Glasgow Courier. — 1848-08-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  Divorce.—The divorce bill of Miss Field, or rather Mrs. Brown, has been tkrown out of the House of Lords. Mies Field, who by the death of her father was possessed of about £40,000 in money and an income of £l2OO a-year, and who will be mistress of twice as much at the death of her brother, was, with the latter, under the care of a Mr. , Brown, she being seventeen years old and he fifty-two. Ile I persuaded her by threats and otherwise to marry him, and he published false banns, for which offence he is now undergoing imprisonment. The result of the Lords' decision is that the girl will be handed over to her husband the moment his term of imprisonment expires, and he will become master of her and her property. Death/Tom the Bite of a Man.—A few weeks ago, when the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards were stationed at Nottingham barracks, two of the privates quarrelled, and one bit the other in the finger. The wound festered, and at length the man's whole body became affected; the bones, denuded of flesh, protruding through the skin. The sufferer lingered until Monday, when he was relieved by death. A despatch has been sent to Manchester (where the regiment is now stationed) for witnesses, and with orders for the man who so savagely attacked the deceased to be taken into custody, preparatory to an inquest being held upon the body. Execution in Essex.—On Monday morning Mary May was hanged at Springfield jail, for the murder of her 'brother at Wix. It will be remembered that she poisoned him with arsenic, for the purpose of obtaining an allowance from a burial club at Harwich, in which she had entered his name without his knowledge. A great crowd assembled in front! of the jail, including, as usual on those occasions, a large' number of females. The prisoner, during the preparations for her death, continued to moan dreadfully. When the drop fell, being a large heavy woman, she died apparently with only a slight struggle. Though exertions were made to save the prisoner's life, it was on the ground of general opposition to capital punishments. For the culprit individually it is said that little commiseration was felt, as there were strong suspicions that, in addition to the crime for which she suffered, she had poisoned several of her own children. It is 10 years since an execution took place here, and more than 40 years since a female was hanged. It is stated that the convict denied her guilt to the last. A Girl Shot is Nottinghamshire.—On Monday evening a young woman named Frances Green was shot by her lover, Thoji Hall, a youth of 19. On Tuesday the prisoner was taken before the borough magistrates, when be stated that on Monday evening a man came up to him and said that he was in great distress, and that he should be obliged to go to the workhouse if he could not obtain some money for a pistol, which he drew from his pocket. The pistol had a ffint lock; the prisoner was not told that it was loaded. He was induced to give the man Is. 6d. for the weapon. Immediately afterwards he went to the house of Frances Green, and showed her the pistol. He then cocked and snapped it, when the pistol exploded, and proved to be loaded with ball. The contents entered Frances Green's neck, and she instantly fell. The prisoner was remanded. The unfortunate young woman now lies in the hospital in a very dangerous state, the ball not having at present been extracted.