The Express. — 1847-11-10 (London, England)

SCOTLA-VD.  EDISBUIIOII,.Nov. 8.  A meeting is to be held in Glasgow this evening for the purpose of denouncing the adulteration of meal and other articles of food. It was convened by the Lord Provost in compliance with a requisition which especially alluded to " the important facts brought out in the Justiciary Court, on the 29th Sept last, in reference to the extensive and pernicious fraud practised on the population by provision dealers adulterating the common necessaries of life." The induction, or attempted induction, of the new professor of Hebrew was to-day the occasion of a " scene " at the university. After the annouace-1 went on Saturday that Lord Robertson would grant no interdict the magistrates requested that a meeting of the Senates Academicus should be called at ten o'clock to-day for the purpose of induction. At that hour, accordingly, the senators met, and the Lord Provost, accompanied by the pro- , lessor elect and the college committee of the town council, made their appearance ; on which, on the ' motion of Principal Lee, strangers and reporters were ordered to withdraw. In substance the after proceedings were as follow :—The Provost introduced Mr. Macdouall as the new professor of Hebrew. Principal Lee said that sufficient time had not been allowed for the senators to consider the matter; and on ascertaining that Mr. Macdouall had not subscribed the tests, he had a protest against his induction. Provost Black stated that election by the town council was equivalent to induction, and that the latter, as hitherto observed, was merely a formal act of courtesy, and consisted in the simple introduction of a professor elect to his future brethren. Against this view a law professor took another protest. The Provost and magistratest hen retired. What precise shape the litigation will next assume it is difficult to say, but there is little clout): that the case will be a protracted one.  SUSPCC rEn MI:RD/IR.—On Tuesday, the body of a female almost in a state of nudity, and apparently about fifty years of age, was found in the Union Canal, near Muiravonside ; and appeared to have been from ten to twenty days in the water. The body bore the marks of numerous stabs and cuts, which had apparently been inflicted with a knife or a similar instrument ; and from these and other circumstances it is naturally suspected that the woman had been murdered before being thrown into the canal. Various conjectures have been formed of the parties likely to have committed the crime, and from the fact of the de. ceased being • stranger in the district where she was found, it is supposed that the murder (should it prove to be such) has been committed at • distance, and the body brought by a coal-boat or lighter, and thrown into the canal. From the remains of a shoe which was found on one of her feet the unfortunate woman seems to have been a poor person, and probably a vagrant. She appears to have been about five feet six sad a half inches an height, rather stout and well proportioned, with thin grey hair. The authorities are engaged in the investigation of the who'si circumstances, and the body is lying at Falkirk for identification.