Glasgow Courier. — 1861-10-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SHOCKING DEATH OF CAPTAIN DURANT. —Captain Durant was suffocated in a dike at Ramsgate in the marshes adjoining the Sandwich Road. It appears that he arrived at Ramsgate from Herne Bay, and put up at the Royal Hotel. On Sunday morning he was seen on the Ramsgate sands, apparently very much the worse for liquor. He was walking up to his knees in the water, with his boots on. He then returned to the hotel, changed his boots, and proceeded to the Roman Catholic chapel, where his conduct was such as to cause great annoyance to the congregation, and he was forcibly ejected. He subsequently hired a boy and a pony-Chaise to take him for a drive. After proceeding to the Salt Pond, on the Sandwich Road, he left the chaise in care of the boy, and set off on a ramble among the dikes. Nothing appears to be known of his subsequent movements, except that some time afterwards he was found dead in a dike.  The police have now secured all the men supposed to have been concerned in the murder of Mr Baggot, at Bilston.  . Mr Lawrence Oliphant, Secretary of Legation, Ap Japan, has been invalided, in consequence of hap wounds, and is now on his way home. The marriage of Viscount Sandon, and Lady Mary Frances Cecil, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Exeter, took place on Thursday at St. George's, Grosvenor Square. We are happy to learn that the Earl of Gifford, M.P., is recovering from the severe illness which has for the last few weeks confined him altogether to the house.  The London Gazette notifies the appointment of Earl Clarendon as her Majesty's Ambassador-Extraordinary to the King of Prussia on the occasion of his Majesty's coronation. The Board of Trade has suspended the certificate of competency of John Love Timon, late mate of theChebucto, for six months, on account of drunkenness on two occasions, when the ship was leaving London, and again-when she quitted Jamaica. The London Gazette contains an edict by the Papal Government, for the free importation of corn, and meal, and olive oil, but prohibiting the export of olive oil, as also provisions. Also, a Portuguese decree, admitting grain at the same duty as national' grain. The Spanish Government has extended the privilege of exporting Spanish lead to the steamers of all nations.  Lord Monck, the new Govemor-Generalof Canada, will take his departure for Quebec by the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's steamer North Briton, which sails from Liverpool on the 10th inst. Lor,l Monck, together with a numerous suite, will join the steamer at Londonderry, at which place the steamer touches the day following her departure from Liverpool. A highly-influential meeting was {held at the Mansion House on Wednesday, to promote the movement for placing the metropolitan evening classes for young men upon a collegiate footing, under the-designation of the City of Loudon College. The Lord Mayor presided. Resolutions in favour of the objects of the meeting were adopted, and subscriptions amounting to upwards of £l,OOO were announced.  A man, his wife, and another woman, and her child, were suffocated on Thursday, near Harwich, by the sulphurous fumes from a factory adjoining their house.  On Thursday the premises of Chadwick & Taylor, cotton waste dealers, in Old Factory Yard, Shudehill, Manchester, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at X 16,000. . .  W