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Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ALARMING FOR THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—WO final in a print called the Leith Herald the following startling announcement in reference to the filling up of the first charge in South Leith parish :—lf by subtility and craft the Rev. Henry Duff does not succeed the Rev. Dr Stevenson to the first charge of the Church, it will be a heavy blow to the Church of Scotland, and will make it totter to its foutolution. .  ....... We understand that the Government, lowing signified their intention of supplying the vacancy occasioned by the acceptance of the Rev. Dr Stevenson of the Chair of Church History,in conformity with the desire and choke of the congregation, a petition has been subscribed by nearly 1,200 communicants and sitters of the church, praying that the appointment may be conferred on the Rev. Henry Duff, the present incumbent of the second charge of the parish. The Archbishop of York has issued an address to the clergy under his charge, inviting them to hold in their several churches a public thanksgiving for the success which hllll crowned harvest operations this season. The Archbishop says " Two months since, we scarcely hoped for so happy a termination to Our anxieties; and a repetition of the scarcity which prevailed last year most have brought upon our country very severe privation and distress." _ . .  An inquest was held at the County Lunatic Hospital, Lincoln, on Saturday last, on the body of Mr Edward Haywood,Wesleyan minister, aged 40, an inmate of the above institution, who had committed suicide on the previous day. The evidence adduced went to show that on Friday morning, about twelve o'clock, the deceased was discovered by one of the inmates suspended by a piece of cord tied to a couple of handkerchiefs, from a tank in one of the water closets. Re was, while an inmate, remarkably harmless and inoffensive.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DESTRUCTION OF £2OO WORTH OF ALE AT WAREFIELD.—On Thursday morning, it was discovered that the brewery recently in the occupation of Mr John Haigh, Wild's Yard, Kirkgate, Leeds, had been entered during the night, and that the contents of ten or twelve vats of ale had been turned into the common sewers. The damage is estimated at .£2OO. A few days ago as Mr Gower, gamekeeper to Mr J. H. Barton, of Stapleton Park, was returning home with a pipe in his mouth, his foot slipped, and he fell on his face, which forced the pipe through the back of his neck. He got up, pulled the pipe away, and walked home. In the course of a day or two the wound became so dangerous that he was obliged to send for Dr Oxley, of Pontefract, but it was than too late, and Gower died.  In the neighbourhood of Dudley a policeman was conveying a prisoner to the lock.up, when he was run over and rendered insmsible by a horse. The Boner did not attempt to run away, but gave his captor every assistance, and accompanied him to the jail. He was brought before the magistrates, but the evidence being unsatisfactory he was discharged. On Friday evening a well-dressed man, supposed to he a foreigner, committed suicide at the Stepney Junction Railway station. As one of the down trains was coming into the station he deliberately flung himself from the platform under the engine, and every carriage of the train went over him. The body was cut to pieces, and it was some time before his remains could be collected. The deceased is at present unknown. On Saturday, information was received of the discovery of three infants, a male and two females, who had been cruelly murdered, one at Stepney, having a piece of tape so tightly drawn round the throat as to cut into the flesh, leaving ,no doubt that it had been deprived of life by strangulation, one in Arundel Street, Strand, and the third in the shrubbery on the west side of llyde Park, the marks of violence leaving no doubt that they have been brutally murdered. A large reward is offered, and the police are using every effort to discover the perpetrators of those atrocious crimes.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-12-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

COTTON FACTORY AT ST. JOHN'S. —One of our wealthiest merchants has just erected a cotton factory in this city, and is only waiting the cessation of hostilities to obtain cotton from the Southern States with which to commence operations. Another wealthy firm here is about to erect a sugar refinery in this city.—Letterfrom St. John's.  COMMUNICATION WITH AMERICA —The Telegraph to Gaspe. —The Quebec Chronicle says it is highly probable that next spring a telegraph will be extend. ed to Cape Rosier, the wires being probably run from Du Loup (or Father Point) to Campbelton, where they will join the New Brunswick lines, and thence round the coast to Gaspe and the Cape. Mail arrangements with the Lower Provinces would thus be greatly facilitated.  The Court of Assize of the Seine last week tried a man named Paulin on the charge of murder. The prisoner, a married man, and a widow named Thomas, had formed an intimate connexion; and, as they could not be married, resolved to commit suicide together, in the usual French fashion, by inhaling the fumes of charcoal. In this attempt the woman only succeeded, the man surviving. Such at least was his story, and the jury, believing it, acquitted him. The President of the Canaiian Institute of Montreal has received, through the medium of the French Consul, a case containing one hundred and fifty-six volumes of rare and interesting works, being a present from his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon to the institute. The gift includes a small lot of choice engravings, and is accompanied by a letter from the Prince, in which he requests the members to accept his present as a remembrance of his visit to Canada, and as a token of the interest he takes in the welfare of the institute.  STATE OF AFFAIRS AT NEw
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-01-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED ASSASSIN. At half-past ten o'clock. miens, the hall was graced by the presence of a large tons was named the "Newsky," and the other rs' for_ the Barrow Steam Navigation Co., being intended On Thursday afternoon, Sub-Inspector Thomson, of age. and attentive audience. The AYRSHIRE HARRIERS meet on The usual weekly lecture on " Common Things," for a canal screw tug-stea , mer The machinery of the Glasgow Detective Police and Constable Carty, of On Friday, as a young boy of about eight years of b 2 Wallace Monument Saturday F:e . . at . the 15th day of October 185 , 7, twenty shares of g5O th vessels was manufactured at London Works, the Donegal Con tabula ' h • Wednesday a eb. 6 at Hollybush Toll. each, of the stock of tle Western Bank of Scotian ' under the auspices of the Abstainers' Union, was be' labourer named Patrick Toy, while working at a builds trine, was, along with some companions, amusing s ry, appre ended a plasterer' age, named Thomas Morton, son of a joiner in Ca- d, at : and on board when launched. at Stair Bridge. the price of g 1,492 IN tli h given on Monday night by James Salmon, Esq., ing in Argyll Street, on a charge 2f having, on the '24th himself in the courtyard of the Catrine Brewery, by ser ug, or t ereby • and ( 1 On Sunday night, about 6 o'clock, a man named Saturday Feb. 9 Wednesday... Feb. 13 at Minnishant. on or about the 16th day of October, 1857, other' '24 architect, when he chose for his subject, and de- Oetober, 1858, attempted to mural? r the Bev. Alexander leaping in and out of a cart, which was lying up Saturday Feb. 16 at Fail Toll. shares of £5O each of the stock of the said bank Went' iv ered an excellent lecture on, " The Home of the Thomas Hamilton, residing in an underground flat Nixon, clergyman of the Established Church of Eng- against the wall, by some means the cart over- Wednesday...Feh. 20 at Macnairston. price of £1,420 sterling, or thereby ? ,at the was found sitt' h' ' at 285, Argyll Street, mg in is chair Working Man.", The audience quite filled the City land Heathfield in count Done 1 The ttem ted '. . , . y ga • a P balanced, and falling upon the little fellow's head, Saturday Feb. 23 at Craigie Village. 2. Whether the pursuer was induced to purch in the house dead. Two girls going for water ob- assassination wae commiLted while the rev. gentleman ase the Hall Saloon, and seemed much entertained by the served him through the door of his house, which was passing through the townland of Ballyhoos, in his he was killed upon the spot. Wednesday... Feb. 27 at Coylton Church. said shares by false representations as to the I 'able lecturer. At half-past eleven o'clock. the mid bank, fraudulently mad affairs of was open and, thinking him aaleep, went to awaken carriage, ou his way home front church. He was an- Early on Monday morning, Robert Aird, a shep- e and promulgated i On Monday afternoon, while a gasfitter, named ~ , , ~ i., .., Dim ullt'iottnix ssinl aut.& Death had resulted from corm allied by his 'wife and daughter tnid while the herd at Daltippan. near Girvan committed suicide The
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-08-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.  The India and China mails have arrived. The dates are, Calcutta, July 22, and Hong-kong, July 12, The Calcutta papers bring little news of interest. Advices both from India and China have been partly anticipated. At the port of Yang-tze there was an increasing commercial activity. Fresh vessels were being placed in the river, and large freights obtained from Han kow. The rebels have, however, wade nearer approach to that city, and at the latest dates prospects had become rather cloudy. In another quarter the Imperialists had, it is said, obtained 13 successive victories over the rebels ; 20,000 of whom, according to the reports, had been slain. The English mail of May 27th had arrived at Hongkong on July sth. A large number of English and native honorary magistrates have been appointed in Calcutta. The first symptoms of mitigation in the severity of the famine have appeared m Meerut. The Whoa Go.  vernment continue to publish reports from the officials all over the country on the cotton-producing capabilities of each province and district. The general result is that, but for want of roads and a Eteady demand at a fair price, India would produce any amount of cotton wool. In the district of Naffore the quantity produced annually is estimated at 20,000,000 lbs. _  Addresses of sympathy with Mr Laing, on account of his illness, had been forwarded to England by several influential bodies in Calcutta.  The ruler of Zanzebar is reported dangerously ill. Mr W. J. Turquand, of the Bombay Civil Service, committed suicide on the 12th inst. at Poonah, by shooting himself. Indications of insanity were lately observable in his demeanour.  General satisfaction is expressed with Sir Charles Wood's India Bills.  Shanghai, July 4 (via Malta).—The friendly relations between the European and Japanese Governments are likely to be disturbed. The lodgings of the foreign merchants have been entered and robbed in open day. The Japanese Government is believed to sanction these proceedings.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-11-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STEWARTON.—This, like many other places, suffers severely through depression in trade. A fine specimen of the Great Ash-coloured Shrike or Butcher Bird (Lanius excubitor) was shot a few days ago at Garroeh, Dumfries. A tailor, near Burgie, Raffurd, committed suicide by drowning himself in a burn on Wednesday. His mind had previously been deranged. Diptheria is at present prevalent to some extent in the Crieff district. Three children in one family have died of the disease within the last fortnight. The Royal Scottish Academy purchased on Wednesday last a fine picture by the late Thomas Duncan of "Slender and Ann Page" for the sum of £l5O. A commencement has been made in the shipment of oats from Banff, but most farmers show a dia. position to hold in expectation of a further advance in prices. l'he proposed poorhouse for Stratheani is expected to go on. Several of the surrounding parishes have agreed to take shares in the undertaking. The poor house is to be erected at Crieff.  The Earl of Eglinton and Winton has written to the Marquis of Ailsa, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the resolutions passed at the recent meeting held at Ayr, and conveying the thanks of himself and family for the proposed honour to his deceased father.  William Burgess, bookseller, Dumfries, in his cepa. city of secretary of the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Co-operative Society, has been found guilty of a succession of acts of swindling, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment.  A LONG ARRAY OF TENAArrs.—The farmer of Denhead, Mr Alexander Shield, quits that farm to be tenant of Knox. For 170 years Denhead has been tenanted by Mr Shield and his ancestors, and each member of the family, at some time or other, slept in one bed for generations. THE CIVIL SERVlCK.—Custeum—Mr Robert H. Renton, seventh clerk, has been promoted to be sixth clerk at Leith ; Mr Robert B. Wallace, eighth clerk, hits been promoted to be seventh clerk at Leith. Excise—Mr Joseph Wye; Boyne, officer of Forfar ride. Dundee collection, has been appointed to Glasgow ride, Glasgow collection.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE ARMSTRONG GL'N. - This much vaunted weapon of war seems destined to that turn of fortune's wheel which is apt to overtake all things too suddenly elevated. The Time*, which all along forced this cannon into notice against the ahnost unanimous opinion of practical and soient'fic men, has now been forced to draw in it,_; 'horns so far. Coincidently with this a strong attempt is being made to depreciate the merits of the Enfield rifle, a movement at once equally false and pernicious. We purpose in our next impression to go fully into both of these vexed questions. RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, as the 2 a.m. goods train from Perth was slowly passing the Castleoary Station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, by some means the engine got off the rails, dragging the trucks after it. The only inconvenience which arose was the detention of the first two passenger trains in the morning for a short time.  RUTHERGLEN LUKE HORSE FAlR—This import•ant and all but concluding market of the season in the burgh of Rutherglen was held yesterday, with a full average attendance, both of dealers and horses. Prices ranged, for really useful animals, from £25 to £l5, but several realised nearly .E6O; so true is it that a good horse will bring a long price any day in the year. Superintendent Dewar was in attendaoce,and throughout the busy day—though the market, on the whole, was a dull one—with a select body of police, kept excellent order, A very extraordinary deer's horn was found the other day in a moss on the farm of Downreay, in the parish of Reny, the property of Admiral Sinclair. The length of the antler, from the root to its highest point is 3 feet 5 inches, and the circumference im. mediately above the dog horn is 7 inches. The breadth between the nearest point at the top is 17 inches, and the greatest breadth between the antlers is 32 inches. The length of the dog horn is 17 inches. The head has no fewer than 18 points, one of which is broken off. The horns are as fresh as on the day when the deer died. It wes found at a depth. oi nine feet bolow the surface, and must have been an animal of tremendous proportions, as no specimens of anything like the same size had been ever seen In ths' north.  Surctne.—A woman named Margaret Robertson or Nicolson, wife of a shoeniaker residing in Carnegie Street, Edinburgh, committed suicide on Tuesday, by swallowing a quantity of laudanum.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-08-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DESPERATE SUICIDE IN FRANCE.—As a train of the Auteuil railway was approaching the bridge near the road to Asnieres and the Rue de la Sante, a well dressed young man climbed over the palings and threw himself oaths rails before the carriages. There was no possibility of stopping the train, and he was crushed to death in a frightful manner. Hp had nothing on him to show who he was, and tl body was sent to the Morgue. CURIOUS DEPOSITORY FOR STOLEN Goons.—A few days ago some workmen, who had been engaged in repairing and altering the Independent chapel, Patmosthad occasion to alter some gastittings,and while so doing a piece of wood came off the pews in the gallery. On the workmen examining the place, to their surprise, they discovered a quantity of goods— consisting of gingh am 8, checks, and weft—underneath the flooring of two pews. The goods were examined by Mr C. Chambers, who, on comparing the various lots with those he had been in the habit of manufacturing, discovered that they were his manufacture, and they are goods stolen from his mill about 15 years ago.  The case of Peter hPLaren, late Surveyor of the Selkirkshire Roads, who was some months ago dis missed from the situation, in consequence of certain transactions in connection with the affairs of the Road Trust, came on for trial before Sheriff Dundas at Selkirk last week. The libel contained eleven distinct charges of theft and breach of trust, to the first two of which alone—charging him with stealing certain quantities of whinstone and freestone, the property of the trustees, and appropriating them to his own private purposes—the panel pleaded guilty. The plea was accepted by the Procurator-Fiscal, and the libel was restricted sooordingly, Senieneed to U montb.e imprigonmat.  Wainwright, the gipsy, accused at Rotherham of having cut off the head of a child, has been acquitted, the boy witness's evidence not being credited.  The sentence of death passed on Martha Spencer Weaver, for the murder of her child at Danbury, has been commuted to that of penal servitude for life.  On Saturday morning the body of a man was picked up by one of the tug steamers, near PortGlasgow harbour, and brought ashore. The bcxly was much decomposed, and it was only with some difficulty it could be ascertained that the deceased had worn moleskin trousers, a blue flannel shirt and a blue stripped shirt, a guernsey jacket, blucher boots and grey stockings. From the little hair left on the head it is supposed to have been dark coloured.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-05-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TEE ABBE MALLEI-3,108E JESVITRY.—The Lou. don correspondent of the Dublin Express writes "The se of the Canon Mallet and the young Jewish girls will still be fresh in the recollection of your readers. We are likely, it seems, to witness an episode of it here. It will be remembered that at the time of Mallet's trial, a letter was published purporting to come from one of the young women, and stating that she was, at the time of writing it, on her way to Egypt. The girl's friends shrewdly, and correctly, as it turns out, suspected this to be a mere Jesuitical dodge to throw them off the scent, and from the information they obtained it was surmised that she had been decoyed to this country. Her brother accordingly came over, and, after a long search, has at last succeeded in tracing her to a house in Oakley Square, t milder], Town. 'Mr Bluth has had an interview with his sister, and, as might have been expected, found her in a state of abject mental subjection to the persons in whose charge she is now placed. She is, he says, in a condition bordering on imbecility, and utterly incapable of distinguishing the nature of her position. She wears the costume of a convent, her head has been shaved, and she has evidently been tutored to declare that she remains where she is by her own free will. When these facts are known to the public, they will, no doubt, be received with indignation, the more so, perhaps, as the law will, I am afraid, he found inadequate to deal with the case. I understand that one of our great religious societies has taken the matter up, anti that neither pains nor expense will be spared to ensure a conviction, if that be possible, of the canon's accomplices. I regret to add that the latter are our own countrymen and countrywomen, and not French or Spanish, as was at first supposed." ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY POISONING IN The
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-08-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.—Shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday morning, a inan was observed by some young boys on the south beach, opposite the Ayr Barracks, deliberately to walk into the sea, with all his clothes on, and when he got to about the waist, he dived into the water and disappeared. The only thing that floated was his hat, within which was written his name, which led to his identification. He was a commercial traveller, named Charles Forrests and represented Messrs Ruthven & Grange, fancy goods merchants, Trongate Street, Glasgow. He came to Ayr on Monday, 29th tilt., and stopped in the King's Arms Hotel till Sunday the 4th inst. Luring this time he had indulged pretty freely in drinking. On Sunday he left the King's Arms and went to the Commercial Hotel. He kept his bed there from Monday till Friday, and, as he was in a very weak state, he had the advice of a surgeon. On Friday one of his employers came and took away his specimens, leaving word for Forrest to go back to Glasgow when he recovered. He left the Commercial about eight in the morning, and at once made his way to the beach, where he committed the rash deed. Every effort haa been made during the day, by trawling and grappling, to recover the body, but without effect. It has doubtless been carried to sea by the river current.  At the Wells Assizes on Thursday, the widow of a Mr Hutson, a Somersetshire farmer, gained a verdict in an action against the Railway Passenger Assurance Company. The declaration stated that John Flutson had effected a policy for £l,OOO in the de. fendants' company; that Hutson had died, his death having been caused by accident, he having been drowned. To this the defendants pleaded.that Hutson did not die from the effects of accident; that it was the wilful act of the deceased exposing himself to unnecessary danger, or while he was in a state of intoxication; that he had committed suicide; that satisfactory proof of the death was not furnished to the defendants, and that the action was commenced within three months after the death. Mr Justice Ryles, in summing up, said the whole defence was that the deceased's death was caused by an accident occurring through the intoxication of the it:ceased. Was he or was he not intoxicated The )ary retired for a short time, and then save a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £l,oooi with £9 intend, molting £1,009,