Glasgow Courier. — 1850-07-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GOVAN PAROCHIAL BOARD.  A meeting of the General Committee of Management of this Board was 11,1 d on Thursday In the Workhouse—Dr. Leiehman In the chair. Variant minutes in ensue:ion with the House Committee, Inspectors' Censmittee, and Medical Relief and Sanitary Commit- I tee, were read, the most important of which was a recommend,- , tion from the Medical Relief Committee, that the salaries of the district surgeons should be advanced—those of the annexation district receiving £45 per annum, with extras; the house surgeon, £4O; and the two landward surgeons, 1,25 each. The approval of the minutes was moved by Dr. STEWART, who contended that the proposed allowance was not more than the services of the district surgeons entitled them to. Mr. 'Jaynes; of Moss, thought the advance was too great.. Nevertheless, he Wag disposed to give £4O each to the annexation and house surgeons, leaving those of the landward district as at present. The motion of Mr. Urquhart, after some discussion, was agreed to, and the salaries fixed accordingly. .11.1 r. URQUHART brought under the notice of the committee the debt of gratitude they were under to the late Mr. Gibson, for his long and faithful services as their inspector. He considered it would be a becoming and fitting thing in the Board to give some tangible acknowledgment of their sense of his valuable services, by making some small pecuniary allowance to his widow, who bad been left, if not In poverty, at least, in the meantime, in rather straitened circumstances. He did not consider 1,60 too much to be set apart for this purpose. Mr. Bran. thought it would be a misapplication of the funds to vote away money for such an object, and he would move-the previous question. Mr. CRAWFORD briefly seconded the amendment, which was then put to the vote, and carried by a majority—ll voting for the amendment, and 6 for the motion. On the motion of Mr. LOQAW, the salary of Mr. Cassels was advanced to £6O. The Board then adjourned, names  Dirtriet Surgeons.—The as district surgeons by the P.  I: of the gentlemen ohosen :hial Board at its last meet ing are—  Mr. Glass, Mr. Leitch. Dr. Lindsay. Dr. Fisher. Mr. Menzies.  Dr. fiend&ll. Mr. Fergus. Mr. Walker, Mr. Eagle. Dr. Ales. M. Adams.  Mr. Hervey. The three gentlemen formerly appointed by the Sanitary Committee, and not now elected by the Board, were rejected solely in °onset:peace of having no regular place of business in their districts; their names are—Mr. Johnston, Dr. J. it. Dickson, and Dr. James Adams. _ _ _ '  - _ Honesty Rewarda—on Friday evening as the watchman on the Old Wynd station was perambulating his beat, he came upon a person attired in a genteel manner, standing at the door of a house of suspicious character, and apparently in a state of intoxication. The officer, apprehensive that he might be inveigled into the house and robbed, took him for protection to the Police-office. On being searched there, a sum of money, amounting to £B3 odds was discovered upon him, together with a cheque for £23 additional. NI, hen restored to his senses, and informed of the plight in which he had been found, and the danger be bad escaped, the gentleman at once acknowledged the imminent risk he had been under, and expressed in well-set terms his sense of the prudence and kindness which had been shown in his rescue—munibeently leaving for his deliverer the sum of one shilling, as a substantial token of the gratitude he felt ! Verily, this is a fine sample of honesty rewarded! We may also add that the child of this honest watchman found some time ago the sum of £6 upon the street, which amount he promptly delivered to the Police-office. Melancholy Suicide.—Between eight and nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, the body of a respectably dressed man, apparently about fifty years of age, was found floating beneath one of the arches of the Brooraielaw Bridge. The remains were conveyed to the Clyde Police-office, where, on examination, two letters were found on the person of the unfortunate individual, the contents of which leave no doubt that his death was premeditated. One of these was addressed to his brother, and the other to his son; in which he complains of the treatment be received from them, and intimates his intention of throwing himself over Broomielaw Bridge. There was no moneakfound on him, or valuables of any kind. The notes wTre dated 23d July, and the signature they bore was that of G. Tait. The unfortunate individual was, we understand, a native of England, and had been at one time an innkeeper, and in much more affluent circumstances than those to which he has been recently reduced. There was no symptom of poverty, however, in his aspect. He was attired in a dress suit, and seemed as if he had been returning from a party.