Glasgow Courier. — 1850-08-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND. Forgery —An attorney of Preston, Mr. Blaekhuret, has been committed to prison, charged with forging a codicil to the will of his wife, a lady whose first husband was a Glasgow merchant, of the name of Maxwell. Mrs. B. had left property for the foundation of a school in Glasgow, to be called the Maxwell School, and her husband is accused of fraudulently altering her device. The Magistrates of Glasgow are named as prosecutors in the case against Mr. Blackhurst. Mr. Baron Parke.—At the Chester Assizes, a ease came on before Baron Parke, in the Nisi Prins Court, in which several of the witnesses spoke the Cheshire dialect very broadly, so much so that the counsel engaged were quite at fault in properly understanding what was said. His Lordship, however, seemed to understand the brogue quite well, and explained to the counsel and jury what the witnesses meant as they proceeded. In summing up the case he expressed his satisfaction at being able to give the information in question, and explained the reason of his thorough acquaintance with the dialect, which, he said, was in consequence of his having spent seven years of his life in Maeclesfield, a period to which he often looked back with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret. The learned Judge, then Mr. James Parke, was educated at the Macclesfield Free Grammar School, where he was entered a pupil in 1792, under the Rev. Dr. Davies.—Chester Courant. Manchester, Friday—Some description of grays are being purchased by the Greeks, and 40-inch shirtiogs, with certain other fabrics, by firms connected with India, though in a manner as sparing as it is cautious and hesitating. Altogether, the week's transactions are very inconsiderable; and the prices obtained are rather lower than those of last week, except so far as regards the finer yarns—Manchester Guardian. llamas Remains.—Great excitement prevails at Evesham, Worcestershire, in consequence of the discovery, at the back of a house in Bewdley Street, of the remains of three human bodies. A portion of the remains were partially burnt, and contained in an earthen pot. It is said that the premises were formerly a public-house, and that the parties were burked. Dreadful Murder.— Gloucester, Friday Evening.— This evening the inhabitants of Gloucester were alarmed by the rumour that a man had killed his wife on the road between this city and Bristol. The rumour unhappily is too true. The circumstances are briefly as follow :—A man named Miller, accompanied by his wife and another person, WAS proceeding on the Bristol road from this city with a dogcart containing their wares, they being travelling hawkers, when they quarrelled, and after a few angry words the man struck his wife a violent blow on the left breast, about the region of the heart. The woman was knocked into the ditch by the roadside, where she lay for a few moments, when, not rising, the other man became alarmed, and with the assistance of the husband, pulled her out of the ditch, but life was found to be quite extinct. Some workmen employed in loading a vessel with ballast now came up and seized Miller, who was conveyed to the Gloucester lock-up, where he awaits the result of a coroner's inquest on the body. A surgeon arrived shortly after, but no human skill could revive the corpse.