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Glasgow Courier. — 1850-03-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LATEST FROM P.  The members of the Parliamentary Cl met on Friday night to take into coma of political affairs. They resolved to sin and so draw closer the bonds which unit which the majority of the Legislative As resolved to support every proposition of lated to guarantee the maiotenauce of on anti-social attempts. The Custom-house officers on duty seised a chest containing 12 fowling-p bullet-moulds, which a carter was en, clandestinely into Paris. The ease and over to the Prefect of Police.  Private letters from Madrid, of the 1 Cordova bad arrived there the night I whole of the Spanish force was expected date. Gen. Cordova returned by Bared, in triumph. It was stated that the F. contracted wikh the capitalists of Madrid at 9 per cent., for the purpose of deft: construction of several steamers and sai  FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT JUN I EDINBURGH (From a §ecpwl Rdition of Ike Edinbur;  • Great consternation was excited thi village of 3iniper Green, about fire If burgh. (in the neighbourhood of Currie murder of two persons in the house medical practitioner. The county polio spot, and upon entering the house f kitchen, lying upon his back, quite de almost to a jelly. The next object was the lifeless body of the aged which was found lying in the pass spot where the unfortunate woman Is killed. The implements employed in II have been the kitchen poker and tong' be the murderer was apprehended in lodged in the Edinburgh jail. Informal rence reached Edinburgh about nine o Mr. Sheriff Gordon, the Procurator-Fl intendeut of the County Police, drove murder. They were cecupied for sev Investigation into the circumstances of to town a little after one o'clock. Fro appears that at slate hour last night (SI of Pearson who is understood to have lunatic as)lum, called at the house of E medical advice. The Doctor accordingl: 1 of which one-half was to be taken that I next morning. Dr. Wilson having just country patients, left the man at the di the maid-servant went to the stable to his return to the house, Dr. Wilsot locked, and, upon knockiiig, WitS Min appears to have been observed by tlii , went to her mother's house, in the n , usually slept. The precise circunost.., Doctor Wilson's house can only he The state in which his body an were found next morning has a ft is said that the man Pearson who ha previous night, is the person now in j murder; and it is added that he has house, sleeping in Mrs. Wilson's bed, burned his clothes. Ile was found n asleep. The murder was brought ti this morning by the servant returnir She found the door locked, and upon 100 saw the body of Dr. Wilson lying upon mediately gave the alarm, when the dot full extent of the murder was disclosed. : of age, strong and healthy. His moth age of ninety. We have already stated confinement us lunatic. This, we bel, his confinement lasted about four years apparently in sound mind. We under' few days, symptoms of insanity again tu
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-04-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF THE COUNTESS CORLITZ.  Most of our readers must remember the circumstances connected with the death at Darmstadt of the Countess of Gorlits, and the suspicion which was attached for some time to the Count, her husband, who holds the post of Chamberlain to the Grand Duke. This suspicioa was caused principallylliy the earnestness with which the Count attempted to prevent a dissection of the body, bat that WAS fully accounted for subsequently by evidence showing that the Countess had so great a horror of dissection that she had solicited her husband frequently to promise that, in the event of her dying before him, her remains should not be exposed to such a proceeding, and had made this a special injunction in her will. If any suspicion, however, had continued to attach itself to the Count, it has been fully removed by a trial of the murderer at Darmstadt, which, after lasting more than a fortnight, has just been terminated. It may be necessary, even for those who paid attention to the cape when it WM before the public more than a year ago, to relate the lead, lug facts briefly. The Countess, who was in possession of a handsome fortune independently of that of her husband, was a woman of unbounded charity, but of an eccentric character. She had for some years resided in apartments of the house separated from those of her husband, with whom, however, she was on the best terms, visiting him from time to time, and receiving his visits. She had. always a considerable sum of money in her secretaire, and had also a rich collection of jewels. She had caused extra locks to be placed on her secretaire, her drawers, and the doors of her romns, and opened the outer door of her apartment to her husband and the confidential servants. One evening, on the return of the Count from the palace of the Grand Duke, where he had been dining, be went as usual to see the Countess before retiring to rest, but could not obtain admittance, and soon afterwards an alarm was raised that a fire had broken out in the apartment of the Countess. A locksmith was sent for; the outer door WAS broken open; the secretaire in the sittingroom of the Countess wagon fire, and she was found lying dead on the floor, with her body partly consumed. At this time no suspicion was entertained of her having been murdered. It was at first supposed that the secretaire had taken fire from the bougie• but subsequently, as this alone could not account for the caronisation of a part of the head and body of the Countess, it was imagined that she had perished from spontaneous combustion. When suspicion fell upon the Count, it arose entirely from the anxiety that he displayed to prevent an autopsy from which it was imagined that he might have administered poison, and then attempted to the body to prevent detection. Nothing but the ,‘•sies.,__ motive for the crime and the well-kneen life, which had subsisted between him and the deceased • ' his . . . . _
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-10-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE FRIMLEY MURDER.  On Frid .y, at ten o'clock, the examination of the four prisoners, arraeed on anion:ion of having been the perpetrators of the double et. me of murder and burgle, y at Frimley, on the a7th of laat mouth, was resumed in the House of Correction, Guildford, before Mr. Geo. Best, Mr. E. Bray, and Mr. G. Gibson. Mr. W. holiest, brother of the deczased, attended, as before, to watch the case on behalf of the family. Hiroo Smith, who appears to leave been the ringleader an I plotter in the burglary, is about the middle height, with narrow contracted shoulders,. and a stooping figure. His face, which wars a sallow wilietilthy hoe, is extremely forbidding in expression, the features having that sharp prominent character which marks the rogue, elide the doubtful and hes'. tatiug glance of the eve indicates a deposition at once cullfling and irresolute. of the four prisoners, by dress and manners, he seems to have been the most respectably connected. Levi Harwood lea raflianly-looking ton. square built, and evidently possessing considerable physical strength. Ilia features are coarse and rugged, and his face betrays the mastery of violent passions. He looks like one of those idle fellows, half hostlers, half anything els-, who are seen loitering about country inns, and waiting for any job that may turn up for them. James Jones is a'so about the middle size, his features fiat and repulsive, and his whole physiognomy expressive of a life of depravity and crime. Both he and Levi Harwood look like bold determined fellows, capable of carrying through any deed of violence they may once have undertaken., S inauel Harwood, appa. ently the youngest, and certainly the least unprepossessing of the gang, must be a man of great bodily strength. He is broad-shouldered, and has Lianelise limbs. There is a slight cast about the eyes, but his features or., good. He Ivas more frankness of wanner about him-than any of the rest, and the feeling of those present in Court appeared some way or other to run less strongly against him than any of his companions. At the meeting of the bench, and before the prisoners were Introduced, Mr. BEST, the Chairman, announced to his brother Magistrates that a voluntary statement hal been made by one of the prisoners, and before they were ca,aed in it would be proper to ascertain the circumstances under wliich the statement had been made. The prisoners were aware that an offer of a pardon was made to any of them who would coarse not being the actual person who fired the shot, but neveitheless the bench would hear that the prisoner who made the statement he alluded to had been told that what he said would be taken down, and would be evidence against hon. After the examination of several witnesses, Sergeant Hollington said that on Monday the 14th inst., in consequence of what hail passed on the previous day between the prisoner Smith and Mr. Keene, the governor, he came there, and was informed that Smith wished to see him. lie was t.rought into the room where they were then assembled. The
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-04-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NORFOLK CIRCUIT. (Before Mr. Jusifee Wightmax.)  CAMBRIDGE, Manua 26.—Elias Lucas, aged 24, and Maria Reeder, aged 20, were indicted for the wilful murder of Sum. Lucas, by administering to her two drachms of arsenic on the 21st of February last. Mr. SANDERS (with whom was Mr. Burcham) stated that the prisoners were indicted for the murder of the wife of the male prisoner, and the sister of the female prisoner. The prisoner Lucas had been married about four years to the sister of the other prisoner, who, having left her service at the house of a Mr. Cross, near Castle Camps' where Lucas also was employed as an out-door servant, took up her residence at the house of Lucas about the end of January last. About that time it appeared that the deceased, who had given birth to three or four children, had been confined, and ivid lost her child. In the course of a month, however, she hail quite recovered, and was in excellent health on the 21st el February. On the nest day she died, and the question would be, whether she had come by her death at the hands of the prisoners. and in consequence of the administration of arsenic. The maltprisoner had frequently spoken slightingly of his wife. A woman named Potter was called into Mrs. Lucas's house on the day in question, and she found her in bed very ill, retching violently, and praying for drink. The prisoner fetched a surgeon, but lie arrived after death, and at once suspected that the deceased died from poison; and a post mortem examination clearly abused the presence of poison, which Professor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, tit applying chemical tests, proved to be arsenic. There was a large quantity in the stomach and intestines. It appeared that, shortly after wheat sowing time last year, Lucas's master gave him a packet of arsenic to bury or destroy—about a pound; this the prisoner acknowledged he took home instead of destroying; and the packet was found in his house, minus about an ounce. Lucas had eight pigs, lie came home one day in the week and said be thought his pigs grew well, and he would keep the little cad-pig (the least of the lot) till he married torsi% He said he should marry Mary Reeder, and went into the house. He told his wife he would keep this cad-pig till he married her sister." She said, That would never be, for they would never "e marry her sister. He said, "They can't help themI go a little way from home." ; were called who proved the charge against addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners, who, the jury' were now on their trial for jointly planning - the death of the deceased by the administration at was the charge put forward by the learned prosecution, in a speech no doubt well considered his Instructions. Yet he had abstained from for a pricourse  allow him to t. aelvt s, If In cue a Several witnesses the prisoners. Cnoucu be reminded the and perpetrating of arsenic. That Counsel for the pr with reference to '
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-10-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OCT. 15.—The Peninsular and Oriental wood. After Mr. Proud and others had left, Mr. Parker, the landCompany's steam-ship, Iberia, Captain Burney, with the lord, and the prisoner had a long conversation • in the coarse of which, Mr. Parker referred to the footpath near which the body Peninsular mails, in charge of Lieut. Inglis, RN., Admiralty was found, and observed that he remembered it well 40 years ago. Agent, arrived this evening at eight o'clock. Her dates of ~ /, fact,. said Mr Parker to our informant, "had 1 known that sailing were—Gibraltar, Oct. 6; Cadiz, Oct. 7; Lisbon, Oct. Drory had committed this murder, I could scarcely have spoken 9; Oporto, Oct. 10; and Vigo, Oct.lo. The weather during upon subjects more likely to call forth some emotion; bat during the voyage home was most tempestuous, so much no, that the whole of this Interview the prisoner's demeanour was perfc ' out of ten oxen nine died from the effects of the gale, calm and selftpossessed.'• After the first burst of feeling on fin. lug the body had subsided, Last proceeded to obtain the oasisThe frieght of the Iberia consists of five packages specie, and one of stone, of the value of £l,llO, 116 boxes of Lance of his neighbours for the removal of the body to his house, lemons, 211 boxes of grapes, fifty-five boxes of pornowhilst he repaired to the station-house at Brentwood, and informed the police-officer that his daughter was murdered, adding that granates, and a large number of packages of sundries Drory was the murderer. Superintendent Coulson at once pro The bark Pearl was detained at Gibraltar, in consequence ceeded to Mr. Moore's, and apprehended the prisoner now in cueof striking on the coast of Spain, and the crew refusing to tody. That the murder has been for some time past in contemnproceed in her until surveyed, which had been done, and onion appears evident from a statement made by one of the she would at once leave for her destination, The Hogue) ' farm-labourers of the district, who states that about a week since which left Gibraltar on the lot inst., communicated with he saw Drory sitting on a stile in the seven-acre field, and that he her Majesty's ship Queen, on the 15th ult., off the south -I ! took from his pockets piece of cord, the strength of winch heapeast end of Sardinia, the latter having 70 men sick of thel ' neared to be trying. Upon the person in question coming up he cholera; 25 deaths had taken place. At Vigo, it was reported) horridly returned it to his pocket. The prisoner still adheres to ' the statement lie made when he was appi ehended—that he had that they intended imposing 15 days' quarantine on all vesselg , dot seen the deceased for some time, amid that he knew nothing of from Oporto, and from all other parts of Portugal three dayw i the murder. in consequence of the report of the yellow fever being ' -.....----at Oporto, which, however, is stated not to be the case. I  perfectly I g on tiorl,
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-07-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE CONFESSION OF DR. WEBSTER:  In an extraordinary and thrilling document, Professor Webster has made full confession of his having been guilty of the murder of Dr.:Parkman at Boston. The details which are of great length, were laid before the Boston Council, on the 2d July, by the Rev. Dr. Putman, the spiritual adviser of the condemned criminal. The narrative, which is published in the New-York Herald, of the 3d July, commences by stating— On Tuesday, 29th November, I sent the note to Dr. Parkman, which, it appears, was carried by the boy Maxwell. I handed it to Littlefield unsealed. It was to ask Dr. Parkman to call at my rooms on Friday, the 23d, after my lecture. He had become, of late, very importunate for his pay. He had threatened we with a suit; to put au officer in my house, and to drive me from my professorship, if I did not pay him. The purport of my note was simply to ask the conference. I did not tell him in it what I could do, or what I had to say about the payment. I wished to gain, for those few days, a release from his solicitations, to which I was liable every day, on occasions, and in a manner very disagreeable and alarming, and also to avert for so long a time, at least, the fulfilment of recent threats of severe measures. I did not expect to be able to pay him when Friday should arrive. My pillow was, if he should accede to the proposed interview, to state to him my embarrassments and utter inability to pay him at present—to apologise for those things in my conduct which had offended him —to throw myself upon his mercy—to beg for farther time and Indulgence, for the sake of my family, if not for myself, and to make as good promisee to him as I could have any hope of keeping. I did not hear from him on that day, nor the next (Wednesday), but! found on Thursday he had been abroad in pursuit of me, without finding me. I imagined he had forgotten the appointment, or else did not mean to wait for it. I feared he would come in upon me at my lecture hour, or while I was preparing my experiments for it; therefore, I called at his house on that morning (Friday), between eight and nine o'clock, to remind him of my wish to see him at the College, at half-past one—my lecture °losing at one. I did not stop to talk with him, for I expected the conversation would be a long one, and I had my lecture to prepare, for it was necessary for me to have my time, and, also, to keep my mind free from other exciting matters. Dr. Parkman agreed to call on me as I proposed. He came, accordingly, between half-past one and two o'clock, entering at the lecture-room door. I was engaged in removing some glasses from my lecture-room table, into the room in the rear, called the upper laboratory. He came rapidly down the step, and followed me into the laboratory. He immediately addressed me with great Are 900 ready for me, sir? Have you got the money?"  ' papers from k and also an  letter from Dr. Hossack.
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-12-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND. Troops for Ireland —We have just received information that an order has been forwarded this evening to the Tower, from the Board of Ordnance, directing a troop of artillery to be despatched to Ireland forthwith. The alarming condition of the people in that country, and the frequent recurrence of outrages in many districts, justifies the Executive in taking immediate and strenuous measures for the protection of life and the preservation of the peace. Our accounts, published in another column present a fearful catalogue of murders and robberies; and, from the frightful starvation which is now afflicting the peasantry, there are no lack of incitements to insubordination.—Sun of Saturday. Reduction in the Price of Bread.—On Wednesday morning nearly all the bakers in the locality of Seven Dials and St. Giles 's reduced the price of their bread from sevenpence to , sixpence the four pound loaf—Globe. Great Wheal Martha Mine.—A curious discovery has been 4 made in the mundic of this mine, by analysis of an average & sample, namely, the existence of cobalt, which, with the rill proportion of copper and arsenic, is likely to render this 5.1: hitherto supposed to be useless substance available and valuable. The quantity of mundic at the shallow level is enormous, being from five to six feet wide, of the average , richness of the subjoined analysis, made by P. N. Johnson, ; 6?f Hatton Garden, London :—lron, 27A, arsenic 36A, copper, I A, cobalt, A, sulphur, 17, silica, &c., 16—total, 100. Mrs. Siddons' Statue—The model of this statue is completed, and is to be seen in the studio of the sculptor, Mr. Thomas Campbell. The eminent tragic artress is draped in the ideal style, with a scroll in her hand, and the features are marked by that dignity for which her appearance was so much distinguished. The figure, which is seven feet high, has a commanding effect, and the drapery falls about it with majestic ease. In the same studio may be seen a half figure of Mrs. Siddons, in bas relief. This was executed in compliance with the first project, which was afterwards I abandoned in favour of the whole length figure. It will be recollected that Mr. Macready's name is at the head of the subscription, the object of which is to place in Westminster Abbey a memorial of the actress who, by her transcendent talents and private worth, was the greatest ornament of her profession in this country. -Besides these excellent sculptural portraits of Mrs. Siddons, Mr. Campbell has recently executed a spirited bust of Sir Henry Pottinger, and several other works of much excellence, but of more private interest—Times. Potato Brandy.—Dr. Kane states that potato starch is readily converted into sugar, and this sugar, by fermentation, elds spirit. On the Continent, the manufacture of sugar Trom corn is almest abolished. Potato spirit is almost generally used, and in flavour it so resembles brandy, that it is well known that a large quantity of the French brandy, brought into London, is potato spirit from Hamburg, coloured with burnt sugar.