Glasgow Courier. — 1863-10-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER IN NEWCASTLE.  NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, Saturday night. The crowded thoroughfare of Scotswood Road, Newcastle, was thrown into a state of most painful excitement to-night by the committal of a dastardly and horrible murder within a few yards of the people, who at that hour on a Saturday night occupy it in large numbers on their way to or from the market. A miner, named Martin Linksey, an Irishman, about twenty-seven years of age, had been employed for about nine days at Elswiek Colliery, which is situate a mile or two out of Newcastle. He was m;rried, and had come from Sunderland, where his wife and family reside, but he himself lodged with a cousin in Carr Street, Scotswood Road. He had been drinking in Hopper's public-house in Ord Street, which is near his lodgings, and left there a little after seven o'clock for the purpose, as is supposed, of going by the train to Sunderland. In front of the public-house is a large open space, which extends as far as the commencement of the new cattle market, and from the absence of lamps it is a very gloomy spot on a dark night such as to-night was. The accounts of what followed after Linskey left the public-house are of the most conflicting nature. A boy who was passing at the time asserts that Linskey was accompanied by two or three other men, and that in a dark place Linskey and one of them quarrelled and fought, that after a few rounds one of the combatants was knocked down, but that he immediately jumped up again and streak his antagonist a heavy blow on the neck. It proved to be Linskey, who immediately shouted out "I'm stabbed." The other man ran off. A man, who states himself to be a cousin of Linskey, and another, affirm that they were walking on a little before Linskey without having seen or hearing any fight when they heard him shout out that he was stabbed. They immediately took him into a chemist's shop near, he bleeding profusely as they assisted him along. Mr. Boe, the chemist, said by the dreadful gushes of blood pouring forth that the main artery of the neck had been severed. He partially stopped the loss of blood by plugging the wound with a handkerchief, and sent the men on to a surgeon's a few yards off. The injured man, however, appeared to be sinking Bo rapidly froni loss of blood that he was taken into another chemist's shop kept by Mr. Jobson. One of the men with the wounded man said to Mr. Jobson, "Here's a man murdered." Linskey appeared to feel himself rapidly dying.,_ for he gasped out, "I am going, I'm going." 111 r. Jobson asked him who had done it, but he never replied, as he gave a loud shout, fell upon the floor, and instantly expired, the blood gushing out of the wound as he fell. During the whole evening up to a late hour hundreds of people crowded round Mr. Jobson's door and the Westgate Police Station. It is rumoured that the deceased had quarrelled with a man the night before, and the same man is supposed to have murdered him. The murderer has not been apprehended.  The Channel squadron hove in sight off Plymouth at eight o'clock on Saturday morning. The Warrior, Edgar, Black Prince, Royal Oak, Defence, Resistance, and Emerald have anchored in the Sound. The Great Eastern has been seized under an Admiralty warrant by the owners of the Jane, which vessel was run down by her off the Irish coast. —Times. The new act to limit and define the time for elections during the recess will take effect in the forthcoming elections. Six days, not fourteen, is the time prescribed for notice by the Speaker. Mr. James Buchanan Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of St. James' from the United States, and afterwards President of that Republic, arrived in London a few days ago. A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place, between the Hon. Mr. Herbert, brother of the Earl of Powis, and Miss Sykes, daughter of the late and sister of the present Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart.