Glasgow Courier. — 1847-06-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FRIDAT.—The Sarah Sands has put back to Cork. The following letter from Captain Thompson explains the cause : " Extract of a letter from Captain Thompson, of the steamer Sarah Sands, dated Cove of Cork, Tuesday night, 22d June, 1847. You will be sorry to hear that I have put back to this harbour, owing to an accident to our machinery, after being as far to the westward as the longitude of 21. We had a good run mit the North Channel, and all went on well with us until F. evening, when a severe jar was perceived in one of our tiers, which, however, after a while wore off or nearly so, until Sunday m, - at eight o'clock the engine would not work, and, after Ling for the cause, found that a piece of brass which lb the back of the valve had got loosed, and --ed the valve, the ot" - cylinder it appears the piece of in this r - --ne of the workmen • being A pins, is very have -  -d one 1. bad cut this piece and  _ other *. that  mistake  case I ' the  small  were  .oe engines put in with aix b.!an acr- ut which for and hal we Call ight this winds,  Madagascar.—There appears to be little chance of any opening of the trade of Madagascar by the Queen of that island. The rumour circulated in town through the journals a few days ago, that the authorities at Tamatave had announced that it was probable that the trade would be opened next year, is incorrect. Captain Labury, of the Charles Heddle, touched there on his way to West Coast for a cargo of oxen. He was refused any oxen there, and he learned that the Europeans at that place were badly treated, and under the strictest surveillance. A Malgache, one of the administration, having openly shown a desire to renew connexion with the Europeans, had been condemned by the Queen to be burnt alive, but he avoided this cruel death by swallowing poison. ALalgache women, who had in their possession merchandise formerly belonging to the traders who had been expelled, and who were accused of having kept up a correspondence with them, were publicly sold to slavery.—Afauricien. Suicide under Singular Circunzstances.—A man of the name of Stevenson, who resided at Cross Stabbs, near Barrhead, committed suicide on the 17th mat, under the following singularly painful circumstances:—" The person in question about twenty years ago was following some business at Leith, and was at that time sentenced for a certain crime to be executed, but through the sympathy and pleading of a dumbei of individuals on his WWI; the sentence was commuted to that of transportation. By some means or other, however, he managed to escape, after a period of about two years. At this time he resolved, that whenever in depressed circumstances, or otherwise unfit to maintain himself, ho would carry the sentence of the judge into effect, which he did on the 17th inst., while under the effects of strong drink, by 'hanging himself on a tree,' with his own cravat, by the side of Thornly dam it few hundred yards from Glenfield. The wretched inclifttlual tied himself so low, that, when discovered, his knees nearly touched the ground, which showed how determined he must have been in the perpetration of his wicked act."—Renfretcshirs Advertiser. Dreadful Accident—Miraculous Preservation of Life.—ln the comb m anufactory of Mr. John M‘Pherson, Gileamston, there is a large drum which drives with a broad leather belt a shaft fixed in an apartment above the ground floor, the belt passing through an aperture in the floor, about eight or nine inches broad. On Saturday evening, while a boy of the name of William Tavendale, ten years of age, was placingthe belt on the drum, the engine being just in motion, part of the belt caught his smock frock, and the next moment he was carried right up through the floor, over the axle of the shaft, down the aperture on the other side, under the drum, and over again three times, his legs, to use the little fellow's own words, "knock, knocking"- on a box, while he was hauled " gey an' feat roun' and roun'. " The noise of this knocking brought a man to the spot, who immediately ran and stopped the engine, and the boy, on being taken up and carried to the Infirmary, was found to have both his legs and one of his arms broken, and his chest somewhat bruised, but his head and back without injury. We are glad to say that the little fellow is doing well, and that the medical officers of the Infirmary are of opinion that there will be no necessity for amputation.—Aberdeen Journal.  An Odessa paper of the 4th states that M. Erdmann, professor of geology at the Russian Imperial University at Dorpat, has found in the environs of Odessa a number of complete skeletons and other fossil bones of animals of enormous size. There aro eighty-three skeletons, viz., six elephants, one rhinoceros, two of the bovine species' four stags, one antelope, sixty-one bears, two hyenas, two dogs, three cats, and one a nondescript ruminating animal. The skeletons and the rest of the bones were imbedded under a thick stratum of calcareous soil. This discovery is considered to be the mope remarkable, as up to the present time very few relics oesAffedeluvian animals have been found in Rtussia.