... I I SUMeARY Or CaSES.-In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, the case of Mr W. H. Barber, who had been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of forgery, and had been transported, but had sub- sequently received the free pardon of the Queen, was made the subject of an application to the court, praying that he might be allowed to take out his certificate as an attorney. The application was ...

... I I GORHsAM V. THE BTssOP oF EXETEn.-The judicial committee of the Privy Council met on Tuesday to hear the appeal of the Rev. Mr Gorham from a decision of the Courtof Arches, in which judgment was given for the Bishop of Exeter. There were present the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London; Lords Langdale, Campbell, Lansdowne: the Vice-ChancellorKnigltt Bruce ...

... EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION AT HACKNEY.-An inquiry was held before Mr Baker, the coroner, at Hackney, on Saturday, respecting the death of Mr G. Row land Smith, aged 64 years, a solicitor, who died from starvation, under the following melancholy circumstances :-Mrs M. M'Donald, of No. 5 Orchard Cottages, deposed that the deceased had re. 'sided with her for the last twenty-four years. His ...

... THE SIX-MILE BRIDGE AFFRAY.-The inquiry into the cause of the alleged riot which resulted in six men being shot by the military is still protracted. The evidence for the prosecution has all along tended to show that there was no disposition to riot on the part of the people, and that the military fired without necessary provocation. SEVERE SOUTH-WESTRILY GALE IN THlE CHANNEL.-Her Msjesty, in ...

... I LUMLEY v. WB&GNE.-JUDGOzT.-At the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday. judgment was delivered in the above case in favour of the plaintiff three of the judges being for and one against. MXnDICA COURTSHIP PUT IN THE BILL.-In the Brompton County Court last week an action was brought to recover the sum of 15S. under the following circumstances. The plaintiff. Mr Gay, is a surgeon, ...

... The following case was tried before the Recorder on Wed- nesday. Comment upon it would be quite superfluous. Thomas Swift, 24, engineer, pleaded guilty to an indictment charg- ing him with unlawfully and with intent, applying and putting on, upon the 14th of September, a break to the wheels of a carriage on the London and Blackwall Railway, so as to endanger the safety of persons conveyed upon ...

... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-Charles Alfred Rickaby, described as an accountant, but who is well known as the notorious blind swindler who has carried on a most exten- sive system of plunder upon the public for a great many years, was found guilty on Monday on several charges of fraud and for- gery. In one of these charges, his son James, and a man named Cox were associated, and they also were ...

... Webrieflvstatedn last week's'Examiner' Ihataninquestbadbeen held on tbe 7h inst. at Leeds, on the body of Mrs Harriet Dove, aged twenty-eight, the wife of Mr William Dove, a person of independent means, residing in Cardigan place, Buriev, near Leeds, whose death had been caused by poisoning by strychnine, We add to the report already given, some further details of the evidence adduced on the ...

... WEDNESDAY.-The board of general officers held their twentieth sitting at Chelsea Hospital this day, all the members being present. At the opening of the proceedings the Judge Advocate stated that a summons had been sent to Sir J. M'Neill to attend, and a reply had been received, in which he stated that he was too unwell to be able to attend. 1 Buz, he added, even if that obstacle had not ...

... BELIEF TN WTITocArCTa-James Tunnieliffe, the keeper of a beer- shop called the Royal Oak, at Thornley lane, near Newborough, in this county, was tried at the Stafford Assizes, on Monday, for obtaining divers stuns of money, amounting in all to about 301., from Thomas Charlesworth, by false pretcnces-viZ., by falsely pretending that the prosecutur, his wife, child, eattle, horses, goods, and ...

... CHELMSFORD, JsLY l5th.- THE RIVENHALL MURDsR.- Charles Finch, aged twenty-six, a sullen, determined-loolking young man, was charged with the wilful murder of Harriet Freeborn by cutting her throat at the parish of Rivenhall, on the 24th of May. The prisoner was a labouring man, belonging to Rivenhall, and during the Russian war he entered the Land Trans- port Corps, and was employed in the ...

... I :A.1i:I.F. t - i- - +CMJRT QF KI~ Cs BENCH, - -- dniesday, Jan.. I . ; . DEA IT AT]OV .-I CMITTRU V. JACttS. -flr. GAR BOW stated the plaintiff's case, in. a ?? tfihugh flippatt ?? a late ?? iD the Court of Cnto:- ?? Conednil. Al. Jack.s ie lnideavrmiripg toi' t lrow an ocoium on ihe conduct yf Sir F inras Bardett, indulged'himself iu the f~idon inig 'words '- Whlat ouigh t ey to ?? rf Sir ...