Glasgow Courier. — 1863-12-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE DAILY TET.EGRAPH." Before quitting this topics (the Cobden and Delano correspondence), I ought to mention that eireutnstances have come out daring the course of the controversy which have all but conclusively proved that the Dailg Telegraph is owned by the proprietary of tho Ti,ses, although when this was alleged some time agoorit was niost emphatically &Med by both organs. —London Correspondesf. At the assizes at Kingston, on Thursday, Joseph Mahaig, a sergeant in the 3rd Buffs, was put upon his trial for the murder of Elizabeth Waterer, at _Guildford. The evidence tended to show that the prisoner and the deceased woman hail agreed to kill themselves, and both took poison with that object. In her case -it was fatal, in his not, and ho subsequently cut his throat. Carefully tended, however, he has recovered. • The jury found him guilty as an accessory before the fact to the murder of the deceasecl. woman, lint recommended liiin to mercy. Mr Baron Pigott sentenced the prisoner to death, promising at the Sallie time to forward the recommendation of the jury to the Home Secretary On Tuesday, a fearf,il accident occurred at W4,ati on the London and North-Western Railway, as the express from London to the north wis passing through the town at three o'clock. Near the railway bridge over the Frog Lane is a small collie,', at which a lad namo,l Thomia Battersby was employed, and Minot the time the train was due Battersby was walking along with a message to a points:lm. Ho was caught by the holler of the engine, pushed along for nearly 20 yard:, end then thrown with his head upon one of the mails. The head was completely severed from the body, the skull split into fragments, and the brains spattered upon the engine and the rails. Mr. Standish, a Lancashire magistrate, and also possessing property in the county of Durham, has been the hero of an awkward adventure. In September last, he shot at and severely wounded two men on the Queen's highway, near Ormskirk,. and on Wednesday, after some preliminary discussions, he was brought before Mr. Justice Willea, at the Liverpool assizes, to answer the grave charge preferred against him. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanour, but it was urged on his behalf that he was subject to nervous or frantic fits, and that it was while under the influence of one of these attacks that he committed the act complained of. The learned judge, however, sentenced the prisoner to a month's imprisonment, ordering him also to pay a fine of £3OO.  Nxiv UtfivErtsrry Cum.—A meeting of between 200 and 300 members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, London, on the 18th instant, to consider the advisability of establishing a new University Club, in consequence of the length of time that is required to gain admission to the two existing clubs. The Hon. George Denman, Q.C., M.P., was in the chair, and resolutions were enthusiastically passed, to the effect that a club should be formed, that a committee should be appointed to carry into effect the objects of the meeting, and that members of the universities should be eligible for proposal who should have resided at least one year at Oxford or Cambridge.