EDINBURGH. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) July 26.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2239, 23 September 1864, Page 5

EDINBURGH. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) July 26.

The case of the tiustees of the late Mr. John Cullen, W.S., Edinburgh, agaiust Sir William Johnston, of Kiikhill, chairman of the directors of the lato Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank, and others, has been compromised on the understanding that each party shall pay its own expenses and the defeudeis be assoilzied fiomthe conclusions of the action. The case was tried it will be remembered last Apiil, before the Lori Resident and a juiy, and lasted ten days. The question before the jury was whether the pursuer purchased a number of the Edmbuigh and Glasgow Bank shares at a certain piice, through the false lepresentaliou of the defenders as to the condition of the bank's affairs. The issues weie nineteen in number, every one of which concluded by charging the defenders with the price p.ud by the pursuers for the shares purchased, together with interest from the date of purchase. The whole sum claimed was £6,30S 4s. Sd., but this sum is a meie triflo compared to those which they would have been c-.lled upon to pay had the defendeis been declared liable, as many other shareholders only waited to see the result of the trial prepiratoiy to raising an action on their own accouut, had the decision led them to expect success. As it was, the jiuy, af tei a very protected hearing, failed to return a veidict by the statutory majority of nine to three, and weie discharged without a verdict. It was em oiled to come on again, but haviug been compromised lias been ■withdrawn. The removal of the Rev. Dr. Jslay Bums from Dundee to oue of the theological chairs in Glasgow Free Chinch College, has called forth a Mairaei°expression of feeling on hu behalf than any event of a similar nature that has occuired in Duudee for a long time. The meeting which was called to take f.vewell of the rev. doctor took place in the Corn Exchange Hall, which was thronged to its utmost capacity by all classes of well wishers. The expressions of regard w ere not confined to Dr. Burns's co- * digionists, but embraced all the sects with hardly any exception in the town. The meeting was piesided over by P. H. '1 horns, Esq , of Abeilenmo, •whose address was siugulaily able and eloquent Mr. Thorns presented Dr Burns, on behalf of his many friends, with a purse containing 800 soveieigns, and au ornamental timepiece, beanug an appiopuate inscription Dr. Burns replied m a warm and affecting speech. The congregation of Free-street, Peter's, Dundee, have elected the Rev. Duncan McGregor, of Hope-street Chinch, Glasgow, as successor to Dr. Bums. The Glasgow police have been investigating a strauge story told by a man giving the name" of Terence Biycelaud. He had recently been working at Andeiston, but left there to seek work at Bath gate. Not finding work theie he left agaui for Glasgow, and had got within a shoit distance of Airdrie, being then about one o'clock on Sunday morniug, when he was met by two young men, w ho asked where he was going to, to which he replied he was going to Glasgow. Oue of the two then said, "We'll Glasca' you," and w ith that sewed his hands and held them fast, -while the other took a knife out of his pocket and stuck it into Brycel<uid s thioat a little below the chin, and woiked it about in the wound. Bryceland fell to the ground, but feanug they were xbout to attack him a<Min, he rose and ran, followed by the two men, as he saj s, for about two miles. They gava up the chase, and he fell to the ground insensible, but on coming round he resumed his walk to Glasgow, where he aruved next morning about seven o'efock. He repoitod the case to the police, who sent foi Di. McQill to dress his wound, which was upw irek of au inch in length, Lut fortunately the windpipe does not appear to be seriously injured. When he keeps his head down lie can speak pretty easily, but if he throws it back he can scarcely be heard" He has been sent to the infirmary. There are two things about the man's tale that look improbable , fiist, that men should commit such a wanton and uui rovoked assault on a strauger ; and second that Bryceland should ha\e been able to niu a couple of miles with such a wound in his throat, and afterwaids to walk »o many more— and these too without speaking to a soul about the matter. It has a very improbable look about it, but w hether the police will clear the affair up or not is hard to say. A case of assault of a different character has recently occun el near Glasgow, by which, a younsj lady has suffered an outrage worse than death itself! At a late hour on last Satuiday evening week, the young ladj', named Maigaret Addie, was returning from Govan, wlutUer she had accompanied a fiiend, when she encounteied a mm named Michael McGliuchpy, a labourer, residing m Go\an. While passing a piece of common land lying at the back of CessuoJc Nurs.ry, Govan Road, McGlmchey accosted her ; she passed on and endeavoured to a\ oid him, but he tneJ. to intercept her, and after a race caught hei. She screamed aloud and struggled to fiee herself from his grasp, on which he struck her on thefaceand knocked her down, tepeating the blows w henever she screamed. He succeeded in di a^ging hei into a field of corn, where he endeavoured to commit a ciimmal outrage upon her. Her cries attiacted the attention of a woman who was passing With a boy, and she obtained the assistance of two gentlemen who were passing These rushed to hei assist nice and sue ceeded in apprehending him while struggling with his •victim. He struggled to release himself fiom his 1 captors, but was detained until the armal of the police, who took him in charge. (Xi being eKatmued his clothes md linen were found co\eied with blood. Meanw bile the lady had been assisted to the residence of her family, where, oti examination, she was found to have received most shocking injuries, hei fice being a mas 3 of wounds and bruises, one cut extending thiee inches on the forehead, the bridge of her nose being broken, and her upper lip cut through in three places. She was considered so dangerously wouii'M tint her depositions were taken by bheuff Bell and Mr Gemmell. Miss Audie was a young lady moving in most lespectable society, aud resided at Wej mouth Ten ace, Paisley Road At the time the foregoing outrage was being peipetrated, another of a somewhat similir character was taking place, also in the neighbourhood of Glasgow The victim m this case was a field worker of lather irre^ulai habits, who hid become intoxicated, and while in this condition was subjected to a cuminal assault, and llltieated in a most brutal manner. She lay bruised and bleeding all night without shelter, and towaids morning crawled to a cottage for help. In her depositions she named three men who she said had assaulted hei, but the police only felt themselves justified in apprehending one, — a mere youth of sixteen years of age — v.ho, as the woman has since died, has been before the sheriff on a charge of murder, and remanded. The recent minder in a North London railway carriage, of which you will get a full account no doubt in all the English papers, has caused the question of communication between guards and passengers to be very much agitated. Our Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the Board of Trade to take steps for ensuring the means of communication between railway passengers and the guard. At the same meeting the Chamber memorialised the Postmaster-General to reduce the rate of postage to Australia and New Zealand, the postage having lately been considerably increased. I am happy to say that their representations, strengthened by a deputation of merchants ane colonists, have had the effect of causing the rates to be reduced to the former amount This will be a great relief to those who have much communication with the Australian colonies. The disiased meat question has again been before the Town Council on the bringing up of a report from a committee appointed to investigate the matter. Proof of the prevalence of disease m dairymen's stock was adduced by Mr. Lewis, who mentioned the case of one man who had lost eight cows out of eleven in three months ; another who had lost fourteen out of twenty-four in one month, another who had lost three out of ten in one day ; and several other instances of a like kind. The council decided on the appointment of two inspectors to look well after cattle, whether slaughtered in the city slaughter-houses or in country shambles to avoid supervision. They also passed a resolution, by which any one convicted of selling diseased meat may be deprived for twelve months of a •tall in the market. The Government bill to prevent the importation and sale of diseased cattle has come far short of what it was expected *o do. This i» partly due to the powers given to railway and other officials being too arbritary, and partfy no doubt to the manner in which these clauses were opposed by Hall Maxwell, Mr. Congreve, and others, who made Jar more impression on the Parliamentary Committee than Mr. Gamgee, with his discursive hearnay evidence The clause including the foot and mouth disease, soon gave way, ai most people expected, and after that followed the Importation Bill. There is a saying now going the round of the papers that the cotton famine haa made the fortune of Dundee. Not to Dundee alone is the good fortune confined, as all the linen districts-are largely paitiei pating in the profitable trade that is now being carried on. I hear of four new flax mills at Kirkcaldy which employ all the available labour in the place, and many more could be employed if they could only be got. Manufacturers are alt engaged on orders, and could have more if they could only execute them,