... SCDFFOLD ACCIDENT AT LI2STHOUSE. FIVE MEN INJURE9. patea ten and eleven o'clock yeeteray ..n a seriOIS accident occurred in the slhip- in. 10:f lyard of Messrs Alexander Stephen & lat AInvhfs0s.b Three caulkers, two titters, -a sere, it appears, at work on a vessel W of cerstruc ion from a scaffold 20 feet no b'a50 owing, it is said, to the unusual E b ?^ the staging one of the thwarts ...

... OF sz~s1(Y'N. vJCrIAKBE:,`~MSD ?? 2. jlofcre La-rd I,71.ow A ocjn yxttts fur ?? scatnarst tr-espassznx jand c- Mi A.it. Facquharmon, et lo~ver- ~tbruht ! in dlii Onainter by 15 ?? a Aei Stpebarrister- \eonttiiraear.az Inthu S t !c* ttl iwt ?? no,,weri wd 0 hich wan Er-autedl Ill II ?? Iapieo,, I, , C 'C`I'e tlue n~iccitdafln Continued .i ri-n iWCiiin. (otnt-C totra-poa L Br. ovir'i and cv, It ...

... TALUATIOY APPEAIL COUBTS KrasIMLOcH.-On Saturday the Valuation Committee of the County Council of Dumbarton, sat at Kirkintilloch to hear appeals against the valuation of lands and premises in the ?? R. D. M'Kenzie of Caldarvon, convener of the county, in the chair. There wvere only eight appeals, but one or two interesting points were raised. Messrs Napier, Dow & Co. appealed against the ...

... W. I A sitting of the High Court was held yesterday in the Justiciary Buildings, Jail Square-Lord I Young presiding. At the commencement of the proceedings Sir John Muir, Bart., Hon. Lord Provost, occupied a seat beside his Lordship on the bech. The calendar was ulusually light. Nine cases, implicating fifteen persons, were disposed of. The Ad\ ?? were Messrs Christopher N. .Johuston and C. K. ...

... ' (FROM OUR Owls C0RRSEPONDXNT.) Plymouth, October 23. Particulars have been received of a double murder and suicide conmitted on board the American barque William Hales, from New York with a cargo of 'Yank;ee notions for Cape Town, where she arrived on September 29. The William Hales, 839 tons register, Captain Buckley, left New York on July 11, with the mate (Mr A. J. Morrison), the second ...

... THE LIBERATOR BVTLJD)ING | SOC iEIT. FAILURE. I THE CHARGES OF FRAUD. re Yesterday Mr Vaughan resumed the hearing of ,e the charges of fraud, misappropriation, and f alsifi- it cation of the accounts, preferred jointly and is separately against J. W. Hobbs, builder; Henry ie Granvillo Wright, solicitor; and Geo. Niewman, .- contractor, in connection with the failure of the n ! Liberator. MSIr ...

... IANGLESH CHILD MURDER ANIMMUTIION CASES. MUiRDER OF A BOY AT LIVERPOOL. At tke Liverpool Asizes yesterday, before UP Jrutiee Smith, Joht Conway, aged 60 years, was indicted for the mureder of a boy named Nicholas Martin, aged abeut 10 yeare, at Stashepe Street, Liverpool, en the 16th May last. Owing to the peculiar circumstances of the crime, tbe mutilation of the body after death, and tho ...

... I T.e debate waS restrumed in Wick Sheriff Court yesterday-before Skeriff Mackenzie-in the action in which Christina Thomson sues the Rev. Janes MacHardy, Lathrcu, for aliment for an illegitimate child of which she alleges Mr M!acHardy to be the father. Mir EHEcron SuTSrasn D, who appeared for Mr MacHardy, attacked the credibility of the pursuer and her relatives by pointing out ...

... ?? ij in ?? I T SI1XTIH WARD ELECTIO r 1,,TIT 10N.I 1yzVDR-sCE 1031 THE DEFENCE. Firter virrence was lcd yeeteriay in the ?? Sheriff Berry-in esseictjiOS wizh tho Sixth Ward ELrctisn Potition jtimes Ritchieh Ckalmers was the first witeose A-si tsr the defence, Examinead by Mr SHAW, ~.apocsld that ho was a aslicitor it' Glascow, wad as agertct. Ic Mr F.f. in the late %municipal .rs. It was ...

... Ti] IC 1?LACKRURN ABDUOIMON CASE. LISEBATION OF flS JAVSSON. ? y?e ?searing of the rule mist fern writ of habeas 'art&t to Mr B. H. Jackson to produce caine on for hearing before the Lord-i I ? Master of the Roll; and Lard-Justice ?s-erday macant. The Court was crowded, ? ? ;?es had seats en the bench and babied Cellise QO., with Meson %rroll rias appeared for the hueband. At the ef tie Court ...

... The Magistrates 7eld a Ceurt for the traefer of ?? in the Lesser City Hall yesterday. Bailit Mitchell presided, with Bailies Stevenso0, Faten, Martin, Graham, Morris, and Macfarlane. Thera werr in all 25 applications before the Court, 23 of theme being for transfer of public-house certificates, 1 for a hotel certificate, and 1 for a grocer's. A LICE¢ES FOB A 13TMBhBR OF THE CELTIC. Willirm ...

... THE CHARGE ANGAIST CAPT. I VERNEY. :1 ?? ?? SYE-Jahn Brid-Captai M.P. for Zertk Bujc;, nD, po ilua d J2. for Aiseisay az# o 4f-b Tb V bas.4 et S }BridagreotwtlWF_,. to fartheranswer a charge- osnds t*e-0 lAfat¶1bxW Amendment - A -f eanphn Wituk a .elm ?? to' procue a. Sid ?? Bse, unades the g.f MIortmeaMI-PUE^as Mi Horas Avery, iisteced by Sirs A. ,L Stopikao ,,s the prosecutiox, end Mr-St ...