Glasgow Courier. — 1864-02-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

APC-owan, Dumbarton, in the chair. The meeting was unanimous in denouncing the minutes of the Revised Code as quite unsuitable to Scotch schools. The meeting resolved that an association or combination of teachers be formed for promoting the interests of the body—the chief object being to use every endeavour to get the new Code withdrawn from Scotland; and it was remitted to an influential committee to prepare a petition with that view, to be forwarded for presentation to the House of Commons. A summons of disjunction and erection has been instituted before the Lords of Council and Session Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Tiends, at the instance of James Paton, carpenter, Hamilton Place, Partick, and others, Managers of the Church or Chapel of Ease known as Partiek Church, Partick, in the parish of Govan, with consent and concurrence of the Reverend John Calder, minister of the said church, for all interest he may have in the premises—against the University of Glasgow as Patron and Titular of the Parish of Govan, the Minister and Kirk-Session of the said Parish, and the Moderator and Remanent Members of the Presbytery of Glasgow, and others; which summons concludes that, for the better propogation of the Gospel, and spiritual edification of the people, the whole lands and others forming the district of Partick ought and should, by decree of the said Lords, be separated and disjoined from the said Parish of Govan, and erected into a separate and distinct parish, to be called in all time coming the Parish of Partick ; reserving always the existing management of the poor and poor fund's, and the rights of the existing Session-Clerk of the said Parish of Govan, which, notwithstanding such disjunction and e rection, shall continue as at present, in ,virtue of the provisions to that effect contained in the act 7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 44, as mentioned in the summene,  MURDER IN_MAITL&ND STREET,  COWCADDENS,  A dreadful murder was committed on Tuesday night about eleven o'clock, on the person of a woman named Catherine Gordon. it appears that at eleven o'clock Catherine Gordon, leaning on the shoulders of two young women, named Catherine Lyon or Nelson and Margaret Scobie, entered the Northern Police Office, and informed the lieutenant on duty that she had just been stabbed by William Blair, a joiner. She had no sooner made this statement than she became so faint that she would have fallen to the ground had she not received assistance. She was carried into one of the apartments of the Police Office, and laid upon a bed. Dr Renfrew was sent for, and was in attendance in a few minutes. He at once saw that the poor woman had been mortally wounded, and that all human aid would be unavailing. She died in about a quarter of an hour after she had been murderously assaulted. She had been stabbed with a sharp instrument in two places, one of her wounds being on the left carotid artery, and the other on the left shoulder. Both are punctured wounds, and about three eights of an inch in length, mid are very deep. It is alleged that she had been in the public house of Alexander Ferguson, Maitland Street, with William Blair, joiner, the man to whom she alluded; that they there had called for a gill of whisky and ale, over which they had quarrelled; that she had thrown a tumbler at him; that they thereafter had left the public house, still quarrelling; that when they had got to the open street, three closes south of Ferguson's spirit shop and opposite close No. 35, she had been stabbed by her companion, William Blair, who thereafter left her. ft is said that she has been living for some years with William Blair, although not married to him, and did not bear the best of characters. Up till an early hour this morning he had not been apprehended.