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Glasgow Courier. — 1858-04-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE ATTITUDE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.  The fate of the Company was sealed long ago. It was an imperium in imperio which we all looked upon as an anomaly in our well ordered constitutional monarchy. Granted that there were special features in the country and people of the great Indian peninsula— these were not of a character to require exclusive end separate government. If this power was conceded and continued, it was rather in deference to chartered rights than to any inherent principle or necessity in the species of oligarchical rule permitted. But no one believed that this state of things would become permanent. In fact, in actual practice the government of the company, as is well known, had been entirely absorbed by the Board of Control. The substance displaced, it was but natural that the shadow should disappear also. But with the longing and lingering love for old haunts and pleasant places, said to possess the departed spirits of ancient ladies, the ghost of authority still fastened on Leadenhall Street, and will, no doubt, hover there, until the voice of the Queen, the Legislature, and the country shall exorcise it for ever. Equally silly with this complaint of want of time is the cheige of want of courtesy. The directors have not been consulted in the preparation of a measure for their own extinction. If we know anything of the rules of good.breediug, this show of delicacy to the moribund corporation is matter of congratulation and not of censure. It would be coarse. indeed, to ask the directors to prepare their own obsequies. Be it said, to the credit even of Lord Palmerston's government—not characterised for over. refinement, prudence, or good taste—it was not so rude or imbecile as to imagine that the Court of Directors, as their final act, worth, become their own undertakers. Lord Derby, at all events, has a higher opinion of their understanding and sense of dignity than to insult them by any such proposition. No; if the Company is to die, it most fall by any hand rather than its own directors'. Legal justice must be executed, but there shall be no suicide. We must, even against their own design, prevent the directors from being self-destroyers. The series of sophisms running through the whole report lathe hest proof that the last hour of the Company has virtually come. When nonsense is substituted for argument, and folly for reason, the sooner the orator retires and gives place to abler men the better for the cause and for the interests of civilisation. When this document says that the means which the bill provides (we speak of Eilenborough's measure) for overcoming recognised difficulties consist in the unehecked power
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-01-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE OF A BOLTON BANKER.  BOLTON, MONDAY licutcr.—Great cessation has been experienced to-day by tire circulation of a rumour tha Robert Sharpe Barlow, Esq., managing partner of the old established banking firm of Cardelatle, Cross, & Co., had committed suicide. On inquiry at the residence of the deceased the report turned out to be only too true. The deceased resided at Snow Hill, a neat villa residence, about two miles from Bolton. He attended to his banking duties up to Saturday last, as usual, and WAS at chureli yesterday. Ills wife had for the last fortnight been trans some, having gone to spend a few days with her friends at Leamington. Mr Barlow had one or two friends visiting him at his house last night. They left lint about ten o'clock, and it is supposed soon after Mr Barlow retired to rest. This morning, about nine o'clock, his coachman drew up to the door, as usual, to drive Mr Barlow down to the bank, nod was surprised to learn that he had not 3et got up. Ile told one of the female servants to go and call her master. The servant reqiiested him (the coachman) to go, and he accordingly went upstairs, and knocked at Mr Barlow's bedroom door. Receiving lio answer, he opened tl.e door, and finding Mr Barlow not there, he went across the land ng and into the bath-room, where, to his horror, Ire found his master lying on his face in a pool of blood, with a double-barrelled gun between his legs, the upper portion of his skull blown away, and Ins !Awns scattered on the floor. Life was of course extinct. Deceased had or nothing but his shirt, trousers. and slippers. Be appeared to have seated himself on the edge of the bath, and wills the gun bet weeo his legs, and the muzzle in his mouth, to have pulled the trigger with his foot, the ball passing through the roof of his mouth, and out at the left side of the sktill, the ball fiiiary entering the ceiling of the room. The other barrel also waa loaded, ut not fired. Strange to -say, none of the servants earl the slightest report or noise of any kind, and, up to tile time of his going to bent, there was nothing in the deceased gentleman'e conduct to lead to the supposition that be meditated the rash act. Mr Barlow was 49 sears old, and universally respected.  House Mxtuter.—Yesterday the first of these markets was held here. The show of horses was good, but business was retnaltably dull. The best of tt.e stock shown—chiefly ef the pure Clydesdale bre( d—were in the hands of the following dealers:— Mr James Clarke, London St reet, and Messrs Gilfen, M`Kinley, William Clai k, Leggett, aud Warnock. As we have said, business was extremely dull, and many of the bettor sorts, whose prices ranged from £35 to £43, left the market unsold.  RAILWAYS IN TIIE Notern.—An undertandinz, to a certain extent, On preliminariei, has, we learn,been CAUSE to between the promoters of the Buchan rival lins of railway. Neither will, we believe, oppose the other on standing orders, so far as plans and sections are concern, (I.—Aberdeen Herald.
Glasgow Courier. — 1858-03-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LONDON WOOL SALES.—At the colonial sales yesterday, 2800 bales were sold at previous terms. The attendance was good, and the bidding' were tolerably animated. EDUCATION IN Scon.sen.—A return moved for by Lord Melgund, M.P., specifies the names of the parishes in Scotland in which each school is situate to which assistance has been afforded by the country, feuds together with the amounts of 'ugh assistance during should the last three years. The total number of schools i eceiring Government aid in Scotland in 1855 was 907; of these 318 were of the Free Church, 251 belonged to the Established Church, 158 were parochial schools. 100 schools without any religious denominations, 67 belonged to the Episcopalians, and —ltaly , 21 to Romanists. The sums given in different years united, to different schools were very various, ranging from and less , several thousand pounds to a few shillings a -Yea r' ism shall . The largest sum given was £2,095 in 1856, and the smallest, 13s Bd, in the game year. In a number ' of cases rural schools resolved small sums of 11, of ' .£2, and .13. though the ge of the total grant is given to all the schools was between £5 and £6 for , ; each The total grant in aid of education io gcotI land in 1856 was hardly equal per . bead on the whole population. , SUICIDE OF t t On Thursday morning last the Rev H. mostyn i . i • gentleman aged about 60, and connected by birth and and , i marriage with some of the principal families in Mont- accidents 1 gomeryshire, committed suicide at Newtown in thtt in, E connty under very painful circumstances. He resided at Guniey, near Montgomery. but on the morning in place question he was at Newtown, and went to the shop of internal progress, become what she is. : Mr Bowels, perfumer, to have his hair dressed. This ; having been done, he purchased • razor from Bowels, of authority, ! and gave him a sovereign in payment. Not having wants. .E sufficient champ is the shop, he went upstairs for it, and But regal, ~' upon his return in • few minutes he found Mr Frye. ' 5 lying on the floor in a pool of blood, caused by • fright- feeling, there " ful wound in the throat. In • few minutes he was dead. ; No reason has been assigned for the dreidful deed. Mr given to tl,' Pryce was well known as an eloquent preacher, and attention. ' speaker, and was possessed of considerable literary although ability, 1100 suggested cannot '
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-09-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW. We understand that the operative cotton-spinners of this city have presented a memorial to their employers, soliciting a small advance in wages. We understand that Mr. John Xidston has transmitted to the Treasurer of the Night Asylum for the Houseless .£1 7s. 6d., being the overplus of the subscriptions for defraying the expenses connected with the change of the hours of the legal profession in Glasgow. Quoiting Match.—A match came off on Friday last, OD Mr. Weir's Green, Tradeston, between Mr. Donald M'Farlane, Airdrie, and David Weir, Glasgow-61 shots I up, for the sum of £lO sterling. At the cemmencement, Mr. WFarlane took the lead, counting 26 shots, Mr. Weir 6; but Mr. Weir came up, passed his opponent, and counted game, 61 shots, when Mr. M'Farlane counted 49. Attempted Suicide.—On Saturday night a female living in High Street, who was either tiphy, or labouring under some strange delusion, leaped from a window two stories high. No bones were broken, but she received some severe bruises.  Police Court.—ln the Police Court, on Friday morning, a spirit-dealer, residing in Bridgegate Street, was resummoned, the ease being remanded on Saturday week, accused of keeping an irregular house, in oontraiveption of the Police statute. From evidence adduced, it appeared that the conduct pursued in the house was of the most immoral and gross kind—loose and profligate characters of both sexes frequenting this haunt of infamy. He was fined in £5. Two other spirit-dealers were also charged with keeping irregular houses on Sunday morning—one of whose houses being found to contain 13 men and 7 women, while the other contained 17 men and 1 woman, on the morning of Sunday last. The former was Sued in £5, and the latter .€2B,los.—On Saturday, the keeper of a notorious house in Stirling Street was fined in £lO, and vigorous measures are taking against other houses of sitnilar character.
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

POLICE BOARD PROCEEDINGS.  At the meeting of the Police Board on Thursday—Baili• Brodie in the chair—it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Hugh Wilson, seconded by Mr. Duncan, to appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a powerful new engine to be added to the Fire Brigade.—Mr. M'Ara, in terms of previous notice, moved that the Board resolve to allow n portion of the Police Buildings to be fitted up as Prison Celle by the Prisons Board, and for that purpose to appropriate what is now occupied as the dwelling-house of the Superintendent of Fire-Engines if necessary. Seconded by Mr. Anderson. As an amendment, Mr. George Boss, seconded by Mr. H. Wilson, moved the previous question. The Board divided, when the amendment was carried by 17 to 14. [Fiat this portion of the Police Buildings been obtained, it was the intention of the Prisons Board, we hare been informed, to fit them up as cells for the incarceration of persons sentenced to short periods of imprisonment.l—The Committee on Statute Labour was instructed to report the reason why the several regulations as to the corers of openings in the pavement, and the condition of the foot pavements generally, and other matters in their department, had not been carried into effect.  MISCELLANEOUS  It is mid that since the Magistrates of London resolved on punishing persons attenipting to commit suicide, these attempts have been much less numerous.  Tba articles consumed at the tea-tables of the United Kingdom furnish shout one-fifth of the revenue of the great empire.  A correspondent of the Times recommends the lighting of mines and oolleries by electricity as much safer than lamps or candles.  The editor of the New-Orleant Picayune says the weather will not "hold still" long enough for him to write a paragraph about it. From an old °barter, coal is known to have been wrought at Dunfermline in the year 1'491.  A letter from Warsaw says that four fortresses in Russian Poland have cost 800,000,000 f.  A New Operatium—A gentleman in chambers on receiving a bill of charges from his woman-of-all-work, wee puzzled by an Item of eighteenpence for " skewering the stars" The lady having been called in and cross-examined, the operation turned out to be "scouring the stairs l"
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-07-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT THE NORTH BRIDGE. On Saturday evening, and while the North Bridge was crowded with passengers, • man was seen coming quickly down from the High Street, and suddenly spring over the parapet wall, on the east side, precipitating himself into Physic Gardens. The surprise and horror of those who witnessed this dreadfol mation may be imagined. Dr. Tait, of the Police Establishment, was on the spot almost immediately; but all relief from medical assistance was utterly unavailing; life was completely extinguished. The body, when raised, presented, as might be expected, a horrible spectacle. The wretched man appeared to have alighted upon his feet, as both legs were fractured • little above the anele, and the left thigh was dislocated; the right arm was also broken, and several ribs on the right side, but there were no appareet injuries on the head. It appears that his name was Seaton, • shoemaker, who resided in Blackfriars' Wynd, and who had been drinking for some days past. He had pawned most of his best clothes, and came home on Saturday night, w ishing to pawn his hat, his wife bow. ever, refused to let him nave it. He sat down and took a cup of tea, after which be left the house and almost immediately committed the dreadful Lust we have described. Sebes left four children, all of whom, however, except one are in employment. The startling frequency of suicides from the North Bridge—this being the third in little more than a twelvemonth—will constrain the authorities to take up the question of fencing the parapet wall of the bridge by a rail. This was suggested formerly, but met with little favour. There cannot be a doubt, however, that in many cases the impulse to suicide is a momentary one; and that if difficulties were thrown in the way of its execution, it might wear off before an opportunity to put it in practice presented itself. But the yawning precipice over the bndge seems to invite all whose thoughts are bent on such desperate resolutions, while there is no hope of saving those who throw themselves over. We may m&tion that about ten the same evening • drunken fellow pretended to follow the example of Seaton, to the great alarm of his wife and several passengers, who pulled him back, and forced him away from the wall.—Ediribisrgh Courant.
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-01-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO. Mr. Matheson and his lady are at present on a tour in Italy; but improvements will soon be corn.mewed; %ribs wevr-preprietor %Asada, we understood, to devote • farliar cagartiM4o/001kgsial0,00Intwerarde establishing a regular ! steam coiamtiallation wfthlruilaland, farming roads, and otherwise improving bin entombs . The inherieeipay be rendered highly productive, and ixt dia r oftbe country there in ample scope for cultivation. lib, Areufei altogether is matter for rejoicing. Thousands of es poet are in a wretched condition ; the worst fed and Ivo* housed peasantry in Britain are to'be found in this remote unDultivated island. We may now expect that the country will be opened up and employment afforded to the inhabitants; while the commercial spirit, the benevolence and generosity of the proprietor (which are not less conspicuous than his wealth), are the best pledge that the social and moral condition of the people will not be neglected.—/marrness Cheerier.  1419 I B 1.1 GB. On Wednesday, Bryce, the alleged murderer, was brought before the Sheriff, in Edinburgh. The result of the examination has not, of oourse, transpired; but from what we have heard of the evidence that will be brought against him, and the articles belonging to the murdered man that were found in his possession, there can be no doubt that he will be remitted for trial. Suicide.— On Wednesday morning, about three o', a gentleman named Murdoch, who resided in lo Haddington Place, Leith Walk, threw himself bed-room window, a height of four stories, into Instantaneous death was the result. He was taken up by the watchman on the station; and from the blood and marks of wounds on the back part of his head, it was supposed that he had come in contact with the iron railings is front of the house. The deceased had been in a state of mental excitement for the last two months.
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CHESTER ASSIZES.  THE CREWE MORDEB.—On Friday, at the Chester assizes Mary Gallop, aged 20, was indicted for the murder of her father, Richard Gallop, at Monks Coppenhall, on the 2d November last, by the administration of arsenic. From the evidence it appeared, that the prisoner and her father quarrelled, about the 20th of Oct. respecting the prisoner wishing to visit Liverpool, her father thinking it was for the purpose of seeing a young man of whom he disapproved. On the 2d ult, the deceased complained of being sick, vomited continually, and died on the following day. He had previously partaken of some arrow root, and, on being tested, the stomach allowed traces of arsenic. The policeman who examined the house at the time, deposed to have taken from a drawer a paper containing Arsenio mixed with arrow root, which the prisoner had just put into it, and the buying of the poison by the prisoner was also proved. For the defence it was urged, that, on the day previous to the illness of deceased, the prisoner had made some cakes, which had been found to contain arsenic' and of which she herself, with others, had partaken, and from the effects of which all were sick; that it was unlikely that, if she had wilfully put poison into the cakes, .he would herself have eaten of them; and that the deceased was in the habit of quacking himself, and had personally made the arrow root. It was also urged, that the case was one in which the jury could reasonably acquit the prisoner on the ground of insanity, which was well known to be hereditary, as it had been shown, from evidence, that the prisoner's mother wag insane when pregnant with her, and had, ultimately, committed suicide. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her to mercy, and the Judge passed sentence of death.
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-07-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EDINBURGH. Court of Session, 15c.—The Court rose on Saturday for the summer vacation, the Judges having previously appointed the box days to be Wednesday the 11th of September, and Wednesday the 9th of October. The High Court of Justiciary will be employed with criminal business during the whole of this week; and the Judges of the Jury Court have civil cases on their lists which will occupy themfor two or three weeks to come. the Fixed Thtty.—A meeting was held at Edinburgh on Friday for the avowed object of getting rid of Messrs. Macaulay and Gibson-Craig, in the event of a general election. The requisition calling the meeting was signed by 1111 C hundred electors, and resolutions were passed modem;satory of all restrictions on trade, and hinting pretty broadly to the present representatives of" modern Athens," likat they will not get into Parliament on another occasion without opposition. In the event of these " gentlemen" acting like the Sturgeites, Edinburgh might, in the way of representation, be another Birmingham. Another Suicide.—On Sunday morning, Ann Paterson, a woman about thirty years of age, who lived by herself in Romilly Place, Edinburgh, was found in her own house with her throat cut, and quite dead. From the circumstances there could be no doubt that she was deprived of life by her own hand; and she appeared to have gone about it with much deliberation, as both knives and razors were laid out as if for use. We learn that she had some time before dropped hints among her neighbours as if she intended to commit suicide; but they did not pay much attention to it, thinking that she was in jest. Dr. Tait was in attendance as soon as the catastrophe became known; but she had been dead several hours. She was last seen by the neighbours about four o'clock on Saturds,y afternoon, and appeared to be quite well.
Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  Attempted Suicide —Op Wednesday morning a married woman, about 28 years of age, threw herself into the river from the lower end of the Broomielaw, whilst in a state of excitement, caused by some family quarrel with her husband. The poor woman was happily rescued by the crew of the steam-ship Duke of Cornwall, who bad her taken to the house of Mr. Andrew M‘Neill, Anderston Quay. Dr. Robertson was immediately in attendance, and we are happy to say was successful in restorinF her to sensibility. Boy Killed.—On Monday night last, a cabin boy, on board of the steam-ship Glow-Worm, named Bruce Harkness, and about 15 years of age, fell from the vessel, while she was lying at the west end of the Broomielaw Quay, and was drowned. No person basing observed the occurrence pf the accident, it is supposed that the youth fell from the gangway port, which had been left open for the purpose of allowing those connected with the vessel to go on board. As soon as he was mistied,however, search was made for him, land the lifeless body taken on board, where it lay until the arrival of the father, who removed the remains to Ardrossan, his native place. FREE PRESBYTERY OF GLAlcow.  Altai monthly meeting Of the Pi« Prealaytery SIDS held OD Mday In the Presbytery Rouse, the Rev. Mr. SPOilmy, Mar. A considerable portion of time was oocapied in hearing stet, and other matins business. idil. SCOTT Or ST. issues. case of a call from Manchester to the Rev. Mr. Scott of St. ; failing to be taken up at this meeting, BUCH•NAN moved that the consideration of this case be iiircl till next meeting of Presbytery. MlLLsis of St. Mathew's thought some reason should be ed for this proposal. If noes were given, be would be under cessity of I BOCHANAI . Millar wc atioo, like  coarse as that spoken of pessary. He might have had e` Presbytery, of matters that latlon, which rendered delay  , instead of delaying the matter ly meeting of the Presbytery - the ease;  iited as a. day for pro. that the case should not being given. There was od, as one of the parties,  thereefter ad}ograid.