Glasgow Courier. — 1846-03-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO. Mr. James, one of the creditors, has been sent out to Bombay, to look into their affairs. Several houses in Liverpool have been brought down by the failure of Stockdale & Co., and others are expected. The home trade is very flat, and the demand generally for finished goods is exceedingly limited.—Manchester Examiner. The Low Moor Iron Company of Yorkshire are busily engaged in casting cannon of considerable calibre. The guardians of the Westbury-upon-Severn Union advertise for a schoolmaster, and offer him eight shillings a week, with such provisions as the house affords! No wonder that the schoolmaster should be abroad. A brace of pheasants were lately killed in the parish of Pradwell, near Coggeshall, Essex, the crop of one of which contained 736 grains of wheat and barley, the other 928 grains, besides other small seeds. A correspondent of the Sun, who has tried them, suggests that common horse (or Heligoland) beans would make an excellent substitute for potatoes, if dressed in the same way in which the French and Italians dress the small white bean so commonly used in the south of Europe. They are exceedingly nutritious, and keep well, dried. A Man Convicted of the Murder of his Wife.—At the assizes at Reading, on the 4th inst., William Spicer was tried and convicted of the murder of his wife on the Bth of August last. The evidence went to prove that the prisoner and the , deceased had quarrelled, and that the prisoner struck her ' two very violent blows, and then seized her in his arms, and dashed her down the cellar stairs, by which her neck was , broken. Mr. Baron Platt sentenced the prisoner to death,l without hope of mercy. Old Tenantry.—There is now residing on a small farm at Thornhill, under the Earl of Scarbro', a family of the name of Benson, who have been occupiers from three hundred to four hundred years. The present tenant is the ninth Thomas, in succession, his predecessors all living to a very old age.—Leeds Mercury. A Singular Character—The Brussels Gazette announces the death of the widow Pappaert, in that city, leaving property to the amount of 509,000 francs: —" Died on the 24 March the philosophic millionnaire known to all Brussels by the name of the Zwerte-Madame (Blach lady), and for the contempt she affected to have for riches; this singular character bad for years occupied apartments in the ancient Silversmith's Hall, about to be demolished for the new passage of St. Hubert. She had Often been heard to say, when informed that it was about to be delivered over to its demolishers, 'to leave my dear residence will be death to me.' Scarcely had she been installed in her new lodging before she was attacked with an affection of the lungs and died. She was a remarkably intelligent woman, but a great misanthropist. Her only daughter, who is married to a diplomatic Hollander, has been sent for to inherit this fortune, with the exception of a few legacies of little importance stipulated in her very remarkable will." A Belgian savant has, it is stated, just discovered that electric light, directed on the human body, makes it so diaphonous as to enable the arteries, veins and nerves, to be seen at work, and their action to be studied.