Glasgow Courier. — 1863-11-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HISTORICUS " DETECT& 'I  FAILITB,E OF THE AGAPEHONE.  The Agapemone, the Abode of Live, is, we are delighted to hear on the authority of a local journal, doing by no means well. Mi.liotawan Morally, for we ;hould not take the trouble to record SO obvious a truism. The great fact is that Sniffier .Piince has lILI longer, it would seem, a large balatice at his banker's. Mr. Carlyle has said that bankruptcy is the true Nemesis. Mr- Prince has been fond of a good table, not averse to generous wines, and much given to keeping a large staid, _Tke tine of enforced retrenchment has at length come. Ugly stories are flying about the country of women caged in this Somersetshire seraglio who have gone mad; but a "prophet' could afford to disregard these vulgar rumours, and it might indeed •iri fairly pleaded that sueh insanity was not occasioned in the Agapeinone, but was proved by the very fact of the tient entering it. Shorn,. however, ef. hie former splendour, arrived at the shabby-genteel stage of religious imposition—reduced, so to speak., to half-rations—the position of a Don Juan plus Stigma :can scarcely be a pleasant one. It is cheering to reflect that thdPdays of the Agapemone are numbered, and that its course is almost run. It is infinitely better that it should expire of inanition than that it should have been swept away from the face of the earth by any sudden outburst of popular indignation. The law must not be strained, however sore and grievous nifty be the provocation. We really think that Mr. Prince will soon have to leave Somersetshire. Wherever he goes, a man of his undeniable ability will be able tO obtain a livelihood, but it is possible that his remaining career will be of an humbler character. As a prophet and as a landlord, he seenis to have come to the end of his tether. We could wish that it had not been to long; but we shall wait, with a hopeful anxiety, the tidings that his house of remarkable ill-fame has been finally broken up ; that its inmates have either returned to their friends, or have been safely placed in Hanwell ; and that the " proph!t" himself has been compelled to seek a living in a different way. The vagaries of the man's dupes have made the Agapemone somewhat of a nuisance, as well as a scandalLet us rejoice to hear that it is not likely to exist much longer.— Telegraph.  The adjourned inquest on the body of the farmer who meth is death from two farm labourers (brothers), was concluded at Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, on Saturday. The deceased and his nephew were walking in their field on a Sunday evening, when they met the labourers, and some words and blows ensued. The deceased charged one with having kicked him, and there was evidence that the other attempted to hold his brother back. Both prisoners were committed on the capital charge by the magistrates ; the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against one only.  Lord Llanover appears to be fond of squabbling. The dress of the Monmouthshire Volunteers has furnished him with another opportunity for displaying this propensity He gave certain authorities of the Monmouthshire Volunteers leave to decide on a uniform colour for the dress of their battalions, gray or green, but added that if they were not unanimous he should himself decide on the county colour. UnanimitY did not prevail, so in this difference of opinion the lord-lieutenant announced that be desired the Monmouthshire Volunteers to be dressed in green. Against this decision an active and energetic remonstrance has been -mad e.by those who have supported the battalions both by giving their time and their mohey. The discussion waxes warmer, and the lord-lieutenant seems determined to continue his uncourteous oondubt: 'Considering the Radical nature of the noble lord's .politics, one would have, thought his ultra-liberal opinions would hiive overcome the sternness of his judgment.  One of the New Zealand chiefs is said to have pro perty to the value of £50,000. Another in said to derive £l,OOO a-year from the rental of land.