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The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-07-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TRAIT OF GENEROSITT.-The other cus, for a colleague with their much-esteemed pastor, the the Rev. Messrs. WC II L IPG'il . o , ow, 1 , Burgess, and etituted by the proper authorities-the circumstances Taut girl from Ceres coming to Cupar •"xne Rev. John M'Gilelarist. The Rev. John Smart, MtLeren The church, which contains 400, w b• as being such as undoubtedly indicate either a case of gods lost a one-pound note, the great ____ _ her Leith, was appointed to preside. After sermon by • • • - • • • • • densely crowded, and the evening was spent in the murder, or suicide committed with singular deliberafortune, in the streets. The town', was ; Mr Smart, the Rev. Thomas Finlayson, Greenock, most agreeable The proceeding. manner. e were en- tion. employed to proclaim the loss. The Mund and Mr Russell, probationer, were severally named, livened b an excellent vocal band of music. We y . On the morning of Wednesday last a young by a boy, Charles Brebner, who brought it to the. .0a a show of hands, the great majority of the voters • believe this is the first settlement that has taken woman, named Helen Macgregor, was apprehended drummer, and on being asked what reward he wished,, appeared in favour of Mr 'Philemon ;on whom, se• fSecession Relief, since l the union o the and asked in return what was the condition of the losersin a house in Robertson Lane, by an officer from el' I M Smart declared the choice had fallen coring y, r• Churches, and it promisee to be a eery happy one. Perth, assisted by a Glasgow criminal officer, on a •On learning that she was a poor servant girl, the ,seot„„„n. boy very honourably declared that he would have no. ~ It is with feelings of regret we announce the de. charge of child murder. According to our informaPRIMBY Y 11 THR OF IExcALTrY.-This reverend body cease of the late lamented Dr Henry Coats, of Rio lion, it appears that the female who had been' well other reward than the pleasure of returning her the. lost money.-Fieeshire hournal: met on Tuesday week-the Rev, et, weolohlan, de Janeirio, who died at Pernambuco, on his passage recommended from Glasgow, entered into service a , moderator. A report .by a committee of Presbytery home from Rio de Janeiro. Dr Henry Coats was few weeks since as cook at the Inverarnan Hotel, at A Seems or
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-06-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DROWNINEL—A young woman, of the name 'of Douglass, committed suicide on Tuesday last bptitrewing herself into the Monkland canal at Sheepferd Looks, near Airdrie. THE ADMIRAL Sxsam-Sair.—A few gentlemen had a delightful trip Is this elegant ship upon Tuesday last, to try her speed after the complete renovation which she has undergone, and previous to fibr being put upon her old station (Glasgow and Liverpool,) on Wednesday last. The old Admiral was formerly well ,known, and now that W has been completely refitted, we are sure that ancislnt friends will not respect him the less for hi, renovated and portly appearance. ft is enough to spy that the sail on Tuesday proved the ship to be both a swift and a smooth goer, there being less vibration than we have almost ever felt, and no heating of the journals. In going down to Greenock, with much slowing and half-speed, the time occupied-was just two honrsi and her powers of proceeding round the Cumbrays and- up a few of the T.ochs, amidst frequent gusts of wind, proved how little she was affected by the weather. Item be necessary to state, that daring the last *months the Admiral has been all gutted and ovegbauled, the engines taken out and now keelsons putAp,wher sides strongly strapped with iron, and new boil, of which there are four, put down ; these being as constructed, that, in the event of ene, or even more, gitkwrong, the others could de the duty. The decks we so raised, and the grand saloon, which is indeed cep teospacions, And most elegant apartme_pto.p • carpetnt, seated sied furnished. The pannelling o ei salon, is made of solid oak, so are Ma tables; andlills, along with **fine taste displayed in its lerniture and ornaments, VON it a very aristocratic and noble appearance. The4adiee cabin is a perfect boudoir, andjabe gentlemen's, for comfort and every convenience* nothing behind it. There are also a number ors' rooms done up with all that attention to comfort wBtBli is exhibited throughout every corner of this noble ship. The Admiral is of 400 horse power, and carries 1000.,tons. She is 201 feet keel between the perpendiculeee. and her breadth of beam 28 feet, width over all on deck 34 feet, and her saloon is 42 by 18 feet. The Astiniral, as owe readers know, is commanded by that excellent and careful seaman, Captain Boyd, and is =pie management of Messrs. Thomgenie M•Con hese judicious taste and liberality ,in the fitting ell f their numerous fleet of steamers, . are acknowledlY y every person.— Constitutional. Tun PRlNclfi
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-12-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HUSBAND'S PREDICAMENT.—FiII me this bottle with laudanum," exclaimed an excited married man, rushing into a druggist's shop on the Tyne—his face bleeding from a recent encounter with his wife. "It will kill you," the druggist calmly replied, "That" what I want it for," was Romeo's rejoinder: "I'll kill myself to vex her." The druggist said it would be a pity to prevent so amiable a purpose, and filled the phird. No sooner filled than emptied. " a dead man," cried Romeo, staggering into the presence of his Juliet; "I've taken laudanum." "Ha! ha! ha!" was the provoking response; "who cares what thou'a tyen, thou ba'porth o' tripe in two bites!" The moribund little man stood aghast. Ile had destroyed himself to be revenged; and, instead of running for the stomach pump, a contemptuous laugh, and & sneer at his proportions, was her reception of his tragic announcement! lie was dying to give her pain, and she was as pleased as Punch! Exasperated by his blunder, the poor sinner tottered back to the druggist's, and feeling the poison at work within him demanded an inetant emetic. "I poisoned myself," he groaned, "to vex her, and she's glad I'm going I 0! give me an emetic and save me!" Nothing loath, the man of medicine executed his second order. Romeo then returned to recover in the sight of his wife that she might bare the mortification of beholding him restored to her arms. Now the druggist, having no inclination to abet suicide, and being unwilling, by refusing to administer poison, to send our hero to a less scrupulous shop, had given him, on his first visit, a dose of tincture of rhubarb; and while the afflicted wretch was labouring under, the double operation of his purge and emetic, his' better half,' still unmoved by his sufferings sharpened them by the scorpion exclamation—' Why thou thin end of • penn'orth o' cheese, thou Barely cannot last lang ; for thon's swealin' away like a farden cannel Meted at byeth ends.'— Gateshead Observer. A
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE -BY A CLIIRGYMAN. It is our painful duty this week, to record a very mournful event, the nature of which is shove indicated, air which has created tbe most intense excitement and is gret in the rural district around ,Platna and Straitoe. the neighbourhood of the scene of the shocking tragedy, alluded to. This unfortunate viotim of a distempered mind, of late much disturbed by suspicions of impending calamity, was the Rev. W.,lfelson of the Quoad Sacra Church at Petite, a village oa toe banks of the Doon, a few miles treat the Parish Church of Straiten. It appears that the rev. gentleman's name had been mixed up with some brawls that had taken Mace in the parish, Ms implication in 1414:kind become the subject of inauiry by his Kirk-sesaiok: and in reflecting on the probable effect which such charges might have in blighting his prospects, which had previously been of a very cheering character, he became morose and delooted. Amongst other indications of altered feelings, be -changed his residence from Patna, where his hurch -was situated, to Straiton, about four miles distant. Here be lodged with Weal!. shoemaker, whonshouselso left on Wednesday,morning the 8d instant,-for a walk or stroll in the neighbourhood. He was last seen alive leaving Straiten by the old road leading access the meant° Patna; but be had not proceeded Above half a mile in that direction when he streak off and entered Bank End ,plantation, in which he was on the 4ollowing Friday -found dead, suspended been a tree. The determinatimt of the infatuated man., seems to have been evidently premeditated. Be had left his wax& and with the  in the amount roads in Loohbroem Maeleod moved the meat, which was ea 4by vete havinc been Wren, the motion was by a msyortty of /8 to 14. The proposal therefore goes for nothing. Lim.rritoow.—We are happy to Adam Dawson, whoseresignation of the of this burgh we noticed some time ago, has, at the unanimous request of the Town Council, consented to continue in *Sloe, though he had previously declined the solicitations of a numerous and respectable body of requisitionists, comprising a large majority of the constituency. Provost Dawson has discharged the duties of the Chief Magistracy in Linlithgow with great ability for many years, and the loss of his valuable aesviees would have been melt as a loss far beyond his own locality.—Sootsmas. A
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-11-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ALLEGED ATTEMPT OF MRS. MANNING TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Since the above was written, we have heard from undoubted authority that the unhappy woman attempted self. destruction in the course of yeeterday morning. It has already been mentioned that her finger-nails have grown to a great length, and when it has been remarked to her by the authorities she has given some evasive answer. On more than one occasion she has even given an obscene reply respecting their length, and on another occasion she has stated that they would be of use to her. In the presence of the chaplain or the governor she covers her hands, by wrapping them round with her handkerchief. Every precaution was taken to prevent her making any attempt on her life, and even the clothes which she puts off when retiring to rest are removed from the bed and quite out of her reach. We hear from the police authorities at Stones-end that at about four o'clock yesterday morning she endeavoured to strangle herself. Having observed that the watchers, as she supposed, had dozed off to sleep, she made an attempt to choke herself by forcing her nails into her throat. The noise consequent on her convulsion having startled the re, they jumped up, and on hastening to her bed-side e was almost black in the face. As soon, however, , wretched woman saw that the watchers were by her she seemed to rally herself, and put her head under the clothes. In the course of the morning the circumstance was made known to the anthorities, and her nails will probably be reduced, or additional watchers placed over her, so as to prevent the passibility of her committing self destruction. fillowing application, made at the Southwark on Saturday afternoon, is curious, and will moment be read with interest:— afternoon of Saturday, Mr. Adams, the pawn- ' attended at the Southwark Police`he pistol used by Mrs.  k sin  cir- I  take I  ark- I  to I  Bermondsey.  Mr.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-03-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WILLIAM J. DuNeAN, Esq., Manager of the National that the assured should have the highest practicable Bank of Scotland, seconded the Motion. security for the attainment of the object contemplated The motion having been put, and reference made to that by him. Nor ought this security to be dependent on the part of Art. 7of the Laws as proposed to be amended, good feeling or liberal conduct of Directors, but should which provides for forfeiture in case a member, "being of be absolute, as forming an integral pert of the con- sane mind, shall commit suicide," it was suggested that, tract between the assurer and the assured. In conformity as it seemed to be considered very doubtful whether a with these views, the contingencies which involve a for- person who did commit suicide could be, or would be held feiture of the policy ought to be as few as is compatible by a jury to be, of sound mind, it would be better to avoid with the safety of the Society. In the older Assurance any ground for question by doing away with the forfeiture Companies, which were mostly proprietary, such contin. altogether. gencies were comparatively ntimerous, in part appearing in The CHAIRMAN said that the clause, as put by the Cornspecific terms on the face of the Policy, and in part dedu- mittee who had prepared the amendments, stood originally cible, by legal inference, from its phraseology. This mul- thus—" or shall, within six months from the date of the tiplication of forfeitures probably arose in no small degree Policy, commit suicide." This form met the views of a from a desire on the part of the Companies to increase their great majority of the Directors, but it had been altered as profits by depriving the assured of the benefits for which he it now stood to secure unanimity, as there seemed to be had paid. No such inducement can existon the part of So. really little practical difference between the two. The cieties for Mutual Assurance, in which the interests of the Meeting unanimously adopted this suggestion, and resolved assurer and the assured are necessarily identical. The in- that the Rule should stand thus—" or shall, within six justice of these forfeitures, as well as their influence in de- months from the date of the Policy, commit suicide." terring from assurance, are self-evident. And it is obviously The amended Laws and Regulations, as reported on, were for the interest both of the Community and of Assurance then read seriatim, and approved of, and Mr. Chambers' moSocieties that such grounds of forfeiture should be abolished tion adopted unanimously. as far as is consistent with safety. And although the abro- The LORD PROVOST then proposed a vote of thanks to gation, or relaxation, of some of them may, when each is the Directors for their arduous and most successful labours considered apart, have no great effect in promoting Life duringthepast year, which was seconded by
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-11-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MRS. MANNING'S LAST WORDS. Notwithstanding the continued assertions made by Mrs. , Manning to her watchers that she did not expect to suffer, it is evident that from the period when she was told that the appeal had been decided against her, she had made up her mind to the worst, and that her still continuing to assert that she would be saved was merely a ruse on her part to throw her watchers off their guard that she had not any intention of committing suicide. During the night she was nearly sleepless, although she feigned to be in the most profound slumber. That she felt amazed at being placed under the care of female watchers may be inferred from the fart of her having remarked that she would sooner have had male turnkeys, adding, upon one occasion of the women talking together in her cell, that they made more row than a regiment of soldiers. As soon as the intelligence above alluded to was communicated to her, she desired to be supplied with some materials from amongst the things she had with her at the gaol; then very coolly set to work and made herself a new pair of drawers, which she kept, and refused to wear until the morning of her execution, having made them expressly for the purpose of being bung in. On her rising on the morning of her execution, she performed her accustomed ablutions, and one of the watchers, on giving her her clothes, handed her a pair of cotton stockings, which she at once gave her back again, and said, "No, not these, but silk ones," directing a pair of new white silk ones to be given her, which was done, and she put them on with much care. Another proof of how her mind was occupied with worldly thoughts, and that the ruling passion of inordinate vanity was predominate over all others, the following fact will testify :—Although naturally a very fine figure, she had by art considerably improved herself by padding such portions of her dress as she thought would do se. Since her capture, and subsequent to her condemnation, she became very stout, and as she increased in size she carefully removed the padding from her dress, concealing it as much as possible from the view of those around her, and destroying it. On the night before her death she burnt her bustle, not choosing to assign any reason for the act. It will have been remarked that Manning in his confession (so called), dictated to the reverend chaplain, states that his wife was an atheist, and that her belief was, that ae nothing more —ois may be true, it is perout one thine ia that ...retched WOMAn luring she was In
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-12-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE.—We regret to have to announce the death of a respectable citizen, by his own rash act—Mr. George Sutherland, painter, High Street, who, on Tuesday about eleven A.m., precipitated himself over the parapet wall of the North Bridge. Ile was observed by two or three individuals who were passing, first to lean over the wall, and then to throw himself head foremost into the Vegetable Market below—a height of about 80 feet. In, his descent he was noticed to turn completely round, so that he alighted on his feet instead of his head. He fell, however, with such violence that both his legs were broken, while his body was otherwise dreadfully mangled, and life quite extinct. A stretcher was immediately got, and the body was conveyed, in the midst of a great crowd, to the Police Office, and subsequently to his own house. The deceased is stated to have had a good business, and to have been in good pecuniary circumstances. The melancholy event is ascribed by those who knew him most intimately, to the grief in which he has been silently indulging ever since the death of his wife, about 18 months ago, to whom he was most devotedly attached. At various periods he appeared to be labouring under great depression of spirits; and this is said to have been particularly the case within the last few days. His manner, however, was not such as to excite any alarm; and it is reported that before leaving his own house in the morning, he engaged, as usual, in worship with his family, most of whom are grown up. In every relation of life Mr. Sutherland was most exemplary, and he was esteemed and respected by all who knew him. He was an elder in South College Street United Presbyterian Church, and for some years held the office of Police Commissioner. He was about 48 years of age.—Scotsman.
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-10-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, a gentleman, who was staying at the Buck's Head Hotel, committed suicide under somewhat melancholy circumstances. It appears that, oil the forenoon of Saturday last, he exhibited unmistakeable symptoms of labouring under delirum 'tremens, and he was, accordingly, placed under the strictest surveillance. On moping in queetion, however, the party who bee* appointatil to this duty left him for a few rainutes, to all appearance asleep in fled, and on his return he found the room untenanted, and the window open. A search was immediately made in the yard below, where the gentleman was discovered lying in all but a lifeless condition. He was promptly attended by two medical practitioners, who did all in their power to restore him, but he expired in a short time after the occurrence. The window from which he leapt was a considerable distance from the ground; and it is supposed that the proximate cause of death was concussion of the brain, the effect of the fall. He was a representative Qf a highly respectable firm in Manchester,  iMiiminlOiMMumsonioNstO  „ .  came news that new faces that the advice of dismissed libr new four and twenty her old minister. said to have affected the direction of affairs, over, he proceeded to work gour, for his first act was to the members of the short-lived could get hold of, and to strip his office of Intend, It does not seem  . to sacrifice him. dited account, however, is that the priet been the authors of the bouleversement, b what precise objects does not appear. LL - Consort seems to be a mere nose-of-wax in 1...., , Duke ~ hands of his confessor, by whom he was instigated Strathfieldsaye, expressly '' to urge the Queen to trasesiss Narvaez. The Queen, of the new Coal Exchange not caring a straw about the matter as a question of The Duke and Duchess politios, was attracted by the intrigue and mystery pal Montagu House a few days since from Dalkeith aoe, near Edinburgh, accompanied by Lord that were mixed up with it, and entered into the Henry Scott, who is to proceed o Madeira for the project with childish eagerness its a delightful winter, for the benefit of his health. .  , foreign January ne a 2rTiu of vesselsortho ef the a world. n growth, after the date before • duties, charges, and , and their cargoes." The journals publish on tho Nicaragua r
The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-10-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE BANKS OF THE  DANUBE.  "Sept., 1849.—The course of severity commenced, by General Haynau has now degenerated into nnqualifiable barbarities. There may have been technical palliation for the execution of forty or fifty officers; but can any one conceive excuses for such facts as the sentence that Madame de (sister-in-law of General Piret) should sweep the streets at Temesvar, or the far more revolting outrage on decency of having caused Madame to be stripped, and in that state flogged by soldiers, just after her husband had committed suicide ? There are reports also of secret executions, and of the sudden disappearance of persons whom it might not be expedient to seize upon openly; and yet the official Vienna Gazette has the hypocrisy to refer to Gen. Haynau as the Pacificator' of Hungary. The Russian agents are said to have protested energetically against this cruel system, which causes the Hungarians to dread the departure even of the Cossacks from their country." • 7z/wt./A, Sept. 24.—The important intelligence ' has just been received here that the Porte has definitively refused to deliver up the Hungarian refugees. An article in the Borsenhalle, dated Constantinople.. Sept. 12, not only confirms this intelligence, but adds that the Porte has invoked the intervention of England and France. Kossuth arrived at Constantinople on the sth Sept., and continued his voyage by a Turkish government steamer. A report is in general circulation here that the Pope has signified his intention of coming to Vienna, for the purpose of consulting with the Emperor on the affairs of Rome.  The Grand Duke of Tuscany, who is now in Vienna, intends, it is said, independently of his conferences on the said affairs of Rome, to demand that the tranquility of his States may be secured by Austrian garrisons of a certain number, and for a given period. The new loan goes on well. Above 10,000,000 of florins have already been subscribed in the capital. —Globe.