Glasgow Courier. — 1846-09-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  At Mark. Lane on Monday the price of wheat rose from 4s. to its, a qr. over the currency of the previous Monday. The Great Western again sails from Liverpool for NewYork on Saturday next. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Cambria sailed from Liverpool on Friday for Halifax and Boston, carrying Out a large number of passengers. The Earl of Lincoln has let his splendid seat, Ranby Hall, near East Rctford, which his Lordship inherited from the late Dowager-Duchers of Newcastle, to Charlgs Borstal% Esq. of Liverpool. The noble Lord, it is understood, has determined to break up his establishment in that county. Lord Nonnanby left .Paris on Thursday for the waters of Vichy. The King of Sweden has lately had the measles, and the 1 Queen, who would not quit his Majestes bed-room, was also attacked. The disorder was very mild, and there was no reason to be under any apprehension. The King and Queen are on a tour from Stockholm into Norway. , A young married "Princess," daughter of an ex-King, eloped from Paris on Wednesday night with &Dutch painter. —Dienes. The Prince of Wales, while the Queen and Prince Albert were on shore at Guernsey, caught a great eel, but being unable to haul it on board, had to shout for assistance from one of the crew; and on the circumstance being told to her Majesty and Prince Albert on their return, orders were given for its being dressed for dinner, which was accordingly done. This is the first placatory achievement of his Royal Highness. Miss Strickland, in a published letter, charges Lord Campbell with having concocted his life of "The Lady Keeper,' in his" Lives of the Chancellors," by wholesale pillage, from her "Lives of the Queens of England," without acknowledgment.  A tea-party at Bristol has been poisoned by drinking from a pot in which &packet of fly-poison had been put to be out of the way of the children, and forgotten; the poison was a preparation of arsenic. Fortunately, medical aid prevented fatal consequences. Relowentation of North Leiresterphire.—lt is understood that at the next general election Lord Charles Manners will resign the representation of the northern division of this county, in favour of his nephew, the Marquis of Granby. This will create n vacancy in the borough of Stamford, which will be filled by Lord John Manners, who will leave Newark, for which borough the succeeding candidate will be John Henry Manners Sutton, Esq., of Kelhana Hall.— Pest. Within these last few weeks, property, which it is conjectured may y ield little less than £lOO,OOO, hasbeen bequeathed to found a University in Manchester. To this sum it is expected another £lOO,OOO will be added by public contribution. and in a few N.... 7. ManebrAtpr. VIVIN DOen.IN 11. which, while not inferior to any existing establishment in its means of general education, will at once take, as regards Qr. 41.r:walled po3ition.—Combridge Acfeertiter.  Murder ofa Roman C'atholie Bishop.—The Marian Watson, i from the South Sea Islands, brings the melancholy intelligence of the murder of Bishop Epaille by the natives of the island of Isabel.—Parix Paper. On Thursday a female passenger on board the steamer William Joliffe, from London to Yarmouth, was safely delivered of an infant, a well-known medical member of Parliament acting as doctor and midwife on the occasion. A comparison of the prices of the various kinds of fruit in Covent Garden market for the last week in August of the past and of the present year, shows that in 1846 the price Was nearly doubled in every ease. Eject of Shot upon Steam Veesels.—A party of noblemen and gentlemen, and officers of the naval and military service, attended a few days ago upon the Woolwich marshes to witness the experiments upon a target representing a section of a war steam-vessel's side, lined with the patent " Ramptulicon" composition, invented by Lieutenant Walter, of the Royal Marines, a gentlenian who fur some time past has been endeavouring to surmount the difficulties which present themselves in constructing steam-vessels for the purposes of war. The trials were very satisfactory. The aperture made by the shot immediately collapsed, proving that a vessel lined with the composition would be water-tight, even if the enemy's shot were to penetrate both sides. A further trial, however,seems necessary, with two targets instead of one, in order to prove practically all the advantages of the composition. . .  He censures God who quarrels with the imperfections of man.—Burke.