Glasgow Courier. — 1847-09-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE LATE TRAGEDY IN FRANCE.  According to the most recent accounts from Paris, it would appear to be the intention of the authorities to bring Mdlle. de Luzy-Desportes to trial upon some charge at ising out of the shocking tragedy of the Hotel Sebastiani. As to the precise nature of the accusation nothing seems to be known, and the facts of the case, as far as they have been disclosed, are certainly not such as would induce an English grand jury to put the individual in question on her trial for murder; but the intention to bring Mdlle. de Luzy before a criminal court seems to imply that compEcity of some sort in the crime of the Duke de Prarlin will form the substance of the charge against her. If this be the course resolved upon, we must confess that the whole management of the case, from the commencement, by the French judicial authorities, seems to us to display a strange and surprising disregard of the principles of natural justice. After what has been done by those authorities, we do not see how the accused person can reasonably expect a fair trial. If she be innocent, her innocence will have to contend against the most fearful odds of prejudice, raised up against her, in a %cry wanton and reprehensible manner, by those whose business it was to hold the balance of justice with a steady and impartial hand.—Morning Chronicle.  _ Case of Tlaft.—On Thuri,duy, at the CenWel Police Court, a Highland woman, named Janet Atliiiinon' was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen eight and a half yards of print from a shop in Trongate. Being unable to speak English, one of the criminal officers, who is himself from the Highlands, acted as her interpreter, when it was elicited from her that she had been made the tool of certain parties who accompanied her into the shop, and had been instructed to take away the goods without knowing that she was stealing them. The case was continued for further examination.  Caution to Shopkeepers.—On Thursday, at the Central Police Court, a number of shopkeepers in London Street were brought before the magistrate, charged with placing baskets and boxes before their doors to the annoyance and obstruction of passers by. This being their first offence, they were dismissed, but cautioned that if brought up again they would be fined.  Another Ship's Crew Magsaered.—An evening paper says letters have been received from Sydney, giving the details of a horrible massacre on board a vessel called the Paul Jones, Mr. Moolton, master, whilst on a voyage to the Swan River. Through stress of weather the captain, on the 15th of April, was compelled to have the vessel towed into Amboyna, but in a few days sailed taking with her a passenger named Middlecot, his servant, and two Malay seamen. On the 24th the Malays attacked the European crew while they were asleep in their respective berths and succeeded in murdering the captain, Mr. Middlecot, Grinsel, the mate, and two seamen. Not understanding navigation, and fearing they would not only lose the shie but their lives, they spared two or three sailors, and bid them steer for the nearest land, their intention Leine to possess themselves of the cargo. Subsequently, however, the English whaling ship Brothers bore up, and the Malays hired her to tow their vessel to Copan. On its arrival there, the seamen contrived to give notice to the authorities of the murders the Malays had committed, and they were immediately seized, and now await their trial for murder and piracy. Popery.—Leo 111., about A.D. 800, was the first Pope who canonised any Saint. Transubstantiation was not made an article of faith in the Church of Rome till the Fourth Council of Lateran, A.D. 1215, and was not even then formally defined; and for twelve hundred years after Christ the cup was given to the laity. Polydore Vergil confesses that the Fathers condemned the worship of images; and the doctrine of the Pope's infallibility, as is well known, was rejected by the Coupons of Constance and Basle, and by the Galilean Church !salt, Artiolo of 1682.—Dr, Wordtworg,  J. & R. G. JAMIESON & Co., flax-spinners in Kilbirnie, and JOHN JAMIESON and WILLIAM JAMIESON, surviving individual partners of that company. Creditors meet in the Saracen's Head Inn, Beith, Ayrshire, on 18th Sept. and 11th Oct., at noon. D. & A. DENNY & Co., merchants in Glasgow, and