Glasgow Courier. — 1862-06-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDERER WAISH.—The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of £3OO to any person or persons who shall, within one month, give such information as shall lead to the arrest of James Walsh, who is charged as one of the murderers of Mr Francis Fitzgerald. His Excellency has offered further a reward of £lOO to any person or persons who shall, within six months, give such information as shall lead to the arrest of any one who has, since the murder, knowingly harboured or received, or concealed, or assisted Walsh in eluding justice. DUBLIN, Sunday Evening. —The trial of the prisoner Bohan, charged with firing at Colonel Knox, was resumed yesterday. A great number of witnesses were examined for the defence to prove an alibi. The Solicitor-Genera, in an able speech, replied to the evidence on behalf of the Crown, and declared the defence set up was a conspiracy to defraud the ends of justice. His Lordship having charged the jury, they retired; and after a few minutes deliberation acquitted the prisoner. The verdict was received with immense cheering by the mob. A curious libel case is now at trial. The plaintiff, who is the editor of the Nation newspaper, claims damages from the defendant, the editor of the Irish- i man, for a libel which substantially charged him with being a spy in the pay of the Government for the purpose of connecting himself with the Phcenix Society, and then to betray it. The libel complained of was published in a letter, in the copy of the Irishman, bearing date 25th April, in the present year. The defendant denies that the statement in question was a libel, and alleges that it was but a fair comment on the plaintiff as a public man. The case was resumed on k'riday in the Court of Exchequer, when Mr Rolleston, Q.C., addressed the jury for the defendant. The jury found for the plaintiff, with 6d damages and 6cl costs. The Belfast newspapers report two melancholy events. On Thursday last, in the neighbourhood of Ballynure, a quarrel between two brothers named Hill, who occupied large farms, resulted in the death of one of them. They had been at market, got tipsy together, did not go home till day was breaking, renewed an old dispute on the road, and had a fight about it—the elder brother receiving such injuries from a kick that he died next day.—On Sunday evening as the last train to Belfast was coming up from Greencastle, David Robinson, a clerk in the Belfast Steam Shipping Co.'s office, was observed by persons standing on the platform to kneel down, put his head on the rail, and in a moment he had ceased to live—the advancing train having gone clean over him. A Parliamentary return, obtained on the motion of Mr Stansfield, shows that there are above 500 Presbyterian ministers in Ireland receiving £69 each from the annual Parliamentary grant. The congregational income of the majority of them is under that sum. A return giving particulars of the application of the grant shows that only about one five receives as much as £l9O a year from his gregation. The first two ministers in the list the one £64 a year from a congregation which prises 333 families, and the second £4O a year . a congregation of 224 families. One minister re his congregational income at £9O a year, and number of families belonging to his congregation is 950. A congregation of 2265 persons (450 families) raise £BO a year for their minister, 1500 persons raise £66 a year, 1000 persona £35, and 500 persons £ll 10s.  l