Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DISCHARGED BA:MI:PM—AIex. M 'Laren, hotel. keeper, Carrick Hotel, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, sequestrated on the 90th April, 1881 ; discharged on the 30th September, 1881, on a composition of 4s per pound, —Andrew Henderson, coach-builder and omnibus proprietor, Govan, sequestrated on the 4th July, 1861; discharged on the 3d October, 1861, on a composition of one penny per pound.—William Winchester and David M‘Gibbon, glass, china, and earthenware merchants, ArDllStreet, the individual partners of Winchester & M'Gibbon, were segues. trated on the 21th January, 1861, and discharged on the 4th October, 1861, without composition.—Wm. Walton Swinden, commission merchant, Glasgow, the individual partner of the firm of Swinden & merchants, and one of the individual partnere of the late firm of Swinden & Hamilton, merchants, Glasgow, was sequestrated on the Bth December, 1860, and discharged on the Bth October, 1801, on a composition of 6a per pound. At a meeting of the Faculty of Procurators on Thursday (the Dean of Faculty presiding). the draft of bye-laws was laid upon the table, which proposed that candidates for admission to the Faculty shall go through certain examinations in general literature, &c., either when entering on their apprenticeship or when admitted. Hitherto reliance had been placed upon apprenticeships and certificates, but this did not ensure knowledge. A memorial was also laid on the table to the Court of Session, requesting the Court to take steps for having similar examinations throughout Scotland. Both were deferred, according to form, for fourteen days. Messrs Alexander Brown Aikman, Dugald John Bannatyne, jour., and Alexander Watt, have been admitted members of the Faculty. Mrs Brougham, sister-in-law to the venerable Lord Brougham, is at present residing at Levengrove Villa (Kinloch's), Bute, where she intends passing the winter, being in delicate health. On Friday afternoon, a wooden brig, named the Henrietta, of 223 tons register, measnring in length 100 feet, breadth 22 feet, and 13 feet deep, was launched from the building yard of Messrs U. Steele & Co., Greenock. She will be commanded by Captain Richardson' late of the brig Walter Baine, and will be employed in the Clyde and Newfoundland trade.  On Friday, a goods guard on the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, named James Kay, was seriously injured on the line between the goods station and West Street. He was in the act of shifting some waggons when his foot slipped, and two of the waggons passed over his legs and body. A pensioner, named Daniel Wright, committed suicide during Friday last by hanging himself by means of a piece of cord and a silk necktie fixed to a nail in the wall of his brother's house. He was 34 years of age, and unmarried. On Sunday morning, the dead body of a soldier was found lying on the road near the residence of William Robertson, Esq., Gartloch House. The deceased belonged to the 76th Regiment, now stationed in this city, and his name is James Caldwell, No. 3,787. A musket was lying beside the body, and it is, therefore, conjectured thAt the man had corn. witted suicide.  On Thursday evening, a fine little girl, six years of age, daughter of a widow residing at 2, Little Dovehill, while amusing herself with some other children of her own age on a stair at 133, London Street, fell over the railing to the passage below, a distance of about 30 feet.  The opening festival of the third season of the Juvenile Musical Festivals, conducted by the directors of the Glasgow Abstainers' Union, was held in the City Hall on Saturday afternoon. The hall was completely filled with the youthful auditory and their guardians and friends. Thu children be. longing to the City, Govan, and Barony Poorhouses, and other institutions in the city, were present. THE CIVIL SERVlCE.—Customs—Mr Allan Val. lance, out-door officer, fourth class, has been promoted to be out-door officer, third class, Glasgow ; Mr Andrew Black, out-door officer, fifth class, has been promoted to be out-door officer, fourth-class, Glasgow. Inland Revenue Department, Excise Branch—Mr Thomas Duffus, dropped supervisor, of Glasgow, seventh diitritf Glasgow collection, has I been appointed to Glasgow fourth district, Glasgow collection.  AN