Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ROACHING IMARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—It is said that a marriage is arranged to take place between Lady Desart and Ivir: Weuclin, jun. Lady Dunmore is shortlyte bp married-to, Major Elphinstone. The marriage of Xelin Peyton, 'Esq., with Miss Lindsay, is fixed for the 10th of FebruMl. marriage is 411onf to take place between Lady Frances Gorden, daughter of tile late, Sir James Keir 'Grant, and widow of Lord Francis Gordon, and Mr. M'Clintnek. The marriage of Captain Trotter. .of the Guards, and the lion: Igiss Eva Gifford will be solemnised in London soon after Easter. We are. happy to hear that the fair fiancee has quite recovered from the offepts of the wound she received at Wimbledon by th,o ekcplo4o.4 qf 4 case of rockets.— Court Journal. The case of Charlotte Wiser, who acquired such unenviable notoriety last summer for murdering illegitimate children at so much a head, was brought on Tuesday and Wednesday before the Court of Queen's Bench, who, after hat an hones deliberation, gave judgment in favour of the !grown, 'the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice contains a mas, terly answer to the points suggested by Lord Wensleydale, at whop in4igation the wretched woman was reprieved; butwp fPgrot t.n ob4orvo that orfon he expresses his dissatisfaction with some parts of the trial, and intimates ht opinion that they are deserving of consideration in another Court. Such miscarriage§ of justice*cannot but bring our criminal procedure WA ilisropate ; and it is to be regretted that the paucity of talent amongst the Whig Bar should have caused so inefficient a judge as Mr. Justice Keating, through whose incompetence these mistakes have arisen, to be raised to a position for which he is everyday showing himself more and more unat,—John There is an animated correspondence going on in the Queen on the propriety of flogging in ladies' schools. One gentleman an old Etonian, whose daughter underwent the 'discipline at an establishment near London, thus revenges himself :—" I am an Irishman, and you may imagine my indignation at such an-outrage to a modest young lady who is actually engaged to be married. My resolution was soon taken. That evening I consulted the .vt ives of three of my friends, who entirely approved of it. With much difficulty I induced my niece to return to the school on Monda,y. Lnekily, it Was not long to Christmas, and she escaped any further insult, except the occasional chair' of one or two younger girls. Early in January I wrote a polite note to the lady principal asking her to lunch at my house, and reeeive the amount due to her. She came, and was shown into the library, where the three married ladies above mentioned awaited her, Causing her to be seated, I told her my opinion of her conduct; observed that for my niece's sake I desired to avoid the exposure attendant on legal proceedings, and added that, with the approval of the ladies present, should punish her as she had punished my niece. Of course, there was A tempestuous sepho, !ant she submitted. I had ridden over to Eton and got a .good stout birch from the man who makes for colis agd me appointment, it is only necess4ry to oa' oat • §lo.was Lroate4 as my niece had been in the matter of apparel, and .that I gave her twenty strokes, whose severity the state of her cuticle plainly attested. She was well able to bear them, being forty years old, unmarried, a tall, strong, stout woman. My nice() declined to be present at the punishment, but I compelled the woman to apologise humbly to her afterwards. I have since heard a rumour that she intends to give up shool and Iwo 04e neighbourhood," a