Glasgow Courier. — 1863-11-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CALMS. Finally he gave one to the effect that, "To the best of his belief deceased had died from natural causes, there being no cause of suspicion that it should be otherwise." The police heard of the affair, and a post-mortem examination was made, which resulted in an opinion being expressed by the examiner that death had resulted from suffocation or poison. The contents of the stomach have been sent for analysis, and the inquest is adjourned for the report. STATUTE Hriurms.—The Yorkshire Society, established two years ago, is making a third effort to supplant the hiring of farm and other servants, especially girls, in statute hirings or fairs. In the agricultural districts three Saturdays or other market days preceding Martinmas have hitherto been regarded as statute fairs, when hundreds of servants of both sexes have assembled in the market-places. Too frequently scenes of riot and debauchery have resulted. The society now formed provides the largest halls or rooms obtainable in the various towns as registries, to which female servants and mistresses are invited, transactions costing the servants nothing. Fire and shelter the society provide free, and refreshments are supplied at the bare coat of the provisions. The society was pretty successful last year, and it is hoped eventually to abolish the evils of statutes in open markets. THE MURDER OF A HARTLEPOOL FISHERMAN'. Our readers will remember that the captain and crew of the French ship Jantalina were charged at the Sunderland police court with the murder of Matthew Wilkinson, a Hartlepool fisherman, off Seaham, on the Ist of September last. The Jantalina ran down one of the small fishing cobles of Hartlepool. The coble did not instantly sink, but it was injured, and so severe was the shock that the crew thought it doomed. The latter were, moved by the common instinct of self-preservation, attempting to board the French schooner, when the master gave orders, which were cruelly obeyed, to prevent any boarding, and by the use of handspikes and bludgeons, the poor fellows were hammered back into the water. One of them, Wilkinson, was struck a blow which stunned him, and he sank to rise no more. The others succeeded in gaining their own craft, and escaped. The Sunderland magistrates, after investigating the circumstances, and communicating with the Secretary of State, were compelled to discharge the prisoners, on the ground that the offence being committed on board- a French vessel on the high seas, the prisoners could only be tried in a French court. The captain and crew were subsequently apprehended for trial in their own country. The trial took place on the 28th ult., the evidence received being (contrary to the practice of the English courts) the written depositions taken in England, and no opportunity being given for oral cross-examination of witnesses; and the result has been that the master of the schooner has been sentenced to the hulks for twenty-one, and two of the crew to twelve years each. According to the evidence given in Sunderland, the captain did not appear to have taken any part in the affair, and all he did was to swear at two ot the fishermen when they got on board theXszonch yowl.  In a eollection for the Wesleyan Missionary Society at Liverpool on Tuesday, upwards of £7OOO was collected in a congregation of about 150 perSODS.