Glasgow Courier. — 1844-03-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THEATRE-ROYAL.  The celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rion commenced • short engagement, last night, in the Theatre-Royal, Dunlop Street. They made their debut in the characters of Beverley, and Mrs. Beverley, in the play of "The Gamester,* and acquitted themWee.. as anal, admirably. The house, however, was certainly not so well tilled as we have lean it on similar occasions, but the reception of Mr. and Mrs. Kean was most enthusiastic. Mr. Paumier, we may add, appeared to conaiderable advantage in the eharecter of Shady.  We understand that the office of sheriff-clerk of Renfrewshire has become vacant, owing to the decease of Robert fitenart, Esq., of Stuartball, which took place On Friday at cis residence near Renfrew. Mr. Steuart was fkr advanced In fife, and has long suffered from severe bodily affliction, which be bore with much cheerfulness and resignation. The Steuarts of Steuarthall, Stirlingsbire, are a branch of the Ardgowan family. The deceased gentleman was long residenter in the town of Greenock, and at the bead of erte of the oldest legal firms in that town. He waa opiollited Clerk of the Peace for Renfrewsbire, about founteigi - ago; butinirtitraprh-to Waif iff-Clerk, in 1831, he resigned the former situation. . Steuart was warmly attached to the Whig interest, Sh by his own principles and his family connexions, and during his long life he took always an active part in the , politics of the county.—Saturday Post. Scots Greys.—ln the course of the ensuing month the 6th Dragoon Guards will be replaced at Piershill by the 2d Dragoons (Scots Greys) from Ipswich. Trial of the Murderer of the Marquis of Normanby's Gamekeeper.—George Lowther and Mathew Pearson on Tuesday took their trial at York, for the murder of John Moffatt, the head gamekeeper to the Marquis of Normanby—the first as principal, and the second as aiding and abetting. The facts of this melancholy case are too fresh in the minds of our readers to require repetition. The Jury found Lowther guilty and acquitted Pearson. The Judge in passing sentence of death upon the wretched man, said that he bad been convicted on the clearest testimony of depriving a fellow-creature of life, and that he could not hold out to him the slightest hope of a relaxation of the law in his case. Pearson was then called upon and admonished by the learned Judge, who trusted that the unhappy end to which his companion would soon come would operate as a warning to him, and would be the means of inducing him to abstain from following the unlawful practice which had led to this melancholy investigation.  At the Oxford Assizes, Edward Butler was tried for the murder of his wife, by kicking and beating her in a brutal manner. The Jury, to the surprise of the Court, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter only. The prisoner was transported for life. At the same Assizes, 3keeling Richardson, aged 24. John Richardson, 94, and Joseph Starkie, 18, three of a desperate gang who have infested that county for some time past, were indicted for entering in the night time certain enclosed lands, at Clifton Campyule, and for having feloniously wounded Thomas Harrison, with intent to murder him. The Jury found all the prisoners guilty, and they were transported for 20 years. ~—Number of inmates in the Night auseless, in St. Enoch's Wynd, from 9, to Friday, March 15, inclusive:285; boys, 47; girls, SG: total, 542. • of nightly inmates for this week is inmates in the Rouse of industry.  ON SALE, ACARGO of AFRICAN GUANO, of about 600 Tons, expeeeed to arrive at Cork, about 10th April, and can be sent to any Safe Port in the United Kingdom, or elsewhere. It has been selected by an experienced Captain, who has loaded a cargo of Peruvian; and it is expected to be of superior and uniform quality. Apply to Hours. John Kirkland & Son, Glasgow ; or, to