Glasgow Courier. — 1864-02-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GREAT EASTERN.—An effort is being made to raise a company for the purchase of the Great Eastern steamship. It is proposed to raise £120,000, a sum for which it is believed the ship may now be purchased, and so far successful has been the attempt that half the money has been subscribed among the bondholders of the Great Ship Company. The sale is appointed for the 17th.  The Prince and Princess of Wales and suite left Frogmore at two o'clock on Thursday afternoon for St. Leonards-on-Sea, where they arrived at ten minutes past five. A telegram was immediately forwarded from their Royal Highnesses to the Queen at Osborne, informing Her Majesty of the admirable manner in which the journey had been performed, and of the perfect safety with which the journey had been made. A shocking accident took place on Tuesday at the works of the new Government offices now erecting at Downing-street. The supports which sustained a " traveller"—that ponderous machine which runs along a tram-way high in the air at the erection of most great_buildings—gave way, and the machine with its supports fell to the ground, overbalancing in their fall several men, who were taken up and removed in a shockingly bruised state to the Westminster Hospital. A Lynn correspondent informs us that an extensive vein of iron ore, said to be worth, at least, half a million of money, has been discovered by Mr. Wright on the estate of the Prince of .Wales at 1 Sandringham. It is computed that the vein averages about four or five feet in depth, and will yield at least 2,000 tons per acre. Mr. Wright has informed the Prince of Wales, through General Knollys, of his discovery, and is in correspondence with him to work it at a royalty. On Monday while a man named Dunstan was employed at the 190 level of Wheal Clifford mine, near Chasewater, Cornwall, the timber on which he was standing gave way, and he was precipitated down 22 fathoms into about 11 feet of water. A young man named Barratt descended from the 200 level and plunged into the water. In a short time he brought up Dunstan, who was insensible and apparently dead. The gallant act was committed at great risk as the rescuer could not swim. A Prussian vessel, bound for Plymouth, with timber, is said to have been seized in the North Sea, off Yarmouth, by one or two Danish war-ships which have for a day or two been hovering about the coast. The prize has been sent to Elsinore. Application has been made to the Danish Government, through our ambassador at Copenhagen, for the release of all vessels in which British subjects have an interest, and on which the Danish Government laid an embargo on the outbreak of the war. A farmer named Terry, residing at Keighley, in Yorkshire, murdered his wife on Wednesday afternoon. Terry has been captured, and was on Friday brought before the magistrates at Keighley. He was remanded till after the inquest. The inquest was held in the afternoon, and after hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against the prisoner Terry." Mr. Superintendent Gill, in his evidence, deposed that the prisoner had confessed to having cut his wife's throat with a razor, which he afterwards threw away.