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MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN REGARD TO PARISH AFFAIRS

... MuOs~t XMPO RTANTCASE mi RaQA D TO .PABI , ?? Manclhester Appelhzntsj .aif x Respondents. 'The important caser argued at the Pontefract EssteR Sessions, lIasL year, was heard, a few days ago, before the judges of the Court of King's Bench, when their lordships gave a decision which completely iusettle. the law bf iettdeniefite The questioip which has exciied an extraordinary interest among ...

MIDSUMMER QUARTER SESSIONS

... MIDSUDTMMER QUARtTER SESSIONS The adjourned Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this county were opened at the Court [-louse, in this town, onl Wednesday last, to try cases arising within the Hundreds of Amnounderness, Blackburn, and Leyland. 'rhe husi- nesfs commtenced soon after ten o'clock, before T. B. An- imso05 Esq., Chairman ; J. CUINIFFE, J. PEnDDsR, J. 11AUSHALL, and L. RAWSTORNE Esq. ...

THE QUARTER SESSIONS

... TE- QUAWi'Et1 Sts'OWs. I *These Sessions terminated, as usual, on Saturday, and %ve llow fuinia h p of th~e trialv is A hit ilay, together with the sdiite'sices6f- th'e Isiisoners w'id s~eie' ftiund ~guilty of riot and assault on the previous tiny'. THE BURNLEY COLLIERS. Thoia~rRei, 2, Siecl4s~orts, 0, Jo/sn He/lden, 30, Jas, Joaehos Hoivos, 5,.wre hared ishhavigricouly ssebled Dr. Brown (for ...

TRIAL OF MR. COBBETT

... I TRIAL Or MR. COBfETT, I Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, Thursday, July fl1, 1831. en (sittings in Guildhall, before Lord Tenterden, and a Special iury.) pi1 THE KiNG v. COBBETT.-This was an indictment against d Mr. Win. Cobbett, for the publication of a libel calcula'ed to ex-n cite the labouring classes of the community to acts of outtage fnd 1 violence. tl About half-past nine o'clock, ...

COMMITTAL OF MR. LONG WELLESLEY

... I COMMTTAL OF MR. LONG WVELLESLRl COURT OF .ANRV. Sir E.. Sugdon applied on Satuay for ens or-de: for *be com- m1ittl of l'r. Long Wellesley, who h'ad 'comni*te a brench of .the injunction restraining him fronitba.ving charge of his dasghter. Accompraniedjby four or five otherelbt6diBB, 3r. Weflesly In Fri- day. morniig went to Miss. Long's i'eidetice, , demanded au interview with one of the ...

SUPECTED MURDER NEAR BOLTON

... I S1USPECTED OTRDER NBAR, BOLTON.I ?? ?? ?? ?? _ ; : z Within the last day or, two circurmstancea- have trans- pired which are exciting very. considerable interest'in the neighbourhood of Bolton, and will in all probability lead to the detectionof a sihurderer. We are enabled to lay be. fore oor Readers the following narrative :- . Two years since last Wbitsuntide the body of a man, in Isa Cte ...

COUNTY COURT

... COUNTY COURaT. - I . !I Thq morthly Court at which JOHN ADDISOW, Esq. presides as Assessor, was held on Tuesdaylast, at the New, Court House. Amqongst; the cases disposed of, and which were of little interest, were the following Roberts v. Evans.-This was an action brought for an assault made by, the defendant upon.the person of the plaintiff. The former. is a slsoemaker in I4rowvlowbhill, ...

LANCASTER SUMMER ASSIZES

... I I B Monday being the day oppointeel for opening the Com- C mission for holdingĀ¢ the Assizes, the High Sheriff, PERE- i GRINE EDWARD 'rOWNELTY, '(who had entered Preston in a private manner,) left the Bull Inn, Church-screet, i at ten o'clock in the toreirton of that day, and proceeded to iLancaster.' The procession consisted of the usual officers, in scarlet coats, about 20 javeline-men, ...

LANCASTER ASSIZES

... I LjANCASTER ASSIZES., [Continued from our last.] CR1OWN COURT--Friday, August 12. CULPABLE CoWDUSCT OF OVERSEEIls._Richsrtd Harfreaves, overseer of Warilleivortb, in Rochdale, and Elizabeth' Busrrorae, aged 69, were indicted for the manslaughter of Richard Pilling, by putting lsim into a damp cell, which caused his death. The case having been stated by Mr. Williams, and Mr. Wood, surgeon, of ...

LANCASTER ASSIZES

... LAANCASTER ASSIZES. CROWN COURT-rSatiarday, Auigust 20. SENTENCES ON PRISONERS. THE FonisEns.-Martin Collins and James Collier, convicted at the last Assizes, the former of aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring Robert Kirkwood and John Stansfield, to forge a promis- note for the payment of Ā£5., purporting to be a note of the Wirksworth and Ashbourn Derbyshire Bank and the latter of ...

CORONER'S INQUEST

... - _ - _eIA __ .1. On Friday morning a coroner's inquest was held on the bodies which had been washed ashore. WVe have not yet received a copy of the evidence. The following was the verdict returned in each case:- That the said person unknown, on the 7th dlay of August, in the parish aforesari, within the liberties of tde said borough, being a passenger on soard of the stevdncpaeket called the ...

COURT OF ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION

... Oin Thursday last, ?? General Session for this county was held, by atjournmnent from the 30th of June last, at the newe Court-House in this tows, for the purpose of considering the Re. ports of the Committees, &c., and the memorials and other commu- nicatiors and notices presented to the court on tire latter day. V, ILLYAM rIULTON, Esq., of Hulton Park, was called to tile chair, and there were ...