Glasgow Courier. — 1864-08-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FALKIRK TRYST—TUESDAY. t to The show of stock of all kinds was in resPecxvs quantity beneath that exhibited at the corresponu iota market last year, but the condition of the variouso I was very fair. The deficiency in the supply of Higlll in r beasts is attributed to the fact that many breeder''.,to the Highlands have been converting their folds lie. sheep walks, finding the latter to be more profitaioilig Others again are turning their attention to the bre ever.,, of dairy stock, dairy produce bringing just now 3 of high figure. There was a numerous attendance .n. buyers and dealers from all parts of the countili'a eluding several gentlemen from the north of -' nod Business opened stiff among the Highland stc:‘,.'s continued so throughout, and at the close of the r,e. proceedings a good many droves of the smaller or'rd mained unsold. Prices displayed a decided downw9 tendency, and animals which fetched last year from , to £lO were back to day at least lOs from last currencies. Stirks were down as much, and the srnal.! sorts suffered similar reductions. The holders of description of stock declared that the market was 11.123, one, and altogether unprofitable. Cross stots and heiteli and Irish beasts sold freely in consequence of the snPI., supply, and prices were a shade better than was antic'. ras pated. The mulch cow market was a long and pr°e as tinated one, and the united opinion of the sellers scre. that sales were most difficult to effect, and prices the pt fore gave way. The fat cattle exhibited fetched rece.ps rates, and changed hands readily. The show of 11°.,r',"f was about an average of last year, and consistea.oo. draught horses, harness and riding horses and 13°1 50 The demand for all kinds was dull, but good bat brought good prices. On Thursday, n thersiday, Gaelic lic Esethaubrlcishheacnid ordainedPresby terlol Paisley m Rev. Robert Macalister in that charge. On Friday two young men from Glasgow, nergeci of rabnodtraon afterwards.Fnativer Friday, d aoyf Tailor, were bathing at Strone Point, when Ole j, them got out of his depth, sank, and was droWile, On Friday afternoon, a broker named John ' fell on his head while descending from an ouirour-61 een d years,t hshortly a near Stockwell Street, and was so severely ink'. A ship-watchman named Peter Douglas, tss some severelysNtlooninnedjs uafyraellda falling oauurprtoi etnrh, ehni hamme aeviddhaThilnedomasthp by yvefralnleinssi the water from a gangway leading to a ship. so quarry in Gourock, that he is not expected to recov ea The illegitimate infant son of a woman 11,3,1111,,05, Mattacks, residing in Stirling Street, Cowcs","; or died suddenly in the course of Saturday nie,:.ing early Monday morning, in consequence of hA been overlaid in bed by its mother. ladY On Saturday, Miss Jessie M'Cowan, a young,,,e3cl about nineteen years of age, residing in Gardens, was found drowned in a bath-room, she had entered alone. It is supposed she ca down in an epileptic fit, to attacks of which she subject. ~ht A Shortly before seven o'clock on Tuesday ntaTir collision took place on the Clyde, between a Si:: the lighter, which was at the time proceeding do 10b river, and the steamer Banshee, of Glasgow,..„,"l, i 0 was coming up, whereby the former was s' deep water. When the ship Euxine, at Greenock from Qieo was on the outward voyage, and in lat. 46 'while long. 12 W., George Reeves, an able seaman, orl reefing the upper maintopsail, fell from the upon deck, and was killed on the spot. Ile w years of age, and a native of Colchester, Essiliricle, On Saturday last a woman named BetsY l'""‘ otad wife of a working man residing in Parliante.o,, A Road, attempted to commit suicide by taki beer; quantity of laudanum. She is said to havlif 0' urged thus rashly to attempt to deprive hnclieg life in consequence of some family misundersts or dispute. e o Above 350 persons availed themselves a tbo.ht t stainers' Union excursion on Thursday. cl 0C London, about 250 starting at half-past sor, °r /rola from Dundas Street Station, and the remain,",eborgb. the North British Railway station at En'lcil tife'r Of the excursionists, about 100 will extee „ journey to Paris and 20 to Switzerland. colc Several Glasgow detectives were in Green cierU.'s Tuesday endeavouring to discover a runawq baol'f It appears he was sent to one of the Glasg.o"tocl on Monday with £BO in large notes, but nlsh wifico banking it, he got change in small notes, wl,l got ° he has absconded. It was thought be ,h,9 by one of the Irish boats on Monday nignv,' On Monday morning last, James Cra,4'acl, potato merchant, residing in Pollokshaws returning home from Eaglesham in a gig, ifaddento were also John Allison, spirit dealer, Cow ~jog his wife, and John Gordon, a weaver, be 10,114, Eaglesham. On reaching Linn Porter Netherlee, the horse became restive, an" at stolleS rdoll the machine in contact with a heap o uo ,„g side of the road, throwing the party was severely injured on the head, the bloouroos voS. from his left ear, and now lies in a dange 'es. eo tion. The others escaped with trifling coo j The shipbuilding trade on the ClPleoraers, iVe• pretty brisk in the completion of former ..e been of in many instances several good orders lirr for Pfor ceived for vessels. The demand, hovvelfee'ptifig for steamers has fallen off considerably, _ee'r,oirea, off the class of paddle-wheel clippers e Wrowil'reel‘• the blockade-running, and these ar it: Rist coot with most surprising rapidity—°° " Yby diffebea three of these were sent off the stock in iiog builders. During last month there vile,io excee_d' on the river 19 vessels, of a total tonn,loo to" 20,000 tons against 16 vessels of iv, correepubig month ill 101 sdst oihrlC tmoaowty hn- sixty-three