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Glasgow Courier. — 1857-07-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

COMMAND IN INDIA.—The daily papers have been publishing a paragraph to the effect that Lieut.General Sir Colin Campbell is going out to India with the reinforcements. Our readers wAI scarcely need a contradiction of so absurd a statement, but it is well that the public should know that Sir Cohn Campbell is senior to General Anson, whom there is no intention to remove or supersede, and that it is not customary to send generals with reinforcements, as here are already officers enough of that rank in India. There will be no augmentation to the officers of the Crimean regiments ordered out to India, as they are already beyond their strength. The augmentation will be limited to the non-commissioned officers and men. The volunteers for the augmentation will each receive a bounty of one pound sterling. All Queen's and Company's officers now on leave of absence from their regiments in ludia have received peremptory orders to rejoin there several corps.—United Service Gazette.  THE MEDICAL REFORM RlLLS.—After the second reading of the Medical Reform Bill, Mr. Headlam requested Lord Palmerston to take it up, and carry it as a government measure. Lord Palmerston declined to give the bill his support. On Saturday a deputation hostile to Mr. Headlam's bill, front the University College and the graduates of the London University, were received by Lord Palmerston. The principal objections to Mr. Heacil ,m's bill were stated, after which Lord Palmerston informed the deputation that he was favourably disposed to wards the bill of the select committea of last year, vthich had been introduced this session by Lord Elcho. At this advanced period of the session it will be impossible to pass a measure of medical reform. It is, however, generally believed that during next session the government will bring in a suitable bill for the settle • ment of this questio eezata.—Morning, Post.  SUSPECTED MURDER AT LIVERPOOL —SOCID after 4 o'clock on Monday, the body of an old man, about sixty years of age, was found in the Loods Canal, near the Burlington.Bridge,Chisendale Street, Liverpool, with a severe gash on the right side of his throat. It was subsequently identified as that of George Isherwood, a returned convict, who had up to a few days ago kept a beer house in Cross Lane, Salford, Manchester, where for some time he had been living with a young woman, named Margaret Bowen, wife of Ambrose Bowen, a seamen belonging to H. M. S. Mariner. Bowen, the husband, returned from a cruise a few weeks ago. He went to Salford and brought his wife to Liverpool, taking lodgings in a court in Upper William Street, where they were joined a few days ago by the deceased. The neighbours state that the seaman Bowen was beard to threaten that he would kill the deceased on Saturday night, but the belief of the police at present seems to be that Isherwood committed suicide. Bowen, his wife, and her sister, are in custody.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF MR. LITTLE.  The detectives now confess (says the Dublin Evening Mail) that they have altogether failed in accomplishing anything towards the discovery of the guilty party; but they have done a great deal towards fixing suspicion upon the innocent. As to the extent of their inquiries little is certainly known; but an anecdote is current which. whether it be true or false in its exact details, does, we believe, faithfully illustrate the mode of their mysterious process. Early in the business, it is said, the police made use of the services of a French clairvoyanfe, who was introduced to them, and brought to Ireland for the special purpose by an eminent dignitary of the church. This lady having been put en rapport with Jonathan Wild, or some other detective departed, made her revelations at a cour pleniere of the railway directors. It is remarkable, however, that the prophetess who could see back into the past and forward into the future, and who could tell the secrets of other worlds, could not understand nor speak a word of English. Both she and the worthy chairman were, in short, gravelled for lack of that small matter in a miracle—the gift of tongues. There is no knowing what might have been learned upon the occasion had a universal language been matured for service in that board-room; but all that could be made out by the aid of' Buyers Dictionary' was that the murderer was in the building. The scene and the result do, we believe, show the manner and the extent of the police inquiries in this most horrible transaction. . . . To this hour the public does not know whether or not money was taken from the office of the murdered man. It is entirely ignorant of the state of his accounts and transactions with others. It has received no explanation of the strange circumstances attending the finding of the body—of the cause that prevented the opening of his office for so many hours—of the extraordinary rumours of suicide so long kept afloat. It has not been informed respecting the connection that must have subsisted between individuals and the locality where the bag of money is said to have been found. In the seventh week after the butchery of Mr. Little It would appear that the efforts of the police to trace I home the crime have been utterly paralysed, and that ' the only effect of all the solemn investigations have been the casting of suspicions upon parties against whom thee, was not in reality a shadow of ground for the foul imputations that have been whispered abroad ditring the last ten days or fortnight. To such lengths had these slande,s been carried that a semi-official contradiction was published on Saturday evening in one of the Dublin journals.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-10-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE RUSSIANS IN THE BLACK SEA. A Constantinople letter of the 23d alt., in the Semaphore of Marseilles, contains the following :--‘ In announcing the arrival in this -port of three Russian screw corvettes from Cronstadt, on their way to the Black Sea, I was not aware of the precise object of their coming. It now appears that it is to establish a rigid system of blockade on the coast of Circassia, in order to prevent the mountaineers from receiving arms, ammunition, and a thousand other things which they now receive by merchant vessels, all costing more or less directly from England, and which proceed to Circassia in virtue of the neutralisation of the Black Sea. The Russians, in their turn, apply this principle in defence of their interests. Two Russian gunboats have also arrived here, on their way to take up their position in the Danube.'  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT DOVER On Monday morning week, at about one o'clock, a man named Frederick Bushell, attempted to take the life of his wife by cutting her throat, but failing, he then attempted to commit suicide. They lived in Hartley Street, near the Military Road. On Monday morning the , police officers on night duty were surprised by repeated I ringing at the door. On answering the summons they found it was Mrs Bushell in her chemise, nearly exhausted front loss of blood, which was flowing in a stream from a dreadful gash in her throat From her statement the police gathered that her husband had in a fit of passion attempted to murder her, but that after a severe struggle with him she had managed to escape from the house. She also stated that her husband had threatened to take away his own life. Upon this police serjeant Geddes went immediately to Hartley Street, and going to Bushell's residence he found him struggling with a policeman (who had been on duty near the spot) for the possession of a razor, with which he had already inflicted two or three cats on his own throat. The two succeeded in wrenching the razor front his grasp, and he was taken into custody. Both he and his wife were conveyed to the hospital, and it is hoped that Mrs Bushell will recover, but no apprehensions are entertained for his safety, as neither of the cuts inflicted on himself are dangerous.—South Eastern Gazette.
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-05-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  ARDIIOSSAN RAILWAY PCIICRAIN BILL.—We understand that this bill, authorising the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company to acquire the Ardrossan Railway, has been approved of by the committee of the House of Commons, before whom IL  Tharsday being held as the Queen's birth-day by • number of the Glasgow shopkeepers, several steamers decorated with flags, and having instrumental bands on board, passed down the river on pleasure trips. There were also a perceptible increase in the railway traffic. We regret very much that the jaunten had such unfortunate weather.  A meeting of certain of the owners and lessees of mines and minerals on the lines of the Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Companies, was held within the Queen's Hotel on Wednesday last, when it was uoanimously resolved to give the bill to authorise the joint working and management of these undertakings their most strenuous opposition.  FATAL Amour —On Thursday afternoon, about half-put one o'clock,• melancholy accident occurred on board the ship Cathcart, of Aberdeen, at present lying at the south quay of the harbour. A seaman on board said vessel, named John Baxter, was employed near the misentopmast repairing the rigging, when he missed his footing, end fell to the deck, from • height of upwards of forty feet. The unfortunate man, from the effects of the fall, was de. priced of life instantaneously. Deceased was a native of Aberdeen, 23 years of age and unmarried. He was perfectly sober at the time Of the occurrence.  Annuals MILANCROLT Can or SUICIDE —On Tuesday night last, a young woman, nineteen years of age, following the bnsiness of a dressmaker, in Maitland Street, Coweaddens, committed selfdestruction by drowning herself in the canal, near to Baird's Brewery. We are informed that deceased had for some time past been in • desponding mood, in consequence of some love affair, and on the above evening left her home with the intention of I roue& Ing to Sprlngvale with ir cloak, which she had been making for • person there. Nothing was heard of her till the cloak was found on the bank of the canal, when search was made for the body, which was shortly afterwards found.
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-08-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

REWARD6IIII.—A young woman, who is a domestic servant in a gentleman's family in town, on goin.; to church last Sunday, found a pocket book us tho street containing £3BO. She at oncie lodged it at the pollen office, where it was on Tuesday claimed by the owner, who gratefully handed the finder the handsome sum of Zit) as a reward for her honesty.  Arrrorran Bf:trim—A wretched looking female named 31.1lowallotaid to be the wife of a police con. stable, attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday morning by leaping into the river near the Green. She was rescued and conveyed to the police office, where she has been detained with a view to her timato disposal. She has long led a rniserable life, in consequonee of her drunken habits, which her husband could not control.  Thu petition which resulted from tha Glasgow Kossuth meeting was presented on Friday last in the House of Commons by Lord Dudley Stuart. It was 372 feet long, and contained 13,564 signatures of per. sons who had appended their addresses. They urged the rigorous prosecution of the war, declared their conviction that noncom could be good which did not compel Russia to disgorge her ill-acquired possessions —the Crimea, Finland, Poland, &c.  The ordination of the Rev. Alexander Speirs, as minister of the parish of Gorbals, takes place to-day at eleven o'clock cu., in Ilutcbesou-town Church, Hospital Street. The Rev. Mr. Story of Carmunnock will preside, and Mr. Spiers will be introduced to the congregation in the same place of worship on Sabbath first by the very Rev. Principal Macfarlan. We understand that, in consequence of the congregation being without • suitable place of meeting—from circutnsta nee, which are known to the public—arrangements have been made for their being accommodated in the Iluchesontown Church, along with the Rev. Mr. Monteith congregation, until the redemption of the Corbels church is made, which it is expected will be very shortly.  Time thasoow ABSTAINERS' llama—A second open-air temperance meeting was held on Glasgow Gran on Saturday afternoon, attended by a large number of operatives. Addresses were delivered on temperance and kindred subjects, and instrumental bands were in attendance. Several thousands of tracts on saving, banks were put in circulation, besides a large number of temperance publications. The first of • series of sermons wan delivered in the City Hall, on Sabbath evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Robertson. The hall was crowded in every part, and considerably upwards of 1,000 persons had to dmpt •ithout obtaining admission. Several of the m 14i.tratos aud other officials connected with the city, aid a large number of clergymen, were present on the occasion. The psalmody was accompanied by the organ.
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-06-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GRAIN INTO LEITH.—For some time past the arrivals of grain from the Lower Baltic ports have been, and still continue, very large, no that the merchants have experienced considerable difficulty in procuring warehouse accommodation. Several vessels of large tonnage with guano have also arrived.  A curious circumstance took place at the Grand Opera, Paris, on Tuesday evening. During the latter part of kleyerbeer's opera of The Prop Ade, a shot was fired in one of the side bones. The greatest alarm instantly prevailed throughout the house, under the impression that it was an assassination, but it turned out to be a case of suicide. The unfortunate man was. Prussian officer.  Aaaivzi. or Two VIMBRIA FROM Russts.—During the week, two vessels laden with Russian flax, and direct from the port of Riga, have arrived here. Both left • few days before the blockade was instituted; and, what is still more strange, one of the vessels is a Russian. This vessel was allowed to leave her native port because she was freighted to a British citizen ; but her difficulty will now be to find her way back to a Russian harbour. Even although, however, she should be destroyed or deserted by her crew, the voyage will prove • most fortunate speculation, the freighteee alone being double the value of the ship. The other vessel has also made • ran equally fortunate. For the freight of seventy-tive tons of flax, she has netted the sum £825, which for such • cargo is unprecedented since the last war. Both vessels sailed through the fleet; they werefrepiently challenged, and once or twice boarded. One of them brought letters to this country to the relations of the officers who boarded her. The captain of the Russian vessel generously gave up all t he , wine be had to some Russian prisoners on board one of her Majesty's frigates who overhauled his vessel. —Montrose Reticle. Demme UNDER Pocia-Lxvr Acs..—Au important decision was pronounced on the lit inst. by Mr. Sheriff Arkley. A man was apprehended at the instance of the inspector of the City parish of Edinburgh, under the 80th section of the Poor-law Amendment Act, for refusing or neglecting to mantain an illegitimate child. The prisoner, through his agent, denied the paternity ; and on the agent for the isspector proposing to call witnesses to prove that he was the father of the child, this was objected to ttbo the part of the prisoner, on the ground that he could nothe prosecuted criminally under the act for refuseng or neglecting to maintain an illegitimate child in the words of the section ' the paternity had been admitted or otherwise established. It was maintained, in support of the objection, that these words imported either a judicial confession of, or a decree against, the person who was accused under the complaint, and were a preliminary and requisite for the found-1 ation of that complaint, and, therefore, excluded any , proof of the paternity under the complaint itself. After hearing the agents for the inspector and prisoner at considerahlt length, the learned Sheriff-Substitute sustained the objection, and dismissed the complaint.
Glasgow Courier. — 1854-08-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THREE. CHILDREN KILLED ST 1,1111171/1/10.—On Thursday afternoon a heavy thunder-storm passed over the village of Capel St. Mary, near Ipswich, which has unfortunately deprived three boys of their lives, beside injuring several others. It appeared from the statement of the master of the National School that he was sitting at his desk during the heavy storm, when suddenly the room appeared tilled with flame. The next instant he saw several of his scholars struggling on the floor. Three were picked up quite dead, and removed to a chapel opposite, while many of the injured were taken to their residence. Two poor little fellows were scorched, mid nearly insensible. The schoolroom, a neat Gothio structure, with thatched roof, was found to be on fire, the lightning having struck near the chimney, and speedily ignited the roof, The entire building is destroyed. The whole affair has created a most painful sensation in the neighbourhood. The case of Jeffreys ,rsita Boosey has come to an I end, and the House of Lords has reversed the judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber. Copyright, as regards foreign works in this country, is ! again in abeyance, and dire is the consternation in the publishing world in cons; quence. Our newest ! decision—pronounced by a tribunal from which there is no appeal—would seem to cancel all agreements, destroy all assumed copyright of aliens in this country. This last reversal of judgment was made at one o'clock on Tuesday in the House of Lords-a reversal which, among other things, in effect, urets all American copyrights ; and before six o clock that day the printers in London were engaged In reprinting cheap editions of American works. Messrs Low & Co. alarmed for their property in ' Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands,' rushed to their printers to order a cheap edition, sad found them already ..gaged on for snooker house EIPERIMENTAL FIANOINO —On Thursday•fternoon, ! Mr. W. Baker held att inquest at the souk Arms ! Tavern, Hackney Road, respecting the death of Ilannah Warner, aged 59 rears. The deceased was the wife of a carman, and lived on happy terms oith her husband, but was occasionally in the habit of amusing herself with a rope, which she would fix to the beslstead and place the noose or slip knot round the neck. She was cautioned several tunes as to the danger of such acts, but des laughed and said, I only do it to frighten my old man On Monday night they retired to bed on the best of terms. thi the follooing morning the husband got up to work, and discovered the deceased in a kneeling position at the foot of the bedstead, the front of her neck resting on a cord, the ends of which were tied to the bed rail She was quite insensible, and had evidently ,! been In that position above •n hour. The whole of the ohnesses concurred in the opinion that the de, ceased had not committed suicide, but had planed herself in the Nation she was found in to frighten her husband, as she had done previously, in • joke.  SHOCKING CATANTROPRI An
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-08-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT DERRY.—OR Wednesday evening, the Derby police were informed that a man named Robinson, who had cohabited with a married wonfan named Barrington (whose husband had left her some years ago), had been missing since Monday. His house was locked up, and it was, therefore, determined to enter it forcibly. The officers found Robinson with his clothes on in a stupified state on the floor, and the woman lay on the bed, her skin discoloured, and apparently in a stupified state. Mr German, surgeon, arrived in a few minutes afterwards, but the woman died in about twenty minutes after his arrival. On entering the bedroom, Inspector Fern observed to Robinson, "Why she has taken poison," and he replied, "if she has, she took it out of one of those two bottles" (pointing to two that were upon the table). Robinson also added, " When I came into the house tonight, I complained of having a pain in my bowels, and she (Herrington) said she would give me something to do me good,' but I was not to smell at it. I took some of it." Robinson was taken to a surgeon's, but he fell down in a stupified state, and it was some time before he could be restored to eonsciousness. Men, however, sat up with him during the whole of Wednesday night, and Thursday the poison had ceased to have any power over him. Mrs Barrington posted a letter to her brother-inlaw, Mr Brown, of Kegworth, on Wednesday evening, in which she clearly intended both the murder and suicide,  A SID AITAIR ix Lownow. —A lamentabih incident occurred at a house in New Cavendish Street, Lon. don, on Tuesday night, whereby, apparently through the excitement of some trivial altercation, a lady lost her life. The circumstances were investigated on Friday at Marlborough Street Police Court, where Richard Aust wick Westbroke, solicitor, was charged with causing the death of Mrs Cathray. On return from the opera, where the party had been, a dispute arose at the supper-table, when a knife was thrown by the prisoner, which wounded the deceased lady, and soon after terminated her existence. It appears that the projection of the knife Will the result of accident, but Mr Tyrwhitt remanded the case till a coroner's inquest had been held. Bail in one surety for £250 was accepted. On Monday evening the coroner's jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Westbrook.
Glasgow Courier. — 1861-11-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

REVENGE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  The Court of Assizes' says Galignani, tried a young woman named Lefrane for murder. About two years ago the prisoner came up to Paris from the couutry,and got a place as a servant, but, having conceived a violent passion for a young workman. named Delomentey, went to live with him. He repeatedly promised her marriage, but on different pretexts did not execute the promise. In the course of last summer she learned that he hail formed au intimate connection with another young woman, and that he had resolved to marry her. This plunged her into despair, and, according to her own account, she contemplated committing suicide, but eventually she resolved to be revenged on her lover. On the 27th July List he formally announced to her that their connection must cease, and that she most leave him. She said nothing, and at night went quietly to bed. Early the next morning a workman mimed Faure, whose roost was next to that which she and Delemontey oecupied, heard the latter cry out, "Faure, Faure, come bete" He went into their chamber, and to his astonisliment found Delomentey sitting on the side of the bed, with a deep wound in his breast, from which blood was flowing profusely. He hurried for a surgeon, but when the latter arrived Delemontey Wits lying dead on the floor. In the bed was the young woman, and on the table was a large knife stained with blood. The police baying been called in the female rose, and then it was perceived that on her breast there was a slight wound. She at once confessed that she had stabbed the man as be Was fast asleep, and hail afterwards attempted to suicide, but had not succeeded. At the trial, after itv preceding circumstances had been proved, she was called on for her defence, and said that she hail been so distracted at the idea of being abandoned by the man that she hardly knew what shedid. She was declared guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to eight years' hard labour,