Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.—It is saiki that her Majesty will open Parliament in person.—Court Journal.  Alice Wilson, convicted at the York Assizes of the murder of her child, .near Ho wden, has been reprieved. Her sentence will therefore be commuted into penal servitude for life. On Wednesday, the London, Chatham, and Dover, Railway commenced running trains across their bridge at Blackfriars, London, into their new sta: tion at Ludgate Hill. A proposal has been started in Yorkshire to erect a memorial to the late Earl of Carlisle. A site is suggested at Slingsby Banks, a prominent situation between Malton and Castle Howard.  John Cutting, one of the platelayers injured in the Blackheath Tunnel accident, died on Thursday. This is the seventh death caused by injuries received in that accident.  A large cinerary urn, filled with bones and charcoal, a quantity of flints, and other remains, have been found in the grounds of the Rectory, Darley Dale, Derbyshire.  An up parcels train from Bristol ran into a .goods train at Slough, smashing some vans and blocking the line for a short time. No one was injured. A mistake at the points is stated to be the cause of the collision. The Ashton Town Council have resolved to borrow £lB,OOO additional from the Treasury, under the Public Works Act. The money will be applied in the construction and laying out of a cemetery at Dukinfield.  On Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. Canon Fawcett, a clergyman, well known and widely esteemed in the West Riding, died suddenly while visiting his parishioners at Low Moor, near Bradford. He had been incumbent of Low Moor for more than 30 years. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was the scene of a collision, near the West Houghton Station, on Tuesday night. A passenger train ran into a lot of coal waggons, smashing some of them to pieces, and severely shaking several persons who were in the train.  The late Mrs. Hill Morgan, of Cheltenham, has bequeathed the magnificent sum of £lO,OOO for the erection of a new church at Coventry, and £2,000 as a fund, the interest of which is to be employed annually in the relief of the poor of the district in which such church is situate.  A frightful accident occurred at Hartlepool on Thursday. During the morning, a number of workmen were engaged in raising the segment of a large fly-wheel, at the new rolling mills in course of erection there, when the crane fell over with a fearful crash. One man was killed on the spot, another was so injured that he died in a few hours, and six others were more or less seriously injured.  Considerable astonishment has been excited in the club world by the fact that Mr. W. H. Russell, the noted Crimean correspondent of the Times, has joined the Junior Carlton Club. The circumstance is not of any political importance, but it is, nevertheless, considered cuiious, to say the least of it, since Mr. Russell always professed to be a staunch Liberal.  A man named Glynn, a factory operative, aged twenty-nine, was tried at Leeds on Wednesday, for a murder committed at Otley nine years since. The charge was supported by the testimony of a witness who said he had seen the whole affair, but had kept it quiet till a few months back. Beyond this the evidence was slight and apparently unreliable, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. Acting upon an intimation from the Government, the railway companies are said to have appointed a committee of their managers to consider the best method of establishing a communication between railway passengers and guards. It is stated that upwards of 200 persons have sent in plans for effecting this object, "none of which, however," the Daily News informs us, "has given entire satisfaction."