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Glasgow Courier. — 1846-12-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

KING'S COCINITT.  PARSONTOWN, DEC. 9—ATROCIOUS MURDER.—The King's County Chronicle of yesterday contains the following:— "We regret exceedingly to report that again has blood been shed—another victim has fallen. Outrage after outrage, murder after murder, and crimes innumerable disgrace and pollute the annals of our county. Yesterday (Tuesday) evening, about half-past six o'clock, Mr. William Lloyd, when standing at his hall doors, in Church Lane, within a few doors of the post-office' in this town, a shot was fired at him, the contents of which entered his body. Mr. Lloyd was heard faintly to cry out Murder, murder,' and immediately he fell to the ground a lifeless corpse. octors Wood and Keenan were immediately in attendance, but their services were not required, as aeath was instantaneous. The assassin must have been quite close to the unfortunate gentleman. Some of the police who were in Duke Street heard the shot and went in pursuit, but without effect. It was a heart-rending sight to behold six orphans bending over the lifeless body of their beloved parent, who but a short time previously had left them in the possession of life and health. The perpetration of a savage murder has thrown the town and neighbourhood into a state of fearful excitement. The assassin in his flight dropped a hat, which is in the possession of the police. Mr. Lloyd was the owner of a small property, which is situate at Ballough, in the county of Tipperary, within three miles of this town. He has had the misfortune of having a very refractory set of tenants, who very seldom, if ever, paid him rent without his having been obliged to resort to law to compel them. His care-taker has been ill treated and beaten, threatening notices innumerable, from time to time, have been posted, and some weeks ago he bad cattle distrained for the rent of these lands, which are considerably in arrear. On the day of sale a very large mob assembled, and he was compelled to abandon the safe. Mr. Lloyd was a very quiet, inoffensive man. It appears that after dinner he went out. During his absence one of his tenants, named Watkins, called, and told his eon that he wanted to settle his rent; a domestic was sent for Mr. Lloyd, but returned without him. Watkins then left the house, and in less than half an hour afterwards the unfortunate gentleman was murdered. Sub-Inspector Duncan had Watkins and his wife arrested, both of whom were lodged in jail. Mr. Duncan, accompanied by constable Finn and party, proceeded 'to the county of Tipperary, and returned with four men, who were charged with being implicated in the murder. At an early hour this morning James Dillon, Esq., senior coroner of the county, arrived to hold an inquiry into the melancholy circumstances of the case. The following magistrates were present at the inquest, viz. —John Warburton, Thomas Hackett, J. Persse Grome, &cis., and Captain Kelly, R.M.; John Duncan, S.L., was also in attendance. A respectable jury was sworn, and after the examination of some witnesses, the jury recorded a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-04-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ROIIP OF TOLLS.  There were let on Wednesday, within the sale-rooms of Messrs. Barclay & _Skirling', auctioneers, Buchanan Street, the toll duties Irviable at the following bars, on the Glasgow and Shotts Turn- , Rood, for the year from the 28th day of May, 1846, to the NI: day of May, 1847 :1846 1845 latulachie, Carntyne. Mile-end, and Springbank £6460 £5700 Birkenshaw. Bellshill, and Powburn 9OO 730 Mnriehill and Shotts lBO 215 , rolkemmet, and Side Bar at Harthill wo 300 I long Livingstone l7O 206 -- -. ' ' —ld PoWburn 1270 1200 I  Both.w Well Bridge, Clydeside, an. Newhouse, Newarthall, and Cleckhimin. 9O Juusfield and Limekiluburn 4OO 395  The Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Fox-hounds meet at Blackwood Lee House on Monday the 6th instant, and at Hawthornden, Pennycuick, on Friday the 10th—each day at half-past 10 o'clock. Commission Signed by Lord-Lieutenant—Dumbartonshire. —Stirling and Dumbartonshire Regiment of M. M. Weller, Esq., to be Captain; D. Shaw, GentiLtesbe Lie* tenant; J. Campbell, Gent., and W. WA. Douglks, Gent., to be tin,igi is. Extensive Wool Sale at Perth.—The extensive stock of wool belonging to the deceased Mr. J. Stewart, jun., comvriging upwards of 5,000 stones, was sold here last week by public roup. There was a good attendance both on the part of English staplers and Scotch houses; and considering the market has been dull of late, the sale may be said to have gone off well. The following prices were a few of the leading lots:—  Per Stone. Unwashed Highland (old) 9s. 3d. to 10s. Od. do. do. (new). Washed do. to 14s. Od. Washed Leicester 2ls. Od. to 245. Od. do. do. (Hog and Ewe) —to 245. 6d. do. Cross 2os. Od. to Laid Cheviot los. Od. to do. Leicester los. 6(1. to  Murder near Mancliester.—Mr. Justice Patteson was occupied during the whole of Monday and Tuesday in trying Nathaniel Currie, a young man about thirty-one years Of we, for having at Newton, about two miles from Manchester, wilfully murdered Ann Elßion, by drowning her in a canal. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Monk, and Mr. Sowler conducted the case -on.the part of the prosecution; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Pollock. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins stated the ease at considerable length. The evidence was entirely cir-cumstantial. The prisoner, who is a married man, was a ' stretcher in Alderman Murray's factory, in Manchester, and the deceased was his big piecer. She was three months in the family way by the prisoner; and it was alleged, that, in order to hide Ids shame, he took a walk with her along the bank of the Manchester and Rochdale canal, and at an unfrequented spot threw her in and drowned her. About forty witnesses wore examined. Some distinctly deposed to having seen the two in company on the bank twenty minutes before the body was found. Mr. Pollock spoke for three hours and twenty minutes in favour of the prisoner. The Learned Judge occupied two hours and three quarters in summing up; and the jury, after an absence from court for an hour and a half, returned a verdict of "Not guilty."
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-01-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20.  -all  The Portuguese Legislative Chambers were opened on the 2d instant, by Donna Maria in person, with a spec Ai from the throne, which we have given in another column, but there is nothing in it worth reproducing, Elsewhere we have also inserted the speech of the King of Greece, delivered at the opening of the second Parliamentary session at Athens, on the 22d ultimo. It is sufficiently wig& and general in the character of its phraseology, and would indicate that the Greek Minister was at one with the late Prince Talleyrand--that the legitimate use of language was to conceal thought.  The state of Ireland is, we regret to say, becoming rapidly worse, the old practice of murdering having been resorted to by the peasantry. This is particularly the case in the county of Limerick where some very savage outrages have recently occurred. The kind of tranquillity which follows Mr. O'Connell's pacific exertions is odd enough. It is proper to add, that land, not potatoes, is the cause of the disturbances.  m- iii4l  We are indebted to a correspondent for the following analysis of the list of subscribers to a requisition for a meeting of the county of Lanark, to consider the question of the Corn-laws. It will be seen by it that the great majority of the requisitionists had no connexion with the county of Lanark whatever beyond the fact of their living within its boundaries, and that the whole thing bears internal evidence of having been got up by the League in Glasgow. We would call this unjust, but it is also foolish,' for no man in his senses will believe that the opinions of an agricultural district can be gathered from the traders, great and small, of a large commercial town:— Analysis of the Subscribers to the Requisition fur a Meeting of the County of Lanark Gross number of subscribers 336—0 f these 13 are Commissioners of Supply; 202 of the subscriptions have been obtained in and about Glasgow, exclusive of those who are Commissioners of Supply; 63 have been obtained in Avondale parish, and 58 do. in Bothwell Of the 202 obtained at Glasgow, 23 are electors of the county, and 179 are non-electors; and of the latter class several appear to be obscure individuals, whose whereabouts have been found  difficult to be traced. Of the 63 signatures obtained in Avondale, 28 are electors for the county, and 1.-15 non-electors. The whole electors in the parish of Avondale are 342. Of the 58 signatures obtained at Bothwell, 17 are County electors, and 41 are non-electors, and these last seem to 'be persons mostly employed about the Ornoa ironworks, and inhabitants' of the village of Newarthill.—No farmer appears to have subscribed, except in Bothwell, and there 15 have subscribed, of idiom 10 appear to be electors and 5 non-electors. • The Aectors now on the roll are 3696 Of these only 79 have signed the requisition 79 Leaving who are not parties to it 3617
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-10-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

IRELAND.  The Irish provincial journals are crowded with reports of the Presentment Sessions under the Labour Rate .Act, at several of which scenes of alarming excitement have taken place. Large sums of money have been voted for public works. - The force on the Irish station is—twelve irm--etri. rif steamers, of 1756 collective horse power, 5864 tons, and 720 officers and men, and three depots of 3000 tons and 100 men. The above, together with two ordnance lighters also employed, make seventeen sail of nearly 9000 tons, and above 850 men, on the coast of Ireland. The magistrates of Cork have threatened to resign their commissions unless the Government shall place at their disposal effectual means for relieving the wants of the people. The Treasury have consented to advance a loan of X 50,000 for the completion of floating docks at Limerick. The Earl of Roden has contributed the liberal sum of X5OO towards the sewerage of the town of Dundalk. We understand that that excellent nobleman the Marquis of ()monde has, through his agent, Henry Lloyd, Esq., issued directions for a reduction upon the rental of his tenantry for the present year, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop.—Kilkenny Journal. Lord Rosemore has issued an address to his tenants, stating his intention to allow a reduction of 15 per cent. in the year's rent now payable, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop. Mr. Daniel Callaghan, M.P., has forgiven his corn-acre tenants this year their rents, and has allowed them, in addition, to take away whatever produce the lands yielded. Within the last three weeks nearly two hundred passengers left the port of Drogheda for Liverpool en route to America. Within the last fortnight more than twelve hundred emigrants passed over by the same port to England, principally from the west. The latest Galway and Limerick papers have accounts of food riots, or rather of the robbery of bread, corn, &c., by mobs of poor men, who, in most instances, were led on by others not at all distressed, but who are represented as acting thus for the mere love of excitement. Several of these mischievous fellows have been arrested.  Murder and agrarian outrage are again rearing their hideous heads in the ill-fated county of Tipperary. The Repeal local paper, (the Tipperary Kiedi in brings accounts of a dreadful case of assassination n the broad glare of noon, a ferocious attack by an armed band on two ladies, and an assault on a habitation, accompanied by violence on the inmates, one of whom was dangerously wounded by a gunshot wound. Repeal Association.—At its meeting on Monday a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell. He expresses approbation of the course taken by Lord Beriborough, and while he still, with bated earnestness, urges the expediency of an assembly of Irish gentlemen iu Dublin, he admits there is no call now for an early meeting of Parliament. He attacks Mr. Bernal Osborne angrily, and reproves him for snapping at the Whigs. The amount of the rent is not stated in the Dublin papers of Tuesday.
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-08-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CAMBRIA. Ibe the Individual among us who refuses, at this crisis, to exertns A Rorriish pointer was once reproved by a cardinal for , himself to obtain those comprehensive reforms that our peculiar murdered Susan Tolliday, the kitchen-maid at the Geodhai to East Calder, were charged before filr. Sheriff Tait witn pitting too much red in the faces of St. Paul and St. Peter, (From the Liverpool Standard of Tuesday) [ situation renders manifest and necessary. At present, we shall Coffee-house, was brought before the Lord Mayor for a second havingburnt in effigy some time ago,two respectable inhabit- mt he shrewdly replied, "it is to show how much they We have before stated with sufficient distinctness our opinion confine ourselves to the discussion of the most important of them examination. All the approaches to thejtuitice-room were crowded, ants of that village whose conduct. was obnoxious to them. blush at the conduct of men who style themselves their suethat we must either, as the result of free trade, be prepared to -the repeal, absolute with reference to Canada, of the British and if very skilful arrangements had not been made the business The charger having been substantiated, they were respecsee our most valuable colonies secede from their connection with navigation laws! could not have proceeded. tively tined £l, or fourteen days' imprisonment and to find cutlers." us, as from an onerous tie without its equivalent, or demand from "Of what avail is it to the Canadian to raise abundant supplies The prisoner appeared to be much less excited than he was on Reciprocity le having two good things instead of one. But caution 111 the amount of ..e6 each to keep the pc' ace for six us some concession which will render them a burden upon the of wheat and other staples for exportation while these laws are iu Saturday, and looked round the room as if in expectation of seel months, or suffer other fourteen days imprisonment.- if we cannot have both the good things, it is no reason why "Tocountry rather than an advantage. Our readers know sufficient]) force? Can be procure their conveyance to British market, eau some acquaintances, lie had been, on eater& y, recommende we should reject the one we may have. The fraud of what is our own ollnion as to the importance and benefit to us of favourable terms as the farmer of the United States can Ibewerd . tes employ a solicitor, but no legal klerson attended for hie, Edinburgh Paper. eiprocity," therefore, is like saying, "Don't take the halfthese colonies. They consume, in the ratio of their population, his? No. But why? Because the British navigation Wm ile- The first witness examined was k anny Wettenall, the little girl crown you may, unless somebody will give you another for more of our frabies and of the products of our industry than to- strict him to the use of British ships, depriving him of ever, 10e helped the deceased and the prisoner in the work of the kit-
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-02-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

VII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lord- our gratitude for it? 0 Goa ! now I know the hand that part of the cargo will be saved, although in a damaged state. was killed. Ile trusted the prediction would not he veriLord- Lincoln had hitherto held. He (Lord John Russell) Lieutenant of Ireland to pay such sums of money as to hiin shall Serious Accident -On Wednesday, a boy n. %mod Michael supports me, let me ever adore Thee for it. Help me to -Dundee C'ourier. fied. The noble Lord then proceeded to the question of the d ' dth destruction of the Irish church, although he seem reasonable and just to the personal representative, wife, Shields residing in Goosedubs Street, and emp y lo eel in the . f the report a gauges," and confessed his surprise at the tenor o li . f. , never mare e . laden of an rson who shall be murthought a portion of the revenue was misapplied. Although he I parent, child, or other re . ype ._ _ . flea-masa ' t the Townheld came accidental] in contact with . prove the sincerity of my gratitude by glaring tho bread Vessels sindien with. ' or the Commission, which, at its commencement, was a In av our did not think the state of the Irish church was satisfactory, yet, . dered or feloniously slain within any such proclaimed distnet, or . E y . , which I possess in abundance with those who are in want! The ship William, of Glasgow, Lyon, from Clyde for Trinidad, some part of the machinery, and had one of lus arum tatten Many a Thy dear children possess much less, though they 7th inst lit 49 1 sl5 of the broad, but, at its close, recommended the adoption of the hle he wished to see the Irish church maintained. to any person who within such district shall be feloniously maimed ate. ,•. ~ one. . narrow gauge on all railways. He wished to ki o i w when the evi- as a w 0 , Sir It. INGLIS said 9, few words, after which or permanently injured, due regard g bein had to the rank dearee. ' - ' Glasgow Weekly Horse Market.-At this market, which was deserve more than I. They are pinched with hunger, while The brig David Legg, of Belfast, Logan, from Clyde for De- . dence on which the report was founded would be laid on the table, I 1 a I end to s are Lord it comes from Thee and merary 13th inst , lat. 47 lon v 12. Ive enoug i . p . , , ~,, a s • , e le Mr. O'CONNELL said he did not desire the destruction of the situation, and circumstances of the person murdered, feloniously y s , ere was a more i n held here on Wednesda la t th tl a ordi and what the Government intended to do in pursuance of that Established Church, but there was a great distinction between the killed, maimed, or permanently injured. I would share it with my fellow-creatures, who have the Joe °argue James Ewing, of Glasgow, Maitland, from cede nary supply of good draught horses. The few saddle and for Jamaica, lath inst., lat. 42., long. 14. report. church and its temporalities. As to the temporalities, lie would
Glasgow Courier. — 1846-04-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

POLISII INSURRECTION. In Galicia the peasants still carry on their system of plunder, and their leaders are mostly retired soldiers. In , the district of Tarnew, Szele or Izela, and not Sala is at the head of 12,000 well-armed peasants. lie has the fixed idea that he has been called by Providence to fulfil the imperial will. Ile has had the audacity to send a deputation to the Emperor; how it has been received has not yet transpired. In the district of Bohemia, the peasants are led by Koryga, in that of Saudeez by a peasant of the name of Venocha. The letter of the Emperor " to his faithful Galicians," was received with the greatest contempt. When one of the commissaries, who was sent to treat with them, alluded to the property of the murdered men, saying that it belonged to the widows and orphans they had left.—" We have killed the old dogs, it is no bard task to strangle the young ones," was their only answer. Two of the commissaries sent by government have been killed, though each was accompanied by; an armed force. The Cologne and Breslau journals say, "Galicia is become a desert; the bands of peasants that scour the country are so well organised, that it will be a difficult matter to put them down. They have not the slightest regard for the authorities; they tear down the proclamations exhorting them to return to their work; awl they demand the hinds whose owners they have murdered. There are men among them who persuade Gunn that, they have saved the land, and that they must not lay down their arras till their rights have been . acknowledged. All persons peacefully inclined fly the , country; the public offices are vacant; government has offered a higher salary, but no one has been found willing to run the risk." Such are the facts publishedto-day. Instead ! of being suppressed, the insurrection has but taken another turn, and is becoming a regular civil war.  !tater. _ Matthew Baker, Esq., examined—He was a member of the Connaught bar. Me was acquainted with the prisoner. Be always regarded him as a gentleman of respectability and integrity, and he had heard of the present charge against him with surprise  and regret. Walter Bourke, Esq., examined—Knew the prisoner at the bar as a barrister and a private gentleman. He belonged to the same county that he did; and before he came to the bar, and sidle at the bar, he knew him to be a gentleman of integrity and honour. With the exception of that charge, he never knew anything that was not creditable to him, and he heard of the charge with the greatest regret. Thomas Warren White, Esq., examined—He had known the prisoner upon circuit. His character was very good; and no one could be more esteemed and regarded by every one who knew him than he was. John G. Holmes, Esq., examined—He was also a member of the same circuit with the prisoner. He had the very highest character of him. There was not a gentleman upon circuit—and lie had every opportunity of judging of his character, for he was very intimate with him—who bore a higher character. Mr.