Glasgow Courier. — 1863-09-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ARBROATIC—The "oldest inhabitant" died on Sunday morning. She was the widow of aMr Angus WBain, road contractor, who, along with his wife, Gams to Arbroath towards the end of last century from Inverness-shire, and who constructed nearly all the turnpike roads in Angus and Mearns. Mrs 34•Bain died in her hundredth year, having survived all her own children, but she leaves behind her thirty grand-children, and a very large number of grOa4-grand-chil4ren, scattered ever all the quarters of the globe,  The Earl and Countess of Darnley have left England for the continent. George Marshall, Bethnel Green, aged 51 years, a cooper, died from prolonged starvation. The Bombay advices give the arrival of the ship Lancastrian, from Liverpool, all well, after a passage of only 78 days. American green-back bank notes are coloured with green ink, which cannot be photographed nor dislodged by alkalies. When the Persia left New York it was understood in commercial circles that the French intended to make Matamoras a free port. In a recent prosecution of an Austrian paper, the reader of the printing office was found guilty along ith the more literary and editorial criminals. The Duke of Hamilton was to leave Baden• Baden on Monday for England. His Grace enters Christ Church, Oxford, on the 20th of the ensuing month. George Hammond. dn old man, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour, the other day, by a bench of Hants Magistrates for deserting his master's ser. vice.  One peck of flax seed sown by a cottier tenant of Mrs Trotter, of Blackwatertovrn, proluced more than 11 stone of crop of good quality. —Belfast News Letter. _ . .  Luke Charles, a policeman at Bury who is alleged to have murdered his wife by drowning at Pendleton in February last, was on Monday committed to take his trial on the charge. At Middlesex, Frank Williams, a lad of 14 years of age, hanged himself by accident while, it is supposed amusing himself with a jack towel which was attached to the panel of a door. The Nord states that the University of Kief has just sent to Prince Gortschakoff the diploma of honorary member, as a mark of gratitude for all he has done to maintain the dignity of Russia. At Australia, an English sparrow without his cage, fetched Hs, rather a high price for a sparrow, although, as it is the sole survivor of 100 shipped by the importer, it will be rather dear to the buyer than profitable to the seller. Sir W. 0. Armstrong & Co. have, at their sole expense, erected a new and elegant building for the use of the Elswick Engine Works Literary and Mechanics' Institution, and the edifice was on Monday inaugurated by a soiree. The Morning Post considers that, notwithstanding the apparent success which has attended the recent military operations of the Federal Government at Charleston and in Tennessee, never perhaps since the commencement of the civil war were the prospects of the North more gloomy than at present. A great fire occurred at Oxford on Sunday morning. It originated on the premises of Messrs Grimley, Hughes, & Dewe, wholesale grocers, Corn Market Street, and spread to several adjoining houses. The destruction of property is estimated at upwards of £20,000; and we regret to add that two men lost their lives while endeavouring to check the progress of the fire. Mr Henry Cowper, a supporter of Lord Palmerston's Government, has issued an address to the electors of Tamworth. He will he opposed by Mr J. Peel, a son of the Dean of Worcester, who describes himself as an "independent" candidate, " unpledged to the unconditional support of any individual statesman," but "adhering to the prizoiplee" of the late Sir Robert Peel.