Glasgow Courier. — 1846-10-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EMILAND.  - The Beeret.—There is no longer any doubt—so, at least, we have been confidently assured—of a brevet taking place this year; but it will be upon a scale much more limited than was'originally anticipated, and exclude the majority of tho colonels of 1837, the list of whom is too long to admit of their entire number being selected for it—United Service Casette. We understand that Colonel Sir James Dennis, K.C.8., now of the Buffs, is likely to succeed to the appointment of Inspecting Field Officer -of the Bristol Recruiting District, in succession to the late Lord John Somerset.—lbid. Sir Henry Pottinger, CB., the newly appointed GovernorGeneral of the Cape of Good Hope, as summer to Sir Peregrine Maitland, takes his departure immediately for thitlo destination, in her Majesty's steam-ship Sidon, Captain Henderson, now lying off Woolwich Dockyard. dotifliampton, Oct. 14.—The Oriental Company's steamship Achilles, Capt. Wilson, arrived in the Docks early this morning, and landed 21 passengers, she having previously forwarded to London the mails rid railway, yesterday. The Achilles left Malta on the 30th September, and Gibraltar, on the 7th inst. She has a valuable cargo of silks, &c. The Royal West India Mail Packet, the Dee, will take out the West India Mails on the 17th; she is quite full of passengers and several new cabins have been erected for their accommodation The Peninsular Company's steamer, the Madrid, will leave for Gibraltar with mails on Saturday, and usual number of passengers. The Queen, with the home-bound mails from the Peninsula and other places, may be expected on or about Sunday. Health of London—Our readers will have observed that since the cessation of the intense heat which prevailed in August, the weekly deaths in the metropolis have steadily declined, and have fallen below the averages. We this week pass from the summer into the autumn average, and the influence of a change of season will be here manifested. The weekly summer are to the weekly autumnal deaths as 868 to 1000. Diseases of the brain and nervous system appear to be now most prevalent and fatal. Contagious and epidemic diseases are reduced below the averages. The deaths from diarrhcea and typhus, taken individually, are above the autumnal average; but then small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, and hooping-cough are considerably below the average. It speaks well for the extended influence of vaccination, when, out of a population of nearly two millions, there were only three deaths from small-pox during the week, and these occurred in infants. Diseases of the organs of respiration have also just now been less than their average fatality.—Medical Times. Murder in Cornwall.—A brutal murder has been committed on a man named Samuel Hockin, a cooper, at St. Mabyn, in Cornwall. He was found on Saturday morning lastlybig in the road near St: Mabyn, and on being lifted up breathed once and immediately expired. Upon being examined, it was discovered that he bad been struck on the back part of the head by a heavy instrument, which had broken the skull, so that the brain protruded. Suspicion fell upon a woman named Ann Treverton, with whom the deceased had cohabited, and she has been taken into custody. A large stone had been discovered near where the deceased was found. An inquest was held on the body before Joseph Hambly, Esq., coroner, on Saturday last, which was adjourned till Tuesday.—Standard. Curious Fact in Natural History.—lt would scarcely be credited, but we have ourselves been witnesses to the fact, of a spider having descended from the ceiling of the shop of Messrs. Harris & Bowers, in Mealcheapeu Street, and taken up a pea out a bowl of dried peas, which happened to be placed under the spider's domicile. The fly-destroying insect must have first glutenised the pea, and then ascended, on a slender fibre, leaving some second one connected with it. The spider is now gradually drawing up the pea, at the rate of an inch or two a-day, and whether or not he contemplates a tureen of pea-soup, of course we cannot say; but we should reckon he will find it rather harder of digestion than the flies he has been in thelabit of preying upon. Messrs. Harris & Bowers hold the aforesaid spider and his handywork as sacred from vulgar touch, but are very civil in showing this extraordinary feat to all inquirers.— Worcestershire Chronicle. At the Smithy, near Mollington Railway station, there is a pear tree, which has this year blossomed and borne fruit five distinct times, and the produce of each separate bearing was on the tree at one period. The fifth crop was stunted and withered, but the rest were all healthy fruit.  habit i