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Glasgow Courier. — 1859-10-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE OF 1837. that ia injured? These boys are the sons of workmen, sod it is workmen Who doom thoin, to idleness. They This was all painfully illustrated by the great strike are their own children who are thus barbarously treated. of the colliers in Lanarkshire, Renfrew, and Stirling, in 1837. According to Dr Cleland's Statistics of Glasgow, If the son of a carpenter ahould desire to learn to be a the loss inflicted on that city and the surrounding din- printer, or the son of a printer desire to learn tricta by the increase in the price Of coals from Ist March to be a carpenter, to prevent them is to exercise to Ist November, 1837, was £487,000. Such was the cruelty of the worst description, as it ii against the destruction of property among the innocent inhabitants rung and unoffending and helpless. And what 111 the reason for this exclusion? It is avowedly to of Glasgow. The loss sustained by the colliers them*acute a monopoly of the trade, by preventing an selves from stoppage of wages for twenty-aix weeks was £78,000; the loss occasioned to others by the strike increase of workmen. Why so rigidly maintain although most of them were opposed to it, was £111,006 monopolies among yourselves, who are so ready to de-the total loss was £678 000. As national wars nounce monopolies in all other cases? In 1845, as art , are instance of the oppressive nature of this rule, Neill & accompanied with rapine and crime, these strikes or as an intestine wars partake of similar atrocities. The Co., printers, took a boy from Heriot's Hospital statistical tables of Dr Cleland show that in 1823, apprentice, and bound him in accordance with the .I:tenet's Hospital rules. He was no sooner bound than the year before the legalising of trades' unions, the a notice was sent from the Printers' Union that this boy number tried in Jury Courts, exclusive of summary made one more than they allowed, and that he must be convictions by Sheriffs, Justices of Peace, and w! Magistrates discharged, otherwise the office would be closed. It was it was 392' was 114; in 1837, the year of the strike, . In 1823 the number of fever patients represented that this boy could not be discharged, as he in the Royal Infirmary was 269; in 1837 it was bound, and his parents refused to cancel his indenwas 3,860. In 1823 the number of deaths was 4,647, and in tore, but that another boy who was not bound would be This however, would not satisfy they were 10,888—thus showing that these intestine discharged instead. the unionists, who insisted. that, cost what it would, the wars are far more destructive, comparatively, than the Feat wars between nations. We have a melancholy boy last engaged must be discharged, and no other, which ultimately had been done—Neill & CO. having to pay the instance of the intense suffering which must often be endured by the numerous victims of these strikes in the boy's parents the full penalties for non-fulfilment of concase of Daniel Lock, a plasterer, who lately committed tract (215), besides other expenses. suicide in London, leaving behind him a paper contain-
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-05-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DEAWII OF ADMIRAL THORNTON BY DROWNING. By the arrival at Southampton on Wednesday of the steam ship Ripon with the heavy portion of the Bombay mails, we regret to learn that, whilst the ship was crossing the Bay of Biscay, Admiral Thornton (a director of the Peninsular and Oriental Company), who was a passenger on board, was mysteriously drowned. The Admiral was seen after dusk walking the quarter deck, and on the following morning he was missed. It is rumoured—but no probable cause is given for such an act—that he committed suicide. The most reasonable supposition is thatthe Admiral accidentally fell overboard. A supplement to the London Gazette, published on Wednesday, gives a report by Brigadier Douglas, commanding the districts of Shahabad and Ghazeepore, to the adjutant general of the army. This report contains enclosures relating to the operations of Major Carr and Captain Stone, who commanded the posts of Ekil and Puharee Chuck, and who, in forcing their way to these positions and maintaining them, prepared for the attack by Brigadier Douglas on Judgespore. The particulars are old, their latest date being six months back.  THE RECENT PaoclA MATION AND THE LIVERPOOL SHIPPING brrEnasr.—The proclamation published on Saturday, prohibiting all contraband goods from being shipped on board British vessels, has caused a good deal of excitement in business circles. Three large American ships have been chartered this week for account of the French government, at 22s per ton for coals hence to Cagliari, and after this, for three months certain, at 13s. per register ton per month. The owners of British vessels, however, who had made similar arrangements before the proclanaatiow have delayed completing the contracts until the result of the interview of Mr Lindsay with government is ascertained. Most of the Liverpool shipbread bakers have also received large orders for biscuit, one firm having, it is said, entered into a contract with the French government to deliver 1,000 tons by the end of June.
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-10-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DETERMINED SUICIDE—MELANCHOLY CASE. At an early hour on Wednesday the shopkeepers in the High Street, Paisley, ard others, were startled with a report that Mr Hugh Beveridge, who has carried on business in this town for some years as a tailor and clothier, had drowned himself. On inquiry it was found that there was but too much truth in the rumour, and the facts brought to light prove the case to have been one of the most deliberately-planned cases of suicide that possibly can be conceived. Mr Beveridge has for some time past been in very bad health, and has been confined to the house for several weeks. This appears to have preyed heavily on his mind, and on Tuesday night he lefalus lodgings shortly before ten o'clock without saying anything to his landlady. On his not returning within a short period the latter became alarmed, and her fears were still further increased by finding a letter on his table addressed to his clerk, and which proved to be a statement that he had determined on drowning himself, and that his body would be found in Blackhall Dam. On this place being examined the coat and hat of the deceased gentleman, as well as his walking-stick and tobacco pipe, were found on the banks, and early in the morning, on the lock being dragged, the body was found in about five feet of water. The legs of the deceased were tied together, and in his pocket was found an empty vial, as well as a small bottle of whisky. From this it is surmised that, previous to throwing himself into the water, he had endeavoured to stupify himself. Mr Beveridge was well known and respected in the town, and was possessed of a generous, open-hearted disposition. Some three weeks ago Mr Beveridge, who has no relatives in Paisley, made a settlement of his affairs, to which he made allusion in his letter to the clerk, and there is reason to suppose that so far back as that time the deceased had in his mind a determination to make away with himself.
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-11-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NEW YORK.  A gigantic plan, suggested by Mr Collins, the United States' Cowinlat Nicholaieff, on the Amoor, is destined to produce a complete change of relations between Europe and the other parts of the world if it be carried into execution. This project refers to the establishment of an electric telegraph from Moscow through Behring's Straits and Sitka to St. Louis, in the United States. In this manner a direct communication would be obtained between St. Petersburg and New York. The author of the plan would further extend another wire from Kiachts to Pekin, and thence through Saghalien to Yeddo and Hakodadi, in Japan. The length of the proposed telegraph is estimated at 14,000 English miles, the cost of construction at £500,000 The expense of maintaining and repairing the wires is calculated by Mr Collins at 900,000 roubles annually, and the revenue at 1,100,000 roubles, or a dividend of 8 per cent, to the shareholders, if a company can be formed. Mr Collins is at present on his way to St. Petersburg, where he hopes to find the capital to carry out his plan.—Leper front St. Petentburg.  Suiffna--Barbara More, servant or housekeeper to Gordon Cook, gamekeeper at Glenmore, united parishes of Kilninver and Kimmelfork Argyllshire, committed suicide on Friday last by taking a quantity of strychnine. She expired in three hours after swallowing the poison. She confessed to the parish clergyman that shehadpoisoned herself, but although perfectly sensible till within a few minutes of dissolution, gave no reason for the rash act. She was 22 years of age, and a native of Greenock. The body was interred in the churchyard of Culphail on Monday last—Greenock Advertiser.  The physicians and surgeons of Guy's Hospital have awarded the Astley Cooper prize of .000 to Dr Crisp, of Parliament Street, Westminster, for his essay on "The Structure and Use of the Thyroid Gland."  A lintar
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MELANTLY SUICIDE.—A young man named Alexander lerton, Burnidde of Inshewan, put an , end to his eby shooting himself through the head, on the afternoon of Friday last. The deceased, for some time past, had been a slave to intemperance, and had been frequently observed in a depressed state of mind. On the day in question he had been drinking freely, and told a young woman that he was going to shoot himself. As he was rather jocular at times she paid no attention to his threat, and be immediately after entered a coal house and committed the rash act.—Montrose Review. SPAWNING SEASON IN TRH TwEED.—For all the poaching that has taken place this season there is no scarcity of breeding salmon left, as all the upper streams of the Tweed are well stocked with salmon, some of them very large; and since the bailiffs hm e been put on very little poaching has taken place in the districts where they are stationed. The weavers in Galashiele and Selkirk are well employed, and, save a few fellows who live by plunder, there islittle done. The great destruction appears to have taken place among the bull trout, as of all the captures that were made very few salmon were seen.—Berwick .Advertitwr. SINGULAR BICAPE OF A Boy—ln connexion with the trip from Dense to Edinburgh on Monday last, a miraculous escape occurred. One of the carriage doors had not been properly fastened, and while the train was proceeding between Renton and Grant's House, a boy, eight years of age, leaning against the door fell out. It happened that there was a small embankment where the accident occurred, and the youth, rolling into the ditch, escaped without injury. The boy's mother attempted to jump out of the carriage after him, but was prevented by a fellow-passenger. On the telegraph being put in motion at Dunbar she ascertained that her son was safe, and that he would be forwarded to Edinburgh by the mail train immediately following.
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-02-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER, SUICIDE, A.NT) ATTEMPTED ARSON. For some years past there has not been perpetrated in Manchester so horrible a tragedy as one that occurred on Tuctd.ay, at the Cross Keys beerhouse, Albert Street (formerly the north portion of Water Street), the keeper of which, Wm. Robinson, brutally, and Bo far as appears, eauselessly, murdered hiswife, attempted to set his home on fire, and then with much deliberation hung himself. It seems that Robinson, with his wife and two daughters, one about 20 and the other about 16 years old, lived at the beerhouse; which is a small, low place, with little or no accommodation, but in which Robinson has for 12 or 15 months past done a tolerably good liusinessi. The daughters worked at the factory of Mr Morris, Chorltonupon-Medlock; and they started for their work soon after five o'clock on Tuesday morning, when they, for the last time, Raw their mother alive. Robinson seems to have for the lust few years added to his means by working as hearer or mute for undertakers. Mary Saxon, who occupies a front and a back cellar under the beerhouse, says that about three o'clock in the afternoon, while lying on lied, she heard a heavy fall, which startled her; that won afterwards she saw blood dropping through the ceiling; that she then said to her mother that "he must have been killing her," alluding to Robinson and his wife; bout her mother advised her not to do anything until the girls came home." Mrs Saxon further states that about four o'clock she saw Itobinson walking up and down Albert Street in front of his house, and that he had then locked his front door, but had no bat on. She spoke to him and asked "Where is Mrs ibibinson ?" and on his answering " I don't know. I think she must have gone to our Eliza'a," Mrs Saxon rejoined, "No, she never has." She said that she left Itohmsou in the street, "with tears rolling down his cheeks like a bewildered man." Nothing more was known until the daughters returned home about a quarter before seven o'clock. T i They found the house n starkness and the front door locked, and a back door was forced, alld the house entered. The place was full of gas; but the light of the time revealed the body of Mrs Robinson upon the floor in front of the grate, and covered with blood. It was found that in addition to the committal of a horrible murder, an attempt to burn the premises had been made. The search resulted in showing that, after corn. Dotting the murder, and attempting to fire the house, Robinson hail very deliberately, and very effectually, eminnitted suicide in an attic in which he kept pigeons. lii this place the. murderer's corpse was found 'winging by a light but strong rope attaches! te a nail in the well. '1 he murdered woman was found by the surgeons to have at least four terrible wounds in the neck. In the lire the iodise discovered a knife, ground off to a point, and apparently such as would be used by a shoemaker; this e do in all probability the weapon used by the murderer. Jealousy of his wife appears to have led Robinson to the commisalen of this triple crime.—Moncliceler Guar. Can,
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-04-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

YOUNG LADY.  MARGATE, THURSDAY EVENING.—Much excitement was caused this morning in the lower part of the town of Margate by the. discovery of the body of a young lady under the new landing-place. It appears that in the first instance a lady's mantle of fashionable shape was observed on one of the platforms used for the debarkation of steamboat passengers. An alarm was given, and soon after eight o'clock a boat came in with some mariners, who, on landing, discovered the body entangled betwan. some of the cross bars which support the jetty. -Life was quite extinct. The body was immediately taken out of the water, and conveyed to a building near King Street, and has since been identified by Dr. 'Walters, of Broadstairs. The name of the deceased, we under stand, is Blakemore. She was an only child, and had been living with her father and aunt near the Wheat. sheaf Inn, at St. Peter's, a village about two miles from this town. The family are in very good circumstance., and it is stated that the unfortunate young lady would have been entitled, on corning of age, to oonsiderable property. She went away from home about 7 o'clock last evening and left a note stating that she intended to put an end to her existence. It is needless to say that as soon as this was discovered no time was lost in searching for her. The search, however, did not extend to Margate, and it is generally supposed that she had been walking about all night, as, from the dry appearance of the mantle, and its position with reference to the tide, it is probable that the suicide had not been committed many hours before the body was found. The deceased was about 19 years of age, and of prepossessing appearance. An inquest will be held, at which some clue may be obtained as to the cause of the rash act. At prompt none has been assigned.
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-01-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT.—On Thursday, at this Court, before Bailie Playfair and John Gibson, Esq., justices, Alexander Thomas, 122, Gallowgate, was convicted of selling spirits without being m possession of a license, and fined in the sum of .€4 20. Daniel Black, 77, Old Wynd, was also convicted of illicit selling, and this being his second offence, he was fined in the sum of £ll5.  Suretoz. --On Thursday forenoon, a widow woman of weak intellect, leapt into the canal, near Robertson's Bridge, Townhead, and was drowned. She was observed by a labourer, who gave the alarm, and with assistance had the body taken out of the water. Dr Walker, Castle Street, was in immediate attendance, but. his services were of no avail. Deceased resided in Dinate, and had frequently threatened to commit suicide.  We believe that there is now do doubt that Sheriff Sir A. Alison has appointed Mr Strathern, at present Sheriff-Substitute in the Airdrie District, to be Sheriff-Substitute at Glasgow, in room of the late Mr Steele. The appointment is quite a popular one, and we believe Sheriff Strathern will commence his duties in this city immediately. We have also been informed that the vacant office at Airdrie has been offered to an experienced member of the Glasgow local bar, but as yet that gentleman has not signified his acceptance. Sinuous Accnazyr.—On Thursday night a man named Michael Colgin, pianist of the Whitebait Singing Saloon, St. Enoch's Wynd, fell down the stair in the close 30, Saltmarket. The noise of his fall was heard by several persons, who immediately went to his assistance, and had him conveyed to the Central Police Office, where he was examined by Dr ArGill, who pronounced his skull to be fractured. He was removed to the Infirmary, where, we understand, he remains in a very critical state. The unhappy man, previous to the accident, had been seen in a state of intoxication in the Oddfellows' Singing Saloon.
Glasgow Courier. — 1859-06-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.  On Wednesday night, the anniversary festival of this institution, of which her Majesty is the munificent patron, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, London, Mr Byng, M.P., acting as chairman. The institution, established far on to a century ago by a few benevolent gentlemen, has for its main objects to collect and circulate the most approved methods for recovering the apparently drowned or dead, to suggest and provide sniktble apparatus for the preservation and restoration of life, and to bestow rewards, honorary and pecuniary, on .thosa who assist in carrying out itif beneficent' aims. From first to last it has done most signal public service in this work of mercy and humanity. One of the earliest and staunchest of its supporter.; still lives, Mr Benjamin Hawes, the treasurer (father of Sir Benjamin Hawes), now in his 90th year, who until this occasion has never mimed attending its anniversary meetings for the long period of 73 years consecutively. During the past year 165 cases of rescuing or attempted rescue from drowning have been brought under the notice of the society, comprising 190 persons. Of these 179 were successfully treated, but 11 were, unfortunately, beyond recovery; and 31 of the number were instances of attempted suicide. They have also in the same interim conferred and distributed 23 silver and 43 bronze medals, R 6 pecuniary rewards of various amounts, and have awarded their thanks in 21 other cases to persons, some of whom are women, who have been instrumental in saving life from drowning. The penions to whom the society's medal was distributed on Wednesday night by Mr Byng, for saving life during the last year, were Mr Henry Myers, Mr A. Stamers, Mr T. J. Wynne, eon of Lord Newborough; Mr T. D. Lees, a blind man at St. Andrew., Fife; H. J. Fosse, Chevalier of the French Legion ot Honour, and merchant at /3eaucaire, who has rescued upwards of 60 persons from drowning in his time; Lord Hastings, Miss Rowhotham, of Woolwich, aged 16; May Hecterson, a woman in humble life, in the Shetland Islands; Subconstable Stephen Hartney, of Cork ; and Thomas Griffiths, of Bridgewater, who has saved no leas than 18 lives. The achievements performed by some of these persons were absolutely heroic, and the relation of them frequently elicited enthusiaatio cheers from the com• pany.
Glasgow Courier. — 1850-08-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

IRELAND.  The Vacant Irish Peerage.—Lord Dunsany is a candidate for the vacancy in the representative Peerage, caused by the death of bird Dunraven. _ _  Bray Read Estate—The mansion-house of Mr. Patland, at Bray Head, with 47 acres of land, has been purchased for £7,600 by Miss Ball, sister of Judge Ball, who is at the head of the Loretto Convent, at Rathfarnham, near Dublin. Suicide of a Military Officer.—Colonel Beauchamp, an officer of long and distinguished service in the Peninsula, but for some years retired from the army, committed suicide at an hotel in Dawson Street, on Sunday last, in a fit of temporary insanity, produced by a severe attack of erratic gout—Dublin Paper. A Chance—The following advertisement appears in the Dublin Evening Maii:—A lady, whose friends are about emigrating to a foreign land, but to which she has an insurmountable objection to proceed, would be desirous of forming a suitable matrimonial connexion, for the purpose of remaining in England or Ireland. She is well educated, of religious turn of mind, a good and economical housekeeper, 26 to 26 years of age; will have a moderate ready-money fortune; and references of the highest respectability. With a person of about her own age, in a fair, respectable, and progressive way in life, a Protestant, of good connexions, and having it in his power to give references as to an unblemished character, an arrangement may be entered into; but it is totally futile for any other person but such as described to take notice, or reply to this advertisement. Address Post-office, Birkenhead, when an immediate reply will be given. Attack on a Clergyman in the Mariners' Church.—On Sunday, during the performance of Divine worship in the Mariners' Church, Kingstown, a woman, whose name was subsequently ascertained to be Sarah Adams, entered the church mentioned, and took her seat near the reading desk. In a short time after she stood up and exclaimed, while the Rev. John Massy was reading, "Silence, sir! why do you lead the people astray, having no sacrifice?" and rushing on suddenly, she made a blow at his head with a stick, which be avoided by a sudden movement. She made three other blows at him before she could be seized upon, when she was removed from the church in custody of a constable. The congregation was greatly alarmed, and the worship was interrupted for a considerable time. She was brought up In custody on Monday before Mr. Wyse, at the Police-office, Kingstown, when, upon the examination of witnesses, it was ascertained that she was labouring under the effects of insanity. She pleaded guilty—uttered some incoherent sentences evincing disappointmentat not accomplishing the act she intended to perpetrate; and on the information of the Rev. Mr. Massy, who only desired to have her placed under protection, she was committed, with the view to her removal to a lunatic asylum. She declared she was a Roman Catholic, and had a commission to root out error. —Saunders' News Letter.