The Sun. — 1851-10-08 (London, England)

THE GLASGOW CIRCUIT.  GLASGOW, MONDAY EVENING.—This was the closing day of the Glasgow Circuit Court, which has been remarkable beyond any that has preceded it for the number of trials arising out of deaths by violence, and the injuries from shooting and stabbing. As already noticed, a man named Hare was sentenced on Thursday to be hanged on the 22d current, for murder by stabbing ; and to-day, a powerful Irishman, named Thomas Haggerty, had a narrow escape from tha same fate. He was accused, under the Cutting and Maiming Act, of stabbing Mr. Frederick Irvine, a tartan manufacturer (who had given him no offence), to the danger of life. The case was fully proved, and it came out in evidence that since 1844 this fellow had been convicted and imprisoned no fewer than 10 separate times, for crimes of assault committed in Glasgow. On the very day on which he came out of prison for one of these offences the crime for which he was now tried was committed. Before leaving his lodgings he had sharpened his knife, stating, on going out, that he would " rip up any one who encountered him," and that it would give him especial satisfaction to shoot the Procurator-Fiscal, at whose instance he had been previously tried and imprisoned. The jury unanimously found Haggerty guilty, Lord COLONSAY remarking that had the DeputeAdvocate not restricted the libel, he would have felt it his duty to have sentenced the fellow to be executed.  He was sentenced to transportation for life. A painful sensation has been created in Glasgow by another cruel case of stabbing. It appears that at a late hour on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning-, three Irishmen were upon the streets, when one of them, named Patrick M'Cluskey, had a quarrel with a man, whose name is uLknown. In the course of the struggle M'Cluskey was cruelly stabbed ; his left thumb was nearly severed from his hand, and his bowels protruded to the extent of 14 inches. The assailant coolly walked off, the bystanders, of whom a considerable number had collected, believing that the quarrel was an ordinary street fight. The magistrates have offered a reward of thirty guineas for the apprehension of the unknown stabber, and meanwhile INl'Cluskey lies in the Infirmary in a critical state. A still more painful sensation has been excited in Greenock by the occurrence of the happily rare charge in Scotland of a wife poisoning her husband. Ma. _. It appears that an old man, named Thomas Macvey, who earned butter, fish, and other Mullen, as a lodger, a living. by dealing in. apples, wi,e about six months ago articles,. took into his house. alyaoung Irishman, named David pweiefet,ansairmahprateGr ucioinionnexiaociavey soon had cause to sus.out uf. doors. Macvey Wa,snsthde former was turned between this man and his and purging on the following Sunday. vomiting extreme suffering died on thdenly appealance at the tak•n ill with Thursdayu week, and after The late lodger (Mullen) made wake the same night, and on followingtNheolsso day the sooner had the intermentwidow.m.ade ee:cmcdsiutei.ciaonnds body was hurriedly buried. taken place than Mullen and preparations fur getting married, but teh on the part of the neighbours became Mullen was pelted by a mob of women as he left the house. In the meantime it came children that the woman had purchased arsenic at a druggist'seut on the Thursday her husband became ill, and again on the Saturday before his death, which she ostentatiously mixed with oatmeal in the shop, on the pretext that the poison was intended to kill rats, although it has been ascertained that rats did not infest the house. The woman was taken into custody, and the body was exhumed on Saturday last, and Drs. Auld and Laurie are engaged in making a chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach and bowels, with the view of determining the existence or non-existence of poison. Al!anwhile the people of Greenock are in a state of painful excitement on the subject until the result of \ the chemical analysis shall have been known.  —Traffic for GLASGOW Ara,