Glasgow Courier. — 1845-01-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JANUARY 22. aron Gurney.--Mr. Baron Ourntinued ill-health and increasing Lord ChanceHor his resignation of the Barons of the Exchequer, las filled for some years with great o the bar and the public. The ninster Hall is that Mr. Platt, e vacant seat on the Exchequer arrangement has at present been  i the  HOUSE OF The following la a Hit Session In the Homo of  ai goOd bad. 1  inducting R. Wse  ;In 1.. going  The Missionary Record for the present month gives the name of the Duchess of Gordon as a subscriber of one thousand pounds to the fund for building the Free Church College. Shocking Suicide.—The Ayr Observer mentions that, on Saturday last, a person named David Campbell, a grocer and spirit-dealer in Ayr, put an end to his life in an extraordinary manner. He had been much addicted to drinking, and on Friday night was drunk and unruly upon the streets, when he was conveyed home by the police. Early on Saturday morning be threw open his window, and leapt out to the street, apparently labouring under an aberration of intellect, and after entering a house in Boar's-Head Close by the window, and walking out by the door, much to the astonishment of the inmates, he proceeded to a surgeon's shop, and forcibly possessed himself of a laudanum bottle, after the shopman had refused to supply him, and drank, it is believed, about two ounces of its contents. He was forcibly ejected from the shop, after calling in the aid of 'home neighbours, when be immediately proceeded to a public-house where he drank a gill of whisky from a tumbler, and there also became riotous. A police officer ,gly called in and he was taken into custody . to the guard-room, where the . He gradually sank, o'clook, siertly after be haa _ to Hospital and put into a hot bath, be expired. , who was upwards of six feet high, and very was a married man, but his wife had left him a •s previously, finding her own life and that of her . in danger from his excuses. A White Hare.—We lately had an opportunity of a white hare which had been killed in this neighbourhood. From its appearance, it could not be conjectured to be of the distinct species, /opus variabilia, but rather a variety of the common We, lepus timicius, for its aims was great, and its ears full and long, while the reverse distinguishes the varying bare. The under-parts and sides were white, the back also white with a mixture of bluish-grey and fawn. coloured hairs. It had been known on the property where It was killed for six years, so thet its colour may probably have been the dye of years. It is said that the age of animals may be measured by multiplying the term they take to arrive at maturity by seven, so that saying one year or flf. ',en months, as this in the case of the hare, we have seven ten years as its span of life and thus, if this hare became v from old are, and was thereafter known during six It must have been very aged. The varying hare exists mountainous districts. —Edinburg a Courant. Reprehensible Conduct. —On Monday last, two girls employed in Mr. Neil's print-field, Holm, were taken into custody, on suspicion of having administered poison to some of their female associates in Mr. M'Adam's field, Riecarton. On investigation being made, it was discovered that the two girls employed in Mr. M'Adam's field, and Nilo were , suffering severely from the effects of the drugs which they had taken, were themselves the guilty parties, as it appeared I that, after compounding thir-deleterionafatixture, tributing it liberally among their yotute friends, a. .  di.. bld