Glasgow Courier. — 1848-01-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MEETING OF MR. ALISON'S CREDITORS.  parts of the ' several feet frozen over  a Proteetant a huge cougregation • present, how, of the cla   111111 Ce• I ' are I ft  _ _ ---- *ALL be regwrded th;ociabout world as the lowest species of religious despotism which has ever existed; and he will be a bold man indeed who will undertake the defence of a society the governors of which refuse to lend their aid to the suppression of crime, and the abatement of murder. This, at least, is something gained, and we are thankful to Dr. Bigiale for it. Before closing we would remark that the invariable apology for Irish violence is want. Men murder their neighbours for a bit of bread—they are starving, and the depth of the crime is supposed to be lessened by the strength of an overwhelming necessity. To this it may be replied, in the first place, that the reports of the trials under the special commission disprove this statement. The murderers who have been convicted have not been in even destitute circumstances, but hired assassins, with well covered backs and well filled stomachs, to whom the temptation of a few pounds was irresistible; and, in the second place, that this argument cannot apply where the Irishman is free from the pressure of starvation, as, for instance, in the colonies. Now, we not only know that this turbulent race carry their murderous propensities with them to America, where ercise them whenever a fitting opportunity there is lying before us at this very moment a London journal, from " An Australian Colonist," I. we learn that these people, under the training of as M‘Hale, transfer, even to the Antipodes, those sions which have made them for centuries a rem a bye-word in Europe. We have room for only graph, but it is enough:—  here they 01offer., but letter in a from which of such men ,ose foul pasreproach 1v one  and pan -- about this pecolony, whose zeal for irded with anythiog offence to this peonphraseology which hats r' authority in Ireland). Church "  - -On Monday last, a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Alexander Alison, jun., ironmaster, one of the directors of the Ayrshire Iron Company, printer and publisher in Gisisgow, and sole proprietor of the North British Mail newspaper, was held in the Black Bull Hotel here. Mr. M'Cowan, accountant, the interim-factor on the sequestrated estate, read a report, from which it appeared that the bankrupt estimated his liabilities in the meantime at about 1..80,000, while his assets, exclusive of reversions expected to be recovered from the estate of Moon, &c., are about £12,000. The amount of absolute lose is given at 9..56,000; and amongst the items which make up this sum are £6400 lost upon pig Iron; £ll,BOO bad debts; £21,300 upon newspaper and other publications; £10,400 upon shares, &c. etc. According to the balance sheet of Ist December, 1847, it appears that the bankrupt had drawn from the Blair Iron Company £36,300, and from the Ayrshire Iron Company £14,000. Mr. M'Cowan was unanimously appointed trustee upon the estate, and instructed to take the necessary steps to secure the interest of the creditors as far as praoticable.  A§