Glasgow Courier. — 1846-03-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CONNELL.  It is with deep regret that we announce the death of this accomplished gentleman. Dr. Connell had presided over the mathematical department of the High School of this city for the last nine years, and with unexampled success. His command of his subject was complete, and he had the rare merit of communicating to his pupils a portion of that enthusiasm which distinguished himself. The science of numbers is generally considered repulsive by boys, and as it deals with mere relations there may be some excuse for the prejudice; but in Dr. Connell's hands it became an attractive and a popular study, and a large and increasing class attested the diligence, the skill, and the judgment of that admirable teacher. But Dr. Connell's qualifications were not confined to arithmetic and the lower departments of his profession. He was a mathematician in the highest sense of the term, as his masterly treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus demonstrates; ant it is of public moment to remember that his great success as a teacher of children depended on his great-aSiabrments as a student of pure and mixed mathematics. He was not a smatterer in science, but a profound and able mathematician, to whom all the branches of physical philosophy were accessible; and his history shows that high qualifications are not incompatible with the successful performance of comparatively humble duties. In common with society at large we can only deplore his decease, which has deprived this community of the services of a most valuable man, and ourselves, amongst others, of a muchesteemed friend. Such mysterious dispensations it becomes us not to scrutinise too closely; but humanity may mourn silently over such a loss, and may—without presumption, it is hoped— wonder and be still. Dr. Connell was in the prime of life and in the full vigour of his extraordinary faculties, many years of usefulness were, therefore, to all appearance before him; but He who knows what is best for all of us had otherwise decreed it, and this gifted man has gone down to a premature tomb amid the tears of his kindred, the heartfelt sorrow of his associates, and the honest regrets of the citizens of Glasgow—by all of whom his virtues and I his accomplishments were thoroughly appreciated. Ossa quiets, precor, tuta requiescite in urns; Et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo.  Caledonian Eailway.—Operations on the Edinburgh branch The service companies of the Ist Royals marched into Glas- of this railway, are now carrying on with great rapidity in gow on Saturday last, where they now join the Depot lying the neighbourhood, commencing at the village of Slateford, here. The regiment has newly arrived at Leith, direct from and extending westward, at no great distance from the Barbadoes. This battalion was in Glasgow some few years Edinburgh au d Glasgow Railway, with which it runs parallel ago, previous to going to Canada, where they signalized for a considerable distance. At Slateford many workshops themselves at Mount St. Charles, in the action with the have been erected, and a large number of workmen are French Canadians, and where their steadiness and bravery busily engaged in the construction of waggons, and other put a check to that rebellion. The battalion, as they necessary materials, for the operations on the line, great marched through the streets in two divisions, at different part of ;illicit are conveyed by the canal. The occupiers of ' times of the day, were warmly greeted, and welcomed back several buildings on the west side of the Lothian Road, which to the city of the West, where, poor fellows, they will, for a is the projected site of the terminus in Edinburgh, have few days, find it cold, and feel a difference from the warmer got notice to remove in the course of a few weeks.—Edinclimate of the West Indies. burgh Courant. Executions for Murder—Longford, March 21.—This day, During the last few weeks the Preston and Wyre Railway at 8 minutes past 12 o'clock, John Buchanan, aged 21, and Company have been advertising for a general superintenBernard M‘Goey, aged 24, were executed in front of the dent of their line, at a salary of £5OO per annum, and someIjail of this town for the murder of Henry Bergin, at Gow- what curious, amongst the numerous applicants there are no land, on the lit of November last, of which crime they were less than three members of parliameut.—Lancaster Qum-convicted on the clearest evidence, at the last assizes. dian.  nvm