Glasgow Courier. — 1862-01-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CHOWS COLLECTION. —On Sunday forearm a i dio art:Dr Onibrie, of Edinburgh, preached in tim fir por ti; =mg o:;rf , it,: tr.: iota: with t 441_11_00 sein filllrell put 9( the church .0= ela°oomess lb. ii sum of £llOO. We imderstand that it I. contemplated by several influential parties in the Free Church to propose the Rev. Dr Candlitit es Mammary Principal of the New CALM*, in room ottibt .- UM Weal* Cunningham. In the mend 0 De usswein eadhaing Ibis hensur, it is believed that ths_Rev. Dr Awes Buelmasa, Ibis senior rrofemor in the Illirm Aerie. will be nominees& for the Priaoipslabip, We bikers it is also in osidemplation to proponutbs lev. Robert Rainy, of the Free High Cbareli, taloa meant Professorship.— Wilies. Guam, lossonerraleir Isanigurs Asi:=l. —The ninth as mu* tisseefes if lisis of this essosniten wasfmahl In the MU, Nairliggia ma Itasday el' lesi--Mr Jan If`Key la eituenar,„ Ma saaaa.. in • lean egined wnh4bouprayneriubywhllisitelerusksocietlfry gVI dirtunV. isa=gonsad the annual rapist which had lasearerze4=the year. Mr flip tsar elm, statement, w Amid a considerable letruillii ),,,T &let 01 The deatinary inn a •••• .3 •- - • vita. _ `•, the essiatalass of friends. '..1107 bad been nificence. pore es their Work, and redoes it to •thimit II lk where the Kelvin discharge' , channel '''th rePorta having bug unanimously adopted, the only in-inl . at low water and 441 n. at high • office-bearers for next yew were appointed. Its course, far below Dumbarton, abounded' _ ----••• --= Great distrees now prevails in Blackburn, in con. low lagoons, interspersed with low islets and marsh' sequence of the scarcity of employment. ground. by judicious engineering operation*, spree; Archibald Campbell, Esq., of Blythswood, has over a series of years, accompanied with an enormou very kindly sent to the Rev. Robt. Stephen, minister expenditure of capital, it is now as navigable as th of Renfrew, £lO for wale to the poor, and £5 to be Thames. In fact, by dint of dredging, cutting, ex given in stuns of money to the most necessitous. cavating, and embanking, to the tune of about Mni Campbell has also, during the last week, most million and a half sterling, the navigable depth c generously distributed among the poor clothing to the river has been increased within the last 50 or 4 the value of £6O. years from a feet to 20 feet, and the revenue trot 811" ow ABLE CHAR/TIM —With his usual attan- £3OOO to £90,000 per annum.. The Broomielaw hal tion to the needy, grje Jaws Ferguson, Bert., M.P., boor is at this moment practically nothing less the has authorised supplies of coals to the poor half a mile of excellent docks—we need not say ho' in this and other ' —lOO creeds for Maybole, crowded ; and the contrast is, indeed, great betwee laxeles 100 for Crosehill, 100 or tiailly, £3 to fitraiton, a the small fishing sloope and Virginia traders whic to Kirkoswaki, and £3 to Barr. This is truly praise- once unloaded their treasures on the same spot whei worthy, and no doubt several of the vartoandfmg now floate the gigantic iron steamerandthensertinur gentry will follow with their usual grants, for durinis man of 2000 tons, which constitute the honest an these cold nights opals an indeed a most desirable 4107 of the Clyde.—Builder. [Our oot eentoodiey, gslifist have said " a mile and a quarter of dole." tir -- • •   stated on * Comber, . ish M issio n„ granted to the _ missionary at D, murdered during the insurrection ._. Lebanon. The indemnity from the Chinese Goverment for commercial losses is at length about to he distrihnted, to the extent of admitted losses, among the claimants, on the terms arranged by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with their representatives in London—viz., one-helf in cash, and the otber half in r. warrant P&Y" 41*--20.211ta1/4  41. g:!