Glasgow Courier. — 1863-10-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

COURIER, OCTOBER 29, 180.  england.  Lord Palmerston entered upon hie eightieth year on Tuesday.  A clergyman in Carlisle preached a sermon to children, last Sunday, in words of one syllable I  Nearly 10,000 lb. of diseased and putrid meat was seized and condemned in London lost week. The total number of deaths by the late colliery explosion in South Wales is thirty-eight. Twentysix were husbands and fathers.  A girl, about eight years of age, fell from a railway train which was proceeding at full speed from Thirsk to Malton on Monday, and sustained injuries which are likely to terminate fatally.  A boy, fourteen years of age, oommitted suicide by hanging himself, at Tunbridge Wells, last week, in consequence of a slight chastisement administered by his father for quarrelling with his brother. A long and able letter from Mr. J. C. Smith appears in the Times defending his views on the Scotch marriage law. The Times replies to the letter in a leading article.  On Tuesday morning, the boiler of the engine of the goods train which left Leeds between eight and nine o'clock, on arriving at Artbington station, burst, scalding several persons, and causing considerable damage to the goods warehouse. Mr. Layard has been spending several weeks in Naples to obtain a thorough knowledge of the present condition of the southern provinces, the causes of brigandage, and the causes of its protracted endurance.  On Tuesday, a young man, who was engaged in painting a window at a height of fifty feet from the ground, in Upper Grosvenor Street, London, lost his hold and fell upon the area railing, sustaining dreadful injuries, from which he died shortly afterwards. The Metropolitan Board of Works has accepted a contract, the sum of, which is .£520,000, for the embankment of the Thames between Westminster and Waterloo-bridges. There was another estimate lower by £25,000, but the board was not satisfied as to the competency of the contractor. At Ambrose's Barn, on the borders of the parish of Thorpe, near Chettsey, still resides a farmer of the name of Wapshot, whose ancestors have lived, without a break, upon the same spot ever since the reign of Alfred the Great, by whom the farm was granted to Reginald Wapshot. At Willow, near Bath, a number of men annoyed a woman named Anna Roberts by throwing pea haulm at her, and in other ways. She attacked them with a reaping-hook, and one of them named Haines, who had nothing to do with the alleged annoyance, was killed. Roberts is in custody. Intelligence was received at Scarborough on Wednesday of the loss of the barque Ada, of that port, which had been run into by a steamer and sunk. The man at the wheel and the captain's daughter, a girl seven years of age, were killed by the collision.  Some distressing cases relative to women who were found sleeping in Hyde Park by the police have come before the magistrates at Malboroughstreet Police court. Their condition was most deplorable, and moat of them suffering under disease of a loathsome character. One female stated that she had not left the Park, night or day, for five weeks.  On Tuesday Mr. Coroner Humphreys held no less than five inquests on infants whose deaths were said to have been caused by overlaying. In his address to the jury in one of the cases he expressed a strong opinion that, under the pretence of accidental suffocation in bed, many murders of children were committed. He suggested that powers should be given to punish the parents where negligence was proved.  One of those cases of crime which arise from the undue use of intoxicating liquors has occurred at the village of Newby, near Stokesley, a small town equi-distinct from Middlesborough and Stockton, Yorkshire. The victim is Mr. W. Johnson, a farmer living at Hemlington ; and the murderer, a farmer of good position, living at Newham Hall, both places being almost contiguous. The two men were well known to each other, and they both set out on foot to go home from Stokesley on Monday evening, soon after dark. They had proceeded as far as Newby, where they were met by Johnson's man, who brought a hotse for his master. Johnson wanted his companion to mount, but he refusing, he got up himself, and again urged Graham to get up behind him. Graham again refusing, Johnson said s'...ikt.,be9Allll9 .041.ffintliftartStil4 Smtifunrgioelum any more "chaff' he would wring his neck. Graham made a defiant reply, when Johnson got off his horse and commenced to square at Graham, when the latter struck him with a stick. The men then closed, and fell to the ground. Johnson then called out to his,man, "Oh. John, come and help me." The man went and lifted him up, when he fell backwards and groaned two or three times, and never spoke again. On being taken home in a cart, it was found he had been stabbed just over the heart by some sharp instrument. Graham was at once taken into custody by Superintendent Smith, and has been committed to take his trial on the coroner's warrant for "Wilful murder." In the course of his sermon at St. George's, Hanover-square, on Sunday last, the Rector thus referred to the late Lord Lyndhurst :—" Public life had its grievous temptations. The time of statesmen was absorbed in the weightiest of human affairs. No doubt the work was great, and they who did it worthily were public benefactors, but it disposed them to take too little thought of religion. Many a public life has been saddened at its close by this reflection, and he (the preacher) well knew that nothing so called forth Lord Lyndhurst's perpetual gratitude to God as that He had enabled him, by extending his life far beyond the allotted time, to 'redeem the time.' And nobly did he redeem the time. His mind was fully occupied with the importance of religion. He was incessant in the earnest preparations which he made for death. He applied all the power of his marvellous intellect and and all his apprehensive quickness to the study of religion. Great as he was, he bowed down before the greatness of the Supreme Being. Through religion, his natural kindliness and loving disposition were refined into the highest Christian graces, which were profusly shown in his relations with all who came in contact with him—wife, daughter, servant, everybody. His last articulate words were, 'Happy, happy, happy!' and happy he was indeed. Those who ministered to him knew his true hit. manity, his hearty repentance, his serene and earnest hope. He died in peace and charity with all mankind."