Glasgow Courier. — 1845-04-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  The weather has become all we could desire for the season. Sowing has made rapid progress in the country, and in all quarters the harrow may be seen at work completing the work of the sower. The young wheats, which at one time had rather a sickly aspect, are now rapidly recovering their freshness, and it is plain that they have not sustained any injury which a succeeding genial spring and summer are incompetent to repair. Scriptural Training.—Mr. Stow, Hon. Secretary to the Normal Seminary, has received a ten pound Bank of Ragland note, inclosed in a letter, of which the following is a copy Will you apply the inclosed small sum as , think will be the most available for the Scriptural trail; of the young from one who prays that your system Scriptural training may continue to spread, and to be more and more blessed, till the whole infant minds be brought under its influence, and reared up for God." Secession Preabytery.—At a meeting of this body on Tuesday, a report was presented by a committee appointed to investigate the circumstances connected with the late banquet of the Secession Congregation, Duke Street, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Mr. Graham. The report, which was condemnatory of certain parts of that evening'S proceeding, was approved of, and the deliverance of the Presbytery was ordered to be read from Mr. Graham's pulpits On Wednesday morning, while the steamer Mercury was on her passage from Dublin for Glagow, one of the cabin passengers was found dead in his bed. His name was Mr. Francis Richardson of Drogheda. Cruelty.—On Monday a carter was fined 10s. Bd. for cruel treatment to his horse. The animal was but a sorry one, yet the gross weight it was compelled to draw was not less than 2 tons 8 cwt.  Child Desertion.— On Monday evening a young woman gave her child, 14 days old, to a girl in Govan Street, with the promise of a penny for keeping it till her return. She did not again make her appearance; but through the activity of Mr. Cassels, Superintendent of Poor, the unnatural mother was traced out. She attributes her conduct to obsolete want, the father of the child being in America. Attempted Suicide.—On Saturday morning, a young Irishwoman, with two children, having been somewhat unrulyin the night boat from Edinburgh, was put ashore near Craigmarloch Bridge. The eldest child was fifteen, and the youngest one month old. Shortly after, she was seen to throw herself into the canal with her two children in her arms. Some sailors in a vessel passing succeeded in rescuing the mother and children, who were taken to the house of Mr. Mitchell, in the neikthbourhood, and when recovered were " passed " to Kirkintilloch, and thence to Glasgow, by the adjoining Justice of the Peace. On reaching Glasgow, it was found the woman was insane; and Mr. Willock, of the Town's Hospital, had her sent to Gsrtnavel, the children being taken charge of in the Town's Hospital. . Infanticide.—On the morning of Friday last, the body of an apparently new born female infant was found on the south bank of tbe river, near Wingate's ship-building yard. The body had evidently been some days in the water. In consequence of an anonymous letter received the same day by the Superintendent of Police, be caused to be apprehended on Saturday last a young female who was alluded to in that communication, and who resides with a relative in Gorbals. The girl, we believe, admits that about the 27th ult. she gave 'birth to a female child; but the manner in which she accounts for the disposal of the infant is deemed very unsatisfactory. She has accordingly been retained in custody, and the case is undergoing investigation. Housebreaking and Theft. —On Friday a boy, about twelve years Wage, was apprehended for having at variods times, during the last three weeks, entered the countinghouse of a respectable cabinet-maker in Warwick Street, by means of false keys, and stolen therefrom 288 locks, 381 keys, iron and brass castors, iron and brass hinges' Sze. A considerable part of the property has been recovered, and a broker charged with reset of a part of it found in his possession, has, we understand, been apprehended. The theft was of a most daring kind, as the young rascal (who it turned out had been convicted of a previous theft when only nine years of age) must have by some means or other managed to climb over a wall ten feet high. Boy Drowned.—About 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, a boy named John APGuire, who had been amusing himself on the logs of timber lying in the Forth and Clyde Canal Basin, fell into the water, and was drowned. The body was recovered. The deceased was 13 years of age, and son of Thomas M,Guire, a labourer at the Glasgow Gas Works.  Extract of a letter from the master of the James Lyon, of Greenock, dated Ichaboe, 4th February :—" Since I last wrote you, we have had hard work here, and in ten days more there will not be a pound of guano in Ichaboe. We have now almost a full cargo, which it has been no easy matter to obtain. Ido not intend leaving this while there is a pound in the island, and hope you have not sold the • cargo to arrive, as it is now certain that Ichaboe has disappeared. A great many vessels have left without obtaining cargoes. There are 200 vessels here at present, 'Mast of which won't get nearly full, and many none at all. Ships are arriving from Britain every day, and people at borne do not seem to think it true that Ichaboe is done; but they will soon find that out to their cost. I hope you have not made any more speculations to lchaboe ; if so you will be sorry for it." Weekly Statement.—Number of Inmates in the Night Asylum for the Homeless in St. Enoch's Wynd, from Saturday, March 29, to Friday, April 4, inclusive ;—Men, 151; women 840; boys, 71 ; girls, 47; total, 609. The average number of nightly inmates for this week is 87, exclusive of 25 inmates in the House of Industry. Poitca Cone r.—On Monday the keeper of • spirit-cellar in the Bridgegate, named Angus M'Clelland, was charged with keeping a disorderly house, to the annoyance of the people residing in the neighbourhood. The charge was fully substantiated, and he was sentenced to pay a fine of £5, or to be imprisoned for thirty days. Bailie Anderson, in passing sentence, said the Magistrates would take care that he should not get • renewal of his license; and he trusted that the police would bring up all such offenders, that 0, might be similarly punished.  the,