Glasgow Courier. — 1847-04-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—LEDRth of line 224 miles—no Sunday trains.—Traffic for week ending 17th April, 1847 ;—Number of passengers, 13,908; receipts, for passel:l(ora and parcels, /649 168 11d.; goods, £353 9s. 7d.; total receipts, £1,003 63. 6d.—Corresponding week in 1846, £787 6s. 46.  Suicide.—On Sunday morning, the wife of a shoemaker, named Malian, committed suicide by cutting her throat in her own house in Prince's Street. The husband had gone out to take an early walk, and on his return found the door fastened on the inside; it was forced open, when the wretched woman was found dead in bed with a razor lying by her side. The deceased is said to have been weak in her intellect.  Housebreaking.—We bare learned that between 'Friday night and Saturday morning there was stolen from the office of Mr. Simpson, Extractor of Court, situated in ,the City Buildings, the sum of £56 in bank notes, gold, and silver. At the same time, a lockfaat place in the City Accountant's office was entered, and 20s, carried away. No one is yet in custody. Theft.—On Saturday evening last, a respectable gentleman, whose place of business is in St. Andrew's Square, was passing along in the neighbourhood of Montrose Street, When two persons approached, one of whom gave him n s vere penal on -the breast; and on recovering from thit 1. mentary stupor, he found that his watch had been torn , f ell:the-guard. The fellows got off with the property. .1 IResignation of Sherif Campbell of Renfrewshire.—We learn that this venerable judge, who has presided in the Sheriff1T art, Paisley, for the last 44 years, and who is now ripe is ' ii llewetyeatenrsdalsearesohdtehhaiis: remtrieshi,roini,,Rtliobenn,ortwuheorienah,ndhoasfputbebhleeicuparae:sucepltecpytted,ofhasAvidalt i mites, has been appointed successor to Sheriff Campbell' gow Post. - Eastern Bank—The annual meeting of the proprietors of this bank took place in Dundee on Wednesday last. A very satisfactory report of their affairs was submitted by the directors, from which it appeared that a profit equal to ten per cent. had been realised on their business during the last year. A dividend of six per cent, exclusive of income-tax was declared; and it was stated that from £4OOO to £5OOO had been Tait to the reserve fund, which now amounted to above £ll,OOO, exclusive of the fund reserved to meet former liabilities, and which was considered more than equal to all demands on that account. The meeting unanimously approved of the report, and a dividend of six per cent. clear . declared. Weekly Statement.—Number of inmates in the Night Asylum for the Houseless, in St. Enoch's Wynd, from Saturday, 10th April, to Friday, 16th April, inclusive :—Men, 129; women, 548; boys, 193; girls, 238: total, 1108. The average number of nightly inmates for this week is 158 1-7th, exclusive i of 26 inmates n the House of Industry. Loss of the Tweed.—lt is understood to be the intention of the committee of Lloyd's, in reference to the noble and disinterested conduct of Captain Camp, of the Spanish brig Emilio, in rescuing the survivors of the crow and passengers of the Tweed steamer, to recommend to the subscribers in general meeting to bestow upon him the honorary medal of the atablislnnent in silver, and to Don Villa Verde, his mate, the honorary medal in bronze, and a sum of money to tho crew of the Emilio, as a mark of their approbation of the heroic and generous conduct displayed by those persons on the occasion of the wreck of the Tweed steamer.— Standard. Illness of. the Emperor of Russia.—We find the following in the Courner Francais of Wednesday:—" A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 26 announces to us that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed. This fact is certain, but is kept within the walls of the Winter Palace, but has no doubt already come to tho knowledge of M. Kisalef:" This news, the adthenticity of which we gaurantee, directly contradicts tho.loiters In the Press., which announced the approaching 4 arinra of Nicholas in Paris."  Partial Destruction of the Sunderland Docks.—A very serious accident has befallen the groynes which are to form the breakwater to the immense sea wall for the extensive docks at Sunderland. Three groynes, about 100 yards in , length and of solid masonry, have just been completed, and were found to answer the purpose most admirably for which they were designed; but the work has been hardly finished before the unruly waves of the ocean have broken through the middle of the north and south groynes, leaving the centre one uninjured. The extent of masonry swept away in each of the two groynes is about twenty-five Tants; and the heavy blocks of stones, bound together with iron clasps, and cemented in the usual way, calculated to resist the greatest violence of the sea, were on Friday night swept away during a tremendous gale and heavy sea from the north-east. Lambing Extraordinaru.—The "Black Ewe o' Tullich," belonging to Mr. Young Leslie, of Kininvie, Banffshire, and now on his home farm, has produced three lambs in each of the seasons 1844, 1845, and 1846, and four this season,—the whole stook strong and healthy, and some of the ewes competing with the "old lady." One lambed twins this season, and the same in 1845: last year she bad one. Two days ago, a ewe of Mr. Young Leslie's, of a different breed, produced three lambs, which are all thriving: she had two last ,year. There are but two males among the nine lambs produced this sewn by these three ewes.