Glasgow Courier. — 1862-09-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO.  Major 11. L POwyss Keck, of Houghton -hall, Leicestershire, has been severely injured by being thrown from his waggonette, which came into collision with a coal cart. His servant also suffered. _ _  An action brought against Mr Pollard, a surgeon, at Chorley, by a booking clerk, for the defendant's unskilful treatment of the plaintiff's wife durirg her confinement, resulted in a verdict of £l2O damages. Stephen Joseph Meany, who described himself as editor of the Lancashire Free Press, was brought up at the Hammersmith Police Court, on Friday, charg. cd with obtaining goods under false pretence. He was remanded.  On the 16th just,, as declared by the new Customs Act, the duty on hops "shall cease and determine," from which day all allowances and drawbacks of Excise on the exportation of hops will cease. The nuptials of Mr Lionel Helbert, nephew of Baron Rothschild, with the beautiful and accomplished Miss Mossely, daughter of Mr Mo,sely, the Liverpool banker, will be solenmised in the course of the ensuing month. Two boys, aged respectively 13 and 14, living in Southwark, agreed to settle a luarrel by a fight. In the course of the encounter one of them was kicked under the hamstrings of the legs, and gangrene supervening, he died. The "midnight missions" among the wretched women of Coventry Street have made a statistical report of 138 saved, averaging 22 years of age. Of these, 26 have been restored to their families, 18 placed in service, 4 married, 2 emigrated, and 91 are undergoing probation. Lancaster, Saturday.—Moore, the Colne murderer; has this morning committed suicide. At eight o!clock he was visited by the watchman, and requested to go to the closet. He must have plunged into the reservoir, for when discovered a few minutes after be was quite dead. Crowds of people arrived to witness the execution. Under the new Customs Act, an allowance will be made of 7s per cwt. for British hops in stock on the 15th Sept. All British hops reimported are to be charged with duty for six months after the 15th Sept. The officers of Excise are, on the 15th September, or within three days, to attend and examine the stock and claims made, and to grant certificates. _ .  11l feeling had for some time existed in the parish of Walditch, Dorset. between two farmers, Fooks and Stone. They differed respecting the rating of the parish. On Friday Mr Stone had just passed the house of Mr Fooks, when the latter came out and deliberately shot him in the back part of the head. Death was instantaneous. Mr Fooks then returned to his house and shot himself; the contents of the gun, however, only grazed his skull. Two cases of drowning in the Thames occurred on Thursday. In the morning a coal barge was run foul of near London Bridge by a sailing barge loaded with sand, and the steersman of the former pitched into the water. Every exertion was used to save him, but he disappeared almost instantly. —ln the evening, as Christopher Penn, a bargeman, was going up the river with a barge laden with coal, accompanied by a boy, while walking on the gunwale, he overbalanced himself and fell into the water. The boy was so alarmed that he could render no assistance, and tie man sunk to rise no more.