Glasgow Courier. — 1848-03-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MAJOR MATION.—Six o'clock, Wednesday are this moment committed for the  understand who' ,_  •-;::':.:.:'.',7-;'..'!'..:',..-',',7VV!  r. New_  Faculty of Giaagoto.—At a meethig of this learned body, which took place on Thursday last, Mr. J. L. Lang was elected Fiscal by a great majority. They have, we think, made a very jufficiong choice; for -Mr. L. will raise the character of the office, while the interests of the Faculty will be vigilantly attended to. EmDezzlentent.—We regret to learn that a few of the unemployed weavers have so far forgot both gratitude and honesty as to have embezzled the weft with which they were furnished through the instrumentality of the Relief Committee. Two individuals were convicted of the offence last week, and on Thursday two others were apprehended on a similar charge. leving Fire—About 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, fire was - i postponed pass discovered in a dwelling-house in Sandyford Place. It was, te MURDER or . however, extinguished without the aid of the fire-engines. Evening.—Three persons The fire was occasioned by a beam under the hearth-stone of murder of Major Mahon. one of the rooms having ignited. TRI MiInISISIOUS POISONING Cass.—lt will be seen by the CUSS of Stabbing.—Early on Tuesday morning, the attenfollowing paragraph, taken from the Fireman's Journal, respecting tbe poisoning of the Rev. Mr. Maguire, that the original statement. tion of the police was called to a noise proceeding from the d shop of Matthew Anderson, spirit-dealer, Jamaica Street j, fixing the suspicion or guilt on the housekeeper of the reverent] On going to the place, they found that Mr. Anderson he ~. gentleman, turns out to be correct, as the woman has been fully .1. Seg.; committed to take her trial for murder:—" The inquest held on been severely stabbed in several places. Drs. Easton a f Bridge- the remains of the Rev. Mr. Maguire has just concluded. Mr. F.-1,... vwitecl him in the course o the morning, and h.p., 5 Alexander Percy, corot.er for the county of Leitrim, and a most 1 he is now considered out of danger. A T respectable jury, held a long and searching investigation into the as accused of having inflicted the wounds, was w Beg.; facts of this very extraordinary and melancholy case; and after Leaded shortly afterwards, and is still in custody. Bn. ; the examination of several witnesses, and reading the depositions 1 Messrs. Livingston and Wells, express forwarders, . , of Dr. Bratty, of Gardiner Street (the eminent professor of medical jurisprudence), who had made a careful analysis of the stomach of York, have in their employment a-man named Solomon Hay who, it is stated by one of the papers, has been in their the deceased, the jury found a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against service eight years, during which time he has carried an Mary Reynolds, who bad been in the capacity of housekeeper to . the reverend gentleman. The coroner fully committed the ac- immense amount of money and property, without the loss of cased for trial at the assizes, but it is not yet ascertained whether a cent, and travelled on railroad and river, without accident, she will be tried at the present Commission for Leitrim." , or the loss of a single trip, 482,580 miles.