Glasgow Courier. — 1853-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CURIOUS AFFAIR AT RENFREW.  On Monday evening, about eight o'clock, a respectable individual resident in the vicinity of Renfrew had occasion to cross the ferry there in company with his son, a little boy, who had bee with him on a visit to a friend on the north side of tef river. On taking their places 1 in the boat, a person to was sitting therein, without provocation a any knil, seised the boy, and at once plunged him head forw4ovt into the water, which was roaring dark and chill at the time. Fortunately, the little urchin caught hol of an oar ere he was sent away, and by the activity of he ferryman, was dragged all dripping into the boat. The fellow who had perpetrated 1 it this gratuitous outrage sat once, very properly, handed over to the custody of a own officer, or constable, when the boat arrived at the enfrew side, and was immediately thereafter. con •ed before two of the burgh magistrates, in the exp talon that he would be made responsible for the crue and unprovoked assault which he had committed, range to say, however, these worthies, although ther were three witnesses present prepared to prove the barge, at once acquitted the prisoner, and permitted int to depart in peace. These facts have been stated t on by the father of the boy so shamefully ill treated, a d we really cannot help joining in his expression of in onant surprise at this curious specimen of Renfrew j sties. The scoundrel deserved three months on the B. admill, and even that was too little for him.—Citizen. _ James DennAtpti es,lltets was tried at Glasgow for the murder of h his al -sts r, and convicted, has had at the same time the atrang expression of the jury and the judge as to his insOitty for the last two years, and will, of course, have his life spared, and will spend the rest of his miserable existence in a public lunatic asylum, by the orders, and tinder the direction, of the Crown. LAvNcit.—On Saturday forenoon there was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. R. Barclay & Curie, foot of the quay, a screw steamer for the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company, to trade between Leith and London. The ilay was rather boisterous, and the spectators were few. There are building in this yard a wooden ship, of 700 tons, for Messrs. Smith's Calcutta line, which is ready for launching ; an iron ship of the same size, half-plated; and the keel and stem of an iron screw, for the Carron Company, is ready to be laid down. New Tninviso DODGE —On Friday last, two men called at the hosiery shop of Mr. Hamilton, Gallowgate Street, and requested the sight of some silk handkerchiefs. He accordingly handed them two, but they wished to see others of a different quality. Mr. Hamilton proceeded to accede to their wish, and when in the act of taking down a web of handkerchiefs from the window, his suspicions were aroused by one of the men holding up one of the articles, so auto screen his view. Mr. H. immediately drew the handkerchief out of the fellow's bags, just in time to see the ' other disappeaf intfr the - trousers of the second worthy, who had quickly opened them for its reception. Being thus balked in their nefarious attempt they ran off, but were shortly afterwards captured, and brought before the Central Police Court on Saturday, and sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment each. Their names are John Miller and John Clark.