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Glasgow Courier. — 1858-06-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLISH SHIPS. Front Shanghai we have another instance of the imprudence of employing Chinese as the crew of an English vessel. The well-known country brig Gallant was lying below Woosung on the night of the 30th ult., waiting for daylight to proceed to sea on a voyage to Siam. But one Lascar was on deck, when a boat came alongside filled with Chinese. These were warned by the Lascar to keep off, and they would have been kept off, no doubt, but for the treachery of the carpenter, who, coming aft as he heard his comrades in the boat arrive, with a blow of his ale felled the poor man to the deck. Hearing the noise, the captain and mate both rushed from the cabin, and would appear to have been struck down instantly by the same murderous hand; for when discovered they were both dead in front of the door. This effected, the wretches proceeded deliberately to batten the European and Lascar portions of the crew under hatches, and thin to plunder. 'The work finished, , they pushed off in one of the ship's boats, taking with them some ItlB,ooo in specie, and all the valuables they could lay their hands on. Having liberated themselves from durance the crew lost no time in getting the brig under way, and dropping down to the United States steam frigate Minnesota, at no great distance off. Nest day her Majesty's gunboat Slimes, with two of the crew of the Gallant, proceeded on a cruise after the Chinese portion of the Gallant's crew, viz., the carpenter and six Canton men, who, it appears, with a blindness which can hardly be accounted for, did not get very far away with their booty. By neat steamer they may be aeon in Hong Kong, and soon after, we trust, hanging at • gallows, Mr More, the murdered master of the Gallant, was well known in these waters. The Levier, it should be stated, only lived • few hours after furnishing the principal particulars here recounted.—Friend of China, April 10. - Btu. ArrzcriNG BANKtI.—A bill has been at into the House of Commons, which, if carepassed, may, it is conceived, prejudice most tent interests. It is to amend the Joint Companies Acts 1856 and 1857, and the Joint Banking Companies Act 1857! It proposes .o restrain creditors from taking any legal proceedings against a company for the winding up of which an qrder shall have been made, or against any of its members • and to give to the liquidators the widest powers of compromising all claihm agelngt the contributories or debtors without reference to the creditors of the insolvent concern. It also proposes to repeal the section of the sot of 1856 which saves ths eights of the creditors... Time Cit 7 Arad..  Naw brought lassly pas import ant Stock I Stook to r _ prices months. _he saln market closing weak. _ barrel $3 00c; State, extra brands Michigan, fancy brands $3 900 to brands $4 to $4 50; Ohio, fair anti Ohio, good and choice extra brands. gout and brands, $5 to $6; five cents lo 200. The all over • under
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-11-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LORD ADVOCATE—No other person saw him kindest friend he had on earth, and that he thought he there besides myself, my mother, and brother. After the had done his duty. That struck me as a very rnadlike attack weut off he appeared to get quite well. He after- ?peach. I have heard him say at intervals in the cell— wards went a voyage, and remained away a year and a -- On Christ, save us! Oh God, save us !" I have known half. He returned before thislast tinsel have mentioned Murraynce he was a boy. He was a very quiet lad. i'. Wilson Brown, schoolmaster, deponed that the He returned in Feb., 1858. He was pretty well then. He We was quite well. I did not observe anything wrong with him. He remained at home till April. During that prisoner told him that satan had tempted him to murder his grandmother. He also said that he had often time he was in good health, and steady in his habits, contemplated takinghis own life When I found he was in this state in August last, I nig. rrisoner seemed like one in a dream. grated to my mother on Friday night that he should James Hawkins, constable at the Bridge of Earn, deponed having found the prisoner in the cell when he sleep in her bedroom, which was the back room. I ared that I should remain in the room with him all returned home on Saturday night. night. This was in consequence of my John Duncan, Superinfendeet of the Sailors' Home, being afraid that Greenock, deponed to the prisoner having lodged in the something like the previous attack was to come on Home in April and August last. He was much the him. My mother wee to sleep on the sofa in the par- Home of drink for some days in August. He was sober, lour. This was agreed to, and carried out. During however, from the Tuesday night. While he was the. that night he was very restless. He went to bed. and remained in it, but I don't think he slept much, worse of liquor he was considerably excited. On Hon-1 sat up the most of the night. There was not anday he was more dejected, became more melancholy on other bed in the room. I did not go to best at an. Wednesday, and on Thursday that was rather increased. He used to the room by himself for a considerable I did not speak to him at all. He rose next morning about eight o'clock. He got breakfast in the bearcorn, time and to sit in the corner very melancholy and deHe undressed to go to bed. He slid not dress himself 4ecteA-like, with his cap covering his eyes. I hart a strong entirely when he got up. He went about with his impress ion that it was a development of insanity through drik. When miser he deared to go home, and spoke trousers, a shirt and stockings on, but no coat or shoes. After breakfast he remained in his bedroom. Ile did yreply to the
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-04-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NANA SAIIIB.-A letter fr p • om oonab describes Rev J G Bendier, resigned. character.-Standard. will be recollected that the noble Earl formerly held 25 25 Stock 100 Monkland Railways llB Do. 6 per cent. guar 30 1 tion of the question of the Danish duchies. some of the machinations of Nana Sahib. It says:- Brevet. this high office. - 25 25 Do. 6 per cent. guar 25 1 A Berlin letter,in the Hamburg News, says;-' The 'The two Ranees (or Princesses) of Setters have Col H Y Wortham, retired full pay, Royal Engineers, T4ll.olis' Duzz.-The mania for duelling is ex- COLLIERS' WAacs.-There is at resent a rumour Stock 100 North British 62 medical advisers of the King have ordered a change been taken prisoners and sent to Bombay, charged to be Major General, the rank being houorary only. tending on the Continent to the lower orders. At of the colliers' wa ' ' ' P • ges in this nemghbourhood being Stock 100 Do. Preference North Eastern, viz. •of residence in the course of the summer. His Ma- with treason; and a few days since the Regent, or Lieut. col T A ',wee., CB, retired full pay, Royal Kander, in Denmark, two tailors haying quarrelled, reduced to 3s per day. The masters, however, have Stock 100 Berwick Capital Stock 91 I jetty is to proceed to Zapport, near Dantzic, for sea principal native Governor of Sattara, has been taken Engineers, to be Col, the rank being htmorary only. insisted upon ' the satisfaction of a gentleman.' T - hey not yet given intimation of the reduction to their Stock 100 York Capital Stook bathing.' Prisoner on a similar charge. It has been discovered Brevet Lieut Col 11J 35 Gregory, late of the ad West fought with muskets, and at the &et fire one of the workmen. The price of coals was lowered on Mon- Stock 100 Leeds Capital Stock.— 47 RelElB I A . trom documents found in his possession that he had India Regiment, te be Col in the army. champions fell. The other ran off, thinking he had day last at the • pithead, which is regarded as a Stock 100 Stock 100 Scottish Central. Do. Preference lO4 a ' killed his man whereu on the other like Bob Acre There exists a CODIiDUOUS water way by rivers and been in direct correspondence with Nana Sahib, and Lieut Col Elt Jeffreys, of a Depot Battalion, having .. , p , , , precursor of a reduction in the prioe of labour.-Ayr Scot. North-Eastern, vie., canals between the Black Sea and the Danube, Rhine, that regular pieta had been laid for murdering all the completed three years' actual service in the rank of Limit rose to his feet. He had tumbled down from fright. Observer. Stock 100 Aberdeen Cied. Stock 27 . Do. Debenture Stook 87 I Seine, and the ocean at Havre. A. similar junction European inhabitants of Poonah and Sattara. When Col, to be Col is the army, under the royal warrant of 'lt is understood,' says the Malta Times, ' that Tan
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-07-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BRUSH WITH TRH HOHILLL/S.  It was not my first sight of the Rohilla horsemen, but I confess I watched with great Interest the aspect of these wild cavaliers, and I could have almost admired their aspect as, like leaves careering in the autumn breeze, they whirled in light eddies along our front, if I had not known that among them were the cruel assassins of the 12th Cavalry, and the troopers of other corps equally false, cruel, and murderous; but for the most part they seemed very well mounted. The Rohillas are a nation of horsemen; the native stock of the country is crossed with Arabs and with stud bred horses, and some of the chargers on the field seemed models of symmetry. Although the great bulk of the cavalry wheeled round and round, as if to avoid the shot which ploughed up long lanes along the ridge in our front, and searched out the mango topes, small bodies froto time... time rode down towards us, almost within musket r.inge, as If to examine OUT position. In their last attack upon our position the other day a small body of them rode right up to our gone, De Kantzow songht to lead his men against then; but he was oot well supported- He rode forward, however, almost alone, and encountered the leader of the enemy; his pistol I missed, and he Instantly received two severe cuts, one across the face, and another which severed the flesh fro n his elbow to his wrist. The Rohilla rode forward, struck the gun with his sword over the muzzle, as if claiming It for his own, and was shot dead there, as he stood, Galling on his followers to come on. With somewhat similar spirit a few of the enemy to-day congregated I round a tree, which again and again was covered with dust from the shot of our 18-poundors. But they held their own with persistency. It is said, indeed, that the Moulrie and Farm Shah, both of whom were in the field to-day, aro gallant and desperate men, and that our task would not be easy if their followers partook of their spirit. The Moulvie is described an, tall, lean,and muscular man, with lantern jaws, long thin lips, high aquiline nose, deep set large dark eyes, beetle brows, long beard, and coarse black hair falling in masses over his shoulders. Feroze Shah is said to be a handsome, but sinister-looking man, of a fine person, and is reputed to be a moat admirable horseman. The old Khan Baba. door Khan, was present at the first, and some of the natives say that the Begum herself was a spectator of the day's proceedings. It is probable enough that the enemy were merely acting on the defensive. However, when these demonstrations on our left were encountered by the fire of our heavy artillery and field battery, they directed their attention to the right. They opened their guns from several topes, and caused some casualties among Tombs's artillery. SIR cnxix
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-04-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  FRANCE. The Emperor rode on horseback on Saturday, and went to visit the new Boulevard de Sebastopol. The crowd of workmen, masons, and stonecutters, engaged in building the houses of the new thoroughfare, crowded round his Majesty, and cheered him most lustily. The Emperor went home through the heart of the city. In the Rue de la Ferronerie lam told his Majesty reined in his horse and stood for some tins. rooking at the bust of Henri Quatro, which is fixed up in the front of a house exactly opposite the spot where be was murdered by Ravaillan. Late events must have occurred to his mind as he gazed upon it, and ho could hardly avoid reflecting oa what might have been the fate of France had he met with his Ravelllan on the 141 h of last January.—  I of  Correspondent of Standard. The Paris papers are furious at D'lsraeli's taking the same view of the Suez project as did Lord Palmerston. You need not be told what is time sterling reason that influences the disappointed writers; but your correspondent was on board that Tyne frigate in 1842, in autumn weather, 20 miles off the coast where the proposed entrance into this canal is fixed, and he well recollects the nervous anxiety of Captain Glaseoek, R.N., the constant use of the lead night and day, and an alarm as deep as if the ship was on the edge of the Goodwin Sands. In winter he would give that bhore a much wider berth; and this has been the nature of the Pelusium Gulf since the days of Pharaoh.—Correspondent of Globe. A decree, inserted in the Moniteur, grants full and partial pardons to some 50 individuals condemned to various terms of imprisonment, for various offences against persons and property; none of them were political delinquents. The preliminary examinations into the late eat I break at Chalons are almost concluded. It is said , that seven individuals will be sent before the next assizes of tbe Saone.et-Loire, at which M. Delacuisine will preside. The prosecution will be supported by . the Procureur-General. The trial, it is expected, will lead to some serious disclosures relative to  k. secret societies, particularly on that of the Marianne, Orders have been given to all officers and privates o the artillery at present en semestre (six months, furlough) to join their corps without delay. Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, on assuming his - command at Tours, has published the following order : of the day:— Soldiers—The Emperor has appointed me to the empreme command of the western divisions. My mission is to watch over your instruction, your wellbeing, and to maintain in this district that peace and tranquillity which were so happily strengthened by our last victories in the Crimea and the Baltic. You made no default in the face of the enemy, and I rely upon you to reduce the anarchists if they should ever dare to rise against the Emperor's government, or the hereditary right of the Imperial Prince. We can . only have one thought, one cry, , Vive la France!' 41 . Viva l'Empereur !'
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-02-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MEXICO.  'Before  the merits of the bill introduced we will wait until it has passed dut we may declare at present _ es not strike at the root or the red be utterly destroyed, it proves the t government towards France, satisfaction to the legitimate -I inspired here by the attempt  -etore judging , i Lord Palmerston, , A 'second reading. But that, hi fot,l,tgeht bill t o dbo:surt t e , wood will of the English government vid its desire to give satisfactieSentiment of indignation i,'' -Of the 14th Janaary.' it is difficult, without being taxed with exaggeration, to give you an idea of the dissatisfaction created :here by the lame and incomplete measure which Lord Palmerston has laid before Parliament. What the French government, and indeed the French station, require, is some measure for preventing the foreign refugees for conspiring against the life of the lEmperor, and this the Conspiracy to Murder Bill seems, in the eyes of all classes here wholly unable ,to accomplish. The government of the Emperor, "however, is determined to give her Majesty's ministars every opportunity to redeem their mistake; at ' the same time, the tone of the despatches which ,lare been laid before Parliament conclusively prove , the change of feeling which has taken place in the ' intercourse between the two governments. The - ' of a reward being offered for the capture of pronounced here as positively burlesque, ; shown, at the trial of Bart°, illi mi the clearest evidence, to .gain, ' Majesty's life, and who .., no r- , be implicated in the ,c, is s pursue his nefarious without e. fall in ' France  - - The New York Herald thus sums up the position of affairs in Mexico, as shown by the full details of the latest news:— General Comonfort has receded from the plain of T acubaya, and, uniting with the Liberals, has placed himself at the head of the army to operate against the reactionists, who have proclaimed Santa Anna. By this move Chief Justice Jurarez becomes president of the country, and as the enemy are in partial possession of the city of Mexico, the govern. merit is to be transferred to Celago, a city between Queretaro and Guanajuato, famous for being the place where Iturbide raised the cry of independence which drove out the Spaniards. As the clergy are at the bottom of the reaction, the Liberal party is prepared to issue a general decree of ' conti.cation against the Church property as soon as it shall have put down the Santanistas. In the meantime the parties are going to fight it out iu the city of Mexico having made a comfortable arrangement to haves three hours truce every morning, to enable every one to go to market. Some of the brigand leader, had already come into the capital to take part in the game, and laid joined the Santa Anna party; while forces from the north and from Puebla are said to be on their way to assist the Liberals. Vera Cruz, in the meanwhile, is determined not to let Santa Anna in, and so his friends have issued a plan of salvation' from Havanna, the amount of which is that the nation calls him back to reorganise the country just as he pleases.'  ft IL E It .
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-04-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the prosecution was commenced under the late government—(' No,' from Sir R. Bethell)—he repeated that the prosecution commenced under the late government. The late government adopted that course which it was their duty to adopt, and which, if they had hesitated to adopt, would have exposed them to just censure and animadversion. Certain circumstances had come to the knowledge of the advisers of the Crown which, on their opinion, rendered it expedient to put the facts in course of inquiry, and submit such facts in the due and ordinary course of law to a magistrate of the metropolis. Counsel on the part of the Crown —also in the time of the late govenment—attended before the magistrate, and in the course of the , prooeeding, as evidence accumulated upon evidence, the ' case assumed a form which led the learned counsel who appeared for the Crown, and the magistrate before whom the case had been put in course of inquiry, to think that ! it was the duty of the magistrate to commit the prisoner for trial upon the capital charge. The moment that took place the case came under the consideration of the present government. The ease for the prosecution was carried on in strict uniformity to the law and reinstitution, and it had now been brought to a conclusion. Dr. Bernard was put upon his trial under circumstances, to say the least, of strong suspicion that he had been a party to • great crime, attended with most calamitous I consequences, committed in the city of Paris. He had been acquitted by a jury. It would not become him to comment upon that verdict; but since the verdict had been pronounced, it had become the duty of the law advisers of the Crown—at least be felt it to be his duty, as the one who had conducted the prosecution—to consider with great attention the remaining charge (that to which the hon. and learned gentleman alluded, and with regard to which proceedings were at first commenced), upon which charge the prisoner might be pat upon his trial, the grand jury having found a ti se bill. In considering the charge upon which Dr Bernard hid been acquitted, and the charge upon which he might yet be tried under the bill found by the grand jury for conspiracy, be had considered with great minuteness the whole body of evidence given upon the late trial, and also that which it would be necessary to adduce. He found, then, that though the two charges were different in name, the evidence in support of them was substantially the some. Under these circumstances be had felt it his duty, after full consideration of all the evidence It was in the power of the Crown to bring forward, not to proceed any further with the prosecution for conspiracy. (Hear.) Sir R. BETHELL asked whether, it having been stated in the public papers that after the accession to office of his learned friend (the Attorney-General), Mr Bodkin was instructed to state that he no longer intended to proceed upon the charge of conspiracy but upon the charge of murder, that proceeding was taken upon the guidance and authority of the present Attorney-General ? The
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-05-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JUSTICE-CLERK then a lvised the jury to retire and reconsider their verdict, which they did, but after being absent for some time they were sent for by Lordahip. They were still of the same opinion, and under the circumstance,, which his Lordship characterised as quite unparalleled, they were ordered to be locked up for the night, in order that they may hear Mr Thomson next morning. The jury were then removed in charge of the officers of Court, and the Court adjourned till next morning.  Before Lord Irony  William Leckie, who had been convicted the previous day of the crime of culpable homiciJe, was brought up for sentence.  Lord Irony, in passing sentence, reinarkcd that he had been convicted of the crime of culpable homicide against his wife—a party with Whom it Was his duty to bear, and whom in all circumstances it was his duty to protect. The jury had returned a verdict to the effect that the assault was committed under circumstances aggravated by provocation. It did not appear, however, that there was any peculiar provocation at the time the violence which caused death was inflicted, but his temper must have been considerably tried during the day, and it was proved they did not live on the bus; of terms. It was hardly, :therefore, a sudden impulse— it was an aggravated circumstance of provocation than had been working and settling in his mind. No high words were heard between them, nor no struggle. The poor woman beseeched him to go into his house, but he refused, and they had it in evidence that he gave her two blows. It could not be assumed that these blows were inflicted for any fatal purpose, but they were still blows inflicted by a husband on 1,15 wife, while not in a condition to protect herself, and rendered a little unsteady by that state of intoxication in which she was— standing on the very verge of a deep and dangerous stair, and where, it he had for a moment reflected he must have thought that such blows must hare placed her in danger of falling down the stair. But the feature that struck the. Court most —for he had consulted with his brother, the Lord Justice-Clerk—aas, that these blows were inflicted upon his wife when proved by the medical reports to have been sit months gone with child. Ile could not have been ignorant of that, and must have known that any violence inflicted must have been aggravated under the circumstances, and be had toblo stated in his declaration that she had been for months complaining of same internal disease. All things conaidarrd, It was t et, not of that mltigated description in which a slight punishment could be inflicted; bat giving to the verdict of tne jury what 1 have no doubt they intended him—the effect of a recommendation to lenient dealing on the part of tine Crown, tine sentence was to be one of imprisonment, but for a long period, and which, he hoped, would enable him to correct the violence and sullenness of his temper, and reflect on his irregular habits. The sentence of the Court Was .12 months' imprisonment.