Glasgow Courier. — 1858-01-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CLBOOL CAPTIVE. water upon them in the pit. On the loth of April, 1852, when the pursuer was coming down this ladder he in: .A young man who was discovered by Major Tay- advertently put his foot upon one of these needles', which ' 10E at Herat, as a Christian whose parents projected from the wall, in place of the step, when it perished in Cabool during the disasters slipped, and he lost his hold of the ladder, and fell to the bottom, a depth of 13 fathoms. Both his legs were . rnorable campaign of 1842, arrived lately at Bo bay broken, and he was otherwise dreadfully injured, but ' from Persia in the Feroze. He has been c ' ultimately recovered in the Infirmary so far that only a to the care of the Bombay government by slight lameness has been left as the consequence of the ' - •nr . Mr Murray, and is at present lodged in Mr -in which he claimed reparation were that establishment in the fort. He has the app . of the ladder as a mode of access to the - cne pit was illegal, from its dangerous char,: a half caste. When about nine years of age, CU out of repair • and that it was eon. the officer:, he discovered something of I, '21.11.Et --improper to' 'inner, in so far as the ' --that his father was an Englishman, who, . , the pursuer's foot to slip ought not .. mother, had been murdered, and that he himsett had is position it occupied, but should •: been saved and taken care of by an Affghan chief. Sr so placed as not to have come in contratawnagoarnot when ascending or descending ' Upon making this discovery he longed to escape to the London, which he was informed lay somewhere on The action was brought in the Sheriff Court of Ghia"the other side of Mecca. Shortly afterwards, to ROW, where, after a proof, Sheriff Skena pronounced avoid circumcision, he ran away from the people findings to the effect that the ladder was not a dangerous with whom he lived, and wandered for some time in mode of access nor an illegal construction; that it was : Kashgar, and afterwards in Budukshan, in which not insufficient, but that the pursuer's fall was entirely . latter province he das gunner in the force of occasioned by the reckless and hasty way in which he an independent chief. During his wanderings or was descending the ladder. Therefore, that the de' service he received in • skirmish a severe sabre cut fender was not answerable for the injury sustaiued by ; across the head, of which he bears the sear. He the pursuer. I knew three words only of English, one being The Sheriff Principal, on appeal, reversed this judgand found the pursuer entitled to LSO of damages. . i London,' the object of his hopes, the others 'God ment, ( On advocation to the Supreme Court, Lord Ardmillen , and 'forehead.' He was desirous of proceeding as Ordinary, recalled the latter interlocutor, holdi g' ._ with the Mission to Herat, but an onportunity pre- that the evidence, although In some respects conflicting, , seating itself of forwarding hint to Teheran, he was was decidedly against the case of the pursuer. ' equipped with • horse, sword, and clothing, andsent This jndgment having been reclaimed against, Mr to Mr Murray, by whom he has been transmitted to Patten and Mr Scott were heard to-day for the pursuer, - ' whir(' •nd Bombay. and Mr Shand (with whom WM Mr M'Farlane) ft,