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Glasgow Courier. — 1847-06-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCOTLAND. We regret to learn that our respected member, Mr. Bouverie, is at present unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties from indisposition; and, from accounts received recently, we further regret that he will not be able to resume them for two or three weeks. This will delay the appearance of the report of the Site Committee, of which the hon. member is chairman, and is taking an active part in the preparation of the evidence and report for publication.—Kilmarnock Herald. Incredible.—There was found dead lately on the banks of Pulganny, alias the Water of Bladenock, near Drumlamford House, a craigy heron, the stomach of which, when examined, actually contained the amazing number of thirty nine fine burn trouts —Ayr Advertiser. Suicide in Blairgotorie Jail.—A wandering Irishman, of the name of Murray, was committed for seven day. to our prison here on the 7th inst., for drunk and disorderly conduct. Next day, the matron found hid' suspended by the neckcloth, attached to one of the iron bars in the oell window. He was immediately cut down and medically Inspected, but life was extinct. The matron heard him moving about a short time previous in the cell. The deceased was long a well-known "pest" in the quarter for vagrancy, drunkenness, and aasaults.—Perth Courier. Disiresting Occurrtmce.—We regret to state that, a few evenings ago, a young boy, eleven years of age, named James Grant, the son of an individual employed at the Caledonian Canal, lost his life in the canal at the Muirtown Locks. With a younger brother, and two other lads, he had got ion of a boat, the oars of which had been locked up. possession a piece of an old oar, however, they intended • a sail upon the water. For that purpose, the boy ' the oar over the stern, and pushed the boat from but, In making a second tiush, the water having _ more rapidly than he anticipated, he lost his baand fell into the canal. The boat, with the impetus, d from him, and the boys having nothing with which le it, were unable to assist their companion. Two who were fishing at a distance, having become aware of accident, hastened to render their aid, but being on the s side of the canal some time elapsed before they be spot. In the meantime the youth was supportupon the piece of oar, and one of his companions - and plunged in to assist him, but before he could him the poor boy bad loosened his hold and sunk. 'an hour elapsed before the lifeless body was recoverCourier.
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-03-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  Handsome Donation for the Destitute in Ireland and the Highlands of Seolland.—We are gratified to be informed that the workmen employed in Govan Colliery, Govan Ironwork, Govan Forge, and Townhead Foundry, have subscribed the handsome sum of £72 Pk. to aid the distress in Ireland and in the Hi.glilands of Scotland.  Disgraceful Conduct.—On Friday morning, kyoung man, clerk in an office in town, was brought before Bailie Bryson in the Southern Police Court, charged with maliciously assaulting, striking, and knocking down, during the night, two watchmen in the neighbourhood of Abbotsford Rlace, and with being besides very disorderly when taken into custody in the Police-office. He pleaded not guilty, but the charge being clearly proved, he was fined in five pounds. Case of Suicide.—Between three and four o'clock on Friday afternoon, a man was brought to the Police Office, who was found in Argyll Street, near St. Enoch's Square, and who was said to have taken a quantity of laudanum. On subsequent inquiry it was ascertained that he had purchased Id. worth of laudanum in the shop of Mr. Carnachan, druggist, Argyll Street, and the same quantity in the shop of Mr. MDowall, Maxwell Street; and that immediately afterwards he went to the public-house of Mr. Dow, Maxwell Street, called for a gill of whisky, in part of which he mixed the laudanum, and drank it off. Be was attended by the surgeon of the establishment, who applied the stomach pump and the usual restoratives, but he expired about halfpast eight o'clock the same night. The deceased appeared to be about 35 years of age, was under the middle size, and was dressed in blue clothes like a sailor. House ia which Sir John Moore was Born.—lt is not perhaps generally known that the news-room lately opened in Argyll Street, corner of Virginia Street, under the name of the "Glasgow Athenteum and Telegraphic News Room," is the house in which our brave countryman, LieutenantGeneral Sir John Moore, KR., was born. The projectors of this place of economical accommodation for the public have with great expedition got it fitted up in a most comfortable manner, and seem to have spared no cost in supplying it profusely with newspapers and periodicals from every part of the British dominions, at home and abroad. This is the more suprisiug when the terms of admission are so very reasonable, that it is to us matter of wonder how the establishment can be supported. It is, however, a valuable desideratum in Glasgow, and as such we trust will meet with the encouragement it so well deserves.—Herald.
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-03-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FEB. 23.—0 n Saturday morning a report was circulated in Preston that a woman of respectability named Leadbetter, residing at Walton-lc-Dale, about one mile and ashalf from this town, had commitied suicide by drowning herself in the river Ribble, after having administered poison to her five chil7 dna]. In the course of the day circumstances happened, which, 'itisto be feared, confirm the melancholy rumour. It appears that Mrs. Leadbetter, whose husband is a sharebro!cer in Manchester, has for the last twelve months been residiug at Waltonle-Dale, with her children, at the house of Mr. Livesey, her father, a highly respectable gentleman, who sometime ago retired from the cotton trade. About eight o'clock on Friday evening last she left the house of her father, unknown to the family, after having assisted an attendant in putting the children to bet; previous to which she administered a dose of what she called medicine to each, in the presence of the servant. About ten o'clock in the evening all the children began to complain of illness, and each appeared to be affected in a similar manner. This circumstance alarmed the inmates of the house, and Mrs. Lead better not having returned, information was given to the neighbours, w ith a view of making inquiry for her. It should be stated that for some days previous Mrs. Leadhetter had been exceedingly low-spirited, and the fact of her leaving the house on Friday evening, and not retuntiug taken in connection with the ,1 children's sudden illneas, induced the family to suspect that something was wrong. The whole of the evening was spent in the village in a fruitless search for Mrs. Leadbetter, and tosaris morning a fisherman on the Ribble went in a boat in search of her; and after some thee he discovered the body in ! that part of the river called the Walton Salmnit Fishery, lying about a yard deep in the water. It was immediately forwarded to the house of Mr. Livesq, there to await a coroner's inquest. In the meantime the children had continued to get worse during the evening, and a surgeon was snam for who applied the usual remedies, when four of theni begaa to improve. One, however, named Famiy, gradually got worse, end eventually died about four o'clock cm Saturday afterutron. We are glad to say that the other children are eonsidered out of danger. Au inquest was held on the bodies, but adjourned until Monday evening, for further evidence, and in tile meantime a poet mortent examination of the body was to be made.
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-08-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DEATH OF THE DUKE DE PRASLIN. EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (Fro= the Globe of 77txreday.)  We have received the Paris journals of Wednesday, including Galignanis Messenger of Wednesday evening. They contain long articles on the suicide of the Duke de Praslin, who expired on Tuesday afternoon. The authorities are severs ly reprobated by the press for having afforded facilities for escaping from human justice, which would have been carefully denied to a man in an inferior position of society. A writer in the 3[es:eager thus notices the articles of two of the journals on the suicide of the Duke de Praslin :—'The death of the Duke de Praslin by his own hand relieves the Peers from a painful task, and spares the friends of the deceased an additional inflictiqn ; but it will excite, and has indeed already excited, a feeling of dissatisfaction in the public mind, arising, we hope, not from disappointment at the interniptien of the drama of real life, whose very horrors had a sort of charm upon the mind, but from the circumstances under which the suicide of the Duke took place." M. de Praslin died on Tuesday afternoon, at about 5 o'clock, in 1 the prison of the Luxembourg. The cause of his death has been ascertained. It was with arsemic in a large tioze that he poisoned himself, at the moment when he found that the charges against hirn bad become sufficiently grave to render his arrest and prosecution necessary. The severe vomiting which he experienced on Wednesday evening and in the course of Thursday appear alone to have retarded the effects of the poison, which, after being checked on Friday and Saturday, on Sunday resumed its former force. It is stated that since his arrival at the prison all attempts to obtain from him in his weak state any confession or explanation of the murder were fruitless. The Patric states that he sometimes replied to the questions which were put to him in a vague and evasive way, and at other times said "1 know nothing." It is added that he has not had an hour's sleep since the order was first given for his being considered in custody garde a rue.
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-09-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LIVERPOOL-SUICIDE IN DALE STREET.  An inquest was held on Saturday last, before the borough coroner, on the body of George Sykis, a commission-agent from Sheffield, who, on Thursday morning last, put a period to his existence, at the White Bear Inn, Dale Street. It appeared that the deceased hail been stopping in the house from the Friday week before, and that he had during that time been much addicted to dr:nhlng. On one or two of the nights preceding that on which he committed suicide, the boots of the inn, at his own request, slept With hit,, and on Wednesday afternoon he asked the boots to get him three ounces of laudanum, as he was in the habit of taking it. Mr. Dresser, druggist, of Dale Street, gave an ounce of Inudanuin, stating at the time that 16 drops of it might be taken. 16 drops were accordingly put into a clean glass and left on the dressing-table, the dee-tased saying at the time that he would take it when he wanted to go to sleep. The bottle containing the remainder of the laudanum was left on the drowsing-table also. About one o'clock the same night the boots went to bed, and then the deceased got up and continued to walk about the room until five o'clock the next morning. At ten o'clock he was asleep, and about one he was found lying on his back, quite black in the face. He was then insensible, and he died about five o'clock the game afternoon. He had swallowed the contents of the bottle and glass of laudanum. There was nothing except the effect* of drink to lead any one to suppose that he was out of his mind; but as lie was very much addicted to drinking he could hardly be said to be in hls proper senses. A verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned.—Lieerpool Ti mutes.  &Nash Episcopal Church Society.—The annual meeting of the general committee was held on Wednesday last in the British Hotel, Edinburgh. The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church 1.158 in the chair. The Bishops of Moray, Glasgow, and Edinburich, and a considerable number of gentlemen, lay and clerical, attended. The report of funds from which grants for the present year were to be made, was given in by the treasurer, John Mackenzie, Esq. They amounted to £2412 4s. Bd., the largest sum ever distributed hitherto in one year. Some alterations were agreed upon In the menet of apportioning the funds. It was decided to make an attempt to raise the present minimum of clerical Income throughout the Church, and increase it to £9O; also to place the educational operations of the society under • school committee of the society, and to assign for this objet and for aid in church building a specific sum every year, and that farther funds for promoting these two special purposes should be raised by subscription,
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-11-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SINGULAR SUICIDE AT SEA. The master of the ship Confidence, just arrived at this port, has communicated to us an account of an extraordinary and determined act of self-destruction, which occurred on board that vessel while on her voyage from Malta. The unhappy individual who committed the unfortunate deed was a young man, named James Rowell, who had hired a passage from that island to England. He appeared to be a person of respectable rank, and was supposed to be on his return from foreign travel. On the second night at sea after leaving, it blew severely, and„he came on deck to enjoy the cool air, where he continued walking and smoking excessively, against the advice of the captain, who warned him from indulging too freely in that practice in so warm a temperature. Meanwhile he seemed observant of the sailors, and gave some directions about the trim of the vessel, which were not attended to. In the morning the captain asked him to take some coffee near the wheel, and he complied with the invitation; but as they were seated he complained of the oppressive heat, and rose to put off his coat which he placed near him, and then instantly jumped over the taffrail into the water. "I'm off," he was heard to cry in the act of making the leap. The helm was immediately put down, and the ship brought round, while he continued to swim away from her. It is stated that he possessed unusual expertness in tho water, and did not seem in the least to suffer from exhaustion or fright. The mate ran to the rail and called out to him to conic towards the vessel, but he did not appear to head the voice, and after a few moments be clasped his hands above his head and sank. The only cause that could be conjectured for this melancholy act is, that probably the stimulating effects of the smoking and coffee, in which he had indulged, aggravated by the heat of the climate, had momentarily disturbed his reason. The deceased is described as about 21 years of age, fair haired, and of fine personal appearance. It may assist towards the discovery of his friends, that while on board the vessel lie seemed to be familiar with the city of London. In reporting the occurrence, the master, whose name is Smith, desires it to be added, that his box has been left at the Custom-house of this city, in order that his friends may be able to recover his personal property. Deceased had also informed him that more of his luggage bad been shipped in the„schooner from Corfu.—Cork Examiner.  -°
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-11-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCOTLAND.  Captain Charles G. Robinson, of her Majesty's steamvessel Shearwater (with the sanction of the Admiralty), has been presented by his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, with a magnificent gold snuff-box, set in diamonds, in remembrance of an excursion he took with that officer through the Western Highlands last summer. This officer also had the distinguished honour of piloting her Majesty and Prince Albert in the royal yacht from Lochryan in August and September last —Ay r Observer. Lamentable Suicide.—We regret to state that the Rev. Mr. Nelson, clergyman of the quoad sacra church at Patna, parish of Straiton, Ayrshire, committed suicide on Wednesday. It appears that some exaggerated reports of a trilling occurrence at his house, some time ago, had preyed upon the too sensitive mind of the unfortunate gentleman, and that he had, in consequence, removed from Patna, and resided in the house of Mr. John M‘Call, Straiton. This change had not had the desired effect of tranquillising his mind. On Wednesday morning, he went out as if to take a walk, and was last seen on the old road leading from Straiton to Patna. Not returning as usual, a search was made, but it was only on Friday that his body was discovered, suspended from a tree, in a wood off the road which he had been observed walking upon. Life was, of course, extinct. He had taken the cord with him by which the fatal act was perpetrated; and previous to leaving home had laid aside his watch, money, and other articles.— Dumfries Courier. Call.—On Tuesday, the 2d of November, the electors in the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Wishaw assembled for the purpose of choosing a pastor, to fill the place of the Rev. Mr. Graham, lately removed to Ayr. The Rev. J. W. Macmeeken, of Lesmahagow, preached and presided, and the suffrage of the congregation fell upon the Rev. Matthew George Easton, A.M., who was licensed in the month of April last by the Reformed Presbytery of Glasgow.
Glasgow Courier. — 1847-12-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EDINBURGH.  Chloroform—A man fell lately from the top of a laden cart, and dislocated one of his shoulders. On the following day Dr. Fowler, Corstorphiue, was called to see him. Chloroform was administered in the usual manner. In less than a minute complete placid unconsciousness ensued, during which the dislocation was reduced not only without the slightest pain, but with the greatest possible ease. To appreciate the value of chloroform in this case, it is to be kept in view that, under ordinary circumstances, very considerable force would have been required to overcome the powerfully resisting action of the muscles. That, however, was completely accomplished by the Aloroform, which rendered the muscles perfectly passive, and thereby removed the difficulty usually experienced in the reduction of dislocations. This is another proof of the practical utility of Dr. Simpson's invaluable discdvery.—Courant. Fatal Accident —On Monday afternoon as some wagons, coal-laden, were descending the incline of the branch railway from Bryan's colliery to Dalhousie, a girl about nine years of age, of the name of Christina Bryce, incautiously went upon the line to gather some pieces of coal, and unfortunately missed her footing, and fell upon the rails, when two of the waggons went over her body, and killed her on the spot. No blame is attached to the driver, who was at his post, and the waggons were proceeding at a slow pace. —lbid. Attempted Suicide—Another attempt at self-destruction, by leaping into the canal, was made on Friday, by a man named Brotherston. He was observed sauntering along the banks by a keeper of one of the drawbridges, and afterwards, on reaching the first bridge from Port-Horictoun, to plunge in suddenly. The keeper immediately- cried for help, when several of the workmen in Mr. Lithgow's yard repaired in a boat to his rescue, arriving just in time to save the unfortunate fellow from a watery grave. He was carried to his residence in Lady Lawson's Wynd, in a state of great exhaustion, and we understand that he still lies in a precarious state.—Edinburgh Post.
Glasgow Courier. — 1855-03-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE. —At the Nottingham burgh police-court on Tuesday the following extraordinary case came before the mayor and magistrate :—The prisoner, John Alex. Clark, a tin-plato worker, about M years old, and his wife had lived separate for some years, he following the occupation of an itinerant worker at his trade, she residing with her son in a yard in Mount Street, Nottingham. The prisoner entered the town a few evenings ago, and had an interview with his son at the Ten Bells public-house. In the course of conversation the prisoner told his son, with much apparent unconcern, that he intended on the following day to murder his mother, as also the man with whom he understood she had formed an acquaintance. He intimated that the weapon with which he meant to commit the deed was in his travelling bundle, and that he had prepared it for the purpose. The youth made his mother acquainted with the threat the same night. On the following evening the prisoner was observed in a very sorrowful mood, sitting in a public-house in the neighbourhood where his wife lived, and immediately after he had left shrieks were heard in his wife's house, and she and her husband were seen struggling together. A large knife, newly sharpened, was in his hand, and he threatened he would use it ,f lie were opposed. A few minutes afterwards he himself was seen stretched upon the floor with a wound in his throat, and he was conveyed to the General Hospital, to which place his wife also, upon whom lie had inflicted several wounds upon the left side of the neck, the left arm, the left hand, and under the left breast, was carried He was afterwards removed, in a weakly condition, to the police court, and the magistrate committed him to take his trial at the assizes.  IRELAN ri.  The ladies ot Dublin are forming a fund by subscription to present Lady Blakeuey with a testimonial of their respect and esteem on her d.-parture from Ireland.  The Earl of Carlisle, the new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, is expected to arrive in Dublin to-day, and is for that evening to be the private guest of his Excellency the Earl of St. Germans. On the following day Lord Carlisle is to be sworn into office by Lord St. Germans, who will then take his departure from Ireland. Formerly, the outgoing Lord-Lieutenant invariably invested his successor with the insignia of office, but for the last twenty years the new Loril-I,i,..utenant has been sworn in before the Lords Justices.