Glasgow Courier. — 1846-03-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CASE.—The crew of the Lady Sale attended on Saturday as prisoners, at the Thames Police-office, in order that the investigation might be gone into as to the allegation of their being on the coast of Africa with the object of carrying on the slave trade. Their names having been called over, Mr. Ballantyne stated that from instructions lie had received from the Admiralty lie felt bound to release them from custody, and they were all accordingly discharged.  Mr. Leader, it appears, does not intend to stand again for the representation of Westminster.—Globe. The Ten Hours Bill.—A meeting, densely crowded, was held at Manchester, on Monday evening, to petition Parliament for an efficient ten hours bill. Resolutions to that effect were unanimously agreed to, and a petition was adopted. Lord Ashley was present, and addressed the meeting. The Ferrers Family.—The youthful defendant in the late extraordinary "breach of promise" ease is the great grandnephew of the notorious Earl Ferrers, executed in 1760, for the murder of his steward, and who, on that occasion, put in a plea of lunacy, and argued it himself! "It was a strange contradiction,r4 says Horace Walpole, "to see a mart trying by his own sense to prove himself out of his senses" The murrain among the cattle is very severe in Leicestershire. Mn William NVesson, fanner, of Thurveston, has lost, during the last twelve months, cattle to the value of £2OO. Death from Extracting a Tooth.—On Tuesday morning Mr. Howling of Tottenham Court Road, died in consequence of the extraction of a tooth. It appears that he fastened some silk round the tooth, it being decayed, and a friend of his, on Tuesday last, extracted it with the silk by pulling it violently. The consequence was that a small blood-vessel was ruptured, which no Surgical aid could stop. The deceased was only 26 years of age. Extraordinary Arrind.--(m. Thursday the steamer James , Watt, from Havre, brought some fine specimens of animals , and birds, which were purchased at great cost, for the noble ' collection already formed at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. Amongst them is what the keeper called the Ricoro deer, as large as the rein-deer of the north. The hair on the body, which is nearly two feet eight inches long, is nearly black, whilst the face is white, like that of the sheep, with bright intelligent eyes. There is one large lioness, with three baboons, each five feet high. The most attractive object among them all is another animal of the baboon species, the first of the class, it is said, which has ever been introduced into this country. It is called by the keeper the Manchian baboon, stands seven feet high, and is said to be possessed of Herculean strength. It is very peculiarly i marked, with a great variety of colours. There s one large specimen of the grey eagle, and a black eagle, measunng eight feet from wing to wing at the tips; besides several stuffed specimens of the same genus. Beggars.—A person who is brought by poverty to a dead stand-still, but who is being continually told by the police that he must move on. It has been erroneously said that beggars must not be choosers, but this is not tree; for they can generally take their choice between theft and a sufficient provision in jail, or starvation in one of the union workhouses.—Pu nat.  It has been calculated by a curious investigator that the hair of the beard grows at the rate of one line and a-hall in the week: this will give a length of six 'lndies and a-half in the course of the year, and for a moo of eighty years of age, twenty-seven feet which have Linea before the cage of the razor.— Wilson on Ma Skin,  Charles Cowan, of Valley-field-mills, Edinburgh, paper-manufacturer, for improvementsin the manufacture of paper, mill-board, and other similar substances. January 29; six months. William Robertson of Gateside, Renfrewshire, machine-maker, for certain improvements in the machinery for spinning and twisting cotton, silk, wool, flax, and other fibrous substances. Sealed 25th February; 6 months for inrolment.