Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HEALTH OE THE PRTNCESS OF WALES.—It is said that the Princess of Wales has been ordered by hermedical attendants to take increased care of her health. The cause is, however, happily not such as will create uneasiness in the public mind—Court Journal.  John, Hill, the man charged with sending threatening letters to Lord Curzon, and who was remanded-for the purpose of having the state of his mind inquired into, has been reported as a person of sound mind, and therefore has been committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. '  The Mayor of Woodstock died suddenly in the corporation pew of the parish churclion Sunday last while divine service was proceeding. He arrived at church apparently- in his usual health, but fell back in his seat when the second lesson was being- read. Medical assistance was procured, but he was dead. The High Sheriff of Somersetshire has received a letter from Mr. Waddington, of the Home Office, acknowledging the receipt of a memorial on behalf of John Allen, convicted at the last Somersetshire Assizes of the murder of his wife, and stating that the capital sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life.  Friday being the anniversary of the birthday of the late Prince Consort, Her Majesty, with the members of the royal family, visited the mausoleum at Frogmore, in which the remains of the Prince are deposited, and each placed wreaths of unfading flowers over his tomb. Afterwards the members of the royal suite were admitted to the mausoleum.  A young man named John Cotton, happened a few days ago to tread on the point of a needle, which entered his foot near the little toe. The wound appeared so trifling that he paid no attention to it until Wednesday last, when the symptoms of lockjaw appeared, and in spite of the best medical assistance he died 48 hours after the disease had set  A well-dresSed man, giving the name of John Barber, and described as a commercial traveller, Was charged at the Marylebone Police Court, on Friday, with assaulting a girl, named Scott, 13 years old, in a third-class carriage on the Hammersmith Railway. The offence was admitted, and the prisoner was committed for trial. The sufferers from the collision at Pontypool Road Station, on Tuesday, are, all doing as well as can be expected. • The most seriously injured was a Mr. Fairburn, from Bristol, who had sustained a concussion of the brain ; and Mr. Choate, of Worcester, who has sustained injury to the spine', is .lying at Worcester very ill. Since the second day of the late Devon Assizes, now just a month ago, Mr. Justice Williams has been lying dangerously ill at the Judge's lodgings at Exeter. His health, happily, has now improved, and his meqical attendants have at last pronounced him to be out of danger. The illness of the venerable Judge is attributed to the adoption by him of the dietary recommended by Mr. Banting to diminish corpulence. This, in the learned Judge's then state of health, induced diarrhcea; and in endeavouring to check this too Suddenly, inflammation supervened, which placed him for some weeks in a very precarious state.—Western Morning .Al-flys. i Lord Palmerston attended Tiverton races on Thursday, and" was enthusiastically received. At the race luncheon, the Chairman, in proposing the health of the.: borough members—Lord Palmerston and the Hon. Mr. Denman—eulogised their noble guest's character as a lanmoru, itua ch. improvements whiph he had effected on his Irish estates, and the benefits he had conferred on his tenantry. Lord Palmerston, after some observations in reply to the Chairman's remarks,, proceeded to draw a humorous parallel between the conditions affecting the race-course and the House of Commons, which elicited frequent applause and laughter. His Lordship, however, carefully avoided politics.