Glasgow Courier. — 1863-02-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BOA-Aire into a Justiciary Circuit, and the establishment Circuit Court-house at Greenock. There was a large attendance of gentlemen, as the question has excited a great amount of interest in the county of Renfrew. The chair was occupied by Sir Robert Napier, Bart. The Chairman read letters of apology for absence from Mr Campbell of Blvthswood and from Lord Blantyre. The former hoped that the proposition would be strenuously oppose 7 the latter hoped that the proposition would meet decided negative. The CEIAIIMAN reed a letter from the Lord Advocate, hoping that commissioners would, without any further delaj dive him their opinion as to the expediency of a change in the present justiciary circuits. The CHAIRMAN reported on behalf of a committee appointed former meeting, that the committee had taken the matter into their full consideration. They found, however, that as the proposal to join the four counties of Renfrew, Argyll, Dumbarton, and Bute into a new justiciary circuit had fallen to the ground, sad from Argyllshire and Dumbartonshire objecting to faros part of the circuit, the committee, under the cirommstanoes, thought it would hardly be in their provisos to make a report upon what was now a new dMs of affairs altogether, and they had therefore come to the resolution of simply reporting the fact without ' any opinion on the subject. . very ong discussion ensued, in which Sir Michael Maw Stewart, Bait, Sheriff Fraser, Sheriff Tennant, : Messrs Graham of Fereneze, Mr Holmes, and Provost Giieve of Greenock, took part. Mr John Graham, in the spurts of his speech, entered into statistics with reference ,to the question. The Upper Ward of Renfrewshire, in which Paisley was situated, contained 122,000 of a population, while the Lower Ward, in which Greenock was situated, contained only 55,000, so that Greenock, both , in respect of population and situation, was unsuitable for the establishment of a circuit court. He compared the number of cases from the Upper and Liwer Wards of Renfrewshire, which had been tried at the circuit court during the last nine years, to show that there was a greater number from the Upper Ward, and SW the majority was for crimes committed within •lodius of three miles from Glasgow, where consequently the witnesses resided. The prison of Greenock mea also of very limited extent, and the court-house acemismodation at Paisley was also limited. He thought tie present inconvenience might be lessened by an arrangement for having the Renfrewshi re and Dumbartonshire cases taken up on the third or fourth day of the sittings, or by holding a separate court in Glasgow for ape counties, all the railways converged on Glasgow reodering it more suitable than either Paisley or Greenock for the trial of Renfrewshire eases. It was finally moved by Mr Holmes, seconded by Sir lashael Shaw Stewart—" That in the present circumafigaree, with a proposition to establish a circuit district, embracing only the counties of Renfrew and Bute, it is in the opiniog of this meeting inexpedient to establish a circuit court Ef justiciary at Greenock." Mr A. GRAHAM, seconded by Provost Robertson, of Renfrew, moved as an amendment—" That this meeting is of opinion that a change from the existing arrangement is not desirable in the present circumstances; but should Government rule otherwise, +. this meeting is further of opinion that Paisley is - suitable site for the proposed new district Renfrewshire than Greenock." The motion and amendment when eight voted for the the amendment; red.  of to  of a  1; . with a  the r, r  at a  ,then a much more e. court of Buteshire and  .6 were put to the voter _ motion and seventeen fo which was accordingly declared carThe Chairman was instructed to transmit the resolution of the meeting to the Lord Advocate.  The Tabernacle Congregational Church, Paisley, have given a call to Mr Wm. Elston, of the Glasgow City Mission, to become their pastor. The Rev. W. P. Dickson, of Cameron, has, we understand, been appointed to the Chair of Biblical Criticism in the University of Glasgow. During Thursday and Friday, the 22d and 23d alt., Clyde was in high flood, and filled Lindsaylands burn to overflowing, thus forming a junction with the Tweed. On Friday afternoon, Mr Crum Ewing, M. P. for Paisley, addressed his constituents, at considerable length, on the most important home and foreign questions of the day. f)ii Friday afternoon, a man named John Orr, a returned convict, residing in Paisley, committed suicide by cuttans his throat. No reason can in the meantime be assigned for the rash act. On Thursday morning, Jane Carr, who was severe. ly burned in her parents' house in Middleton Place the previous day, after lingering in great agony, expiro from the effects of the injuries she had meek,. ed.  On Friday night, Professor Blackie delivered a lecture on War to the members of the Alexandria Mechanics' Institute, in the fine new hall recently publicly inaugurated there. There was a large attendance.  On Thursday, a weaver, named John Wilson, 60 rave lad, residing at 33, William Street, Mile-End, eornimi pelf-destruction by hanging himself. Deheated been aineh addicted t Tiquoi for smile liitne past. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Great West of Scotland Fishery Company (Limited), held on Monday in the Religious institution 400 ms, the accounts of the liquidators were taken into consideraand unanimously approved of, A resolution to that effect was moved by Mr sword, and ordered to Wetted in the Edinburgh Gazette, a 'taw VII 61114161115t*11  ton