Glasgow Courier. — 1847-05-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TISCENT PLACE. WHITSUNDAY. The attention of Parties Insured against FIRE is requested to the current term, when Transfers may be made from other Offices. LIFE ASSURANCES On the most favourable terms. 19, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow, Bth May, 1847.  A Royal Compliment. —An incident occurred at her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday evening, illustrating, in a remarkable manner, the effect produced in the royal box by Jenny Lind's transcendent talent on the night a her debut. The fact having altogether escaped the notice of our daily contemporaries may be worth mentioning here. The Queen as already stated, arrived before the commencement of the overture. During the performance of the opera her Majesty gave frequent indications of the delight she experienced, by laestowing her applause with a degree of energy scarcely surpassed by any lady in the theatre, and at the close of the Opera, when the fair cantatrice was summoned before the curtain to receive the final stamp of approbation from the audience, her Majesty so far threw aside her Queenly dignity as to cast a superb bouquet, which lay before her in the royal box, at the feet of the debutante. The incident—certainly unparalleled on any former occasion in this country— was unobserved by the great majority of the audience, all of whom were at the moment in an extreme state of excitement; but the gracious act of condescension did not escape the fair songstress, and a profound curtsey acknowledged the royal recognition of her success.--John Bull Fatal Occurrence.—On the Bth inst., a melancholy and fatal accident happened on the road which leads from Perth to the Burgh muir, to William Leven, better known as Laird Leven, one of the oldest &ultra, and the oldest county constable on the constabulary roll. The old man had been in town transacting business and had some goods conveyed home in one of his neighbours' carts. .He also was asked to take a ride, which, being a hale old man, he declined and preferred walking. When they arrived at a watering place by the road side, the horse was allowed to drink, and the old man, in passing behind just as the horse backed the cart from the well, was struck down by the end of the shaft. Another cart passing at the time with upwards of a ton of stones, passed over his thigh, and crushed it in so shocking a manner that, when conveyed to the Infirmary, amputation of the limb was found necessary. He survived the operation only till next morning. The deceased was 79 years of age, and much respected by all who knew him.—Perth Constitutional. Suicide—About six o'clock on Monday morning, Gearee Watt, a tailor, threw himself from the window of hieheuse. in Druinmond Street, Edinburgh, a height of four etertig, whereby his back and leg were broken. He was inatantly conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, where he died in ,the course of an hour. Deceased was 48 years of age, and had been depressed in spirits for some time past; and in the course of the night he had made repeated attempts to commit the dreadful act, but was observed and prevented. We understand that our respected townsman, James B. Neilson, Esq., the inventor of the hot blast, on Wed= evening entertained a select party of his scientific at dinner in Gerrard's Hall, London. The entertainment, which was most magnificent, was conducted in the true old civic style of London, and comprised all the delicacies of the season. The evening was devoted to scientific conversation, and among the subjects discussed were those connected with the manufacture of gas, and railway and steam navigation improvements.—NortA British Railway Journal. Ross-shirr County Meeting—lnvergordon Bank Safe Cass —At the Ross-shire County meeting on Friday last week, .CE . EKES , the chairman read to the meeting a memorial from Mr. John ENERAL MEETING Macbean, Superintendent of Police, Inverness, detailing at fl Al GLASGOW to YOKER BRIDGE considerable length, the manner in which he had exercisedcalled the RrgoetidSoqfuaCroemOnnutegeosnday, the his official duties during the riots in Ross-shire in 1843, and o'clock, to consider the propriety of erecting a exculpating himself from all blame in the confinement of the South-end of the Road leading to Garscadden, ecveral pnsoners who had been kept for a night in the Bank ' joins the Turnpike Road, or at some other point across Safe at Invergordon. The memorialist complained Of the pike Road bet Y ker Bridge and Blawarthill ; between o decree upon him last year in the Court of Session, by transaction of Business c, d with the Which, Er:ltsi s obliged to Flay £2OO of damages, and law 1). DON expenses—amounting in all, to £1414 Is. 2d. Mr. Machean -•esaed a hope that the county of Ross would relieve bun ----payment of so large a sum, which he had incurred GLASGOW EXCHANGE —_ acting by their express desire and authority. The ‘TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That all Shares ad been previously referred to a committee, who re- A. COMPANY, on which the FIRST CALL shall not u, lat great length on the whole matter, recommending been Paid on or before MONDAY, the 24th instant, with Interns he claiin should be sustained. After considerable die- thereon fro-n the .oth ultimo, shall be at the disposal of the A more detergent antiseptic, additional petroleum, it, On the motion of Davidson of Tulloeh, it was agreed Directors, in terms of the Contract. I Dispensary Soap, is prepared for inveterateopßoular affections i long standing; and from experience in several public schoo By Order of the Directors. ass the county in £l7OO to defray all the expenses—