Glasgow Courier. — 1847-05-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND. The Globe informs us that Mr. Wordsworth, " who fills the post of poet-laureate, has been directed to write an ode' for the installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge. The ceremonial is to take place in July next, and the laureate's ode will be set to music by Professor Walmsley. Extraordinary IWO Price of Wheat—At the Windsor market, on Saturday last, some singularly fine samples of wheat realised the enormous sum of £3l per load. A similar price was also obtained for wheat at Uxbridge market on the preceding Thursday. At Chertsey May fair, which was field on Friday last, the price of wheat ranged from £27 10s. to £3O 10s. per load. Several buyers from London attended Uxbridge market and Chertsey, who refused to make any purchases in consequence of the advanced prices. Grain in the Country—Eye, May 14.—A calculation has this week been made in this parish of the quantity of wheat ' held only by farmers, also of the population. It appears we have about twenty-six hundred souls to provide bread-stuff for: taking twelve or thirteen weeks' consumption till we have new wheat, and allowing per head half a stone of flour per week, we have plenty of wheat—about six or seven hundred coombe—for sale. In the parish of Thorndon, it is stated that one farmer has more wheat than will suffice up to harvest—taking the longest time, thirteen weeks—for the whale parish, consisting of more than eight hundred souls, allowing each half a stone of flour per week. The same is the case in many other parishes in the Hundred of Hartismere and many other Hundreds. As to the cry of famine, and the alarm raised that we shall not have wheat enough up to harvest—it is "all my eye and Betty Martin."— Suffolk Chronicle.—[We have received a communication this morning by which we are informed that there is a sufficient stock of grain in the bands of the farmers within ten miles round Boston, in Lincolnshire (exclusive of what is in warehouse) to supply the inhabitants of that district for four months].—Mark Lane kxpress. There are accounts from Sydney, Australia, of Feb. 4. The great scarcity of labour in the colony was still a subject of complaint, and some of the agriculturists had been sufferers in consequence. One party is said to have lost 600 bushels of grain and 25 acres of hay owing to the want of hands, for whom £1 Is. per week and rations were offered. The season was remarkably fine for "melting down,". owing to the abundance of water; and the colonists, bearing Orthe failure in the potato crops in Europe, and the probable dearness of meat, seemed inclined again to try the experiment of preserving the choicest parts of the sheep and oxen for exportation to England. It is calculated that an immense quantity could be sent, and that at a moderate calculation, supposing the article could be so prepared as to meet a fair sale, there would be a profit of 2d to 3d. per lb. Even one-third of this amount, however, would pay well. A Ship Sunk, and the Captain and Oitcere Murdered by the Crew.—Letters were on Saturday received from Launceston, communicating the particulars of the sinking of the ship Prima Donna, and the murder of the Commander, Captain Jones, and his officers, by the crew. The vessel, it appears called at Lowbock for water and rice, being bound from China to Hobart-Town and England. In the latter part of December last the Prima Donna's long-boat, containing fourteen of the crew (all Manilla men) arrived at the port of Ball, in the Java seas—the ship, according to their statement, having foundered south of Java, and the captain and his officers had perished. Subsequently, when questioned more fully as to their fate, their statements differed so widely that no reasonohle doubt can be entertained but that they were cruelly murdered and the ship plundered and sunk. The whole of the crew have been placed under arrest, and search is being made into the locality where the ship is said to have been scuttled for the remains of the captain and officers. It was expected several would divulge the circumstances. The ship and cargo were valued at £B,