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Glasgow Courier. — 1853-02-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ROBERTSON. Note.— 1. The first point is clearly fixed by the case of Anderson v. the Union Canal, 7th March, 1839, 1 Dunlop, p. 668, and 2d Jan., 1847, Dunlop 9, 402. '2. That decision did not determine the second point as to the construction of the Poor-law Act, which was not thee under consideration of the Court, otherwise the Lord-Ordinary would have felt himself bound to follow it. Ho comieiveikhowever, the meaning of the word railway in the 46th section to be not the mere line of rails, but the whole undertaking as an umins quid. He does not mean to say that the stations might be used for purposes not necessarily connected with the business of th e rail way, such as a large hotel, or that warehouses for stowing goods might be built, and that these should be free from separate assessment. But he considers the station houses, the places where the carriages are kept or cleaned, the booking office, and the like, to be as much a part of the railway, in the sense of this sta as the line of the road itself. Tffie view is much 4by the in the defenders clause in the  also by the same Act. The for trial of this ease—pre' Cowan, and Lord the bar, charged with Saturday or Sun...ter, 1852 while on or situated between sr, in the parish of assaulted the now or lately before tacks' did, with a stone, or 'or unknown, inhead, ,and  imirder, as allto robbery, in day, the ath or Irth day of or near the anrnpike road Cleekhimin and Cleekhimi Lauder' he feiottionsly atta deceased Andrew Mather, man of Cleekliimin some ^ 'I instrument, to , diet severe blows on  riViSu-t _ neck, and other parte of his person, and maltreated and abused him to the great effusion of his blood ; by all of which the said Andrew Mather soon died, and was thus murdered by him. There was also an alternative charge of the theft of a tobacco-boa,• an uff-box, and &tobacco pin. A number of witnessed having been examined, The Jury, after about an hours' deliberation, returned a verdict, lading, by a large majority, the prisoner guilty of murder as libelled. The Lord Justice-Clerk, after a suitable admonition, assumed the black rap, and sentenced the panel to be executed at Greenlee, on the nth March, betwixt the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock. The unfortunateerienualleft the bar without evincing the least emotion. us is about 26 years of age.  r imeric 1110111)&11. -.y tor th, trial o Intake-Clerk, ,Lord plaoed sot s " i..... so aims of mbar, dl or e Malin 90 -bar, _ attacks,' and, digging., , ler, then or this being ... -bar, and , *aeon. Mows that _ ..0 boon at work at Melbourne, l other . the prosecutor 4 ilifiells 00104 fallawfwelfogiet teeammeeieet capitall • the , .n respect t.. . several se. . mows on or about the Lad, face,. ,ittrit. to the dines" Aft Itseseethee game get_ iso_tht of , _,aam-taielg tip, aroooo t9f Ana, o of his and with a knife, o. ebeerd 01 e-Averie,-Mettlertierge-twer Mt et ii .11110.1"a".401M1.14 ath* 4. the annual value of the ,rallwar must be ta nto nakther about Use false, ea nd ' • which- • year with .. . otlfarwise of'
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-03-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—I understand from respectable authority that the Russians have entered Bucharest, but I am not able to-day to procure any positive details. The Union pretends to have received assurance of despatches having reached the Turkish embassy, with an account of the settlement of the difference with Russia by the acceptance of the conditions contained in the note presented by Prince Menschikoff, The Union has been misinformed, for no such despatches have been received. With respect to the rumour of last evening that the Russians had entered Bucharest, lam bound to admit that it does not seem to have arrested public attention ; nevertheless, it is said to have been warranted on something like authority, for the gentleman who is represented to have declared that he had knowledge of the fact, fills an important official situation in connexion with the Russian interests. Although the funds have recovered firmness, there still exists much perplexity in the public mind on the subject of the question which has sprung up at Constantinople, and account. from that quarter are looked for with anxiety. That the French fleet has put to sea can hardly be doubted, in face of the following note in the Moniteur The Presse, on the authority of a Marseilles journal, has stated that the French sqnadron had received orders to get ready for sea two days before the publication of the note inserted on Sunday lint in the Moniteur. These journals are mistaken; the order alluded to did not leave Paris until the evening of Saturday, and did not reach Toulon until Sunday morning. In 36 hours after the receipt of the dispatch the squadron had put out to sea.' The court-martial of the Ist Military Division commenced to-day the trial of Perichard, a wine-shop keeper, on a charge of murdering the Archbishop of Paris during the riots of 1848. It had been long rumoured that this man had been the person who committed the act, but the police could not for a long time get sufficient proofs to commence proceedings against him ; but latterly he has been so much taunted with it by the people in the neighbourhood that he got exasperated, and brought some of the most forward of his accusers before the Commissary of Police. There, however, the tables were turned on him, and the men he had brought before the Commissary were so positive in their denunciations that Perichard was ultimately arrested. The examination of the witnesses had not commenced at the departure of the wilier, In hie examinetioa he denied the 'rime lel puled to him, but joes not deny that he took part ho the insurrection, although his presence there was, he says, involuntary, and was compelled by the insurgents to lend them the utensils necessary for casting the halls. PAULIN Tti DI Y. —The Moniteur of to-day announces the presentation to the Emperor of the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Cruzeiros, accompanied by a letter, from the Emperor of Brazils.
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-11-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SHOCKING OCCCHRENCE AT KIRK LISTON.-011 Monday morning, the 14th instant, while some of the inmates of a gentleman's house in Kirkliston were trying to light the kitchen fire—which could not be got to kindle—several portions of a child's body, halfconsumed, turned up. Only one yoeng woman, named Janet Gibson, about twenty-two years of age, who had come home as a servant a few days previously, was then living in the house. Suspicion naturally fell upon her; and it would appear, from the investigation since made, that she had given birth to a female child (said to be still-born), early on the Sunday morning, and had kept it beside her till night, when she put it into the kitchen-fire (a large one), in the expectation that it would be consumed before morning. Gibson had no appearance of being with child, and told no one that she was so. She has, or course, been taken into custody, and committed to Linlithgow prison, to await her trial, either for child murder or concealment of pregnancy.—Falkirk Herald.  Mataose—htroarsxr CasE.—A case of some im. portance to farmers and dealers was lately decided before the Sheriff Court here. Alex. Lee, at Torsonce Mill, brought an action of damages against William Cairns and William Douglas, both at Galashiels, for loss and damage sustained by him to the extent of £6, through the failure of the defenders to deliver twenty bolls of potatoes, alleged to be purchased from them at Stow on the Ist October last, at 160 per Lothian boll. In bar of the action it was pled for the defenders that, under the acts regulating the imperial weights and measures, such a transaction as the present, whicn was founded entirely on a local measure, could not be enforced at law, as being in direct violation of the acts of Parliament. After hearing the case for the pursuer, the Sheriff dismissed the action, sanctioning thereby the doctrine contended for by the defenders, that no bargain or sale, except such as are founded on the imperial weights and measures, can be enforced at law.—Kelso Chronicle.  RAILWAY CASE —The cans of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Company against the Scottish Central Railway Company was heard in the Second Division of the Court of Session on Tuesday. This is an action of declarator to have it found and declared that the pursuers are entitled to form a lunedon with the Scottish Central Railway, at or near the gas-works in Stirling, which has arisen in consequence of the defenders having obtained several interim interdicts preventing them from completing works which they had set agoing for the formation of this junction. For the Scottish Central, it is averred that the junction in question would, if carried into effect, be a material interference with the traffic on the line, and with the arrangement and management of the station at Stirling, and cause great loss and inconvenience to them. On the other hand, the pursuers consider this junction as essential to the proper use of their line in its communication with the railways to the north. The farther hearing of the case was adjourned.
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-03-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF A MOTHER BY HER SON.  On Thursday last a dreadful murder was discovered to have been perpetrated on the person of Sarah Webster, a widow woman, 67 years of age, who, it appeared, had taken up her abode with her illegitimate son, John King, a farm labourer, of Scotherne near Lincoln, since Sonday,-the 21.0 t ulthrin. The tiorfortunate deceased was well known at Lincoln, where she had resided during the last 20 years, the greater part of which period she has kept a house of ill-fame, where her daughters resided with her in a state of prostitution. She was married some time after the birth of the prisoner, and had several children by her husband, whose name was Webster. It appears the prisoner has been subject to fits, and that he had one lately. He is a married man, end has a son 12 years of age, and a daughter 17. Rs has been ill a considerable period, but continued to go out to work up to Tuesday, the 15th ultimo, when he had two fits in the field, and laid in the snow while the fits continued. His wife, who goes out to work, sent for her husband's mother to take care of him during her (the wife's) absence. The prisoner was rambling all day on Sunday, and towards evening application was made to Mr. William Chambers, overseer of the poor of Scotherne, who went to see the prisoner, and ordered a man to sit up with him all night. The overseer then paid the man, and did not trouble himself any more about the matter, nor was he informed of any farther particulars until he heard of the murder. On Wednesday King struck his mother a blow on the stomach, as she was giving him some tea, and from that time she appeared frightened of him. On Thursday she was left alone with him, his daughter, wife, and neigh boors having goes to a funeral in the village. neighbour 4ittng next door to King was reg boom fear °Polack, when King ap.at the wines* and beckoned to her. As she approached he put out his hands and said, 'Come on-Ire ready for yeti again.' On entering the house she discovered the, unfortunate woman weltering in her blood. Elise was in a Atli, and her head was hanOng down on her aregtobe *as Weeding from the month and face. The adEltheeeseeeu lime to the spot, and found the deesered gelheleett. It is 'apposed that King had boatels hteuethirelith hfe fiat over the head and face; that she fell ow the edge ef the chair, breaking her jaw bone in the cestre, as the blood had spirted through the spindles of the chair on the wall near the window. King was immediately conveyed to Lincoln Castle. The prisoner's right hand was covered with blood, and he appeared quite insane. An inquest on view of the murdered woman was held, when a verdict of wilful murder' against King was returned.—Lincolnshire Times. _
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-09-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERIES AND OCCURRENCES.  Several robberies having been committed from the luggage trains on the Eastern Counties Railway, on their way from the terminus at Shoreditch to the different stations along the line, considerable mystery prevailed among the officials and servants of the company how the various missing articles could be abstracted from the vans, and the only solution was that as the trains, which do not proceed at a very rapid speed, were in motion, the depredator, or depredators, jumped on the train from either side of the line. The ground for this opinion also obtained corroboration from the circumstance that packages have been found on different parts of the line, and which, it is supposed, had been thrown by a person on the train. In order to detect the thief a inan was placed concealed in one of the vans, who proceeded for several nights with the train. On one of these journeys the guard was suddenly alarmed by finding that a man had jumped alongside of him, and who had evidently, after running some distance, leaped from the line into the vehicle. The guard secured hold of the man, who, not expecting to meet with Such a visitor, called out ' Murder,' but his cries were not heard by the engine driver or the other guard. When the train stopped at Chelmsford the man was given into custody, and he was tried and convicted at the last county sessions. The man confessed that he had been in the habit of springing into the vans of luggage trains, when he flung out packages at spots which were agreed upon between him and his confederates, and that when the train reached the station he contrived to escape. There is no doubt but that the same system of robbery is practised on other lines to a great extent. As it was supposed that the practice still continued some time since, Inspector Gain (who was an active officer of the II Division), who is attached to the goods station of the Eastern Counties Railway, Shoreditch, endeavoured to apprehend the confederates of any no who might be in the vans. Late at night he and a policeman of the company were walking by the side of the line, near the Temple Mills, Tottenham, when they observed some packages on the marshes. After they were there a few minutes three men came up, among whom a dispute arose about the spot where they expected to find the booty. They at length found the property, when on going to it the inspector dashed among them, followed by the constable; they all quickly ran away. 'The man pursued by the inspector ran away at his utmost speed, and flung himself into the river Lea. The inspector followed and overtook him; a struggle took place in the water, daring which the man got sinsy, and reached the bank. The inspector pursued hint there, when, being closely pressed, lie egain jumped into the Lea, followed by Mr. Goring, who lost sight of him suddenly. It is supposed he is drowned.
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-04-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LORD-CHANCELLOR said their Lordships would not trouble the Solicitor-General to reply. His Lordship then went through the facts of the case, and concluded by moving that the interlocutor be reversed, that the exception be repelled, and that the case be remitted back to the Court below, with instructions to that Court to find the appellant entitled to the costs carried by the exceptions which had been tendered by the respondents. Judgment accordingly.  in the earth. If gold is found at the bottom of the hole, we drive with a pick several feet under ground, and oriels our stuff in the cradle; it is very uncertain shout these diggings, and dishearteningsehen you come to the bottom and get nothing. The heat there was alarming. and I found I would have to give it up. I returned back, and called at Forest Creek, Mount Alexander, to see a Dr. Murray, shipmate of mine; he conduets a store there, no you see what people have to turn to in this colony. I got in a store for near a fortnight at 10e per day, while my shipmate was ill, so when he got better f had to leave. While there I buried a shipmate of mine, a Dr. Dobson, of Leigh, Lancashire; poor fellow, he died of dysentery, caused by the bad water he has left a wife and seven children so deplore his loss ; they are in England. Mr. Murray and myself went to the funeral, and I was requested to read the funeral service over him, whichl did. It is rather strange, two intimate companions on 'board of ship, and went to the diggings together, are now numbered with the dead, Iying side by side. The other gentleman is a Mr. Binds, from Manchester; he carried on business there; he has left a wife and five children. Three of our passengers di ed in oneweek,all of dysentery, at Forest Creek; the water is fit to kill anyone, sometimes as thick as mud; several of our passengers have died here; the climate in very trying; tam thankful lam pretty well at present, and am again in Melbourne. I. have never met one from the old country that likes this place; what with the danger of being murdered by the bush-rangers, Nero think nothing of sticking people In day-light. The murders are very numerous here, and of a frightful nature. Many of our passengers havegone back to England again, heartily disgusted with this place. Ilouse-rent is enormous here; you have to pay from three to four pounds a-week for a wooden house with three rooms in it, and when it rains you almost get Hooded out. Ever)thing is dear; bread was in a pound a few weeks ago, but it is cooling down now; this is our summer here now. Christmas.day was a roasting day; the sun was awful.  Dear Brother, I intend once more to try my luck at the dining', and expect to go next week to the Oven,; it is turning out better; the best of the diggings is all worked up at the other placea; it is a complete tottery, many blanks.  , alluded _ . proper , delpibio.--__ _. the explanation h. Leapt* that the ,allechere killtadheie tii the opinitfna 1 which they recorded in the d -oi of the Free Church Assembly in " ' bill containing such securities character ancls,dhing of the I t g
Glasgow Courier. — 1853-05-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BILFORR LORD COWAN.  Jane Campbell, who was charged with eight acts of theft from warehouses ftdm which she had got goods and pawned them, was convicted, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. Andrew Strathern was charged with opening a lockfast place in Greenock, and stealing therefrom ten loaves of bread and two bags of meal, aggravated by being sit times previously convicted; pled guilty, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. • -  Mary Johnston pleaded guilty to along series of thefts from railway stations—the same Mary Johnston being the person lately called the lady thief. She was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. - - - - - - • •  Margaret Crawford, James Crawford, and Rose Ann Virtue or Crawford, charged with theft and previous conviction, as also reset of theft. Margaret and James pled Kuilty. Rose not guilty. Margaret was sentenced to eighteen, and James to twelve months imprisonment. William Anderson was found guilty of • garotte case, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. James Walker was found guilty of robbing a mason of a guard-chain, while M Trongate, on the 2d of January last, and sentenced to ten years' transportation, there being no previous conviction charged. James Madden, charged with stealing from a man in Paisley, on the ad of January last, a coat, was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Robert Scarlet was charged with assault and robbery, in so far as he did assault and rob Robert Anderson of a muffler and a cap 6n the 21st day of March last. After along trial, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of the assault only, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Edward Rooney and Robert Johnstone were found guilty of drugging an old man on the Rutfierglen Road, and robbing him of his apparel. They were found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. George Marr was next placed atthe bar, charged with assault, by stabbing or cutting, to the effusion of blood, injury of the person, and danger of life, in so far as, on the 11th day of December, 185'2, within the premises, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow, occupied by the firm of MacGeorge and Kerr. wine merchants, he did assault Thos. M'Connochie, clerk to the said firm, and with a knife or other sharp instrnment stab Thomas M'Connochie in the left side, to the serious injury of his person and danger of life, with intent to murder or maim, disfigure or disable, the said Thomas M'Connochie. The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Alex. 51'Neille, pled not guilty, and the case went to trial. After an examination of witnesses, the jury, by a majority, returned with a verdict finding the prisoner guilty of cutting or stabbing to the effusion of blood and injury of the person. Sentence delayed. Hugh Cairny pled guilty to stealing a number of wrights' tools, and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with six months' labour. Catherine M'ltean or Elizabeth Wardrop, was found guilty of the theft of some pieces of carpets, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation.