Glasgow Courier. — 1854-05-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MVIIDEIL—On Monday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, the quiet neighbourhood of Norwood was thrown into a state of considerable excitement in consequence of an atrocious attempt to murder John Barton, aged 28. Barton met a party of three or four Irish navvies, who were molesting a female near the Hope Tavern, Norwood. Feeling incensed at the outrage, he went to her moist. care ; the ruffians made a violent cut at his bead with a stick, which he managed to ward off with his arm, when his assailants knocked him down, and with a knife cut him over the head and various parts of the body. The brawl attracted the attention of the police, oho found the unfortunate man on the ground insensible lying in a pool of blood. The man's wounds will, it is feared, prove fatal. Toe Six MILLION Loss.—The opinion we expressed 'that so much as £1,600,000 was subscribed to the new loan on the Exchequer Bonds was more surprising than that the whole was not subscribed,' is now borne out by the official announcement of the sum actually subscribed. It was not £1,600,000 as reported, but only £602,300, including £45,000 tendered for bonds B and C, which the parties transferred to bonds Aon the day of tender. To May the 2d, the day of opening the tender, only £602,300 was subscribed for; and to May 81h, only £1,808,200 —on £212,000 of which representing the sum allotted to stags,'—and which probably was included in the .1.602,300 the deposits were not paid up. Never, therefore, was there a more conspicuous failure than Mr. Gladstone's attempted loan—as is now evident from the parliamentary paper 246, A return of the amount subscribed for Exchequer Bonds, &c ' just published.—Daily Nam  Toe CONSERVATIVE LAND Society—The eighteenth public drawing to determine the rotation of choice on all the estates purchased for distribution amongst the members of the Conservative Land Society took place on the 13th inst., at the offices, 33, Norfolk Street, Strand. The allotment of the St. Margaret's estate, near Richmond, on the 7th of June, imparted great interest to this drawing, rights of choice being now in eager demend. The Rev. Dr. Worthington and Mr. Cribb, members of the executive committee, and the secretary, superintended the drawing. Messrs. Cowling, Cundale, and Coyler were thn scrutineers. The numbers drawn were 50, no less than 11 being grouped in threes and twos. The seniority list will be increased 22 by this drawing, 960 being the last share number on the order of rights by date of membership. It was announced that no less than 0,641 shares had been taken up to the 13th Inst., representing a subscribed capital of £482,050, of which more than £lOO,OOO had been paid up, the withdrawals being but a small fraction on the gross amount. It was stated that the allotments of the Oatland's Grange estate, formerly the property of the Duke of York, at Weybridge, in West Surrey ; of the Seven Sisters estate, at Tottenham-green, Middlesex; and of the second portion of the popular Round-hill Park estate, Brighton, East Sussex, would take place in Jane and July. The nineteenth drawing Is fixed for Wednesday, the 28th of June, at the seventh quarterly meeting of the society in Free-masons' !fall.