Glasgow Courier. — 1845-04-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  Railway Iron.—A contract was entered into in this town, on Saturday, for 21,000 tons of rails, at the price of £l2 per ton. They are to be delivered at the rate of 1,000 tons monthly, beginning in Oct. The broker's commission in the transaction amounted to £2,400. Thepurhose is made by a Glasgow bouse.—Liverpool Times. Dreadful Colliery Explosion at gellayWorth—loimirces„. tie-on-Tyne, Friday Morning.—Another alarming and melancholy catastrophe has just occurred•at the West Moor Pit, at Kelleyworth, in this county, from an explosion of fire damp, by which upwards of forty individuals are aaid to have perished. The explosion took place last night, and efforts are now being made to recover the bodies. A Pattern for Tailors.—At the annual dinner of the Tailors' Benevolent Society on Ist inst., the chairman, Mr. Sheriff Sidney, said Mr. Stultz had contributed the munificent sum of £14,000 towards the society, and had offered to give another piece of land as soon as the society should have funds sufficient to build larger alms-houses.—Lendon Paper. Melancholy Accident.— We regret to announce a melancholy occurrence which took place at Botesdale, on Thurs. dav last. As James Amys, Esq., of Rickinghall, was riding through the street on horseback, with his lady, the mare on which he rode was observed to carry him quietly, but it is supposed that while in the act of stooping to put some letters into the Post Office, he accidently touched her with the spur, as she immediately plunged and started off at a rapid pace; and that in endeavouring to keep his seat (having lost his stirrups) he unconsciously used the spurs, which increased the animal's speed, and at the lower part of the town he fell off, pitching upon his head, and received a concussion of the brain and a fracture of the base of the skull, from which he expired in about five minutes, not having spoken after his fall. For his afflicted widow, to whom he had been united but five short weeks, this moat, awfully sudden interruption to her promised happiness has roused a very deep and general sympathy. The deceased gentleman was a magistrate of the county, and was about, 50 years of age.—Bury Poet, April 1. At Warwick, James Crowley was indicted for the wilful murder of William Tilsly, in 1842. The circumstances of the case will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. The father of the prisoner being apprehensive of danger from his violence, had employed Tilaly to watch him. On Christmas-day, 1842, the prisoner asked admittance to his father's, and on being refused by Tilsly, shot him dead, and then made his escape to America, from whence he returned in 1844, and was captured. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, without hope of mercy. The Jesuits.—At this moment, when all Switzerland is in arms against the Jesuits, the following history of the banishments of this order from different countries will be read with interest :—" The Jesuits were banished from Venice in 1606; from Bohemia, in 1618; from Naples, in 1622; from the Low Countries, in the same year; from India, in 1623; from Portugal, in 1752; from France, in 1764; from Spain, in 1767; and last from Rome, in 1773." Discovery of a Treasure.—Extract of a letter from Madras, dated Feb. 22 :—" A Spanish schooner fishing, 840., among the shoals in the China Sea, discovered a chain cable over the coral reef on the East London shoal, and on a close examination a sextant and a chronometer, and close to these articles what first appeared lead, but turned out to be Sycee silver; and 180,000 dollars' worth of the precious metal was found and put on board the schooner, when the skipper most honourably proceeded to Macao or Canton, and there delivered the whole of the treasure to the insurance-office, who gave the noble-minded Spaniard about 50,000 rupees. It was conjectured in China that the bullion was part of the cargo of the Christina, as she sailed two years ago for China, and has never been heard of since. 1111) names and numbers on the sextant and chronometer may afford a clue to the identity of the ship and captain." Died, at Pau, Lower Pyrenees, France, on the 18th ult., of apoplexy, Major-General Christopher Fagan, aged 68, formerly Adjutant-General of the Bengal Army.  phase  I melancholy