... IS ALFORD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE. I A general meeting of the Salford Commissioners of Police was held oi Thursday evening, at the Salford Town Hall, for the purpose of nominating surveyors of the highways for the township for the ensuing year, and for other business. The chair was taken by Mir. Holland Hoole, the boroughreeve. Previous to any business being brought before the meeting, Mr. Lit ...

... (From the Globe.) The object so long pursued by the few real reformers in Cheshire, of compelling a large body of ultra-tory justices to desist from their illegal practice of taxing the public in their private parlour, is at last accomplished by an act of parliament brought in by Mr. E. J. Stanley, now under secretary of state, declaratory of the law, and compelling the said justices foi the ...

... EXCHEqUER COURT-NE ASSEsSED TAICES.-Ata quartE ,a af quarter t oS Byley said that some. gentlemeA j r touat all day he would interrupt tbe Q pose of hearing their application 4l Mr. Birch (Secretary to the Woete;jn then addressed the Court, and said thatl,4 fore their lordships in consequenc,,f S ,j with a notice at the ruitofhis Majeity'sgi to attend there and answer such a te, alleged ...

... -e:1JTH LANCASHIIE SSIZ - .-9,OOTH L.ANCASHI -, ?? ?? NISI PRlos UG 6. PIJS COJURT, MODA10Ak a 22. ' THE BOROU(,H CORlONVES1 IP Mr. Baron MAUtlE andi a Special jury) 8 7n~~~IUTTERC V. Cr5SJ3AN5A. e 'This inoiorytant and interesting trial wU., sdatto r A~ssixes at Liverpool onl Monday, tue Cause haiu tile fixed for thattdisy. Long beforeffitietone o opni to i outanumber lif the partico ...

... Most people know the story of the two Knights Errant who, meeting at a cross toad, disputed whether a shield, which was hung there, was copper or silver, fought a hard battle to decide the questions and when half killed dis- covered that the shield was of silver otl the one side and copper on the other. There are some laws also which afford capital subjects of ?? to men who are capa. ble of ...

... [ C o COURT, SATURDAY, APRIL 15. PERJURY. S Neeviacro was indicted for perjury. The de- fendant was clerk to Mr. Edward Allen, solicitor, of ; Manchester, to whom Mr. John Lowe, who kept a boot and shoe shop in that town, entrusted the defence of two actions against him in the Manor Court, for slander and for wages, brought by a dismissed servant, named Ebenezer Benson. It was alleged that in ...

... I lET'LION OF THE UNEMPLOYED. I At a crowded treeting, convened by the unemployed, x held on Thursday, at the Old Manor Court, Nicholas Croft, Henry Rawson, Esq., in the chair, a petition, r praysiag for certain changes in the poor law, was p unanimously agreed to. WVe call the attention of the public to it, as giving a plain statement of the case ti and elainm of the destitute Irish. Surely a ...

... - its Her Manjesty has presented the town of Brighton with thev . organ hitherto used in the chapel in the pavilion. N n1- A new history of England, from the time of James II. by s n Thomas Babington Macaulay, is in the press. le The late eleetoress, Leopoldine of Bavaria, has nominated i ie King Maximilian of Bavarina sole heir of her immense for- I ;e, tune, which is estimated at 21,000,000 ...

... CHARTIS [ TRIALS. CENTRAL CBDII1NAL COURT, MONDAY. CASE or ERFNEST JONT19-ln the old coust to-fdey, Lord Chief Justice Wilde, with) Sir George Carroll ant i r. Alder- mttst Gibbs, tookt their seats oil thle bench. Charles Er'nest Iones wits then placed untler the dock, cherged (tinder several counts) wit ul Iisderneanour, to ~O)ll l is Pistleade iiot guillty. Titejissy wvere then aboist to be ...

... 1S U E D E B. ! On Saturday, Mr. T. Booth, North Staffordshire coroner, opened an inquest on the body of Mrs. Martha Sillitoe, aged 70 years, who was murdered on Wednes. day evening at Hainford; near Stoke. Evidence was given by poioe.constable Smith, the village policeman) and aneighbour, to the effectthat, as Mrs. Sillitoe was not seen about on Thursday, the house was entered, and the old ...

... At the Saiford borough polioe court, on Satur day, the adjourned hearing of the charge of Oe bezzlement against John Cole, late detective muperin tendent in the Saffordaborough police force, was re- sumed before Mr. Makiinso, stipendiary. mr. Cotting- hma 'wau. -for' the proseoution, and Mr. Cobbett for the defence. Further evidence having been given, Mr. Cottinghem Asked that the prisoner ...

... I I EXECUTION OF THE SALFWOD MURHDERER. It will be seen from the following copy of a letter from the Home Office that Mr. Secretary Cross declined to advise Her Majesty to interfere with the exeaution of the sentence of death passed upon the Salford mar- derer: Whitehall, 16th November, 1878. Sir,-Iffr. Secretary Cross having had before him the meaio- rinl forwarded by you in behal ot Jrmes ...