Glasgow Courier. — 1862-06-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MIDDLE LEVEL INIINDATION.—LYNN, Friday. —The dam was closed yesterday, and up to the present time has withstood the tide completely. The engineers consider it suite secure. At the adjourned meeting of the Crystal Palace Company on Friday, the chairman announced that Mr England had tendered his resignation. The report, with the exception of that part relating to Mr England, was unanimously adopted. Two of the late Mr Duncan Dunbar's fine vessels were sold on Thursday in the captains' room at Lloyd's, by direction of the Court of Chancery. The Cospatrick, 1199 tons, teak built, Al for thirteen years, was bought by Fleming & Co., of Glasgow, for £16,150; and the Albuers, 744 tons, similarly classed, for £B5OO, by Mr John Willis. Mrs Ellen Hope has presented to the National Life-boat Institution the sum of £340, in memory of her late husband, the Rev. W. F. Hope, for the purpose of enabling the institution to station a new life-boat and transporting carriage at Appledore, on the north coast of Devon, where some fearful shipwrecks take place nearly every winter. At the Central Criminal Court last week, the convict Smith, who some time ago attempted to murder one of the warders of Millbank prison, was sentenced to penal servitude for life.—Charles Tittbrook, 27, collar maker, was indicted for feloniously wounding Mary King. his grandmother. The prisoner .was also sentenced to penal servitude for life. Dr James W. C. Pennington, a well - known coloured lecturer and preacher, was on Wednesday charged before the Liverpool Magistrates with stealing a copy of Pope's translation of the " Odyssey" from a second-hand bookshop. The prisoner denied that he had taken the book at all. The case was remanded for a week. The Board of Trade Inquiry into the loss of the screw steamship Euphrosyne, on the coast of Spain, on the 15th of April last, was brought to a close on Wednesday night. Next morning, Mr Raffles said that, after carefully considering the evidence before them, the Court were compelled to declare that the Euphrosyne was lost through the neglect of the captain, and that they should forward his certificate to the Board of Trade. The value of British produce and manufactures exported to the new kingdom of Italy in the year 1861 amounted to £5,333,261, or £1,113,419 more • than in 1860, and nearly £2,000,000 in excess of 1859. The exports in this instance preponderate over the imports to an extraordinary degree, to a • sum approximating to three millions sterling, or in ' exact figures, collated from the statistics relating r to Sardinia, Tuscany, and the Two Sicilies, to _  £1,971,290. William Bowler, a letter carrier, and Edward James Smith, a letter sorter and carrier, and Edward Oram, also a letter carrier, who were convicted at the Central Criminal Court, London, last week—the two former for stealing post letters containing money, and Orem for secreting and obtaining letters to the amount of 700, were placed at the bar to receive the sentence of the Court—have been sentenced, Bowler and Smith to four years' penal servitude, and Oram to 12 months' hard labour in the House of Correction. A deputation from the operatives of Lancashire waited upon Sir Charles Wood on Thursday to present memorials for the abolition of duties on British manufactured goods imported into India. Sir Chas. Wood entered into a lengthy statement of the finances of India, He said there had been a mistake in Mr Laing's recent financial statemant, and instead of a surplus there would be a deficit of nearly £60,000. As to the reduction asked for, he answered that they could not afford to part with the duty.