Glasgow Courier. — 1847-03-27 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  The late Samuel Mills, Esq., of Russell Square, and of Radwell, Newnham, Norton Northaw, and Hatfield, Hertford, has left £500,000 in personalty alone, which is quite independent of his extensive freeholds. His real and copyhold estates he leaves to his eldest son Thomas and his issue; and to his younger son he leaves all his real estates in London and Kent; his house, with the furniture, he leaves to his daughter, with a legacy of £30,000. The late member for Cirencester, Joseph Cripps, Esq., banker, Gloucester, has bequeathed to his twelve children specific legacies to the amount of upwards of £BO,OOO, and the residue amongst five of them. Fair in the Thames Tunnel.—On Monday, the fourth anniversary of the opening of this thoroughfare beneath the Thames was celebrated by a grand fancy fair. The tunnel was illuminated with 100,000 variegated lamps, and with brilliant devices in gas, and decorated with evergreens and flags. The visitors were amused with posturers, bands of music, (one of the females playing saxe-horrts,) and the Wizard of the North. Fatal Ether Operations.—A case of lithotomy, performed at the Suffolk and Colchester Hospital, proved fatal twentyfour hours after the operation. We understand, also, that an old gentleman, operated on for some disease of the foot, during the last week, by Mr. Travers, died within twentyfour hours of the operation. He never recovered from the stupor caused by the ether.—Medical Times. Accident at Sea.—The brig Minerva, Captain Clements, from Liverpool for Galatz, salt laden, put into Douglas on Thursday night, having lost both topmasts, foreyard and two men. It appears that when off Point Lynes she was caught in a squall. The two men were on the yard when it went overboard, and they were drowned—Manx Snn of Saturday. Execution of Two Murderers at Morpeth.—On Wednesday, the 17th inst., James Welch, convicted at the recent assizes for Northumberland of the murder of Thomas Proud, at Newbrough, and George Matthews, convicted at the same assizes of the murder of Daniel Hives, at Benton, underwent the extreme penalty of the law in front of the county prison at Morpeth. American Iron.—The first bar of American railroad iron was made in 1844, and an American paper now states that there are at present sixteen or eighteen mills, at which it is made at the rate of about 120,000 tons per annum. "This amount is sufficient to lay four miles of railroad per day, or 1,200 miles per year;" and hence the prospect of any large exportation from Great Britain at the prices to which our inordinate railway speculations have driven this commodity can hardly be looked for. The Trenton ironworks (NewYork) alone have entered into a contract to furnish the • New-York and Michigan lines with 9,009 tons of rail during the current year, and the capacity of their works will enable them in addition to supply the market with 200 tons per month. In Pennsylvania the use of the anthracite coal, which abounds in that state, appears to have stimulated this branch of manufacture, since there are now forty furnaces in blast—many of them of the largest class—where this kind of fuel is consumed, although in 1840 none existed in successful operation. Thete is one iron manufacturing corn-puny in Pennsylvania which alone consumes 60,000 tons of anthracite and 100,000 bushels of bituminous coal annually. Monument to Lord Byron.—We have much pleasure to learn that the British Government are about to pay a just tribute of respect to the memory of our immortal bard Shakspeare, by the purchase of the house in which he was born at Stratford-upon-Avon; and we hope the same noble and generous feeling may extend to Missolonghi, where Lord Byron died. The erection of a monument attached to the Vice-Consulate on the spot would tend to perpetuate the memory of one so renowned. Indeed, we hear from a correspondent who recently visited Missolonglii, that the actual house in which Byron died no longer exists, having been totally destroyed, as it will be recollected that on the Turks storming that garrison, seventy aged men, women, and children, entered a magazine and blew themselves up, preferring death to cruelty and slavery. With this heroic act fell the house sacred to our last immortal poet. The proprietor of the site not only generously offers to give it for the erection of a monument, but also will give a handsome sum towards it; and surely the friends, the relations, the government, and the admirers of his Lordship, will at once set on foot a subscription for so noble a purpose._ Malta Paper.