Glasgow Courier. — 1861-09-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FOREIGN HONOTTRS TO ENGLISEIMEN.—The University of Breslau has been conferring its honours on several Englishmen. Mi Darwin has beeen created Doctor by the Medical Faculty, in appreciation of his new History of Creation and Development; and Mr T. H. Huxley, Professor of Natural History at London, in acknowledgment of his merits in the History of Fossil Animals, and Mr J. S. Mill, in honour of his Essay on Liberty, have been nominated Honorary Doctors by the Philosophical Faculty.—The Lancet.  The shoeblacks who stud the broadways of London, in their cheerful jerseys, yellow, red, and blue, have shown the possibility of turning out well. Nine years have elapsed since this branch of labour aas introduced, and these boys, it is said, have earned about £11,950. Their united earnings for the last financial year amounted to £1,548, representing the blacking and polishing of no less than 1,119,320 pairs of boots.  A fearful crime was committed at Birmingham on Thursday evening. A person of independent means, named Farquhar, deliberately shot his housekeeper dead—no quarrel apparently having preceded the murder. It seems, however, that the relations between Farquhar and the deceased were of an intonate character, and that jealousy had taken poasesion of the man's mind. The murderer, as soon as he had shot the girl, confessed his crime to a neighbour, and he was at once taken into custody. SALE OF ADDISCOMBE AND IoiAILEYBURY.-011 Friday the sale of these well-known military and civil institutions, which produced so many distinguished men in the service of the old East India Company, took place at the Auction Mart, by the Bank of England, under the hammer of Messrs Norton, Hoggart & Trist, the auctioneers. It was stated that the property consisted of 90 acres, with the well-known residence of Lord Liverpool at Addiscombe, and its college, and 70 acres at Haileybury, with the barracks and other appurtenances. After considerable bidding both properties were declared to be bought by the British Land Company, Addiscombe being sold for £33,000, and Haileybury. for £15,200. It is understood that both estates will be converted into freehold allotments. A great fire occurred on Friday night at the extensive sugar works of Messrs Harrison & Wilson near the London Docks. The damage is estimated at £30,000. One of the workmen injured at the burning died at the London Hospital on Saturday morning, where he hail been removed. The name of the unfortunate man was John Buddle, and he, with a number of others, descended from the building by means of a rope, all other egress being cut off. Probably agitated by the perilous situation in which he found himself the poor fellow lost his hold and fell a considerable distance to the ground. Two others of the men were severely burned. The Oxford local examinations have just been held for the fourth time on the system originally established by the University. The certificates granted were 599 in all, or above 100 more than in 1860, and nearly 120 more than in 1859. The proportimiate increase, taking into consideration the number of candidates, is 6 per cent, on the numbers of 1860, and 10 per cent, on those of 1859. A. young gentleman, named Vane Jadis, formerly a clerk in the War Office, has been captured at the house of his uncle, on a charge of forging a bill of exchange for the sum of £16.5. The prisoner is confleeted with a highly respectable family, his father holding an important Government appointment in London. A