Glasgow Courier. — 1846-08-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MELANCHOLY CASE OF ASSASSINATION.  meetii  The foreign journals bring the distressing intelligence of the death by assassination of the Abbe Chevalier Thomas Stewart, younger brother of Sir William Drummond Stewart, of Murthly, Perthshire, while bathing in the sea, near Ancona, on the 18th ult.—The abbe has been resident for many years in Italy, and was a rising dignitary in the Rontish Church, with every prospect of a speedy advancement to a Cardinal's hat. The circumstances attending this fatal and distressing affair are thus given in Galiynanis Messenger (a Paris paper) :—" On the 17th, says a letter from Ancona, the well-known and highly-distinguished Chevalier Abbe Stewart was basely murdered at the Case Brucciate, a little hamlet between the towns of Ancona and Siuigaglia, in the Papal States. About six in the afternoon, the deceased walked down to a lonely spot on the sea-beach to bathe, and, while in the act of undressing, wits attacked by a ruffian, who had only the evening before been liberated from prison. After inflicting several wounds, he made his escape with the Chevalier's watch and valuables, leaving him for dead. His victim, however, rose from the ground, and staggered towards some peasants, who came to his assistance. He was conveyed to the nearest cottage, *here he lingered for some hours, and then died, leaving his loss to be lamented by a large circle of friends, and a name which will be gratefully cherished by the people of Southern Italy, among whom he had so long sojourned."  Royal Exchange.—The number of subscribers to the Glasgow Royal Exchange for the present year, 1846, amounts to 1897. In 1845 the numbers were 1619 showing an increase in the present over the past year of 248. We consider this a very accurate and agreeable index of the growing importance and prosperity of the trading classes within the city. The Earl of Eglinton has been appointed one of the Stewards for Carlisle Meeting, 1847. His Lordship is also one of the Stewards of the Jockey Club, for the ensuing term.— The Earl and Countess of Eglinton, and the Earl of Glasgow, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, London, from Goodwood.—Morning Post. _ _ .  On 'Wednesday, the sth inst., the Senate of the Cniver. sity of Glasgow conferred the degree of Doctor in Medi. eine on Mr. Henry Swan Caldwell, Camberwell, London, Mr. Ebenezer Watson, Glasgow; Mr. Walter Bain, Dumbartonshire; Mr. O'Connor D'Arcey, Dublin; Mr. Joseph Sloss, Ireland; Mr. H. S. G Young, England; Mr. John Syme, England. Anderson's Unieersity.—At a meeting of the Trustees of Anderson's University, on Wednesday, Dr. John Taylor of Glasgow was unanimously elected Professor of Natural Philosophy in the above Institution. te. Serious Accident.--Yesterday evening, about six o'clock, a labourer, named Robert Griffin, a native of Ireland, was employed in stowing pig-iron in the hold of the barque Cambria, lying at the Broomielaw, and was stationed at the bottom of the hold, when a pig of the metal fell from the stage directly over him, and struckhim on the head, causing a wound which, it was feared, was attended with fracture of the skull. He was also injured on other parts of the body. The unfortunate sufferer was conveyed to the Royal Infirmary in a very dangerous state.