Glasgow Courier. — 1847-04-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LOSS OF THE ROCHESTER. The, tbilowing is a copy of a letter received at Liverpool on Fridaannouncing the wreck of this vessel _ . .  " Wexford, 14th April, 1847. " Dear 81r.—I am sorry to inform you that the Rochester, Captain Trueman, bound from your port to New-York, struck on Blaokwater Bank yesterday morning. The crew and passenget remained on bomd until to-day, when they wt re taken out oilier and brought In here by sk Tarsi of the fishing boats belonging to Arklow ; crew and pessem, era about 300 In all. It is indeed to true the poor passengers scarcely saved inythlug, and looked mod mtserable on landing."  The Sunday Soup.Kitchen.—On Sunday upwards of 3000 pints of soup were distributed, and nearly 4000 rations of bread. Dr. Boyd,of the Tron Church, commenced the pro. ceedings with a short prayer. The visitors were not so numerous as on BOlrle former occasions, but the donation boxes contained no less than £l2 2s 9d. including £2 of a donation which was received by Mr. Mackenzie, enclosed in a letter. It was generally remarked that the recipients were becoming more clearily in their appearance. Bishop Murdoch, we understand, is to be the officiating clergyman next Sunday. _  The Catholic clergy of Rome bare taken up the cause of railways,. and a rellgtous periodical of that city has, of late, devoted four oolunum to the subject.  Suicides.—.Oa Thursday morning last, as the Ramona steam-ship was on her passage from Yarmouth to London, Captain G. B. Mallet!, of the Royal Engineers, threw himself overboard and was drowned. Shortly before he was missed) hboun4 h"'t lock in the morning, he-was walking the deck ambling a cigar, and he desired the steward's boy to make him a sofa bed. He appeared to be particularly reserved daring the voyage, but there was nothing else remarkable in his manner.—Miss Mary Anne Clarke, a fine young woman 'about nineteen years of age, whose father lately kept the Swan Inn, at Maltby, having been detected the other day in taking money out of her aunt's till, and being unable lo make it good, as she had promised to do, went to the sbep of a Mr. William Acorn, grocer and draper, who without inay question or scruple, sold her an ounce of arsenic, on her saying that she wanted to destroy rats. She took the whole of the poison, and died a few hours afterwards.—. Henry Thomas Dyer, and Louisa, his wife, a newlymarried couple both aged about twenty, are in custody at Greenwich, elmirged with attempting to destroy themselves and each other by taking poison. Some quarrel with the parents of the female seems to have occasioned the attempt at self-destruction.—John Barber, an old man of 74, committed suicide, the other day, at Harrogate, by cutting his throat with a razor. The Duke of Wellington at Church —All the world knows the Duke of 'Wellington is a business man. The Conrt Circubsr also takes care to tell all who chose to read it that his Grace uniformly attends the early service every Sunday in the Chapel Royal. It was cold and bleak the other Sunday morning. The Duke, a few minutes before eight o'clock, was in his pew. The officiating Clergyman saw Ile clerk present: he looked about, hemmed, and waited a minute or so, and then commenced the service; still no clerk made his appearance. Who was to make the sacred responses? Certainly not the clerk. The Duke of Wellington, with characteristic promptitude, took the prayer-book in his band and offieiated for the clerk, reading all the responses as if he were the usual functionary. The audience consisted only of four persons.—Coerespondest of the Chronicle. Catharine Foster, who poisoned her husband three week, after marriage, was hanged on Saturday, at Bury St. Edmunds. She walked unsupported to the drop with a firm .step, and never quailed up to the last fatal moment. Fatal Affect: of ltasAness.—Ou Monday week a working man, named Seddon, attempted, in bravado, to limp upon the Step of one of the carriages of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as it was approaching the Eccles station. Although the carriage bad nearly stopped, he was whirled round the instant that he touched the step, thrown under the train, and killed on the spot. The unfortunate man was what is called "fresh" at the time, having been at a wedding breakfast. Ile has left a widow and children.