Glasgow Courier. — 1844-06-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CAPTURE OF FIVE SLAVE SHIPS. On Saturday morning the Lords Commissioners of the lm risky received official advioes from Sierra Leone to the Itth March, with the following list of slavers which had been capturi and condemned through the exertions of her Majesty's cruisers c that slave, trafficking coast :1. The Helena, master unknown. She embarked 546 slaves Ambris ; 128 of whom died on the passage. She was taken I her Majesty's sloop Espoir, Commander A. Murrell, and n as co deemed on the 6th of January last.  2. The Brszilian 'choose; L'Egeria. She was run on sh, whilit being chased by her Majesty's cruiser Spy, Commander E C. Earle, near App..; and being unable to get off, and nosea worthy, she was destroyed by the captors, and was condemned o the 24th of January last. 3. The Brazilian brigantine Loteira. This vessel was tote during her voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Campos, by her 01a jeety's ship Madagascar, Commander J. Foote. A claim as made, but she was condemned as a slayer on the 16th of Decem ber last.  4. The Brazilian brigantine Imperative. She sailed from de Janeiro for Campos. and WU captured by her Majesty's er Heroine, Commander H. E. Foote. She was not defended was condemned on the 10th of January last. 5. The Spanish brigantine Roberts. She was run on shore a wrecked, near Black Point, whilst being chased by her Nlajest ship Madagascar, Commander J. Foote. She was condemned  Holy Island.—The island was, on Thursday and Fri last week, visited with one of those severe periodical g of wind from the which have of late years . .  , so much injury. All the farmers have suffered mon less by their turnips being blown away. The print loser has had at least six acres to sow over again. Pat the property purchased by his Grace the Duke of North berland, andlet in small allotments to the fishermen, . .  , the most exposedaittiation on the island, consequent! wind has done incalculable and irreparable damage. Greyfriare Free Church, Edinburgh.—On Thut, evening the foundation-stone of this edifice was laid LA James Forrest, Bart., of Comiston, in presence of A I)1 lop, Esq., advocate, Rev. Mr. Sym, Rev. Mr. Cu; and a great concourse of spectators. After the certi, the congregation adjourned to Portsburgh Church, N 1 h excellent addresses were delivered by the Rev. Mr. S; Sir James Forrest, and the Rev. Mr. Guthrie. Mentz.—The Journal des Debate announces that 1 Saturday night last the magnificent Hotel du Rhin, at M. ence, was destroyed by fire. The flames spread with rapidity, that it was with great difficulty the travellers in, hotel, to the number of 160, saved themselves in a state I nudity. All their baggage and the greater part of I furniture of the hotel, became the prey of the flames. English traveller, who had a considerable sum in bat notes in his portmanteau' which was burned, was so mi affected by his loss that he has since continued in a state idiotcy. . . _ . .  Great Sale of Wood near Tan.—The sale of Lamington Park fir-wood, the property of Sir Chai Ross of Balnagown, took place upon Friday the 7th cu The wood was divided into eight lots, and brought £13,7 The wood is said to be about eighty years old, and . . . .  ground, we are glad to hear, is to be ;efilantect With har wood, which will afford considerable employment in ti district.—Nverness Courier.  Herring Ftishing—Lybater, June 17.—The take wf rings on the coast is not numerous, but affords excel.. bait for white fish, of which great shoals are on the cow The fishermen complain sadly of the destruction done their lines by the dog-fish. Our harbour will soon be busy scene. The aeronaut, M. Kirsch, who ascended on Friday ori . _  , near Epernay, after only four hours' voyage, and after hihineghgoadn iingtenattioPnarCisi painssainbgalfttwnoodfayas of Reaumur was at eight degrees below zero, and thee me noefw experiments, construction, descended with. e frrozareenaninatthmeosb: take het°nueop in Lisburn. A young girl called Ellen Higginson left her mother's house on Monday evening, and proceeded to the atmosphere that the .Suicide.—A melancholy occurrence took place this week Lagan river, intewhich, after sitting on the bank some the. . she threw herself. No account being heard of her, il, thermometer river was dragged on Thursday evening, when the 1 was found under the new bridge on the Dublin road. .). reason can be assigned for the melancholy occurrence. A Fortunate Recovery.—On Saturday a gentleman from Liverpool put up at the Railway Hotel, Nine-elms, Lono don, preparatory to Mark Lane, he ordered a cab, and , to leaving town for Southampton. Ilatine some humus Itittedertcrvraittlihe city. On his way, he found bin, , • minus his pocket-book, which contained £2,000 in bar A 'notes. He drove back greatly agitated, and, to his jound it oy, the book was produced to bun by the waiter, who had f under the table of the room, in which several persons hal been sitting. The waiter was handsomely rewarded. Fatal Accident.--One of those unavoidable accidents which occasionally occur in Cavalry and Horse Artillery movements, took place on Friday in the Phenix Park, Huh. tin, by which driver Pound, of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Higgins's troop, Royal Horse Artillery, was killed on the spot, his horse having slipped and came down, the wheels of the gun passed over his body, which caused installtaneous death. Sir E. B wu on the ground, and having heard of the accident, home the troops. Curious Cirmentstance.—There are, at all the stations on the Ayrshire Railway, shifts, or switches, placed betwixt the two rails, for the purpose of removing the carriages frOill 000 rail to the other. Underthe shift at Lochwinnoch station, a bird of the" wagtail" species has built a nest and is now sitting on five eggs, although there is scarcely an hour in the day that there is not a train passing over it, and the wheels of the engine and carriages running within two ex three inches of the resting place of the little bird. It goes danger.village miaghde mo f y: of Mrs. üßeesdiaanyelya,stan].-c-1 the extraordinary extrth fraoomrdinFarreyessiri: teri°orthili:JuDndeae Sunderland in and out as fearlessly as if it were out of the reach of great rysenos::ttiohne hfacastsbeeofn thperodeauoseedasinotheye thpaiierte sTur:deenjideaertchuryof hanofd dArurrsing. Bthelaepaan4Yt.—wee{Fkr,°bnly :hi): one stating that Mrs. Belaney very in, cumstances attending it.—[Then follows an abridgement by physicians were attending her, and the other ' the dr.:- siaeA Mg already appeared.] Two letters have been 'red in North said that the body of Mrs. Skelly, the aaBnnudnnodtuhenarclantintgwd,oh.—• death; both, however, had been written will be disinterred as there are suspicions ailoat—a-s to a tiatuse of death; ' 'all more espeo y front the strange maftoetrhehrerodf menthe as...A. xt is 141 IWO* ill 1114eit ths funeral was otindu*