Glasgow Courier. — 1844-01-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MSS., saying," I leave my memory in hit, charge,confiding in his justice and honour." To Earl Grey• "my George, carved on an amethyst, and worn by George II." To his valet he leaves his wearing apparel, robesiiithnra, &c., "for his kindness during my illness." The property is sworn under £Booo.—Britannia. The Railway Magazine says that the railway companies intend to apply for an act to convert their capital into stock, and have the same facilities of transfer as the Government Securities and East India Stock. Two gentlemen, members of the Episcopal Church in America, have pledged themselves to support three clerical missionaries in China for a term of years. They have engagkl to give 8,000 dollars annually for this important purpose.—Globe. A young man was accidentally killed at Richmond on Monday, at a pigeon-shooting match, which he attended as a spectator. The charge entered the back side of his head, and carried the top part completely away, and so effectual was the shot, that he died instantly. Royal Memory.—On Captain Crowdy, R.N., being presented to his Majesty at the reception at the Tuileries, on Friday week, the King did the gallant officer the honour to say that he always saw with satisfaction a captain of the British navy; Captain Crowdy, in acknowledging the compliment, reminded his Royal interlocutor that he had the honour of conversing with his Majesty on board the Vol. ontaire frigate, in the Mediterranean, in 1808. "Ah I" said the King, " you were First• Lieutenant of the Pam, Captain Walpole. How is my old shipmate Admiral air Charles Bullen ! I hope he is well. This is an instance of correctness of memory really remarkable, considering the length of time that has since elapsed (nearly 40 years), and the momentous events which have subsequently marked his Majesty's career, so strongly calculated to obliterate minor circumstances from the mind—.Galignani's Messenger. Singular Attempt to Poison.—At the York assizes, Mathew Dilworth and George Smith were indicted for administering to Hannah Hargreaves a quantity of poison, with intent to murder her. The prosecutrix lived as servant with a farmer at Dunlop, in the Weseßiding. On the 18th September, her master and mistress were out late, and the prosecutrix was left at home with the children. About nine in the evening she went into the yard to get some turfs for the fire, when Dilworth, who stood near the doot,seized her andthrew heron her back, and putting something to her mouth, said, " Swallow this, or I'll kill thee." He then poured some bitter-tasting liquid from a bottle into her mouth. Another man assisted, and they took off her apron and tied it tightly round her mouth. The men went off. She turned sick and poorly, and was found near midnight wandering about in a state of stupor. ametice were administered, and she tbrew up a quantity of some poisonous narcotic. The Judge (Coltman) thought it possible that the prisoners might have intended robbery rather than murder. The Jury found them guilty, and the Judge said their lives would be spared, but they must expect the next severest punishment of the law. A remarkable instance of the audacity of the Bushrangers in our Australian possessions is afforded by the fact noticed in recent advices that Cash, the notorious villain, whose crimes have so long rendered him infamous, had ventured into Hobart-Town, with another individual, in the garb of a sailor: and being suspected was pursued and captured, after having fired two or three shots in the open streets, and killed one unfortunate constable engaged in the affair. Reprieve of Ann M'Cormiek.—The sentence of death passed on this unhappy woman, who was convicted at the late special commission before Mr. Justice Wightman, of the murder of Rosannah M,Cormick, her infant child, by administering arsenic to her, has been commuted to transportation for life. The reprieve was received at Kirkdale, on Wednesday, but before its arrival the culprit had madea confession of her guilt to the chaplain. She acknowledged that she had given the child the poison, adding that she took as much arsenic herself as she believed would have destroyed her own life. The fact mentioned in the latter part of her statement will, no doubt, account for her present enfeebled and sickly condition.—Liverpool Mail.