Glasgow Courier. — 1864-01-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE JAPANESE QUESTION.—Intelligence has been received by the Government that, after discussions extending over three days the agents of Prince Satsuma have agreed to make immediate payment of the indemnity, and have promised in writing not to relax in active search for the murderers of Mr. Richardson, and to subject them, when discovered, to capital punishment in presence of one or more British officers.  An old man named James Luther, aged seventy. four years, was found dead in a room at the almshouse supported by Cooper's charity, at Sedgefield, on Monday last. Deceased had been missing nearly a week, and upon information being given to Sergeant Booth, he broke open the room door, and found the deceased lying dead on the floor, which was covered with blood. Upon a minute examination being made, it was found that part of deceased's body had been devoured by vermin. - - .  A lady in Sheffield was garotted about nine o'clock on Tuesday evening as she was returning from the town, and when a short distance from her home. She was followed and attacked by three men, one of whom threw his arm round her neck and held her tightly until the others broke her watch guard, and possessed themselves of both watch and chain. One of the scamps then struck her a violent blow on the face, knocking her down, and breaking several of her teeth.  The Minute of the Committee of Council on Education, dated the 19th of May, 1863, will fall with a touch of something very , like paralysis upon 4,000 endowed schools, if it should be accepted by the House of Commons. It is a last dreary chapter of the Revised Code ; it will abruptly throw off from her connection with the State schools in parishes the people in which pay taxes, and therefore have a right to a just share of Government assistance; and it will be a standing check upon the charity of persons who might be inclined hereafter to endow schools in which they have an interest. —The National Society's Monthly Paper. The Hon. and Rev. Robert Liddell met with a severe fall on the ice in Battersea-park on Tuesday last, by which his left arm was rendered totally plwerless. It was feared at first that the point of the shoulder was fractured, but Mr. Hewitt, who was called in on the following morning, was of a different opinion, though from the extensive swelling round the shoulder it is very difficult at present to ascertain the exact amount of the injury. We hear that Mr. Liddell is going on as favourably as possible.  A lady was rather smartly punished at Maryle-. bone Police Office, by Mr. Knox, on Wednesday, for what we fear is by no means a rare offence. A young woman in London wrote to Mrs. Jane Howard, a ladyliving in Taunton, the village she had come from in Somersetshire, telling her that as her husband was about to go to Dublin she wished to go into service, and asking the lady to be good enough to give her a character. The lady, in an excess of good nature, complied, and vouched for the young wor4_an's honesty, cleanliness, and general good conduct. With midi a character she got a situation, where she soon showed herself in her true colours as a thief. The lady was brought up on the charge of giving a false character, and though it was plain she had no other motive than to serve a humble neighbour, whose real character she did not know, the magistrate said it was an offence he could not pass over, and fined her £2O.