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Glasgow Courier. — 1848-05-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ALLEGED MURDER.  On Thursday evening a man, named James Gray, deser ibed as a labourer, and residing, together with his wife and son, (a boy of twelve or thirteen years of age,) in the house of one Steele, a wrigbt, at 12, New Street, Calton, was apprehended on a charge of murdering 10s wife. The prisoner, it appears, was employed at stone-breaking at the Townhead, and on the evening in question he and his deceased wife had been drinking together. They retired to their roosn, along with their son, about five or six o'clock in the evening. It is presumed that a quarrel had arisen between the man and wife, for the attention of the parties in the adjoining apartment was attracted by certain noises, and on their entrance the woman was found quite dead. Her eye was blackened, and the discoloured state of the neck and parts adjoining, seemed to indicate that death had been caused by strangulation. A painful feature of the case is, that the boy is the principal witness against his parent.  GLASGOW SPRING CIRCUIT (Continued from the last page.) _TIODAY, .lIAT 12.  The Court resumed this morning at nine o'clock  Johit Drew, jun, formerly clerk. and assistant-cashier in the National Security Savings Bank, was charged with various separate acts of MeallUll SUMS of money from the Bank, amounting in all to 1588 19s. 91 The prisoser pleaded guilty to six of the charges in the indictment, and was sentenced to two years' itoprisonment. . . . .  :Rachel Faucet, habit and repute a thief, and who had been previously °auricled, pleaded not guilty to having stolen from the person of George Galles, while in the King's Arms Close, Troneste, four pounds in money. The case went to trial; she was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years transportation. Afar, dius Thornton or Kuwait was charffed with the murder of her husband, Thomas Keenan, by administering a quantity of laudunum to him mixed with milk, porter, or whisky. The diet was deserted pro loco et tempers. Jolla Pavidsox, coal-master sad eontractor, Airdrie, was next placed at the bar, and pleaded not guilty to the charge of culpable homicide; likewise, culpable and reckless neglect of duty. It appears from the indictment that the Bloomfield coal and ironstone pit, situated only about 200 yards from Graham Street, Airdrie, and 10 yards from a public road, was left by him in a very dangerous and unprotected state, whereby three men, between the night of Monday the 4th, and the morning of Tuesday the btli October, having strayed from the road and fell into the pit, and lost their lives. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the case went to trial. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, at the same time expressing a strong • condemnation of the practice of leaving pit-mouths open. Lord Medwyn expressed himself to the effect that this declaration of the jury would answer the purpose foutiv,-", the case had been brought forward, and the prisoner
Glasgow Courier. — 1848-11-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SPIRITED EXAMPLE.  Mr. Armitage Moore, the agent to Lord Annesley, was lately travelling in the county of Cavan kr the obnoxious purpose of collecting rent. When near Baker's Bridge he was attacked by two ruffians, but providentially escaped with his life. Four days afterwards he calls a meeting of the Drumlace tenantry at his office in Cavan, at which two hundred of them presented themselves. He then addresses to them a speech which seems to have produced a vivid effect upon his audience. After detailing the circumstances of this attack, Mr. Moore proceeds than :  "These fellows were your emissaries, paid by you, and acting under your orders. You imagined that by murdering me, and sending me into eternity with all my sins upon my head, you would not have to pay your rents. But you were mistaken. You did this after my living ten years with you, and spending upwards of 210.000 amongst you. I advanced you loans out of my own pocket of .f. 6 to £96 each—is not this true? (Several voices,' It Is; it in.') Woo it for this you sought to murder me? or was it for procuring an abatement of 50 per cent, upon your last two years' rent? I went amongst you in your distress, more like a pedlar than any body else, distributing blankets, and giving clothes to your children —and was it for this you sought to murder me? I purchased meal in large quantities when it was dear, and gave it out to you —the most of it for nothing—and some, to those whom I thought able to pay, at half price, the greater part of which money has never been repaid me ;—I ask you, was it for this you sought to m rder me ? .  A great many voice, cried out ' Shame! shame!' It is every word true.' You were always a kind landlord to us,' &c. One voice louder than the rest exclaimed, ' By G—, it is a shame ! and Mr. Moore tells nothing but the troth r  After rebuking their Ingratitude, be appeals to their fears in the following terms:—  " Now, I tell you, I will go down amongst you; but for the future I will go armed, yes, to the teeth, and compel you to pay your rent. And I tell you further, you shall never get one shilling allowance until you drag that ruffian to justice; you have him secreted, and you know where he is. • * • • * That disgraceful and murderous act was concocted in your Ribbon Lodges at night, when honest men should be sleeping in their beds. If you want to shoot me, glee me a chance for my life, and I will stand out before you. I will face the bullet of any man, only let him give me a man's chance. You had your men real;, and you hired them. One of them you have at present covered; now, unless you bring forward this fellow and deliver him into the hands of the authorities, I will put every one of these decrees into force before 24 hours.*
Glasgow Courier. — 1848-02-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HOIISO. -Amidst great confusion, canoed by members leaving the Rouse, the hon. gentleman was understood to say that he could not ecumeive how the doors of the House could be opened to the Jew, *he repudiated Christianity, without the Legislature repOdiating Christianity Itself. Since the subject was keg baker the House it hid come to his knowledge that intlisrideOs had been employed tb obtain signatures to the geilime, lE*four of the. Ministerial miasure, in the suburbs of _ .  _ opin.'f(Serar.) Ple brerak down therehristian character of the lionswoosid be nothing less than insult to the Christian people et large. lied it beerr known before the late election that this question would be amongst the first to be submitted to the new House, a very different expression of the national will would have been given. Be denied the correctoese of the argument of the right hon. gentleman who tad last spoken, that privation was punishment; such an assei tion could only have been received because adorned by his great eloquence. The great question was, whether the exclusion of the Jews could be considered as persecution, and he denied that It could be regarded in that light. He did not believe that the opinion of the great majerky of the people was favourable to this measure. The Jews Brat made their appearance in England after the murder of its king; they went to Prance also and claimed privileges there, immediately after the murder of the French king, and these recorded facts did not speak highly for their liberal sentiments. Bow did the Jews receive the decree of Napoleon, which ordered them all to be collected together in France, and to form one people, to be governed by their own laws, and ruled over by their own chosen magistrates? They accepted this proposition with joy, thus proving that they never lost eight of their nationality. Never, therefore, let it be said that the Jews had no ambitin or would ever cease to struggle for that supremacy whicif they were taught to believe was ultimately to be theirs. Be therefore would never consent to sueh a measure as that of the noble Lord's, which was framed in a spirit of defiance toward the decrees of Providence, and against the course of prophecy, which led all Christians to believe that the Jews were to remain a scattered people, as they bad been for eighteen centuries. The noble Lord proposed to make legislators for a Christian people of those whom God had pronounced to be incapable of legislating for themselves! The hon. member concluded by reading a portion of Hooker's " Ecclesiastical Polity,tm wherein that divine ex, presses his conviction that the Church and State are co-equal and co-existent, and consequently that the admission of • Jew within the Legislature would be a fatal departure from the constitution of the State. He feared he had tired the House, but as he wished to put his opinions on the bill upon record, he bad thought It lila duty to make the observations which he had done. Mr. C. PE,tason moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-07-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MASSACRES IN SYRIA. Our Correspondent at Heyrout Benda by last mail a continuation of his journal down to the latest post dates :-On Saturday, the 23d June, the excitement among the Turks continued very great, in consequence of the murder of one of them by a refugee Christian. In the afternoon a man was taken prisoner, alleged to be-the murderer of the Turk. He was tried according to Turkish fashion, and a musbatah drawn out against him. The seraglio during this time was literally besieged by Turk demanding the life of the Christian. An excuse for delay was found in consequence of the musbatah requiring the seal of the Pasha, who was absent from town. The Turks were loud in their assertions that unless the Christian was executed, they would rise iii revolt that night about ten o'clock. At night the Christian prisoner was taken out to the square and there killed, his hands tied behind his back and his throat cut, I believe. He was left lying on his face all Sunday, exposed in the open square; and many Turkish women went to trample upon him, and spit on him, and curse his sect and religion. On Sunday more quietness prevailed, but a bad spirit among the Turks haul been aroused, which was variously manifested in small things, The panic among the Christians was very great still, and by every opportunity large numbers left the town for Malta, Alexandria, and Smyrna. A few instances will exhibit the bad spirit of the Turks at the time. The French Consul had a sword drawn at him behind his back in the seraglio; Mr Meason (an English resident) had a pistol presented to him in going down to town, but it snapped tire providentially ; an officer of the frigate had a pistol presented to him, but the trigger was not drawn; Mr Watkins had his hat knocked off in a narrow road, and a stone thrown at him. Altogether, on a review of matters, there cannot be a doubt we were in a most critical state on Saturday and Sunday. The smallest circumstance might have led-to most serious consequences, and though any revolt on ale part of the fanatical Turks would not have been a very extensive one, it might have been sufficient to launch many into eternity before it was checked. All during the past week things have remained in an absolutely quiet but excited state. The Christians have not got over their fears, and these fears are chiefly. In consequence of their dread of the Government's falseness. Indeed, from its shameful conduct througbont the whole war they have good cause to distrust the sincerity of the Government; but them is the great , difference between what can be done in the interior and 1 here under the eyes of our frigates. The Government might have the same wicked desires in regard to Beyrout I as to Zahly and Deir-el-Qaturnar, but they dare not and cannot perpetrate them. The presence of Kmety as general of the troops is very re-assuring, but none are more
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-02-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO. The trustees are the Earl of Clanwilliam and James ,1 Henry Cole, Esq., of Eaton Place. His Lordship has devised his estates in the counties of Bedford, Wilts, and Leicester in trust for his eldest daughter, the Dowager Countess Covrper, forher life, and then to her son, Earl Cowper, and his issue—the estates and barony of Linas of Crudwell is now possessed by the Countess. The estates in Craven are devised to her second son. The Newby Hall estates are devised to his youngest daughter, Lady Mary Gertrudge Vyner, and to her husband and their issue. The family plate is bequeathed to his daughter, Countess Cowper. The statues and pictures at the several mansions are to be held with the estates as heirlooms. Legacies are left to all the servants. His two daughters are appointed residuary legatees. His nephew, the Right Hon. George Frederick, Earl of Ripon, succeeds to the Earldom of de Grey and Barony of Grantham. The will is dated July 31, 1858. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LIVERPOOL Liverpool, Saturday.—The mystery still hangs over the murder of the unfortunate man whose body was found in a timber-yard of the Canada Dock on Monday last, in spite of the efforts and active inquiries of the police authorities. Indeed, very little has been elicited by the inquiries to throw light upon the awful event. The body lies at the dead-house for the purpose of being identified, but up to the present time it has not been identified, except by two publicans, at whose houses the murdered man and others who accompanied him had been drinking. A New CoamioN.--The Saturday Review has the following statement:—"We last week stated our apprehension that a coalition was about to be formed, for the purpose of turning out the government, between the forces at the command of Mr Disraeli and the parliamentary servants of the Pope. We have every reason to believe that this apprehension is about to be realised. Those wise Conservatives who have before been led to the overthrow of moderate Liberal governments at the tail of the Roebucks and Brights, are now, it may be feared, about to be led to the same object at the tail of the Papal Brigade. The word of command has been given from Rome. It is obeyed, though it is but justice to the unhappy slaves to say they obey with I reluctance, and with the consciousness that they are are assailing the only Protestant statesmen at whose hands their church has ever received justice. The Holy Alliance is formed. The vote on the commercial treaty is said to be the occasion. About Thursday next is confidently named as the day. Before the end of next week, we are exultingly informed, the ministry will be out, the business of the session will be brought to a stand, the question of Parliamentary Reform will be again involved in uncertainty and confusion—as a compensation for which the country will once more have Mr Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and be able to look forward to another budget as able and successful as the two last."
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-10-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER. Bradford, Monday.—A fearful tragedy, said to have been occasioned by jealousy, was enacted here late last night. About 10 o'clock a man named John G. Cowland, an attorney's clerk, went home, and on arriving there, according to his own statement, found the door closed and the house in darkness. On entering he obtained a light and immediately discovered his wife sitting up in bed, with her throat cut, but still alive, and his two children—Ann, aged four, and Elizabeth Jane, ned two years—also with their throats cut, and dead. lie celled in medical aid, and the woman was removed to the Infirmary, where she now lies. She is considered in a less precarious position to-day than she was last evening. The husband was taken into custody and brought up to-day before the magistrates, when, after short examination, he was discharged, his wife admitting that she alone cut the throats of her children, and then made an attempt on her own life. Gowland is a native of Sunderland. His home consisted of one room, and is a wretched abode. The dreadful tragedy has created great ezoitement.  Wu.Ls imp BxQuitfin.—Lady Agnes Murray Carnegie, relict of the late Sir David Carnegie, Bart. of Southesk, made her will in the year 1837, and died in June last at Dynevoir House, Leamington, having attained the age of ninety-six. The will is drawn up in the usual Scottish form, designated "A trust disposition and settlement." The property in England was sworn under £25,000, and the will was administered to by her son, John R. Strachan Carnegie, Esq. one of the surviving executors. Her Ladyship directs her property of every description to be divided, share and share alike, between her four daughters, and this latter disposition comprehends the entire terms of the will—The will of Archibald Finnie, Esq.' of Glen Hall, Leicestershire and Newfield, liilmarnock. Personalty £50,000. The testator disposes of his property in the following manner:—He has left to his aunts. Janet and Elizabeth Brown, pecuniary legacies, and to Margaret Brown an annuity of £300; to William Finale &legacy 01.6'2,000; and to Robt. Finnie £1,000; toga& of his executors £100; to his valet £5O; added te whioh the testator has kindly considered al his servants by leaving to each of them legacies. All bequests are to be paid free of the usual legacy duty. The residue, which comprises the bulk of the testator's property, he leaves to his brother, whom he ha nominated residuary legatee. Great activity exists at Chatham in the dockyard. ships building and in course of conversion at - Dockyard give an aggregate of 30, 000 tons, .ns, and 4,700-horse-power. e (Army and Nary Gazette) are informed that at a Cabinet Council held a few days since at St. Cloud, at which the Emperor presided, it was resolved that important works should be immediately commenced to strengthen the fortifications of Cher)ourg and Algiers, and likewise that a number of steel-wed frigates should be constructed on the model of La Gloire. Admiral Hamelin, Vice-Admiral Bouet-Willaumez, and Rear-Admiral Dupony opoko ill Savour of then moanuron.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-08-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDKR AT STEPNEY.—The Government offers a reward of £lOO for the discovery and apprehension of the murderer or murderers of Mrs Emsley, and a free pardon to any one who may have been privy to the crime, short of the person by whom if was actually committed. Mr Whittaker and Mr Faith, two of the relatives of the deceased by marriages have also intimated to the authorities at the Home Office their intention to offer a reward of £2OO, in addition to that of the Government. la Thursday the Leinster, one of the new Holyhead Kingston steamers, ran the distance from the to the former port in three hours and twenty. minutes, against the wind, but with the tide favour. The revolutions of the paddles at the maximum amount of speed 251 3 stipulated speed is twenty miles dinner on board. the chairman trip of the Ulster would be made the Isle of Man on the next day, and they that both that vessel and the Munster would Er tidy for the company on the 10th of September. The Gazette officially states that the Queen has granted the dignity of a Baron of the 'United Kingdom to George William Fox, Baron Kinnaird, by the name, style, and title of Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie, with remainder in default of heirs male to his brother, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, and his heirs. The dignity of Knight has been conferred on Mr Stuart Alexander Donaldson, formerly Principal Secretary to the Government of New South Wales. MajorGeneral Dough"' is appointed Governor of Jersey; and Sir Charles M`Carthy, Governor of Ceylon. OyMPATHY wrrn GARIBALDL —At a public gisget-iilg held on Thursday, at the London Tavern, aid of a fund for Garibaldi. Mr Ross read letters spoloff; for non-attendance J. Duke and C. Napier. After various addresses resolutions carried with great cheering, to the effect that necessary, for the prosperity of Italy and of Europe, that the people of Italy should emancipated from the tyranny of the Bourbon A committee was appointed to carry out the of the meeting, and the proceedings closed. The annual Ministerial whitebait dinner took place en Wednesday evening last at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich. Viscount Palmerston and a large party of his colleagues came by water from Westminster, a citizen steamer being engaged for the purpose. Covers were laid for 36 the company including the Chancellor, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke Argyll, Lord Wodehouse, Viscount Palmerston, .ne Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Right 1. T. M. Gibson Lord C. Paget, Rear Admiral Hon. F. T. Pelham, the Right Hon. W. Hutt, the Right Hon. R. Lowe, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, Mr Laing, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Mr C. Fortescue, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr HugesMr J. Bagwell, &c. Score sends .nothe, sorted  On and latter seven in her  The the 1 trial t to the  to the  in of Sir . were was n peace  Lord of At the B  Hon. the '  sen,  were  , per minute. .an hour. At stated that the from Liverpool ex ; from Sir  the be rule. object  Scomt
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-11-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THEAIZRE ROYAL. On Saturday evening last the engagement of Mr Chas. Dillon, the well-known actor, and late lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, came to a termination. On that occasion, and likewise for his benefit on the evening preceding, he appeared as "Belphegor," the part with which he is chiefly identified. It is undeniably a good, we think his best, performance, and the scene where his boy and himself are left broken-hearted by the flight of the wife and mother is a very pathetic piece of acting. In its entirety, however, despite the kudes which has accrued thereby to Mr Dillon, his representation of this 1 first-rate melo-dramatic character is by no means equal to that of Mr Benjamin Webster, the original English performer of the part. In melo-dratna, and, to a considerable extent, comedy, Mr Dillon is chiefly strong, and could he eschew that hankering after tragic fame, so common among actors, there can be little doubt that more crowded audiences would testify to his more complete success. During this week Miss Julia Daly, an American comic actress, who has been well received at the Adelphi during a lengthened engagement there, has succeeded Mr Dillon as the attracting star. This system of successive " stars," instead of an excellent stock company, seems latterly to be adopted as the rule at our theatre, Believing, as we do most firmly, the principle to be a pernicious one, we much regret that such should be the case. What benefit it may produce to the management we know not, but it is grossly unjust to the commonwealth of the profession, murder most foul" upon the dramatic author, and insulting to the play-goer. Row. ever, so long as such a system obtains, the least to blame are the "stars" themselves. Of Miss Daly we have to speak in terms of much approbation. She possesses the stage requirement of a good fignie, a OM voice and an intelligent countenance. As "Our Female American Cousin" she is, of course, the main-spring of the piece, and rendered the part of a shrewd, vivacious, warm-hearted American girl with perfect care and ability. Miss Cleaver, Mr Fitzroy, and I,,Lfr Conrtenay were, as usual, efficient ha supporting the parts they respectively assumed; of the rest, perhaps we had better let "expressive silence" muse their praise. The above remarks may, by some, be thought unkind, or even cruel, considering the circumstances in which the management has recently been placed; but the subject of our strictures has been so palpable, and excited so much surprise, that we could not refrain from opening the mouth of observation in regard to it. Critics, to be just, have occasionally to speak plainly, and we can assure Mrs Glover that what we have written has been dictated solely from a desire for the welfare sod satisfaction of all concerned.  We observe that on Friday night Mr Sam Glover take i a benefit previous to his departure for Australia, and trust that a crowded house will assemble to wish him good fortune and prosperity when far away.