Glasgow Courier. — 1859-11-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE CONVICT SMETHURST.  The greatest surprise woe created on Saturday morning by the semi-official announcemblitthatDr Smethurst, whose fate has so long been a matter of speculation, would be brought before the magistrate sitting at the Southwark Police Court on a charge of bigamy. Consistently with the announcement, the prisoner, Thomas Smethurst, was this day, kt half-past twelve, placed at the bar b;fore Mr Combs, the Southwark magistrate, charged an follows :—For that he, one Thomas Stnethurst, on the 9th of December last, within this district, did unlawfully and feloniously intermarry with one Isabella Haulms, his wife Mary being then alive. The court was densely crowded, and a great mob of people was collected outside. The prisoner was brought into court by Mr Keene, the governor of Horsemonger Lane Jail. Ile still wore his moustache, and had on apparently the same clothes he wore when on his trial for murder at the Central Criminal Court. He looked very careworn and haggard, and did not appear to take notice of any one, not even his brother, who was standing close to him, and he did not utter a word during the proceeding', although he evidently paid deep attention to every word that fell from the learned counsel for the prosecution in opening the case; and he evinced some slight emotion when he alluded to his having been convicted of a capital offence. From the speech of Mr Clerk, who was instructed by the Solicitors to the Treasury to conduct the prosecution, it would appear that the charge of murder has been abandoned. Evidence was given to the effect that in the year 1828 the prisoner was married to Mary Durham, at St. Mark's Church, Kennington, with whom he lived up to December, 1858, when he formed the acquaintance of Isabella Bankes, with whom he intermarried at Battersea, his wife Mary being still alive. The prisoner was formally committed for trial at the Old Bailey. On being removed he was closely guarded, and seemed much amused at the care which was taken of him. There was ho demonstration of feeling whatever on the part of the public. The (eerier says—The Secretary of State found it irupOssible to resist the mass of medical evidence throwing doubts upon the prisoner's guilt; that is to vay, doubts which would be deemed more.of a legal than -a- moral character.—riery subsequent investigation ' perusal of the vast mass of documentary evidence before the authorities made it more apparent every r that there was no other medium, no alternative, t granting a free pardon, or allosoing the law to take course. This decision, however, was withheld until could be seen whether the prisoner could be put upon As trial for other crimes, and the formal grant f pardon is not officially complete. The prisoner, therefore, 'remains in custody to meet the charge of bigamy.  I sal', • moral  could  Our nautical readers will comprehend the immense power and strength of the AM rams building at London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, on learning that the capacity of each will be some 6,000 tons; engines, 1,00 horse-power, and that each will be 20 feet longer and 15 broader than the Persia—the largest ship afloat before the launch of the Great Eastern. They will be cased with iron 44 inches thick, and will cost some £300,000 each. Still, they will be lighter than our old battinies, being only covered above end a short distance below water-line, and neither head nor stern will be cased..--Cburt Circular,  ROBBERY Or £1,600.—A seriotus robbery has been committed at the house of Mr Henry Moore, in the village of Old Swan, in West Derby, near Liverpool. Mrs Moore had left the house to meet Mr Moore at a railway station, and the house was entered, and three £5OO Bank of England notes, two or three £5 notes, and 6.5 sovereigns stolert from e (Intwur iii thp bedroom. The lose ils not less than £1,600, and we understand is unfortunately nearly the whole of the property the owner was possessed of, and which he had earned by long perseverance ass shipbuilder. Besides the money two silver watches were stolen.- Manchester Examiner. GARIBALDI'S SUPPLY mr pfues,rre,—lfeage Buria4d r.relit hive ooiuMeMied seminas of musket/ manufactured for account of the Garibaldi subscrip. tion. Twenty-live thou:And have already been delivered; they are all rifled, with graduated eights, and have proved on trial quite 4:fitment. The non. tract obligee the delivery of 1,000 Wel*.