Glasgow Courier. — 1862-05-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MAGISTRATES' LICENSING COURT. —A court VMS held on Tuesday in the Lesser City Hall, for the disposal of licence cases, adjourned or not overtaken on Friday last. A large majority of the applications were granted; but in the cases of one or two hotels in the central districts against which Captain Smart preferred charges of flagrant violation of the Forbes Mackenuie Act, the liceense was accompanied with a warning from the bench against the continuance of such conduct in the future. The new applications, 62 in number, were thereafter disposed of. On Tuesday- afternoon, a warper, named Robert Speirs, 72, 0 iwald Street, Bridgeton, and who has for some tin back been out of employment, attempted suicide with a razor. Happily he was observed, but is still in a dangerous state. On Tuesday morning, while Thomas Watson, a labourer on the line of the Caledonian Railway at Cleghorn, was performing some duty on the line, a mineral train came in contact with him, knocked him down, passed over his neck, and instantly severed his head from his body. He has left a wife and five young children unprovided for to mourn his loss. On Tuesday, the Justices of the Peace for the Lower Ward held their annual Court for the consideration of publicans' applications for licenses. There were 139 applications for licenses, of which 128 were granted as follows :—Renewals 118 granted and 2 refused; 10 transfers granted and 9 new applications refused. On Monday afternoon, while two girls named Catherine and Margaret Ann Grant, the former three and the latter eight years of age, were in the act of passing along the bank of the Paisley canal at Port Eglinton, they overbalanced themselvesand fell into the water. A girl named M'Ewan, who was in company with the other girls, gave the alarm,but before assistance came the poor children had disappeared. Their bodies were recovered shortly after, but life was extinct. The father of the deceased children is a mason to trade, residing at 1, Charlotte Place. About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Bernard Higgins, Charles M`Lean, and Torrance Lipid, labourers, went into the after hold of the steamer Havelock. then lying at 69 berth, north quay, for the purpose of shipping a cask containing bleaching powder. One end of the cask had, by some means or other, been broken, and when the men had been about three minutes engaged in coopering anti endeavouring to ship the cask, they found that they were unable any longer to endure the noxious smell. They accordingly made for the ladder, Higgins first ascending, and the others following. The corndany's officer observing Higgins coughing and afterwards lying down on the fore deck, sent for Dr Fergus, who was in immediate attendance, but when he arrived he found that the unfortunate man was dead and he attributed the cause of death to suffication. Deceased was fifty years of age, a native of Ireland, and leaves a widow to mourn his loss. forenoon,jtuh vicinity,dereg DISASTROUSmtIeyn t nearly ,aeefiartoyrwFka sa slruntffSp people 0. be—cos eapt suffocated. precaution ev 50bd itsweo. observed contents 000 mo tenwonn irtuwhe o'clocklsßnaet tvrh: el syeonesrtoehiiontni broken o n Sabbath out iin the power-loom weaving factory, known as the Boar's Head Mill, occupied by Mr John Houston, and filling the space between Claythorn Street and Marshall Street, off Gallowgate. The fire is supposed to have originated le the holier flooring, which was within 18 inches of the ceiling of the flat above, and thence the flames were communicated to the main building. Two or three of the thatched houses caeght fire, but the games were speedily extingaished, In half an hour after the arrival of the brigade the portion of the mill fronting Marshall Street fell in, bringing down the whole flooring and machinery in the build_ lag, and destroying a portion of the windows and walls of the houses opposite. At the same time it was discovered that a large gas main, communicating from the Gallowgate, had been broken,o:r thoroughly tit:eagtidhnaiht) illidlltbymrleoliticliwinnhchehn:e: gas had gone into the dwelling-houses in the fires in the neighbouring houses to be instantly extinguished, which was done. The mill was cotnurrtipree:eyalerdd.g: otftegutted Therepwa to'r werekan workers, :1, ont of proploymont. This is the more to he regrettvd u the mill Was going at tuli time, The sts.,K, 1 - Ile h W WeillOt very lar,v. • 1 - was insured. An accident occurred on Thursday morning, about 10 o'clock, at Bridge of Allan, whereby Mr Menzies ~ factor on the Tulliallan estatei, was severely'. 'tired: He bad beep driving a vehicle near the iei ells, when the. pony ran off, and the vehicle (mine to contact with a cart laden with stones, Xr : nzi.r., an A boy who accompanied him, were olently thrown to the ground, Mr Menzies sustaining some severe cuts and injuries on the head. The boy was also considerably injured. The horse in the vehicle wm killed by the shook,