Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SELLING IT.—The Marchioness of Ely offered to sell her house to Mr. Chinnock for .EIO,OOO, but she afterwards changed her mind and asked him to withdraw his offer to take it. lie would not do so, and her Ladyship's solicitor then imposed certain conditions which he objected to, and he filed a bill in Chancery for specific performance of the agreement. The Vice-Chaacellor held that her Ladyship must sell Mr. Chinnack her house.  King Theodore, we learn, on the reeeipt of her Majesty the Queen's letter, delivered to him by Mr. ltassam, relative to the release of the European gentlemen confined in Abyssinia, remarked that "Kings nuls,t to write to Kings, but no subordinates" (Gvernors;. He, however, immediately ordered ttie reiease of the European gentlemen, 4114 loaded them with presents. Her -Majesty% steamer Pantaloon will probably b:lng back the Abyssinia mission to Aden.  A good story is going the rotted Of the West-End Clubs. It appears that a populer Aobleman, remarkable for his neatness ia 4;354, wes travelling last week by rail from e sheeting excursien, and feeling cold ordered the porter to get the hot water apparatus ready; it did not occur to this member el the upper ten thousand that the seles of his hoot; were made of gutta-percba, nor waa he aware of it until he awoke and found himself glued ta the tin warmer. The assistance of the porters TM called in to extricate his poor feet from 004 prison. A few e\--euings since a drama of the Duke de Moray's was played at Compiegne in the preaenee of the Court. It is entitled "Les Fineasea ;Pun Mari." The hero and heroige—that is la say the most objectionable characters —I the piece are a husband and wife who deceive each other, and each of whom tries, hy means of "the detectives," to find out somethiug that will leave the apposite party room to throw it stone.. The incidents are of such a kind thet It; Cotifit they have bean tomod ‘ situations scaltecuses,t'• and the witticiams enough to make a Captain of Hussars heeltate hefore giving utterance to them. The Eseparo; did not know exactly what kind of a play the President of the Legislative Assembly had compose, until it was played before him. On seeing it he coma.. ed the greatest displeasure, and ordered tlukt it should be forthw4 erased from the rtlpertoiu, bn the Ist ins, more innocent tableaux vive,z4,-, were acted. One subiect was "The Sleeping ili.nuty in the Wood." The Marquis of Gallifet was ;he Qlaktelaine, and the pretty Countess Pourtales the Sleeping Prille3:4. lieretiles spinning at o,mphale's feet was introduced lb° same night, end when this tcadean was disposed of the Countess IYalowska appeared attired as a Cauchoise, The undergraduate* at Cumbsidge have been amused duting the lust we lay a very successful practical joke Pined upon a fresh man, who having met with more ridicule from certain janiors in his college than he corieeived it consistent with his dignity to put up with, appears to have been persuaded to "call mit" a man, whom he believed to be the rinlea4er of the jokers, and to have appointed ; meetleg. at Shelford with long "saloon" pistols, early on the 28th ult. 11;$ p.;inc4pals and seconds accordingly met at the time Atka place appointed, be a rel and deadly combat, and having made every preparatiou for the most terrible roult wkich it could hoauvrehfe;o fu r himself. lii 7 sr °lai a also desirous whether he survived the eembet oe not he should be aeoure from the guilt ahomieide, and begged that 40, bullet should be put in his own pistol, hu he was informed that such a course would he a violation of the laws of duelling not to t be thought of. The farce was seriously played out till the two men, had each snapped a cap at the other, when the challenger perceived that he was the 'victim of one wore practical Joke, awl left to pond itet & utua conccrte4,  The Plaistow murder case is postponed till next sessions.  Miss Horsfall, the pretended heiress, has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for swindling.  At the York Assizes, on Monday, a married woman, named Ann Wilson, who had been deserted by her husband, was tried for the wilful murder of her infant son, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Last week an aged horse, belonging to Mr. Robert Nicholas, of Staveley, was in the field lying down, when a boar, astray, got into the field and set upon and worried the animal, which had afterwards to be killed on the spot.