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Glasgow Courier. — 1848-04-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.  It appears from a recent return, that 110 persons were killed and 74 injured on all the railways of Great Britain and Ireland during the six months ending 31st Dec., 1847. There were 6 passengers killed and 39 injured from causes beyond their own control; 3 passengers killed and 3 injured owing to their own misconduct and want of caution. There were 9 servants of companies and of contractors killed and 8 injured from causes beyond their own control; 56 servants of companies and contractors killed and 19 injured, owing to their own recklessness, or want of caution. There were 38 trespassers and other persons, neither passengers nor servants, killed, and 5 injured, by improperly crossing or standing on the railway, and 1 suicide. During the above period 31,734,607 passengers were conveyed over the hue., from which it appears that one passenger out of every 3,91.4828 was killed, and one out of every 755 586 injured ; but that only one out of every 6,346,241 was killed owing to causes beyond the iiiilividuars own control, and fortunately not more than 1 passenger in 10,578,202 through his own misconduct or want of caution. The total number of passengers killed and injured amounted to 60, or lin 884,69-2. The following is a list of the railways upon which the accidents occurred : Bolton, Blackburn, and Clitheroe, 1 killed. Bristol and Birmingham, 4 killed and 3 injured. Caledonian, 3 killed and 1 injured. Dahlia lad Kingstown,? killed. Dundee and Perth, 2 killed and 4 injured. Eastern Counties, 3 killed. East Lancashire, 6 injured. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4 killed. Edinburgh and Leith, 2 killed. Edinburgh and Northern, 1 killed. Glasgow and Paisley, joint, 2 killed. Glasgow and Greenock, 2 injured. Great Southern and Western, 1 killed and 2 injured. Great Western, 3 killed and 1 injured. Hull and Selby, 1 killed. Ipswich and Bury, 2 killed. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 8 killed and 2 injured. Lancaster and Carlisle, I killed. London and Blackwell, I killed. London. Brighton, and South Coast, 8 killed and 18 Injured. Loudon and North-Western, 10 killed and 1 injured. London and South-Western, 3 killed. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 4 killed and 2 Injured. Maryport and Carlisle, 4 Injured. Midland, 13 killed and 6 injured. Midland Great Western of Ireland, I killed. Monkland and Kirkintilloch, I killed. Newcastle and Carlisle,3 killed and 2 injured. North British, 8 killed. North Union, 2 killed and I injured. South-Eastern, 2 injured. South Devon, 1 injured. St. Helen's Canal awl Railway, 3 killed. Stockton and Darlington, Sao., 8 killed and 8 injured. Siockton and Hartlepool, 2 killed. Taff Vale, I killed. Ulster, 2 killed. Whitehaven Junction, 1 killed. Wishaw and Coltness, 1 injured. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 8 killed and 2 injured. York and North Midland, 2 killed and 9 injured. 7 were 5 accidents from the breaking of as many axiss..of Aise engines; 2 accidents from breaking 2 axles of ten, and I accident from the breaking of the wheel-tire of an ento an express train.—Herapath's Journal.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-02-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Tuesday.—One of the most horrible murders committed in Liverpool, and one which is likely to remain in mystery, is now the subject of active inquires by the police authorities. The particulars, so far as yet known, are as follow.:—Yesterday afternoon, Thomas Williams, one of the workmen of Messrs Houghton & Smith, timber merchants, discovered in the cartway in the timber-yard belonging to that firm, the body of 'a man lying in a pool of water. The yard is situated near the Canada Dock, at the northern extremity. When taken up and examined, it was found that the cause of death was a frightful wound on the throat, which nearly severed the head from the body. Search was made near the spot for the weapon which caused his death, but none was found near the spot, evidently showing that it WRS not the act of a suicide, the nature of the wound being such that he could not have movrd from the spot, had it been self-inflicted. The body has not been identified, but on his person were found some cards, with the names of Philip Sorner, T. W. Lane, Buffalo; N. Hass, 20, Canal Street, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Wm. Kusel, Clair Street; ClevelaQ, &c. The deceased is apparently about 30 years of age, of light complexion, brown hair, moustache, and whiskers. His stature was about 5 feet 6or 7 in. He wore a drab cloth coat and trousers, red, white, and grey velvet vest, .1 braid watch-guard (no watch), Wellington boots, grey socks, and blue cloth cap, He had also three singlets, and red and white plaid woollen shirt. The only clue yet obtained is the statement of police-constable Jelly, who was on duty on Saturday night in the neighbourhood, and heard the noise as of some persons quarrelling together in the timber-yard, and he called the Custom, house officer's attention to the circumstance. They went over the place together, but did not see any person. He reported the eircumstance to the policeman who relieved him at midnight, but nothing of a suspicious nature was noticed until the workmen found the body in the yard. AOCeSB can be had to the yard either from the quay or from the street, but in either case it is necessary to get over is high paling. It is supposed that the noise proceeded from the deceased and other persons quarrelling, and that he got over the boarding in order to escape, was followed, and murdered there. Flom the nature of the wound death must have been instantaneous.  A post mortem examination is being made, and an inquest will be held to-morrow.  DARItiG
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-04-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.— OR MQllday evening an inqnest was held at the Black Horse, gonkgate, on view of the body of a young lady, 18 years of age, named Mary Lowther, daughter of the late Mr John Lowther, of Laytham, near Howden. On Saturday last week, she arrived in York on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs Wray, of Heworth Moor. On Saturday last she was somewhat ill, but worse on Sunday, and remained in bed nearly all the day. At nine in the evening she was joined by her grandmother, who missed her at three o'clock on Monday morning. An unsuccessful search for the deceased was made about the premises, after which the neighbours were aroused, and they spread themselves in various directions. About six o'clock, a bonnet and skirt, belonging to Miss Lowther, were found on the banks of the Foss, near Monk Bridge, in consequence of which the river was dragged, and the body of the deceased was found, she having on her night-dress and a few other articles. It was then discovered that she had previously attempted to destroy herself by cutting her throat, there being no less than seven cuts on her neck. A pair of the deceased's drawers, saturated with blood, and a penknife, the blade of which was also cove3red with blood, were subsequently found in Mrs Wray's house, the latterhaving doubtless been used to inflict the wounds, and the former to stanch the bleeding before leaving the house for the river. The deceased's uncle deposed that she had a love affair on the way, and he believed that her mother did not wish h.fr to have the individual, although Mrs Lowther had informed him she had told the deceased that she might do as she liked. The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict that the deceased had drowned herself while in a date of uneound ponaseter Chronictc,
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-07-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EMIGRATION. —III the seven years that have elapsed since the Ist of January, 1853, the mortality in 524 emigrant ships sent out by the emigration commissioners, carrying 172,233 souls, has amounted to only 2,226 -equal to 1.31 per cent. Last week, a man named Bowtell, was tried at the Chelmsford assizes for having altered a signal on the Eastern Counties Railway, whereby the safety of passengers was endangered. HA was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. At the Winchester assizes on Monday, Michael Hynes, a sergeant in the 16th Regiment of Foot, was found guilty of the wilful murder of Ann Shein, a woman 64 years of age, and sentenced to undergo the extreme penalty of the law. At the Oxford assizes on Saturday, a farmer named Gardiner obtained a verdict, with £3OO damages, against Mr Harrop, an irregular medical practitioner at Brighton, for "negligent and unskilful practice, in treating him for the cure of a bad knee."  It is said that the mysterious stranger alluded to by Mr. Kinglake derived his information from Prince Napoleon who knew all that passed. —Court Journal. Henry Cowley, a railway policeman, has been tried at Northampton for the murder of a newlyborn illegitimate child, at Oundle, on the 17th of March, and sentenced to death. Lieut. James Pratt, an officer of the Coastguard, at Eastbourne, was recently found dead, the effects of a pistol shot through the head. The jury could not decide whether or not he had committed suicide. Hannah Holmes, a girl of sixteen, was sentenced to death, at the Leicester assizes, on Tuesday, for the murder of Mr Samuel Wells, farmer, Seagrove, by poison. She WAS recommended to mercy on account of her youth.  An interesting and highly attractive Pte and fancy fair took place on Saturday at the Crystal Palace, on behalf of the funds of the Royal Dramatic College, the promoters being the chief actors and actresses of the London stage.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-07-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE. -On Friday a man named Arthur, Clark, Hannan, Millar, Moir, Dl:Donald, while the two pieces of artillery belonging to the British Linen 209 0 Dr STRANG next read. the annual statement of the M'Adam, Raebuna -9. song "Auld Lang Syne" ha been distributed among the Archibald M‘Doug,ald, lately from Southampton, 3 1 0 Glaagow Bridges which is the most satisfactory that the subscribers, and had given universal satisfaction. The defenders blazed away and did as much damage as Caledonian - ' • • - City of Glasgow 9l 1 0* was conveyed to the Police Office, apparently la- . , . . . . By the casting vote of the Lord Provost the amend- engraviugs from Mr Noel Paton's picture, " The Dowie could be expected from blank cartridge at a distance. treasurer nas ever made during his long connexion with Clydesdale .. ......... .. ..... bouring under delirium treniens About four in the ment was declared carried. The defenders being driven behind their field works, that Trust. During the year ending 31st May last, the Dens " were now being executed ; and as the engravers , Commercial ............ afternoon he waa observed to rise, and, turning his income of the Trust has amounted, under deduction of The proceedings then terminated. were 'bound to deliver their plates by the 30th Septem- a party of blue-jackets dashed up and carried one of Eastern back to the door, thrust the blade of a small clasp- the expense of collecting the pontages, to £8,034 eis 6d, ber, the impreasions would be deliverei to the subscrib- the guns, just as those in charge of it had i.ilational . 187 i knife into his abdomen. He had previocely at- being an increase on the preceding twelve months of era as soon as possible thereafter. The committee had fired and fled. Shortly after this a parley was R oo ry ta of Scotland..... 061 I
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-07-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER IN FRANCE.  Crimes of the worst character appear just now to be rife in France. Tuesday was marked at Parisby a murder, three attempts at murder, and an attempt at suicide. A strange case of murder has been submitted to the Court of Assizes of the Drome:—A foundling, who bore the name of Jarvet, was 24 years ago taken by a peasant, named Eysseric, of Montauban, and brought up as a member of his family. When old enough to earn his own living, be entered the service of a farmer in the village, and saved up about 400 f. In 1856 he was comprised in the conscription, and as at that time he was under an engagement to be married to Eysseric's daughter, he confided to him his little fortune, to take care of it until his period of service in the army should be terminated, when he was to marry the girl. He went into Italy with his regiment, and was present at the battle of Solferino; but some time after he fell ill, and in March last obtained a long leave of absence. Just before this the news reached him that the girl had married another man. He resolved on returning to Montauban, but not to take up his residence with Eysseric and his family. These people, however, met him at his entrance into the village, and by professions of friendship induced himto go to their house. This was on the 29th of March, and the next day the neighbours were astounded to hoar that the young man had been found dead in his bed. The Eysserics made hasty preparations for the funeral, but the authorities having been called in examined the body, and found that he had been suffocated. In consequence, Eysseric and his wife, their daughter, and her husband, one Reynand., who alone had been in the house with the young man on the preceding night, were arrested; and, after a while they confessed that the man had been 'murdered; Reynand, they said, had held his legs, and Eysseric's wife his arms, whilst Eysseric himself had smothered him by thrusting his head into a sack, and. then pressing violently on the young man's face. As to the younger woman it did not appear that she had taken any active part in the crime, but it was evident that she must have been present or privy to it. The cause of the murder was, that old Eysseric had spent the sum of money confided to him by the young man, and he, his wife, and son-in-law, feared that restitution of it would be demanded. The four persons were accused of murder, but the younger woman was acquitted; the other three were convicted with extenuating circumstances, and were condemned— Eysseric to hard labour for life, and the woman Eysseric and Reynatid each to 20 years of the same punishment.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-05-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LANARKSHIRE REGIMEN"T OF' YEOMANRY. CAVALtaII ) atate of the liver Mstify the conclusion cision of the court i Jailer, Count Apponyi, Field Marshal Lieut. Degen- The Queen aas this day pleased to confer the Mmour small crossbars or stripes down; and, above all, for ( owy . . i f td• t te ced b was rem , the prisoner being sen- RY.-We have reason to believe that Colonel Macthat Baron Bruck, being in a state o grea is rasa n to e branded with the letter "D " and to be donald Lockha • • feld and Baron Sokeseirts. of knighthood upon James Plaisted Wilde, Esq., one of toilette ne 1. f lard It h otwithstanding g me, ou ,veic , n of mind and of despondency, committed suicide. imprisoned 168 da " ' • ys. the moment the prisoner merits to assembl " rt is in course of making arrangee this regiment at Lanark for eight The Emperor's letter also contains 38 appoint. the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer. heard his sente that for the last few years it has been laid aside, is "The following information, which is from private . . nce, he shouted out at the top of his days' ordinary drill, from the 17th to the 24th May 1 merits of extraordinary temporary Councillors of Commissions signed by Lord-Lieutenants. now likely to be enerally re-adopted. sources, will serve to explain how it happened that voice to Col. M'Killop, that "he would be if he although, as our .' , readers are aware no government State, amongst whom are the following_Hungarian ,Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Companyg tatletas ith a part of the truth was so long kept from tbe know- would do it, and he might do it himself." As this pay will be allowed. - ' ' • Then, for visiting dress, we hay.ne w ledge of the authorities. Baron Bruck's valet, who flagrant case of insubordination occurred in the pregentlemen:-Vay, Mayloth, Sommich, Bugomaster Ensign T Roxburgh to be lieutenant, vice Campbell, l Topercer; also the following Bohemian gentlemen:- 'ed • R Fletale nt to be ensign vice Reiter, ge „ narrow stripes forming chec , th •ks and i e centre of *as awakened between 6 and 7in the morning of sence of the entire division, Col. Pea, the comman- QUEEN'S Brirrer-
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-03-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE REFORM BILL.  The TIMMS of yesterday says—The House of Commons listened to Lord J. Russell with rather less interest than they did to the story of the British cork cutters on Wednesday. He himself showed by his manner that he shared the general indifference. He propounded last night a measuie studiously midway between his own, which was too much, and Mr Disraeli's, which was too little, and must be congratulated on the wish to conciliate all sides. As he observes, it would simply have been political suicide to propose the disfranchisement of fifty burghs; possibly, however, he may see reason to reconsider the very flimsy difference he proposes to retain between county and town. It concludes by remarking —" The House of Commons will not throw the measure out altogether. It will do its best to improve the bill, and adapt it to the present condition of the country. That appears to be the honest wish of the Legislature, and as we don't hear a single syllable else. where either for or sgainat parliamentary reform, the House of Common up has every prospect of a quiet time for the task." _ . _  The Post approves of the bill as a moderate, simple, and wise measure. The Daily News thinks simplicity is the great feature; snd that the most tartest opponent of reform could not consider it a revolutionsiry measure. The proposed admission of Irish Peers to tand for Irish constituencies will naturally exeiteoppospion on the other side of the Channel, While the niggard justice granted to Scotland will be certain to provoke an animated remonstrance from the other side of the 'Tweed. Lord John Russell's bill barely keeps faith. with the expectations of the people, and falls misemlly short at the demands. The Morning Herald says it is not its place to cry out against a moderate Reform Bill, but it looks on Lord J. Russell's measure as another failure.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-05-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW INSTITUTION—ANNUAL MEETING.— The second annual meeting of the Glasgow Institution was held in the class-room, Dundas Street, on Monday evening—Mr Sheriff Strathern presiding. After a short address from the chairman, in which he complimented the directors on their efficient management, the secretary read the annual report, from which it appeared that the number who had received instruction in the classes of the institution during the year had been 737, and of students on the roll for the summer session 337. It also appeared that the recent examinations for certificates of the London Society of Arts had been better attended than in previous years. The report having been read, the distribution of the certificates granted by the local board, to the number of sixty-two, took place, and thereafter resolutions approving of such exatninations, and of the management of the institution during the past year, were proposed and unanimously agreed to. The chairman then addressed the students in appropriate.terms, after which the proceedings, which were of the most interesting character, taininated.  STREET' ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon Margaret Williamson, aged five years, and residing with her. grandmother at 20, Little Dove Hill, while crossing the Gallowgate from St. Mungo Street, fell in front of a spring van. The driver was unable to atop his horse in tune, and the child was run over; but the injuries sustained are not considered serious SurcruE.--Yesterday afternoon, a man named Robert Milnes, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Clyde, a little above Dalmarnock Bridge. He was seen by a man named Campbell wandering about the river bank in a strange manner, and on coming past the same way some time after some clothes were found by him on the bank. Suspecting the painful fact, he communicated with Mr Geddes, of the Humane Society House, who succeeded in recovering the body, which, on being taken to the house, was .claimed by the relatives. Deceased had been labouring under mental aberration for some time. ST.
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-05-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY AN ACTOR.— ror many years an actor, now considerably past middle age, named William Mackay, has been engaged as one of the theatrical company of Mr Mosley, at Bradford and Halifax, and for a season or two at a new theatre in Douglas, 'lsle of Man; but "during the last winter and spring he has been anable, from severe illness, to follow his proiession on the stage. His wife, however, to whom he has only been a few years married, was a shopkeeper in Duke Street, and his circumstances were thus respectable. He slowly recovered; but the season for the time was over, and the company are preparing to return to the Isle of Man, where, it appears, he would not be able to go with theni as formerly, and from this and other causes his spirits were greatly depressed. On Sunday forenoon, when alone in his bedroom, and while his wife and servant girl were in the room below, he becameilesperate, satdeliberatelydowlbe. fore the mirror with a razor in his hand, and at four plunges inflicted numerous wounds on his throat, extending from car to car, but still without dividing the- jugular vein, and so causing instant death Policeman Bowyer, who was ou the beat, was called in, and surgical assistance obtained, but any hope of saving his life is very slight. The roots and connecting ligatures of his tongue are completely severed; and if he even should survive, he will he unable to articulate. The wimlpipe is also partially cat through.. He still, however, while we write. is alive, but little more can be said. He, we understand, was originally from-Glasgow, and has always been held in high respect by the public and the corps drasiatique with whom he associated on the . . board&
Glasgow Courier. — 1860-04-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE AUSTRIAN COMMIS.  SARI&T.  (From a Correspondent of the Times.) Trieste, March 29—The engrossing topic of the day is the gigantic frauds discovered in the Commissariat Department, which r no doubt, were in no small degree influential in bringing to so sudden a termination the recent hostilities between the Austrian and FrancoItalian armies, and which drag to light, despite most powerful influence, a series of disgraceful facts, involving a multitude of names, sonic of them holding positions so high as to render even allusions hazardous, in charges of the mostflagrant political and moral turpitude. The accounts in the Vienna and other Austrian newspapers are meagre in the extreme; and, but for the suicide of General Eynatten on the 7th-Sth inst., which admitted of no concealment, these frauds would probably never have been alluded to. The deficit amounts to the astounding subs of no less than 17,000,001) florins, or £1,700,0001 sterling, of which 3,000,000 florins, or £300,000, is laid to the charge of some of the leading capitalists of this city. One was imprisoned, two have fled, and others are undergoing forced examinations of books, papers, documents, kc. The strangest part of the tale is, however, that which is certainly'the least known. It is said, and from the sources from whence I hear it I believe it is tcue, that at the celebrated meeting of the rival Emperors which led to the armistice, and subsequently to the preliminaries of the treaty Of peace at Villafranca, when Napoleon and Francis Joseph were left quasi alone for nearly threequarters of an hour, the former addressing the latter, said, "Your Majesty would do well to listen to friendly and well-meant counsels. You are surrounded by triotors. Your Majesty believes that your fortress of Mantua is provisioned for six months; I tell you," emphatically raising his finger, "it has not food for as many days. Teat my information, and act accordingly." And so it proved, and afforded another lesson also of the infinite superiority of the French over the Austrian system of espionnpge.