Glasgow Courier. — 1846-02-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—Length of line 22} miles—no Sunday trains.—Traflic for week ending 14th Feb., ISM :—Number of passengers, 13,489; receipts, for passengers and parcels, deducting steam-boat fares, £545 Os 1.1.; goods, £203 12s. 3d.; total receipts, .1748 18s. 43.—Correspouding week in 1845. £671 Ios. lid.  Hunting Appointments.—The Ayrshire fox-hounds nice this day, Tuesday, the 17th, at Catrinebank, and on Saturday, the 21st at .131air—eaclr morning at a quarter before eleven o'clock. The Linlithgow and Stirlingshire fox-hounds meet on Thursday, 19th February, at Kirkliston Toll Bar; on Saturday, 21st, at Livingstone Toll Bar—each day at half-past ten o'clock. The Weather.—We have experienced a longer tract of fine weather since Sunday week, than during any similar space of time for the previous four or five months. From Sunday till Wednesday a slight frost prevailed, but since then it has been fresh, and, at the same time, clear and dry, and upon the whole as spring-like and pleasant as it was possible to desire. Fire—A fire broke out on Saturday morning between three and four o'clock, in Mr ISPEwan's cooperage, 151, Gallowgate. The Glasgow Police fire-engines were early present, and prevented the fire, which had a rather alarming appearance, from extending. The damage done is but trifling. Ayrshire Soiree.—On Thursday evening the seventh annual soiree of the natives of Ayrshire, now resident in GlisOgow, was held in the Trades' Hall—Charles R. Baird, Esq., in the chair. The hall was crowded to excess, with a highly respectable audience—composed chiefly of those who had immigrated from the "Land of Burns!' On the platform beside the chairman, there was a sprinkling of ladies, together with the other members of committee and a number of gentlemeu—among whom we observed, Robert Knox,'Esq. of Kelvingrove, Robert White, Esq., Rev. Mr. Cunningham, Kirkintilloch, William Auld, Esq., William Anderson, Esq., Dr. Morton, John M‘Gavin, &c. &c. Furious Driving.—On the forenoon of Saturday 'hist, a i .arcel van, which is said to have been driven at an immoderate rate along Jamaica Street, came in contact with a little girl named Mary Roney, the daughter of a seaman residing in Buchanan Court, Broomielaw, by which sic was knocked down, and severely' if not dangerously, injured. The driver, whose name is Jam es Kelly or Kelt was taken into custody. Mysterious Affair—On Friday, last week, the body of a man was seen floating in the Forth opposite the glass house. When brought ashore his appearance, the head especially, led to the belief that he had come to his end by violence. Various rumours are abroad regarding the affair, each contradicting the other.—Stirling Observer. Suicide.—About four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, a person appearing like a distressed smith or tinsmith, threw himself from the Avon viaduct of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, and was taken up shortly after. -Both thighs, an arm, and chin mangled. His age about thirty, complexion pale, hair thin, height five feet three inches, coat dark green, buttons yellow plated, dark moleskin vest and trousers, well blacked boots, white shirt, and blue neckcloth. No money was found upon him, nor anything to make his name or abode knownt except a paper having on it, Moody's lodgings, Carmichael Street. Public Meeting in Johnstone.—A public meeting of the mill-owners, femurs, and other inhabitants of Johnstone, was held within the Assembly Rooms, there, upon Thursday ' evening, the 12th inst., for the purpose of considering the expediency of organising an efficient fire establishment in Johnstone. The meeting was addressed by Mr. John M'Dowall, engineer, and others, and a resolution was passed, that the frequent destructive fires In Johnstone rendered it I imperative that the inhabitants should immediately form such an estaldlolunent, A large committal) was accordingly appointed,