Glasgow Courier. — 1848-01-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

COMPLIIT 0. WA3DF.III & SO,S.  Thistle & Company sold Bowie & Company 3000 tnt.:ou 17th June, 1843. On 15th September in the smile y gave Bowie &Company a delivery order for 1260 of thes, the understanding they were to receive a cash payn.. at. Company, on the same 15th Sept., endorsed this delis ety Warden & Sons, defenders who obtained delivery. Company failed soon after without paying for these 120. the present action was raised by Bantle & Company ag defenders, alleging their knowledge of Bowie & Compan,' stances, and that they fraudulently and wrongfully ol delivery order and its endorsation, and claiming ft,. the sugar, or payment of £2,747, being the value her case had been sent to a jury to try the question uf ft knowledge on the part of the defenders, and the jury f there had been fraud and wrong committed by them. -Th had been set aside, and the case sent to a new jury, the same way. Mr. PENNEY to-day moved the court for a role sir groultd that this second verdict was contrary to evidehc, The court granted the rule.  Harbouring Ofenders.--The Tipperary COMlttlific that the conviction of Frewen--sentenced to tramp, for life for harbouring the murderer Ryan (Pod been already attended with most salutary results, orig under the following circumstances, within a few mil,town of Clonmel:—" Our readers will recollect Om  time since an account of the capture of two brothers Cody,-Oarged with the murder of a man named 31:, near Glenbower, appeared in our columns; and, upei occasion, we detailed the difficulty with which their ea was effected. Since that period, a third brother, cl.; with the same offence, has been on hie keeping, a, course, must have received shelter from the neizht However, when the conviction of Frewen was noised ad it caused a general panic amongst the akelterer.", determined to avoid- the risk of a similar aeutenee. . .  il of esf uthltebtashirbdeec-ri, c-.4-iibineie-oury.dwooedr-ha-snesdioa-eey, n-h-eClcoa—sel-ndeV;.iii,-t1,,,(,1„,,,,, and surrendered liimself ! This circumstance is One ii,,'' Of congratulation, and shows that, if laws sufficiently gent and adequate to the necessity which demands t 1,,,,, .. enacted, the evil-doer will be deterred from his W.l. • wiekednes, end crime will be suppressed." Bon hill Bridge.—Many of our readers know to tlo that a passenger tax has been levied on this bridge t'..r last half-score of years. To test the legality of tlik I. Wm. Steele, jun., Esq., writer, Glasgow, lately pas.2,l tl bridge, paid the halfpenny, and protested. An action N, raised, and the ease was tried before Sheriff Steele at I w, barton, on Thursday week. Mr. Smollett, M.P., and thei,,,i, man of the bridge, defenders. Mr. Steele opened the car speech of some length. Mr. WlEenaie, agent for the &inn, produced the crown charter for right ot ferry, and right , tamed from Commissioners of Suppll to erect a bridge, .11 exact tollage. Mr. Steele, in reply, said that the right of Smollett to erect a bridge was obtained from the Cum, goners in 1833. In 1834 the Magistrates of Dunili.in, obtained an Act of Parliament for the same purpose: 1838 Mr. Smollett erected the bridge, regardless 0.1 11 act of 1834. He further contended that the Commie,,on, of Supply could not legally grant such a right to , Smollett or any other person, and that such a tax could n be levied but by sanction of an Act of Parliament. '1 Sheriff delayed decision till next court day. Great eNe.t ment was manifested in the proceedings, and the court , crowded to excess; and the lieges on the Leven are in 1.1 hopes that they shall soon be permitted to. pass the fain, bndge "Scot free." Fetal Accident on de Cekdonian Railway.--On Meli! week, as a goods train was passing along the Caledoni Railway, down the incline at Toppmhead, sear Gretna, 0 of the breakamen named John Clark, a native of Wigt, in Climber , fell from the top of a stone waggon. 'Hu .of the passed over him, nearly separating the he 5 from the y, and breaking both thearms or the =fort', ate man, who was, of course, instantly kilielle4himfr 1 standard,  lk  .