Glasgow Courier. — 1847-05-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SETTLING FOR THE DERBY AND OAKS.  The winners of the above races, having at the time been generally supposed to be "harmless" horses, we fully expected to have to speak of an easy settling. We regret to say that it has turned out quite the reverse—not merely a bad one, but one of the worst that has been known since Cotherstone's year. Two parties were won est whose losses cannot be stated at less than £20,000; one of them, who is connected with the highest families in the kingdom, is a loser of about £12,000, of which there is no immediate prospect of payment; the other is a Mr. P—, of whom there is no hope whatever. It appears that this worthy, not satisfied with "drawing" all he amid on Monday without disbursing a farthing, enclosed a fist of debta due to him on the race to one of the parties from whom he had received, begging him to "collect all he could, and retain the half for his trouble," adding that he was "utterly ruined," and concluding by graciously permitting his victim to make any excuse he might think fit for collecting for him. Of course this impudent attempt at swindling was immediately made public.— It is almost needless to add that these heavy defalcations seriously embarrassed the settling, and that many parties who entered the room with balances in their favour quitted it losers. Sir Joseph Hawley, Mr. Pedley, and their friends, are good winners; but it is beyond a doubt that the deficiencies of the parties alluded to, and the inability of others to pay in full at present, have materially influenced their net profits. Beta on the two plates on Friday were paid under protest.  1 Suicide from Losses on the Derby.—On Tuesday morning the domestic peace of a respectable family was disturbed by a painful event arising out of the last Epsom races. Mr. 1 Frederick eras°, landlord of the Crown and Sceptre, Great Titchfield Street, Marylebone, poisoned himself with prussic 1 acid. He had latterly attended more to sporting matters, racing in particular, than to his business, and from his irregularity of living, it was suspected that his mind was disordered. Not long ago, after some heavy losses on the turf, he fouled his affairs in an embarrassed condition and, in a 1 icsaimer.atuit indicated he ha4ertsisk4o-Ala, desired-his wifeIto get sonic) charcoal, that they might, children and all, suffocate themselves. He was a loser to a considerable amount on the last Derby, and was to have settled his bets on, Wednesday evening, but it is supposed he was unable to' ' meet them. On Monday morning he left homeiu a cheerful state, and, ramming at eleven o'clock, went to his bedroom. Not long s his wife mitered tbe room, and found him lying on the floor imamate. lOC Webb, a surgeon, was called in immediately, aml allewslA, had taken a quantity of prussic said. The amfflonmOtte man died ten minutes. After his death a mant was found la his pocket. Foreign Provisions—The Board of Trade returns for the first two months of the present year, just published, show a continne&ineeeme in the arrivals of live cattle, beef, pork, Ise. The increase is most striking in pork, the imports 'being 23,893 cwt. aditinet ‘l7Bl in 1848, and 5403 in 184.5 The Duke of Ostrogothia, third son of the King of Sweden and Norway, is expected at Portsmouth in the course °Next month, M. de etralenheim, Minister of Justice to the King of Hanover, diedat Hanover, °lithe 19th. . The mew steamer Nautilus arrived at Liverpool on Friday morning from Lisbon, in six days. The voyage out and home only occupied twenty days. Early Herrings—The Sovereign steamer brought a con- ' aiderable quantity of early herrings from the north last Meek, which were re-shipped to London for Hamburg by steam. We understand the returns for the first panel of : herrings sold in Hamburg, this season, netted about ten ggemdea.barrel. Since then, prices have dedined to a point whielt baralryield a prott—allerclon Aerosol. .Focol 4eM4nl---ArbroatA.—We regret to record a very melaneholy and fatal accident, which befel Captain Barrie ?t a f the Junima of this port, on Saturday evening, i d n Shields. ue he had gone ashore on business, and on his return, fin the gates shut, attempted to scramble pest one of thew t unfortunately lost his hold and fell a distance of fOlfy.feet or so amongst stones, and must have been killed on the spot. Captain Barrie was a very steady, sober man, , 444 Yr left a widow and one child to lament their lam.— I amdeen Journal.  wife-I