaster, to pay upwards of £3,000, being the amount of an order made for:defray- ing the expense of the special constables called out in Manchester in August and September, 1842, in conse- ...

... pOLICE CASES DURING THE WEEK. I A DEsAi Cb saeoMaa._-A man named James Clark ,ras brought up on Tuesday last, charged with having obtained, on the previous day, sundry articles of food at flr. Dunn s Temperance Hotel without paying for them. It appears that Clark, being possessed of an appetite like most other ?? went into Mr. Dunn's house, and called for coffee, and bread and butter, to the ...

... 1 _ ?? This court was held on Monday last, at the Court House, in this town, before John Addison, Esq., judge. There were 35 causes entered for hearing, of which 31 were original causes, one an adjourned case, and three were summonses for coinmitmiolit. The solicitors present were Messrs. Dodd, J. Blackhurst, Banks, Watson, T. Harris, and Bland Walker. ADDISON V. lIESIMONDIIALlIT. This was an ...

... I IXTRAORDINAUY PROCEEDINlGS AT WIGANT. | (-From our C'orrespondenft.) On Saturday last, according to announcement by placard,. a meoting was held at the vestry of the Parish Churchj for the purpose of nominating three persons, to he czommiended to the Magistrates, as Overseers of the Poor, for the ensuing year ;.dad also to nominate or appoint a perso fill the office of Overseer of the ...

... 1 -. if TOWN L CA I. , SATURDAY. DnUnNWs Wxvas.-A Woman, nhinR ?? Noble, was brought before the county magistratesi bhsrged by ber husband, Richard Noble,0 with- being dirunk and; dis-l orderly. In defalt of halt shi *ascomutitted to the Rome of Correctidn fol bce ,nonth,-_Alico 8haw was likewise Oharged bg heehr bnand with the like offence; but,'on ipro.: ffising to conduct herself'betet she ...

... ATTEMPT TO MURDER BY THE. HON. NY. TUCHET, BROTHER TO LORD AUDLEY. he On Saturday a considerable sensation was caused in the vicinity of Bow-street police court, It being known that a person connected with a noble family was in custody on a 1 charge of having fired the contents of a loaded pistol at Thos. Smith, a guninaker, residing at 288, High Holborn, with in- Irt tent to murder him, d The ...