The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-08 00:00:00

THE GLASGOW CIRCUIT.

GLASGOW, MONDAY EVENING.—This was the
closing day of the Glasgow Circuit Court, which has
been remarkable beyond any that has preceded it for
the number of trials arising out of deaths by violence,
and the injuries from shooting and stabbing. As
already noticed, a man named Hare was sentenced on
Thursday to be hanged on the 22d current, for mur-
der by stabbing ; and to-day, a powerful Irishman,
named Thomas Haggerty, had a narrow escape from
tha same fate. He was accused, under the Cutting
and Maiming Act, of stabbing Mr. Frederick Irvine,
a tartan manufacturer (who had given him no offence),
to the danger of life. The case was fully proved, and
it came out in evidence that since 1844 this fellow had
been convicted and imprisoned no fewer than 10 sepa-
rate times, for crimes of assault committed in Glas-
gow. On the very day on which he came out of prison
for one of these offences the crime for which he was
now tried was committed. Before leaving his lodgings
he had sharpened his knife, stating, on going out, that
he would " rip up any one who encountered him,"
and that it would give him especial satisfaction to
shoot the Procurator-Fiscal, at whose instance he had
been previously tried and imprisoned.
The jury unanimously found Haggerty guilty,
Lord COLONSAY remarking that had the Depute-
Advocate not restricted the libel, he would have felt
it his duty to have sentenced the fellow to be
executed.

He was sentenced to transportation for life.
A painful sensation has been created in Glasgow
by another cruel case of stabbing. It appears that
at a late hour on Friday night, or early on Saturday
morning-, three Irishmen were upon the streets, when
one of them, named Patrick M'Cluskey, had a quarrel
with a man, whose name is uLknown. In the course
of the struggle M'Cluskey was cruelly stabbed ; his
left thumb was nearly severed from his hand, and his
bowels protruded to the extent of 14 inches. The
assailant coolly walked off, the bystanders, of whom a
considerable number had collected, believing that the
quarrel was an ordinary street fight. The magis-
trates have offered a reward of thirty guineas for the
apprehension of the unknown stabber, and meanwhile
INl'Cluskey lies in the Infirmary in a critical state.
A still more painful sensation has been excited in
Greenock by the occurrence of the happily rare
charge in Scotland of a wife poisoning her hus-
band. Ma.
_. It appears that an old man, named Thomas
Macvey, who earned
butter, fish, and other
Mullen, as a lodger, a living. by dealing in. apples,
wi,e
about six months ago articles,. took into his house.
alyaoung Irishman, named David
pweiefet,ansairmahprateGr
ucioinionnexiaociavey soon had cause to sus.-
out uf. doors. Macvey Wa,snsthde former was turned
between this man and his
and purging on
the following Sunday.
vomiting
extreme suffering died on thdenly
appealance at the
tak•n ill with
Thursdayu week, and after
The late lodger (Mullen) made
wake the same night, and on followingtNheolsso day the
sooner had the in-
termentwidow.m.ade
ee:cmcdsiutei.ciaonnds
body was hurriedly buried.
taken place than Mullen and
preparations fur getting married, but teh
on the part of the neighbours became
Mullen was pelted by a mob of women
as he left the house. In the meantime it came children
that the woman had purchased arsenic at a druggist'seut
on the Thursday her husband became ill, and again
on the Saturday before his death, which she ostenta-
tiously mixed with oatmeal in the shop, on the pretext
that the poison was intended to kill rats, although it
has been ascertained that rats did not infest the house.
The woman was taken into custody, and the body was
exhumed on Saturday last, and Drs. Auld and Laurie
are engaged in making a chemical analysis of the
contents of the stomach and bowels, with the view of
determining the existence or non-existence of poison.
Al!anwhile the people of Greenock are in a state of
painful excitement on the subject until the result of
\ the chemical analysis shall have been known.

—Traffic for
GLASGOW Ara, SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
the week ending October 4, 1851:
Number of passengers k 26,950),
goods and parcels, horses and
carriages
.. £4,551 8 11
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr, and,
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railways
Glasgow, October G.

.. 83,331 15 3