Glasgow Courier. — 1845-02-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW HUMANE SOCIETY.  The following gentlemen have been elected oflice-bearere of this Society for the ensuing year :  John Alston, Esq., of Rosemount, Preses. Francis Steel, M.D., Treasurer. David Gibson, M.D., Secretary. Directors.  Messrs. Septimus Eli,, Messrs. James Sommerville, David Hope, Wm. Campbell, Matthew Fleming. Jas. Bogle.  It appears that, during the last year, 81 cases of immersion in the river had come under the cognizance of the Society, of which number 66 were saved, and 16 perished. Of the 66 recoveries, 47 were males, and 19 females; and of the deaths, 12 were by accident, and 3 by suicide; 41 applications had been made for rewards by different individuals, who were remunerated in proportion to the risks they had incurred. The Society's Silver Medal was awarded to Captain Jobe Cameron of the Tophill, for his exertions in saving the lives of two men and two women at Greestock in 1849, and of a boy at the harbour of Glasgow, during the current pier. Also, to Mr. John Cameron, shoemaker, Hatchesontown, for his extraordinary activity and courageous boldness in leaping into the river, betwixt the bridges, during the night, when the Clyde was much swollen after heavy rains, having got out of bed for that purpose, by which he bad the happiness of rescuing a woman from • watery grave.  Great Inundation in China.—The Handelsbiad, of February 8, has a private letter from Batavia of the 25th of October, 1844, which states that dreadful ravages had been caused by inundations in the north of China, and in, the environs of Canton. Thousands and thousands of the Inhabitants have perished, and the damage done is incalculable. The Mandarins do their utmost to conceal the particulars, fearing that, if it come to the knowledge of the Emperor, they may be made responsible for the giving way of the dykes. What we hear from private persons is dreadful, yet all these are trifling compared with what has occurred on the shores of the Yellow Sea. These provinces are partly inundated, and the population have lost almost all they possessed. The survivors, with their families, have dispersed over China as beggars. The high price of rice is an additional cause of distress.  Escape from Tain Prison.—On Wednesday night last a daring escape was effected by a prisoner named David Young, a native of Perth or Dundee, and confined since October last, on a charge of theft by housebreaking, in order to be tried at the Court of Justiciary. He occupied the low cell in the prison, the iron-grated door of which is securely fastened on the outside by an iron chain, and locked with two padlocks. On the jailor entering the prison that evening he found the door of Young's cell wide open and the Inmate away. The manner in which he effected his escape seems to set all jail security at defiance since it would appear that he broke the two substantial locks of his cell 11 a board taken from his bed, and afterwardsanother lock which secured the room in which the keepers sleep. Having thus got access into the jailor's apartment, he changed his clothes and managed to find the key of the door that leads to the bartizan. He then tore up the blankets of his bed amid knotting them together, tied them on an Iron bar in a narrow slit in the turret, on which he slid down, and alighted in the old court-house, the windows of which look Into the High Street, and are secured by deals, which he managed to break and leap into the street. Officers were despatched In all directions in search of him, and through their praiseworthy exertions he was found near lowlis.  Full of a Mountain in Java—The Java journals are full of the frightful details of the consequences of the falling down of • mountain in the island, b 7 which TO houses and 107 inhabitant. were buried in the district of Karang, and 80 houses, 47 barns, and four persons, in the districts of Kwasseu and Kaßiposting. It is calculated that 28,000 coffee Imo hare ben destroyed by this disaster,