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Glasgow Courier. — 1846-08-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GREENLAND WHALE FISHING.  PETERHEAD, Are. s.—The Enterprise, which arrived this evening, from Greenland, has eight large whales and 5,900 seals, about 175 tuns, and is so full that two of the carcases of the whales have been carried on deck. Left Greenland on the 13th July, and reports the following particulars respecting the other vessels there : -- •  - - Eclipse of Peterhead 5 whales, 120 seals. Dublin North of Scotland 1 37 -Commerce Flamingo of Aberdeen — 900 Union 9OO Hannibal 1,600 Hamilton Ross l,lOO St. George, of London 700 Sarah & Elizabeth, of Hull 6 2,900 Forth 2 Swallow Anne 2 Jane 1 Banawood 3  _ 90 - 3,400 - 1,200 - 40 - 2,000 - 50 Constantia — William Ward Eliza Fairy, of Dundee  Serious Case.—On Sunday morning, between one and two o'clock, a mason named Simon Carruthers, residing at Garscube Iron Works, was found lying in Havannsh Street, with his jaw-bone and one of his arms broken, and his face cut in several places. He had been drinking, it appr..ars, in a public house in High Street on Saturday night; and after getting himself tipsy had gone to a disreputable house in Havannah Street, when he was assaulted, robbed of his peacoat, and thrown over the window. Carruthers was sent to the Infirmary, and seven men and women were subsequently apprehended for examination as to their having been implicated in .the assault and robbery. These parties were !Drought before the Police-court yesterday, and remanded until the result of the injuries received by Carruthers should be ascertained.  Attempted Suicides.—On Sunday night a young woman named Mary M'Lean, a prostitute, living in one of the Wynds, threw herself into the river a little above Hutcheson Bridge. She was dragged out by a man who happened to be passing, and taken to the Police-office, having sustained no -injury beyond a ducking. She stated, in excuse of her conduct, that she was tipsy at the time, and had no recollection of what she had done.—Yesterday morning a woman named Thomson, the wife of a working man living in Drygate, threw herself into the Monkland Canal. She was fortunately observed by some working men, and having been got out with some difficulty, was conveyed to the Polleeoffice, suffering only from the drenching she had received. The inciting cause in this instance Iva a quarrel which the misguided woman had had with her husband,  GI.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-07-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LIVERPOOL-EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A RETURNED CONVICT.  An old man named Isherwood, a retuined convict, who was found dead in a canal, with several wounds on his throat, was supposed to have been murdered. At a coroner's inquest on Monday it was stated that the deceased was drowned, and that the wounds would not have destroyed life. Upon the right arm of this man, whose life has been one of crime and wieltednesstwas tettooed a vrell.executed representation of the *reelScion, with the following we:l-known verse at tite,foot. beautifully tattooed in capital letters:— See from his head, his bands, his feet, The streams of life flow mingling down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?' At this inquiry the following estraordlnary hist( ry of the deceased was given by a woman, who said:—The deems. ed was transported fur life from Lancester, 30 years ego, for burglary. Ile was let off after serving eleven years, and he spent about twenty years afterwards in the bush. He returned to England about three yearn ego. Soon after he landed he met flue. My husband, to whom I had not long been married, had just gone to sea in the Mariner, on a cruise to the North American station, and I was looking out for' a situation. I agreed to go and live with him. We first went to Bdford, and then to Leigh, where we kept a beerhouse. About this time the deceased had £m left hint, and he has had various sums of money left him by relatives since. At Leigh he was robbed by a grand-daughter, whom he afterwards turned away. We afterwards went to live at Tyldesley, where we kept a provision shop for 14 mouths. We then went to Pendleton, Manchester, where we kept a greengrocer's shop. While here he had the fourth share of £7OO left hint. From Pendleton we went to keep the 'Spotted Cow' in S ilforci. lie commenced there with £5, and was itneble to take up the license. He became very badly off, and sent me to Ireland to see if I could borrow money from my friends, but I could not. That was about two months ago. Soon afterwards he charged me with robbing him. I was taken up; but he did not appear against me, and I was discharged. While at Tyldesley he made false coin, and wanted me to pass it. I tried two sixpences, and then got frightened, and told the sergeant, who spoke to the deceased. That affair was allowed to blow over. About a fortnight ago my husband returned from his cruise. Ile found nte at Salford, living with the deceased, and he brought me to Liverpool, where we were joined by the deceased. I saw him last alive on Saturday, about a quarter past 11 o'clock at the canal side. He had nothing with him, and bad no coat on, but was just as he his now. The carpet bag belongs to the deceased. The other day the deceased told me he had £3OO to draw in a month or two, but I did not believe him. The inquest was adjourned.--Manchester Guardian.  .olpia i• _ _ .iv und al t court, r (or at the er ' i
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE DEPARTED YEAR.  Expired, precisely at midnight, on the night of last Wednesday, at the advanced and extraordinary age of 386 days, the profligate old year 1856. We sant the pen that wrote the epitaph on Colonel C artres to do justice to the memory of one of the most unprincipled years whose obsequies we ever assisted in celebrating. He was an Annus Mirabilis of commercial immorality, and for confounding right and wrong and meum and tuum, had as good a claim to the title of the Year of Confusion' as his ancestor 46 8.0 whose irregularities were rather Cresar's than his own, and were atoned for by the reform they introduced into the calendar. If 1856 had any religion, it was the religion of the dirtisfit of divinities, who never before counted such a host of enthusiastic rogues in his service. The year was ' littered under Mercury,' like Antolycus; but the Antolyci who distinguished themselves were ambitious knaves far above 'the snapping up of unconsidered trifles;' they snapped up fortunes as common pickpockets snap up handkerchiefs; planned their robberies over champagne. executed them in curricles and tandems. Such was the astonishing Sadieir; such the dashing Robson and refined Redpath; such was Sir Dean Paul, whose house of business was both a' house of prayer and den of thieves; such were the Gordons and the Cummings; such the worshipful company of the Royal British Bank; giants of frauds, titanic swindlers, men with maws for widows' houses, and who devoured the portions of orphans like ogres in pantomimes. It it difficult to find a week among the last tifty-two not infamously distinguished by some huge commercial defalcation; some daring embezzlement, some startling bankruptcy ; some atrocious breach of trust ; some shape or another of avarice and rapacity. bankers, doctors, clerks, servants, altertiring in the drama of crime, occasionally with an appalling suicide on Hampstead or a frightful deed of blood like the still justice in Dublin.—Examiner.  huge . Senators, nately figuring diversified with Heath, mocking
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BARONY PARISH POOR-HOUSE, BARNHILL—The inmates of this establishment were on New-Year's night handsomely entertained by the directors. At six o'clock the chair was taken by William Graham, E.g. of Lambhill, chairman of the hothe committee, supported right and left by a number of his fellowdirectors. After a plentiful supply of tea, bun, Sic., the company were entertained with a number of songs and recitations. Tlys evening was spent in a very cheerful and innocent manner, and at the conclusion the chairnsan,in a few apposite remarks,complimented the governor and other officials for the very efficient manner in which they had performed their duties during the past year ; and also the inmates for their excellent 'behaviour on this festive occasion. The children (to the number of nearly 200) conducted themselves with great propriety, and sang with much taste a few appropriate airs ; and, on the whole, their appearance was such as to show that their mental and moral training was carefully attended to.  COMP here, sonny, and tell me what the four seasons are.' Young Prodigy—Pepper, salt, mustard, and vinegar.' A Yankee went to market to buy sausages. He held out a link to his dog, who smelled them, but refused to eat. What's tho matter with them sausages?' angrily inquired the dealer. ' Oh,' said the Yankee, I've nothin' agen 'cm, on'y dog won't eat dog; that's all.' DID BONAPARTE ATTEMPT SUICIDE ?—Among the inmates of one Russian family that I saw much of at Paris was Marechal Sebastiani, who, as one of Napoleon's generals and a fellow Corsican, a favourite moreover with Louis Phillippe, was a personage of great interest to us. He was short in stature and of slight make, and spite of the stern expression of his face, there was a bright intelligence in his eye and a symmetry of features that still told of the good looks which, it is said, were instrumental in starting him in his career of fortune. I mention him here for the sake of introducing an anecdote that bears upon a disputed historical fact. An expedition was formed, with the Marshal at its head, to explore the ancient Palace of Fentainbleau. I was of the party, and a verb delightful one it was. In passing through the room that Napoleon used to occupy, a Russian general present asked Sebastiani if it were true that the Emperor, for so he spoke of Napoleon, had atDuguld tempted to poison himself there? 'Too true,' was the veteran's reply, and his eyes filled with tears.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-05-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INDIA.  CALCUTTA, APRIL B.—The disbandment of the 19th Regiment of Infantry was a serious affair. It was known that the 34th Native Infantry were in league with them, and the grenadiers were suspected. .Great precautions were, therefore, taken to suppress any resistance, and orders were issued to the Major-General to employ the whole free at his disposal, and, if necessary, to destroy the three regiments. Lieut. Baugh of the 34th was attacked by a drunken or drugged Sepoy, and severely wounded. The guard refused to arrest the assassin, and he was seized by the Major-General himself. The next day the 19th were surrounded, and the order for disbanding them was read. They asked leave to petition, but it was refused; they then yielded, and are now dispersing to their homes. The 34th are more mutinous than ever. The Sepoy who wounded Lieut. Baugh was shot, , two European regiments and allotted' guns protecting the carrying out of the sentences. It is feared that the 34th must also be disbanded.  The real cause of the mutiny in the Mb llegtment is stated to be the old story of a demand for increase of pay. The suicides of General Stalker and Commodore Etheridge clearly appears to have been produced by over anxiety whilst in a bad state of health. Coustraclar..—At Calcutta on the 9th April, the import market, especially for British cotton goods, shows scarcely any signs of activity. Metals, however, in better demand, and in many instances tending upwards, Freights higher; tonnage scarce ;to Liverpool £4158, with the prospect of being IQs to 15s higher, should orders continue coming in and produce decline. At Bombay on the 15th A pril, little or no change in the import market; fair business in cotton piece goods during the fortnight yarns rather firm, and some sorts higher; metals generally firm; in imports cotton wool dearer, although arrivals rather large; oil seeds a little cheaper; freights lower, and still tending downwards, London £2 155 to £3 Liverpool £2 1.2 a 6d to £2 16s.  'C II I N A .
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDER OF A WIFE AT MERTHYR.  The inquest on the body of Gwenllian Lewis, respecting whose murder some particulars have already appeared in our columns, was resumed on Friday afternoon. The inquiry excited great public interest both on account of the circumstances which bad been previously disclosed, and from the fact that it had become generally known that the husband of the deceased woman attempted suicide on the previou, evening. This attempt at self-destruction was of a novel and determined character. On being conveyed to the station bouts on Thursday, the prisoner, John Lewis. was searched and deprived of everything with which it was supposed possible that he affiald inflict any injury upon himself. In the course of - however, he contrived to get out a stayone of the fixtures of ,ned, and having worked ito as to present the point tad violently against it, being thus able to ter• happened that tha nail the wall gave way at wound on the scalp, but the skull. Foiled in this then took the stay-nail mpt to force it into his not being very sharp did wretched man such .ence given at the inand the prisoner was -of wilful murder. ,  _ the evening, . was used to support L ,hich he was confined, into the wall so as ran his head the • of l•  a wound  attempi  but caused the The evidence  . facts, ou the charge  Stock 20 Stock Stock ! Stock! Stock 20 Stock Stock !  100 50 50 10 10 50  nail which .. the cell in which the bead of it jut towards him, ho apparently with k hope minate his existence. It not being firmly secured the first blow, inflicting a without materially injuring attempt at suicide, Lewis and made a desperate atter bowels; but the instrument not prove fatal, but cause' pain that he fainted. ' quest disclosed no new committed for trial e.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-04-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FUGITIVE SLAVES. On Tuesday morning last our town was thrown into much commotion in consequence of an almost successful attempt to capture eight runaway slaves. for whom rewards are Offered of upwards of g 3,000, It seems that some time during Monday a man came o Sheriff Green with the information that he had discovered eight runaway negroes, and had made arrangements to have them in Dover that night, the sagroes supposing they were to be concealed in town until the next night, and then wend their way upward. Accordingly about four o'clock on Tuesday morning the man and the negroes appeared he jail. While the Sheriff was dressing they a jail, went up stairs in the dark, room and went into it, but there beout into the entry. By this '-pssed and followed them up e would find them in one of he would have to do would door. On discovering that •y, the Sheriff returned to his The negroes, anxious in get ta dren were By this  ro's were n't like the ' he bolted and while  , the six were conveyed ig near Willow Grove up the country by the A  seen shortly after their escape out of Dover in a northerly t of the escape is attributable ;ishnes‘ of the man who tolled vet. Greedy to get the whole rt permit a small force to share got none. The negroes were lets and pistols. The rewards irehension vary from 8300 to  The particulars of one of the frost unaccountable suicides have just come to our knowledge. Two servants of Mr. Jones, proprietor of Union Hall, in this city—one a yellow man, named Levi, and the other black, named Allan—ran away on Sunday night last. It appears that they intended to get on the night train for Chattanooga, but arrived a moment too late. They
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-05-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRADFORD.  A dreadful tragedy has occurred at Bradford, Yorkshire. Hannah Holroyd, a widow, 42 years of age, was murdered at midnight on Monday, and immediately after the perpetration of the awful crime Samuel Charlton, the murderer, committed suicide by drowning. 'rho rash acts are the result of jealousy. Charlton was an assistant-bailiff and a dealer in waste, aged 58, and resided at Lidget Green, a suburb of the burgh, about two miles from the centre of the town. He was a widower with four children; his victim had a family of five in number, and supported them by keeping a small shop opposite Charlton's residence. For some length of time past Charlton had paid his addresses to Holroyd, but as he bore a very indifferent character her friends dissuaded her front the match, and latterly she seems to have favoured the advances of a younger man, Luke Normington, Charlton's rival. Recently Charlton, who had been a man of unsteady habits, professed himself a teetotaller, sad on Monday evening he went to a temperance meeting at which Holroyd was present. At its termination Holrovd called at a neighhour's house on her way home, while Charlton walked on and awaited her arrival, which took place at half-past eleven o'clock. In the meanwhile her daughter Martha, tired of sitting op no late, went out to ascertain if she was ready to return home' and then saw Luke Norrnington in conversation w ith her. The girl left Charlton, and her mother sat at the fireside as usual and retired to rest. She awoke shortly before one o'clock, heard the outer door closed, and recognised Charlton's step as lie lel t the house. She went down to lock the door, and discovered her unfortunate parent with her throat dreadfully cut; in fact, the head was almost severed from her body and lying in a quantity of blood. The door was locked on the outside. The police were attracted to the spot by the girl's shrieks, and on TilsitMg Charlton's house learnt that he had left after bidding his children • last farewell. A razor, stained with blood, wee found in the coal-cellar. A search was instituted for the murderer, and at four o'clock on Tuesday morning his body was found in the New Miller's Dam, a large reservoir a mile distant from the scene of the murder.  MAN KILLED By A
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-03-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER.  A double murder and suicide took place last week at the village of Sonnybrow, near Willington, about eight miles from Durham. The murderess is a woman named Jane Parkinson, the wife of a pitman working at Bowden Close,Colliery,and the other two victims are her children —the eldest a boy aged two years and nine months, and the youngest an infant, aged about nine months. The mother was in her 28th year, and was a woman of rather prepossessing appearance, She had only been married about 18 months, and resided with her husband at Sannybrow. Her eldest child was born previous to her marriage, and William Parkinson, the husband, had four children by a former wife, all of whom lived at home. On Tuesday morning the husband left home at eight o'clock, and proceeded to his work at the pit, and about ten the deceased woman dressed herself, and stated to the neighbours that she was going to Willington. She also dressed both the children, and said as they had not had much fresh air lately she would take them with her. Shortly before twelve, Peter Naylor. a stonemason, found her extended at full length in a small stream of water which passes under the Bishop Auckland Railway. She lay with her face in the water, and by her side was the little boy, whose head was also immersed, and the woman's arm was passed over him, and seemed to hold him down. The infant was lying underneath her. All three were quite dead. The stream at the place where the bodies were found was only 9} inches in depth, and the boy's cap was drawn over his eyes in a manner which, apart from other circumstances, would be quite sufficient to negotiate any supposition that the tragical event could have been the result of accident.
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-01-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WEDNESDAY EVENING—The I were seized yesterday. before the Court of Cessation to-morrow. on certain alleged informalities in the proceedVerger asked to be allowed to attend mass in ris:on chapel on Sunday last. As his demeanonr ,een for some days calm and collected, n was made. During the service, howev, er changed, and he became so violent that be removed. LANCHOLT SUICIDE BY A LiENTLENIAN.—An inhas been held in London on the body of Mr. Lightfoot, aged 63, a gentleman of great prowho committed self-destruction by drowning If in the Surrey Canal. It was proved that ind of the unfortunate gentleman had been imfor a long period, and the jury returned a :t that the deceased destroyed his life whilst in sound state of mind. lepntation from bankers, merchants' and trad- and ! London had an interview with Lord Stanley lerley and the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, at the I Of Trade yesterday, in reference to the se' of dock warrants, warehouse-keepers, certifiand delivery orders. The deputation consistMr. S. Gregson, M.P., Mr. A. Hastie, M.P., ;. Moffatt, M.P., Messrs, J. Hall, G. Scovell, rrie, J. Cook, Mr. Lane (solicitor,) and Mr. S. (secretary to the Association of Traders of ort of London). 18.53 the total value of the merchandise exd from Taganrog, its the Sea of Azoff, amount. aye (he Annales do Commerce Exterieur, to 1,000 f., in which corn stood for 30,819,000 E, d for 7,728,000 f, wool 1,842.000 f., and tallow OWf. Out of the above total, England took c698,000f., and France for 4,586,000 E, the reer going to Sardinia, Turkey, Greece, &c. npertation of wine into Taganrog front Turkey intelligent ireece, which some years ago amounted to 'hectolitres, was in 1853 reduced by two- destruction This falling-off has been caused by the corded progress made in the cultivation of the vine e southern side of the Crimea, where a quan- readers, f wine is now made. Since 1851 a French of Russi lalll also sent several cargoes of wine to Speaking of Turkey, he said he had no idea of its havnrog direct from Bourdeaus, and has now a log the power to resist the slightest attack; and he Irly-established depot at that place. believed, if left alone, it would soon fall to pieces of
Glasgow Courier. — 1857-08-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Friday last a desperate Irish faction row broke out in Dudley between two men named Michael Hickey sod J. Higgins, which ended in the former rushing into a butcher's shop, taking up a knife from the block, and plunging it into his fellow-countryman's bowels, causing his death. Hickey was thereupon taken into custody and lodged in the lock-up. On Monday last, as the constables having the charge of the prisoners in the lock-up were going their rounds, on entering Hickey's cell they found him leaning against the wall and apparently in a helpless btate,with Ids head hanging down. On approaching him it was discovered that he was dead, having suspended himself by his handkerchief, from one ot the bars of the window of his cell. He was immediately cut down, but life was extinct; ami it was the opinion of the snrgeon that be had been dead at least an hour. The suicide appears to have been most deterinined in his intention. The bar of the window from which be had suspended himself was not more than six feet from the floor; but from the position of the body when discovered, it would seem that Hickey had got upon his bed, and after adjusting the handkerchief to the window bar and his neck, had thrown himself down, and thus caused strangulation. When discovered, his legs were bent under his body. He had chalked the following (supposed to be addressed to his wife) on his cell door :—' If you do what I told you I would not lose my life. May the Lord have mercy on the soul I have taken, through drunkenness; and the Lord have mercy on mine! Go to your child, and go to my sister. Du the best you can for your children. I forgive, and God forgive you.'