The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-06-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE LATE RITE AT INTLIRE'RDON.  The first cue before the Court was that of Donald Holme, Bridgend of Muss, and John Munro, from the same district, who were charged with mobbing and rioting, and with assault. The libel contained four separate charges. Hohne, not appearing at the bar, was outlawed; but Munro, being placed in the dock, pleaded guilty to tbe fourth charge as 1 belled, adding. "1 throw myself upon the mercy of the law, and upon your Lordships' compassion." The plea having been accepted by the Solicitor. General,  Mr J. Miller, for the prisoner, addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment. Lord Moscrieff, after shortly alluding to the amount of criminality embraced in the charge to which the pri loner pleaded guilty, said, that had the other charges been included, the Court must hare awarded a sentence of transportation, but, in the circumstances, he would propose that the prisoner be imprisoned for nine months. Lord Wood concurred.  The Lord Justice-Clerk said, it was very fortunate for the prisoner that he had not joined in the mob at the outset, and that the acts of outrage to which he had pleaded guilty as art and part, enabled the Court to pronounce a sentence very different from what it must bare done had he joined in the mobbing and rioting early in the day. He trusted that the prisoner's contrition was sincere, and that he would take care hereafter to lead an orderly and exemplary life as a peaceable subject. The prisoner was accordingly sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.  CLISE OF CULPIBLI Peter M Manimy, lamp lighter and lodging-house keeper, and Peter-fligeans, labourer, both from Stirling, were plaxed at the bar charged with culpable homicide under circumstances of peculiarly savage and novel a character. Tne indictment charged the prisoners wi'h having on the 23i Nov , last, resolved to remove Robert M`Gill, a labourer, while lying in M'Manimy's house under t)phus fever from Stirling to Gleegow, without his consent, and to leave and desert him at the latter city. It stated that they had sent *Gill on the outside of a coach from Stirling to Castlecary, and thence by the railway to Glasgow, accompanied by the prisoner Higgins, who had left and deserted him at the terminus of the Edinburgh and Cliasgew Railway. where he lay in a paved passage for several hours, exposed to the inclemency of the weather, to the injury -of his health and danger of his life, until he was removed by Police officers upon a wheel-barrow to the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow, where he died the third day thereafter. The libel charged the prisoners with assaulting the deceased while incapable of resistance. They both pleaded guilty, with the exception of the aggravation of assault. Mr Logan, for M'Manitny, showed that the culpable act of which he had confessed himself guilty, wasnot one which had entered into his mind until all his attempts to secure accommodation elsewhere failed. The learped gentleman then stated that his client instructed figgene to convey deceased to the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow, and also that in consequence of his conduct, the Gas Company had discharged him from their service. lie hoped the Court would consider these circumstances in judging of the case. Mr J- Miller, as counsel for nigger. said, be hoped the stntement made by the counsel for M'Nfanimy, would not it fluence their lordships in awarding punishment to his client. After consulting with the other Judges, the Lord Justice-Clerk intimated, (hates the case was one of so much novelty, and of such serious importance the court had agreed to delay passing lenience till they bad an opportunity of communicating with the other Lords of Justiciary. The court then adjourned, it being understood that the sentence will be pronounced on Thursday.