Glasgow Courier. — 1862-05-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BANQUET. —The O'Donogime, M. P., is so indisposed that it has been found necessary to postpone the complimenuary banquet at Tharles. . _  The complete destruction of the western wing of Queen's College, Cork, by tire, took place on Thursday morning. The portion destroyed contained lecture rooms, and a large amount of rare and valuable property. It is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries. It is stated th%t £12,000 will not cover the damage suffered by the Cork Queen's College by the recent fire. Belfast, Thursday.—This evening, at a quarter to six o'clock, John Herdman, Esq., one of the wealthiest and most respectable merchants of this town, was murdered within about 100 yards of his own house at Cliftonville. He was shot through the heart. The supposed murderer is his own cousin, William Herdman, who has been arrested. Mr Richard Burke has been found "Guilty" by a coroner's jury at Clonmel of poisoning his wife with strychnine. The case has excited much interest, as the accused has occupied a respectable position in society, and had been for ten years clerk to the Waterford Board of Guardians.  On the 13th instant, a quantity of rape may have been seen growing on the farm of Lucas Waring, Esq., at Bell Brook, Glenavy. One single stalk was raised in the evening, and the soil carefully cleaned off, and when weighed was upwards of 46 lbs. It measured fully 8 feet 8 inches in height. This is, perhaps, the largest stalk of rape ever raised in Ulster, and would have been well worthy of a place at the next show of the North-East Agricultural Association. —Belfast Newe-Letter. On Saturday evening, a man named Charles Wilgar, a sawyer, was murdered on his way home to his father's residence at Ballylesson, county Down, within about three miles of Belfast. The person who is supposed to have committed the murder is a fellow-workman, who, after robbing the murdered man of his watch, threw the body into the river Lagan, where it was found on Thursday. There are two deep cuts on the back of deceased's head. The Duke of Devonshire has made a timely reduction of rent to all holders of land on his Irish estate (who have not already received an abatement) on the half-year's rent due on the 29th of September last, equal to 20 per cent, on the year, where the annual rent does not amount to £lOO, and a reduction of 15 per cent. to holders whose rents amount to and exceed .6100 per annum. The reduction is as timely as it is gratefully received by the tenantry. —Dublin Evening Mail. A recent inquiry relative to the distress in the Tuam district has brought to light a curious illustration of priestly intimidation. The overbearing conduct of a single priest broke up a relief committee composed chiefly, if not entirely, of Roman Catholics, against whom the rev, gentleman brought accusations, which were declared, on official investigation, to be unfounded. Several members of the committee were denounced from the altar; and one of these unfortunate laymen was actually forced, by the annoyance thus inflicted upon himself and his family, to leave that part of the country and settle in Dublin. "This," says the Dublin correspondent of the Times, "is not an isolated case." The following revolting passage appears in an article in the Tipperary Advocate :—" If Mr Thiebault was kind to tenantry, as it is affirmed, his • is a fearful evidence that the innocent are ionally made to suffer for the crimes of the y elsewhere than on the gallows. If, as it has hinted to us by those whose position ought to •le them to form a sober judgment, his fate was oked by the deceased, his awful end ought to is warning to all who occupy the same position." n such sentiments are circulated in a newspaper • bed in the immediate vicinity of the scene of shocking tragedy, we must not wonder that the .t and brutal portion of the peasantry regard "awful end" of the gentleman as a righteous .ple. The Clonmel Chronicle remarks upon the that no mention was made of the murder of M. bault from the altar of the chapel which he had • in the habit of attending, while cheers of gym. y greeted the suspected assassin as he was veyed in irons to the county jail. RIBANDISM ' THE PRIMP& —T' the general feel' in stating "it down , DI not on  (Jon. Pro.  0011