Glasgow Courier. — 1864-04-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SINGULAR ADVENTURE AT SEA. —The American ship Hiawatha, which left Cardiff laden with coal and iron some time since for New York, sprung a leak on the 18th of March, in lat. 42 N., long 35 W., and was rapidly sinking when a vessel hove in sight. The crew of the Hiawatha at once lowered their boat, abandoned the ship, and proceeded towards the strange vessel. On boarding her, the new comer was found to be a derelict brig, with only mainmast and mainyard standing and on tire. The boat with which the crew boarded the derelict was stove alongside and lost. Here was a fix. The brig was unmanageable and drifted about ; but, fortunately for the crew of the Hiawatha, the brig went ashore near St. George's, and those on board escaped. What became of the original crew of the brig is a mystery. A PERSECUTED POET .—Every person who read that the tree planted by General Garibaldi in the garden of the Poet-Latrreate had been mutilated— in fact, destroyed—by certain mad curiosity-seekers, must have felt indignant at the outrage. Mr. Tennyson, it is said, is continually exposed to the indecent intrusion of tourists and others. Strangers are found from time to time seated in his garden, peering in at his windows, and wandering freely through his grounds. From the lawn in front, when conversing with his family in assumed privacy, he has, on casually looking up, discovered an enterprising British tourist taking mental notes of his conversation from the branches of a tree above. Mr. Tennyson selected the neighbourhood of Freshwater for two reasons—its wild beauty, and its remoteness from the railway whistle, excursion steamboats, and cheap omnibuses; but he has, according to recent accounts, been compelled to make fences, raise embankments' train foliage, and, in fact, half fortify his house, to keep off the crowd, and in spite of all is not permitted to enjoy the quiet and freedom of a country home.—London Review. The passengers by the 6.15 P.M. train from Paddington to Oxford and Worcester, on Thursday, were greatly alarmed by hearing the screams of a woman and cries of "Murder" proceeding from a second-class , carriage, while travelling between Maidenhead and Twyford. in an adjoining firstclass compartment of the carriage were Mr. James Ball, of the engineer's office at Worcester, and Mr. Charles Harris, the superintendent of the Great Western Railway at Hertford, and the screams led them to signal the driver to stop. On the train being brought to a standstill, many of the passengers left the carriages, and Messrs. Ball and Harris had the door of the compartment opened from which the screams proceeded. They then saw a woman standing in a fearful state of agitation, and two men, one of whom had pinioned the other by the arms, and was preventing him from using a knife with which he had armed himself, and with which he declared he would stab the woman. The man, who was uttering loud threats, was securely strapped down, and in this state he was conveyed to Twyford Station, where he was laid on his back, and left in the custody of the station-master. It appears that the woman and the two men were strangers. The man who attempted to stab the woman is a Mr. Elton, a person of independent circumstances, residing at Worcester. He has been considered to be insane for sometime, but had not before exhibited symptoms of violence. For the past few weeks he has been visiting in London and on Thursday night was on his way home. The names of his fellowpassengers did not transpire.