The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-01-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BOO. A minute of agreement made between the Glasgow tar Company and a committee of the Town Council is prayed of and adopted by the Council. Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, declares war against Austria, marches upon Milan, and is proclaimed King of Sardinia and Lombardy. The people of Ireland make an extraordinary to possess themselves of guns and pikes. 12. A great meeting connected with the Chartist vention is held at Kennington Common, London. government use extraordinary precautions order. The state of affairs in Ireland, and in some parts of Bri-. Ulan, leads te the introduction of a bill into Parliament "for the better securing of the Crown and Government o the United Kingdom." Mr. Henry Miller is re-appointed superintendent Police In Glasgow. An anonymous donation of £l,OOO is made to Vlion fund of the United Presbyterian Church. 19. M. Ledru Rollin, and a portion of his colleagues the French provisional government, pursue a course which excites disgust against the new republic. Serious fighting takes place in Sleswig and Lombardy. The tremon press of Ireland maintains a most defiant tone towards the government. The United Irishman recommends the use of vitriol by the people against the military. . Mr. Hume, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bernal Osborne, Sir Wm. Moles worth, and aboutiifty members of parliament come forward to solicit a more cordial co-operation among earnest reformers. A great Chartist and Repeal demi. on Glasgow Green. Dr. Lang of New South Wales writes • "Peoples' Charter." Some curious letters of Louis Philippe, Guizot, others, relating to the Spanish marriages a. found portfolio ef the King at the Tuileries. 26. Tom Steele, O'Connell's "Head Pacificator," attempts to commit suicide, by throwing himself from Waterloo Bridge into the Thames. Mr. Cochrane, the "Spanish Minstrel," makes extraor. Interesting facts dinary exhibitions in London, apparently designed to excite emigration going on from the people to tumult. A sketch is given of Dr. Thom, of Liverpool An extraordinary military fete is celebrated in Paris, to A horrid system of poisoning, for the sake of obtaini afford the national guards an opportunity of fraternizing money from burial clubs, is detected in England. • with the troops of the line. 26. A ease of defamation of character is tried at Ed A public meeting of citizens of Glasgow is held in the burgh, the Rev. Dugald Campbell, minister ef Wilma City Hail, to petition parliament against the law of Entail, being pursuer, and Mr. Campbell Paterson, sometime ag and is addressed by Mr. Alexander Graham, and others, for the National Bank at Oban, defender. Dsmages Striking specimens are given of the violence of the tree. awarded to the pursuer. The Habeas Corpus Act is suspended in son press and treason party in Ireland. The Prince and Princess Metternich arrive in Mr. Bouverie's church sites bill is thrown out:in .and are visited by several of the nobility. House of Commons, the Lord Advocate opposing it been Mr. William Durward, of Montrose, after•life of active it is a general and not an exceptional measure, that is, benevolence, dies and leaves upwards of £27,000 to various cause it does justice to dissenters generally, and r charitable objects. Free Church merely. A public dinner and testimonial are given to Sheriff Mr. Gray, town clerk of Greenock, is shot by pbell of Paisley, on the occasion of his retiring from the name of Thomson, who had long cherished revenge against him. office after occupying it for the space of 45 years. 4  terrible example of military Disorganization displays it' by the burdensome life of Daring and atrocious , jacent country, a Dr. Hampden and Chapter. written on the hop of Oxford, (Dr. Madame Adelaide, Abd-el-Kader surf he shall be sent to 'Louis Philippe opens Speech, seems to throw down by denouncing Mt. Polk, in