Glasgow Courier. — 1846-01-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JANUARY 17.  By the Acadia, transatlantic - ~ which reached the Mersey on Thursday morning; we have received papers from New-York to the 31st December inclusive. The Acadia left Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant. The intelligence by this conveyanceis of more than meal interest, and not so satisfactory as we could wish. Judging from the action of the Senate of the United States, and the tone of the public press, its general complexion is of a belligerent character. Elsewhere we have given a copious summary, which puts the reader in poisession of all the facts of material consequence.  We bare received advices from Buenos Ayres of the 3d November, from which we learik that Roses had become considerably apprehensive of this consequences that were  likely to follow the expedition o the allied powers to open up the navigation of the Paratuay. Great preparations were made to resist the passage ilpwards, but it was thought they would be rendered abort* so soon as the steamers could be brought to share in the operations. The expedition was regarded as a skilful mivement on the part of the allies. It placed the dictator in the unpopular position of being the only impediment to ;he free navigation of the Paraguay and the unrestricted Intercourse with foreigners. It was calculated to excite a ft-cling of hostility towards him, which, if allowed to obtai head, would in its eonsequences go far to lessen his influence and subvert his authority. We find the following intimatins in the Standard of Wednesday evening : There is no truth in the statement that Lord Canning is about to succeed Lord Metcalfe as Governor-General of Canada. We have every reason to believe that it has been proposed to Lord Cathcart to succeed Lord Metcalfe, and thus unite in the same hands the civil and military government of Canada. The report of Lord Granville Somerset's retirement from office is altogether without foundation. The Earl of Vernlam and the Earl of Harewood will attend at the first Council, to be sworn in as LordLieutenants of Hertfordshire and the West Riding of Yorl,o-' respectively.  The effects of collision are very remarkable in both the moral and physical world. othing, apparently, can be less inflammable than two pieces of flint, but if they be struck together the result is the separation of a splinter in a state of intense ignition, and the evolution of light and heat. Let them alone and for ages they might remain the masses cif inert matter whiclt_they look likeand which they literally are. It is the atision tita- produces the phenomena. The rapid and violent motion of their particles extricates heat, and an incombustible body is ignited. It is tke same with men. Let their interests or their pursuits ---bc identical and they may, nd probably will, pass their lives in mutual serenity and eacc; but when these differ their passions are evolved, tlry chafe and fret, and if they come into contact they quarrel and fight. No illustrations of this propensity are needed. You may see it exemplified by any two urchins who meet Roil do battle with each other on the street. It is an instinct, seeraingly,of humanity, and would almost justify the theory of iHobbes; but in no country in the world is it displayed on ro universal a scale as in Ireland. There the rule is, to 'quarrel about anything or nothing—the exception is, to observe the peace. The Celtic tribes generally are irrascible, and the perferidton ingeniurn Scotorm has passed into a proverb; but there is something contagious about the habit, arid a Saxo-Hibernian is as prone to indulge in the practice oicontention as his purely Gallic neighbour. It is a land of s,rife, and talk, and noise, and a special miracle would be required to make it otherwise. LI Elsewhere people are conte ed with ass occasional exhibition of pugnacity—it varies he scene and helps to chequer the monotony of life; but ' Ireland it is a luxury as essential to comfortable existenc as light and heat, and there its necessity is most ingeniousl justified by every conceivable mode and form of combat—from the wordy logomachies of Conciliation Hall to the last Tipperary murder. n These refleximus have ben suggested by the publication of a manifesto by a new p 'Heal society to be called the "Irish Party." This doe ent is signed by the Earl of Roden, and countersigned by Mr. Somerset Maxwell; and sets forth the grievances under wide]) they, and their friends, suppose themselves to lie. These are amusing Flo*, and are only los because leas dsnger.  biactiloss,