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Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GLASGOW COURIER, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1866.  gret at hostilities between Spain and Chili, but hopes the Government will cause the honour and dignity of Spain to be respected. Madrid, Jan. 27. —ln to-day's sitting of the Committee of the Cortes, on the address to the Queen,. Senor Casanura requested permission to bring forward a protest in favour of the temporal power of the Pope. The Ministry assented to this request. It is rumoured that the state of siege in Madrid will be raised on Tuesday next. The Politica of to-day says—Several vessels, bearing Chilian colours, have appeared oft Valencia, and given chase to some Spanish coasting brigs. It is asserted that the pursuers are not Chilian cruisers, but simply pirates under cover of the Chili= flag. St Nazaire, Jan. 29.—The Spanish Minister to Peru and the Spanish Consul at Callao are among the passengers .by the French mail packet arriving here to-day. Intelligence from Lima to the sth inst. announces that diplomatic relations have been interrupted between Spain and Peru.  Within the last few days rose trees have burst into flower in Paris.  In New York, in 1865, there were 497 deaths by murder and accident.  The wine produce of California for 1866 is estimated at 1,000,000 gallons. The young Marquis de Saffie has been killed in Paris by a fall from his horse. British subjects visiting Austria will not require their passports revised at the Austrian Embassy in London. The tobacco crop of the United States for 1865 is stated at 16'1,707,000 lb—less by more than one-half than it was in 1860.  Tbe French clerical journals announce that Dr Pusey on leaving Bordeaux proceeded to Orleans on a visit to Bishop Dupanloup. A hundred French volunteers have left Marseilles in the Aunis —a vessel which is always treading on the foot of Italy—for the Papal service. It is computed that the commerce of the American Lakes amounts at present to at least $1,200,000,000 annually, and 2000 vessels are employed in it. Her Hawaiian Majesty, Queen Emma, is deriving great benefit from her stay at Hyeres. Her Majesty is anxious to visit some of the principal Italian cities. A correspondent of the Europe states that the ladies of Paris have readopted the ancient fashion of going about the city with a mask of black velvet and lace.  A bust of itichard Cobden, presented to the town of Verviers, Belgium, by the Belgian Chamber of Commerce, was inaugurated on Saturday with great eclat. The American Government is repairing the lighthouses along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Southern States. By next summer all will probably be in order.  The King of the Belgians, it is said, intends to enrich Brusse!s, in emulation of the Haguo, with artistic treasures—a point on which his father was very indifferent.  The Duke of Coburg will shortly leave for the Caucasus, having received an invitation from the Grand Duke Michael, the governor there, who is his brother-in-law.  The losses in shipping occasioned by the recent tempests on the coast of Naples and in the roadstead of Castellamare are stated by a Neapolitan journal to amount to £BO,
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-10-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WORCESTER SAUCE.-Mr. PCITiOS, Of the tirm of Lea and Perrins, has just given £2,000 for the purpose of increasing the endowment of St. Michael's parish, Worcester!  It is rumoured that a clergyman, lately curate of one of the churches in Clifton, has renounced the communion of the English Church, and has been received into the Irvingite body. Francis Wain, who stands charged by the coroner's inquisition with the murder of Amelia, Blunt, was re-examined before the Ilford magistrates, and fully committed for trial.  Lord William Graham has announced his intention of resigning his seat for Herefordshire at the next election, and Sir Joseph Russell Bailey has consented to become a candidate for the vacancy whenever it shall take place.  The following is the number of persons which the largest churches - in Europe will --contain :—St. Peter's, Rome, 54,000; Cathedral at Milan, 37,000; St. Paul's, at London, 25,000; Ste. Sophia at Constantinople, 23,000; Notre Dame de Paris, 21,000; Cathedral of Pisa, 13,000; St. Mark of Venice, 7000, &c.  From a little pamphlet printed for private circulation we learn that Thackeray once asked Lord Clarendon for the Secretaryship to the British Legation at Washington. He was answered \ most kindly, he says, but told, first, that the place was filled up; and, secondly, that it would not be fair to give it "out of the service."  The Conservatives have accepted the challenge given on the part of the Liberals to try the strength of their principles in South Durham, and Morgan Vane, a young gentleman held in the highest esteem by the late Duke Henry of Cleveland, will, it is said, be prepared, in conjunction with Mr. Farrer, to contest the division against Mr. Pease and CaptaiP. Beaumont, at the next general election.  In the East Riding of Yorkshire there du,ens a man. of property, who from some cause or other, is in a degree emulating the chracter, immortalised by Dickens in one of his Che.stmas numbers of "All the Year Round." He lives in a large old mansion; into which no feet are allowed to encroach. His food is left for him in a shed ; and liist year's crops are out in the fields yet ; the hay rotting in cocks uncut, and the ryegrass standing in one field about 6ft. in height,  THE CONVICT Boum?, —The Pcrchester, transport vessel, left the Royal Victualling Yard, Dept-ford, on Saturday morning, to call at the convict prisons of Chatham, Portland, and Portsmouth, to embark 300 convicts for Auckland, New Zealand*. William Ronne 11 was to have gone out in the Porchester, but it is stated his stay in England is necessary in connection with the property affected by the recent .forgeries. He is at present employed in the Extension Works at Chatham, and may be. s,en daily as a common labourer, dressed6in a grey coarse' convict suit, using a spade or pickaxe,getting stone, or yoked with other convicts to a cart, 'in connection with the works now progressing for the enlargement of the Chatham Dockyard.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INDIA.  - - --The Calcutta mail has arrived, with dates from Calcutta to November 19, and from Hong-Koug to November 15.  A proclamation was issued by the Governor-General on the 12th Nov., announcing the intention of Government to annex the Bengal Dooars of Bhootan to British territory. We have nothing from Bhootan beyond the fact of the gathering of the expeditionary forces. The Bhooteas do not appear to fully realise the character of the demonstration they have provoked, and show no signs of meeting it with the hordes they are said to have collected. Some letters, said to have been written by a Captain Gatoo, addressed to the Maharajah Jung Bahadoor, have been intercepted, proposing plans for assisting the Bhooteas. They are supposed to have been written by an enemy for the purpose of implicating Gatoo. A telegram to the Englishman states that Sir Jung Bahadoor has sinee.been.arrested by the King's party at Katmandoo. _ _ _  It is said that the feud becween tl;e Deb and Dhurm Raj and the Pillos has increased, and is likely to lead to civil war.  Sir Charles Trevelyan is said b be better, and there is no immediate necessity for his proceeding to Europe. Sir Hugh Rose met with a serious accident at Meerut on the 20th inst. 'alien out hunting. In attempting to leap a stiff wall his horse struck the top of the bank and turned a complete somersault, falling on his Excellency. Sir II ugh has broken one of his ribs, but it is hoped that nothing more serious has occurred.  The -state of affairs in Affghanistan is still very unsettled, and, there seems more than a probability that there will be strife and bloodshed between the Amcor and the partisans of his brother Afzul Khan. . .  The ,Garroms are reported as having again begun to be troublesome near Goalpoora. A number of these savages broke out lately and murdered a man in one of the villages. They have set the police at defiance, but it is expected that a detachment of Gboorklias will be sent against them. Things are getting unpleasant again at Mhow, and an officer of the Inniskillings has been suspended. The tribes on the north-east frontier are becoming uneasy, and Lieutenant-Colonel llolroyd has been ordered up immediately from Seebasugur to Sadowa. Sir Hope Grant is to he the new Commander-inChief, relieving Sir Hugh in Mlrelt next, Colonel Norman is to be the Military member of Council, vice Sir Robert Napier, and is succeeded in the Military Secretariat by Colonel D. W. Stewart, the DeputyAdjutant-General. . The effects of the storm wave which flooded the country to the south of Calcutta are now being felt in the shape of a pestilential fever, which has been. fatal in many instances to Europeans, but the natives are the great sufferers,  Great devastation has been caused to life and property by storms and inundations on the Madras Coast. The Chief of Cashmere has got into trouble about the Punishments inflicted by hie dame in Cioczerae, sow
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-03-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE BOHEMIAN. PORTLAND, Feb. 24, 10 P.M.— Divers have been at work on the ~wreck of the Bohemian to-day, but could accomplish nothing owing to the heavy sea. • The hull and deck are whole, .hut the upper works are going to pieces. The ship, lies the same as before. Twenty-three mails were found to-day, supposed to be -all, except one bag for Philadelphia. The Daily .News . says—We learn on good authority that the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha has altogether failed to attain the object of his journey to Paris. The Emperor refuses to encourage., the claim of the Duke of Augnstenburg to the Du.chies of Sleswig and Holstein. The Duke of Coburg leaves Paris greatly disappointed. At their interview- the Emperor professed the most paciffe Intentions-towards Germany. • Several journals remark on the sudden disappearance _of Garibaldi from the island of Captera. The Botichaf-lir, of Vienna supposes that he has gone to join the amps .of volunteers formed at Genoa and 'Florence in spiteof the opposition of the Italian' Gcivernment ; the Austrian journal at the same 'tittle asks if ho ha's.gone there to seek another Aspromonte. On the other hand, the Movimento declares' that Garibaldi is not at Genoa.  The expenses of the Hertfordshire contest are estimated at .£14,000. The official records of the House of Commons contain an intimation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will. make his financial statement on Thursday the 7th April. _ _ _  Two serious fires occurred during Saturday night and Sunday morning, at Cardiff, one of which took place in a creosote establishment; the other being at 41-loft belongin,g to Messrs.,.,Fraqes.and Cod.. The, dadiage at both places is :very considerable, but fortunately no lives were lost in either case. A murder of a very brutal character has been perpetrated at Cambridge. On the 28th February, a 'man, disguised with a mask and cloik, made his way into a cottage in Cambridge, where two old ladips lived.: He stabbed one Of them with a knife, .broke her arm with a bludgeon, and struck the other several severe blows on the head, leaving her insensible-. On aid.ay, the 'first-named lady died. A :maps in custody on suspicion of having committed tbi iik,uman outrage, but he has not been idedatiled. - An Odd trick was play-ea...the Other day at .Puckingham Palace. On Thursday morning the police found on the'gate posts large placards containing in bold letters these words :—" These commanding premises to be let or sold, in consequence of the late occupant declining business." Of course, they were at once torn down, and the excitbment caused in Scotland Yard at this violation of the sanctity of the Royal Palace was immense. The police on duty in the neighbourhood were doubled, and every precaution was taken to prevent a repetition of this outrage ; but on Monday morning the obnoxious placard was once more posted. There has been no repetition of the affair since; and, indeed, it is almost impossible that there should be, so carefully are. the gate posts now guarded.—London Letter.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-03-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GLASGOW COURIER., TXURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1864.  /rtland,  The Dublin Evening Mail announces the death of the Rev. Dennis Brown, Dean of Early, at the age of sixty-nine. The Dundalk Harbour Commissioners are about expending £43,000 on the harbour, which will make one•oi the beat tidal ports in Ireland. Her Majesty the Queen has contributed .£5O to the fund now in course of collection for the erection of a statue to Edmund Burke in Dublin.  One-third of the whole population of Ireland above five years of age can "neither read nor write," and one-fifth of the whole, though able to read, cannot write.  The Lord Lieutenant has ordered .the visitors to the Cork Queen's College to hold an inquiry into the matters at issue between Sir Robert Kane and Dr  We are informed that Sir George tirey has intl.:mated to the Primate of Ireland that the Government had resolved not to convene the Irish Convocation. -- Record.  The trial of Thomas Walsh at Waterford, before Baron Deasy, for the murder of Thoinas Conolly, was concluded on Wednesday, and issued in the conviction of the prisoner. The convict is to be executed on the 14th of April. At the Cork Spring Assizes on Friday. the ten men convicted of having illegally practised military exercises and evolutions at Blarney on the 26th Dec. last, were put forward to receive sentence. Nine of them were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment each, and the tenth, a pensioner named Neale, to 15 months'.  On Saturday morning the purifying apparatus of the Alliance and Consumers Gas Works, Dublin, exploded with a terrific report. Several houses in the vicinity were badly shaken and considerable damage done to a large nuniber of houses by having windows broken, &c. Fortunately no . one within the works was injured, but a labouring man living in a house at the rear of the worki was hurt by the falling of his window cornice. Mr Robert Barbour, • who wag ordered by the House of Commons to be put upon. is .trial on a charge of employing corrupt means to secure his brother's election- for Lisburn in rehruary, 1863,• was acquitted on all the counts of the indictment at the Antrim assizes on Friday. The-trial of Mr J. D. Barbour was to come off on Saturday, bet it was thought that the investigation would have the same result as in the case just decided. It may he re.nem hered that, at the election of February, 1863. Mr J. D. Barbour defeated Mr Verner, but was sube quently unseated on petition. The rather unusual course of committing a witness for contempt of court was taken on Thursday by Mr Justice. Ball, at the Belfast Assizes.. A man named Liddy was examined as to his knowledge of the circumstances of a case of seduction, and amongst other questions his Lordship: asked him was he a publican. He replied in the negative, but stated that he was a sinner ; and this so offended his Lordship that he reprimanded him. The witness sharply retorted that he could not answer questions he did not understand, adding that he was incapable of doing a mean thing His Lordship at once made out a warrant, and the sheriff took the witness to prison.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-05-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INDIA.  By the arrival of the Bombay mail, we have received files of papers to the 14th ult., with dates from Calcutta to the Bth ult.  The most important news brought relates to the budget brought by Sir C. Trevelyan before the Council on the 7th ultimo. The exposition of the financial state and prospects of the country is on the whole favourable. The figures are : Actual revenue for 1862763  for 1863-64 Actual expenditure for do Estimated revenue for 1864-6  £45,140,000 44,750,000 44,720,000 46,160,000 45,340,000  „ expenditure for do. „ surplus for do. ... Opium receipts show decrease ... Deficiency on entire budget estimate Estimated cost of Sittana expedition and camp of exercise The duty on tobacco is reduced from 20 per cent. to 10 per cent. The import duty on cotton piece goods and. yarns is raised from 5 per cent. to 74 per cent., with adjustment of value to market rate of day. These are the principal features of the budget that have reached us. Economy is recommended in view of the income tax expiring in July 1865. His Excellency the Viceroy is expected to leave Calcutta, on the 15th instant. It is understood that he has only been waiting for the production of the budget. His Excellency now proceeds direct to Delhi, where he is expected to arrive on the 18th instant. There will be no camp formed; and, after a brief stay at Delhi, his Excellency will proceed direct to Simla, He will shortly be joined there by the Commander-in-Chief in India, who at latest dates was in Cashmere, and who was expected to leave it for Simla, via Lahore, about the same time that the Viceroy would leave Calcutta. The J ina.ncial Commissioners sent out from England to revise the accounts of the Public Works Department have submitted their report. The Government of India has approved in general of the reforms recommended. The Hill tribes on the N.-W. frontier are in good humour, and keep to their engagements faithfully. The Deputy-Commissioner at UMballah has committed the eleven prisoners charged with conspiracy in connection with the recent insurrection on the N. .W. frontier to stand their trial before the Session Court under sec. 121 .of the penal code. Daring highway robberies have bein committed between Deesa and Aboo. The area under cotton cultivation in the Central Provinces has increased from 439,465 acres in 1862-63, to 579,775 acres in 1863-61. A. Mahommedan, Zahoor Ali, and seventy followers, have been arrested in Central India on suspicion of being an embassy from the Hill tribes of the Peshawur frontier. Hindoostanee fanatics are roving about the hills on the N. .W. frontier, headed by three native officers who escaped from the rebellion. Bala Rao, brother of the infamous Nana Sahib, is dead. The Burney and Eyre business is settled by, the latter paying monthly instalments of half his pay as Captain until the amount of rs. (10,000) is liquidated. The Bheels are very troublesome at Indere. The Rev. Dr. Levi Janvier, American missionary at Loodianah, was murdered by an Akalee Seikh at Aniundpoor, in the Punjaub, on the 24th March.'  , .... 820,000 1,150,000  217,700
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8.  ANOTHER revolution has taken place in Madagascar. The partisans of the late King Radama have recovered the reins of power, and the Prime Minister of his Queen, who has ruled since his death, has been assassinated.  Tim British troops in New Zealand have gained an important victory over the insurgent natives, who were defeated, with the loss of 200 men; among the dead being the chief who so ably and obstinately defended the gate Pah at Tauranga in the end of April last.  THE Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Elsinore at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, and were welcomed to Denmark by the King and the royal family, who went on board the Osborne. The Prince and Princess travel under the names of Baron and Baroness Renfrew—the Scotch title of the Prince.  NEWS from China by the overland mail is to the effect that the Imperialists have captured the city of Chang-sing; and that a camp of instruction, under the charge of Colonel Gordon, late chief of the Anglo-Chinese contingent, has been formed, for the purpose of training the native troops. Nankin does not seem yet to have been recovered by the forces of the Emperor.  FRANZ MULLER, who is believed to have murdered Mr Briggs on the North London Railway on the 9th of July last, has been arrested at New York. The Victoria reached that port on the 24th of August, having been forty-one days on the passage from the Thames. The unhappy man, of course, when seized protested his innocence, and nothing appears to have transpired as to any subsequent admission of guilt on his part.  A NEW treaty between France and the Annamite Emperor has been signed. It provides for the establishment of a French protectorate in six provinces of lower Cochin-China; the opening of three ports for trade,; the concession of ground near each for a French mercantile settlement; permission to French missionaries to preach and proselytise throughout the whole kingdom; and the payment of an indemnity for war expenses of £4,000,000 sterling.  Jr appears that the Danish question is not in a fair way of being settled after all. The Kreuz Zeitung gives some reasons for believing that the Dano-G-erman Conference will not be resumed at an early date, and that if resumed another interruption will soon take place. The Danes are said to be obstinate on the financial question, and to be persuaded that they cannot lose more than they have lost already. Our Berlin contemporary observes that this last calculation is false, since Denmark might be deprived of the "already-conquered" Jutland. There is now scarcely any prospect that a definite treaty of peace can be concluded before the day fixed by the preliminaries for that being done—the 15th of September. The terms of the armistice bore, that if a treaty of peace were not signed by that date, either party might terminate the armistice on six weeks' notice. The Danish Parliament was closed on Thursday, by commission. The message of the King stated that he would convoke the Chambers for an extraordinary session, if necessary.