... U SHERIFF COURT, ADOPTION OF LEGAL COSTUME BY THE PROCURATORS. WE intimated some time ago the resolution of the mem- bers of the Aberdeen Bar to adopt legal costume-a gown and white neckeloth-when appearing before the Sheriff as Procurators in the ordinary Sheriff Court in civil or crimi- nal cases. On Wednesday, being the first Court day after the Vacation, the Court opened at ten o'cluck, ...

... (Rican the Stanurtcc-c.) Ir were doubtless too much to expect of a 'Ministry five years in a office, and car lego the system of a preceding Ministry four t years before them, to tell of all the evil consequences of nine I years of eisrule-cf incomes declining at the rate of nearly three a millions a-year for the latter of the nine years-of raw materials Ni consumed in the inverse ratio of ...

... . , .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~, W1LLOX AND POPE iVcrest PARiRaLL. This Case came On for trial before Lord Ivory and a spe- c ,lsl jury, in Aberdeen, onl Tuesday the 4th current, and C Occupied the Court up to the afternoon of Monday last, the It 17th-a length Of time which we believe to be quite uin pa- ii rasleled in the history of jury trials, and which, in ot1a lr respects, is one of the heaviest ...

... I ?LO o ISQF~ of PoieTt-n-onday-tso, ,Lord, 'r P~ s nthe- chair.. Pre~eot--Te DanofGuild ; Messrs. MVllardy, Susith, Chalee,, he arClder, Eddie, -Ness, B~isset, Rose, aed ofhws lemetntore t saroanr rasedto te~il'aituts and 4thel~public9 at the out- ~tkrt o 9e ttv~i~r esecalyabout Albyn Place, Union a Plae, tidSkee Sree, b cludsof.~ dust.- blowiug int6 theiirN tsi'u'hoe rm the TurnikeRad. The ...

... i '.! -; . :Il! .1 : @: ' . 5,' .6 ,,; ~,i - :-.-VGR- ioukT OF.0,.S Ii j 1 ,~~~- ,d u ..*..:?.1 -whe *ISI nk nMna .we for the dlisposal of this: icade the~,Lod Th~i~nt' ord ~iidvory., Cowan, aul~fil iith Saa 4dro0r.Fraser and James.;Praseri (as bnriteaderg mayy rpo1jecf) Worecr cdin Aotil lsath'ircuit'V~ou rthat hqg~bansd Of tW-A'feale pab'ne; iasd jfathercbf.;thefm-le. pristhe *l ...

... SHERIFF COURT, BANFF, I - -i MRIe-POACcInNG. On Monday the 24th ult., the following parties were brought before the Sheriff of Banffshire, at the instance of James Rose EsqI solicitor in fanif,; Law-Agent in that County for his ~race the Duke of Richmond, accused of trespassing under tho Act 9, Goo. IV., chap. 39, viz:- John Bremner, sen., Jeon Bremner, jUn., and William Bremsner, all residing ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION Wednesday, JuTne 30. THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE EARL OF KINTORE AGAINST THE PRESENT EARL AND HIS CURATORS. This was an action to enforce payment of £7,413 14s. 4]d., being three-fourths of certain sums expended by the late earl in repairing the family seat at Keith-hail, claimable from the present earl, as heir of entail, in terms of the Montgomery Act, lo George ...

... JURY COURT-F1RST DIVISION. - - I .. I - A rob.Aozrday, AlareAl 24. all -eWATSON 'V. EARL OF KINTORS. k% ,II' vii oel- INi tise case, which was taken up before the Lord Prsi of FIts dent and a jury, Mir H. G-. Watson, trustee on tire sequos- to Ii5 tratod estate of Mr Walter Dingwall, some time factor to th CCIr the Rlight Hon. the Earl of Kintoro, and lately at Drum- LK forher, near ...

... E PROFESSOR.SMiTH'S CASE. MR SLOAN'SCALL. .fThis (rev.- Courit met yesterday-Professor Salhusond, mnoderadtor. 'ME SLOA'N'S GALL; q On the mninacteso0flast mieeting 1l~eing read, ad Mr Banstnemoved that the following be inserted to after thelinoaticene'of the Glasgow deputatio n :-'When 51, one of the ehensmissionlers ewAB iddiesiing thte Preeby- itey, and, entering upon. the meris wa pedn or ...

... tInd - -I Nlte 1ABERDEEN MINISTER SUED BY A HOTEL- was KEEPER. .bly itch S hliriff Comrie Thouison heaf(d evideneoo on Monday in I beo an extrsaordinory action whiilit hia, been raised againist test an i Aberdeen mintis ter by it hotol-keepor in thle Granite Lich City. LOll, John Clark, hotel-keeper, City Hotel, Aberdeen, sued I Ole- the Rev. Aloxander 8tewart, minister of thle tie Eanglial ...

... TEE EOAST0UAARD TNQIJIuX ATtT!.' T3,, TlI~~'~toti1O: codc ;I'i~~~ls~ a~ticn atf2 dblis, ;IWs theoainfthwek hes ~ e~LatiIb lrig'Joblifirnn'itt Cowie, near tiblii~lii' on 22n December, 1876 w aedhal Osy 2 g,80pm. Ths--'agi,&l e tedn of the' imr4 pbi. thie Gote ilft Whb'lcbmfod of! tile carne, gentle- was1611a .Sin i. .-oml~e--.Poo R.N., inspector Scott'a M oni -viz apaIW.'Jesldent), Nf Jorrion ...

... At the Sunderland Police Court on Thursday theM mageestretes were occupied for some three hours in the investigation of a, singular case, in which Mr John~ 101 Monicy, assistant to Dr Mordley Douglas, was suns- msoned as the putative father of Elicabeth M'Kay's -n child. Mc rSheplserd appeared for the complainant, andi~ Mr H. liitson for the defendant. The case was one of y an unusually ...