Glasgow Courier. — 1864-03-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GLASGOW COURIER, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1864.  retaAttl.  The Freeman's Journal states that the vacant rib, bon on the order of St Patrick has been conferred on Lord Lurgan. The grand jury at the. Fermanagh Assizes have found a true bill against the Rev. Mr M`Loughlin for aiding in the celebration of a marriage between Peterson and Miss Quinton.  Mr Maxwell Close,-M. P. , for the county of Armagh, has announced his intention of retiring from the representation, "domestic circumstances rendering it impossible for him to devote the necessary time and attention to his political duties." His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin was installed last week as Bishop of Kildare, in the Cathedral Church of St 13rigid, Kildare, a venerable edifice erected about 1684, and restored in 1817 by Dean Trench, a relative of the present Archbishop. A sub-inspector of police at Dundrum has been reprimanded and removed to another station for refusing a Roman Catholic priest admission to the death-bed of a constable who, although previously a Protestant, had desired the ministrations of a priest. The notorious Father Lavelle has been compelled by the Pope to retract some of his violent harangues and writings, and apologise for doing certain acts offensive to his ecclesiastical superiors. The charges against him were preferred by Dr Cullen and others. We regret to learn that Robert Thomas Quinton, a clerk in the Cookstown branch of the Ulster Banking Company, has absconded, taking with him from £3OO to £4OO. We understand the police are on the alert for his apprehension, as it is supposed he is still in the country. _ _  The Electiic and International Telegraph Company obtained leave from the Grand jury of the County Down to lay wires along the high road. The agent of the company stated that they were going to carry their line to the seaboard, and thence across to the Scottish coast.  The spring seems likely to be late, as there has been severe weather for several weeks, and vegetation is unusually backward. Nevertheless the  farmers consider the ground all the better for a good spell of frost and sno* in winter, though they would prefer it should come before March. The O'Connell National Monument Committee have published a lugubrious appeal to the people of Ireland. After two long years of begging through the columns of the press, at chapel doors, and in. every other way they could imagine, they now confess that "up to the present time the funds at their disposal are miserably insufficient"— Times. In the course of last week two broadsheets were posted on the gates and doors of Roman Catholic churches in Dublin. Both are signed •` Sacerdos ;" one is headed "Letters of his Holiness Pius IX. on the American War," and the other "Letters of John Mitchell, William Smith O'Brien, John Martin, and `Sacerdos' on the American War." Their object is to discourage Federal enlistments.  At the Mayo Assizes, a woman, about forty years of age, has been convicted of murder, and sentenced by Baron Hughes to be hanged on the sth April. Her victim was a poor dressmaker, whom she accused of having set fire to her turf. The prisoner Bridget O'Neill (who was armed with a reaping-hook); met Bridget Richards in a field and there murdered her. No one saw the fatal blow struck, but the circumstantial evidence, given by eighteen witnesses, left no doubt of her guilt. , At the Cork Assizes on Monday, before Mr Justice Keogh, six men were put forward and indicted for that they did at Queenstown, without license from her Majesty, agree to enlist and enter service as sailors on board the Kearsage, the same being an American ship of war, contrary to the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act. The prisoners all pleaded guilty. They entered into their own securities to appear for judgment when called on, and were released from custody.  It is stated that a highlir interesting breach of promise of marriage case will occupy the attention of the City Record Court during the ensuing Assizes. The plaintiff is a widow lady residing in this city, of great personal attractions, and the defendant is a county gentleman, brother to a late important county official. Damages have been, it is said, laid at £2OOO. We are informed that the leading members of the Munster Bar have been retained in the action, and that Mr Whiteside, Q.C., has been specially retained for the fair plaintiff. The case has excited great interest in the city.—Cork Examiner.