Glasgow Courier. — 1853-12-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE WILLIAM DENNY.—This fine screw steamer left the Tail of the Bank with a tug early on Saturday forenoon to proceed on her voyage to Melbourne. The day was very thick on the river, and, about eleven o clock, she got ashore immediately between Gourock Quay and Kempock Point. It being floodtide at the time, she soon backed off, when she came to anchor off Ashton. The damage sustained, if any, most have been trifling, and not likely to lead to any  detention.  FALL or • House.—About 8 e.st. on Saturday, a building in course of erection at the corner of St. George's Road, and North Woodside Road, gave way and fell with a tremendous crash, the whole of the structure becoming one mass of ruins. Providentially there was no person in the vicinity, or the accident might have involved a sacrifice of life fearful to contemplate. The builder is Mr. Stenhouse, and to the indifferent quality of the materials is as. cribed the fall of the house, which was nearly completed, the fourth story having only been erected last week. THE Kstre.—On the night of Thursday last, several of the crew of the American ship Robena, of NewYork, then lying off the East India harbour, Greenock had been ashore and got the worse of liquor. On returning to their ship, William Haskell, the mate, insisted on their doing some duty on board. They refused, and on his insisting upon one of them, named Robert William Moore, obeying orders, Moorerushed at him with a knife, and inflicted three severe cuts upon the thick part of the arm below the shoulder. More is in custody, and the case is undergoing investigation.—On the following day, another of the seamen of the same ship, named James Smith, while the worse of liquor, was found running about on the quay with an open knife, threatening to stab any one who came in his way. Bailie Campbell fined him, on Saturday morning, at the police court in a guinea, or go fifteen days to prison. SUICIDE IN A POLICE CELL —About half-past one o'clock on Sabbath morning, while the turnkey in the Gorbals Police Office was visiting the prisoners, he found a man named John Hamilton suspended from, or rather with his neck resting upon, a black silk neckcloth, which he had fixed to the padlock in the window of his cell. He immediately cut him and found that the body was still warm. The surgeon was instantly called in, but his services were of no avail, as life was quite extinct. The turnkey states that he saw Hamilton quite well about half an hour previously, having occasion at that time to put another prisoner into the same cell. This man was perfectly sober and awake, and though he heard his fellowprisoner moving at the other end of the cell, he had no notion that he was then actually committing suicide. The deceased was brought to the office about eleven o'clock on the previous night, on the charge of annoying and chasing two respectable women up a close in Centre Street, Tradeston. He was then much intoxicated, and no doubt committed the rash act, after awaking in a fit of drunken frenzy. Deceased was a ship carpenter to trade, and was the son of a respectable flesher in Leith. Mr.Dechamps, a French teronaut,was killed on the 28th ult., whilst making a balloon ascent.