... SINGULAR CASE OF PZRSONATION. A very singular case occupied the last session of the court of assizes of the Bas-lRhin. A man, named Anselme Stierling, was tried for baving personated one Seraphin Kauffmann, of Oswald, having got money in his name, sold his land, and forged his name. This Kauffmann, it appeared, left his family at the end of 1851 to go to Amiens to better his fortune. In tie ...

... DESPERATE ATTEMhPT TO MURDER. 1 On monday, at the Lambeth polle -office, after the night charges had been disposed of, fro' Philip Grinney, a ceneh-.wheeiPright, residing ar-street, Kenninyton, aged forty, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on the serious charge of cutting the throat of his wife, H~annah Grinney. with intent to murder her. The first witness called was Eliza Grinney, a ...

... I JAW AND POLICE, SATURDAY. !NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. A HOUSn6WARnIfiG. ACOgMFLhiIS IDOI~et FXAh ISr nu FREDEEICir CoLBOATE.-This insolvent, who had kept the Napier's Arms at ,New Bromprtni near Chathamj Kent, applied' t b ?? inf prson Mr. Budden, a brewer at Chath1, OPP oof the d nme and'dr. Penny, an earthenware adealer,5 fraud; and5 place. The complaint of-Mr. Buddeflzas a.u ae let of the ...

... I l [These sessions commenced on Monday, but no case of nterest marked the first day's proceedings.] TUESDAY. ROnayrY AT M. LAPONT'S. - Catherine Taverner, twenty-two, the wife of a soldier now serving at the Cape, was indicted for having stolen a diamond pin, of the value of 51., the property of Pierre Cheri Lefont, in the dwelling-house of Mr. J. Butler.-The prosecutor, M. La - font, the ...

... TRIAL oF THE BIBLE BURXEU , Both Father Petcherine and the bey John Hamilton have been acquitted of the charge of bible burning- verdicts which were received with the most vociferous applause, which was taken up by the crowds assembled ontside, who loudly cheered end jaterspersed their ex- clamations of delight with repeated groans for the at- torney-general and her Majesty's law officers. The ...

... k CoRONET DOING HO°LY woa. There is not one par. cent. of thnse atrocious cares of wife-beatinW which are reeorded in war nigh every police report which appears in our ?? which bas not its origin in drunkenkifln- The husband invari. ably, and sonetitnes-we grieve to write it-the wife is an habitual drnnkard. Wfalt-adozen wretched little children are condemnaed to p-5 their erliestfears in tbe ...

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... I MYSTERIOUS AFF AIR AT CARLISLE An inquest was lately held at Carlisle on the boly of William Horsley, twenty-three years of age, W'o woS found dead under extraordinary and mystaficze circumstances. The evidence given at the inquest showed that the deceased was a draper'sassistent, and had been married to a daughter of Jane Davidson, the landlady of a emall inn, called the Pack HorLe, in ...

... MARRIAGE WIGH A DECEASED IuSBARm's B1o. IEE.-Edwasrd Jamesrs surrendered at the Shrews. bury assizes, before Mr. Justice Blaekburn, to take his teial upon a charge that, on the 19th of January, 1861, he made a certain false notice of marriage, before the registrar of marriages at Shrewsbury, for the purpose of procuring his marrisge with one Jane James, Who was his brothey ?? was a prosecution ...

... I DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITa BURGLARS. Mr. Ingram, the presidirg magistrate, on Monday, at the Wandsworth police-court, was occupied for aome considerable time in the investigation of a very serious charge of burglary, attended with violence, which occurred easly on ftnday morning, near Bat. ter sea Old church. A vast amount of interest was attached to the case, and the court was both thronged ...

... ??OI?REBLF MURDER I? FINSBUR urder of a most frightful character has been rsitted at a house situated 13, King's Head court, eIT1bury-market. At the house in question there rided in a first floor front room a hran named James jeere and a woman, believed to be his wife, with a child about two ande a half years of age. Some ,-0ntbs since Mboore was charged at the Mansiond ,ose with assaulting a ...

... LAW & POLICE, SAT AY.i SHERIFFS' COURT. IMPOBTANT 'o PSONS ?? LOANS UPON PEopsSTT.-CowDEL ANqD ANOTHEEV. A1LEXANDERS, -plinatiffs are attorneys, and defendant is a Bocensd victualer arid 3he attion was brought to raed:ez 61. lii. s moneoy~expended at the request, skal- stated thiat thae defenldant was anxious, a srt time bek, to raise 2,0001. upin:ome property in the countr He negotiatd with a ...