A General Court-martial assembled in the Infantry Barracks at Glasgow,
on Tuesday last, for the trial of an officer against whom there are a number of charges, some of them connected with circum- stances of a delicate nature.—Glasgow Chronicle.
On Friday the 16th, the trial of four females, and Donald Marshall, the bellman of Dunoon, charged by the Procurator-fiscal of the county with wilful and riotous mischief, by assembling in a tumultuous man. ner, and driving down the wells in the course of erection by Mr. Ewing at Dunoon, in the month of August last, came on at Inverary. The whole panels were found guilty; fined in a mitigated penalty ; and failing payment, ordained to be imprisoned in Inverary gaol for a period not exceeding forty days.—Greenock Advertiser.
A carter's wife, in the Scouringburn, Dundee, was on Friday last delivered of three boys ; all of whom, with the mother, are at pre- sent doing well. A midwife was in attendance ; but getting alarmed after two of the children were born, Dr. Malcolm was called in, who delivered her of the third. The woman had previously had six chile dren ; the youngest of whom is now upwards of nine years of age.
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