Glasgow Courier. — 1861-12-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER.—At Liverpool to-day, Nancy Arrnfield was found guilty at the assizes for the wilful murder of her child, and sentenced to death.  This morning the Herrnione, from Paraiba, in the Albert Dock, was discovered to be on fire. She lied 30 bales of cotton on board. The fire was extinguished upon her being hauled into the basin, though her cabin awl the cotton were damaged. The General Stricker, from Peru to Liverpool, wrecked.  • Londonderry, Wednesday.—The schooner Maria, of Dumfries, Black, master, from Rutland to Glasgow with kelp, went ashore yesterday evening on the north shore of Lough Swilly. She will become a total wreck. Crew saved, except one boy. The meeting of the Great Western Railway was held to-day, when the report was adopted. The chairman stated that negotiations were pending with a vie ,v to effect a traffic arrangement with the Grand Trunk and the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railways. The Times says--Some of the French railway shares show some flatness, in consequence, it is said, of a report that Government will not allow the companies to issue any more obligations, a determination which will compel them to raise in shares any future additional capital they may require. The current mercantile advices from India fully support the anticipations previously expressed, that the harvest this year both in Bengal and the northwest provinces will be the finest known for a very long period. This prospect, coupled with the rise in cotton, has created general confidence. The Daily News says that in the Stock Exchange it is becoming more generally recognised that to operate till the American answer shall have arrived is not so much speculation as sheer gambling, and business has accordingly shrunk into a narrow space. An influential deputation of gentlemen connected with schools which receive the Government grant for education had an interview with Lord Granville and Mr Lowe yesterday. They stated their objections to the new minute, and petitioned for its withdrawal. Lord Granville, in his reply, entered very fully into the subject.  The following notice has been posted at the gates of the dockyard at Portsmouth by the Admiralty:—" All men who are now on leave from ships paid off, and who have been absent one month, are required to return to their respective ships immediately." The Queen has appointed the Lord Mayor, Major. General Jebb, Captain Galton, RE., and others, as Commissioners to examine into plans for embanking the Surrey side of the Thames. We understand (says the Cambridge Independent) "that a young lady of this town has sent the Prince of Wales a pair of screens, painted on cotton velvet, by her own fair hands' but w • h were very properly returned, 'with thank to the fair artist's discomfiture." Mr Noakes, the Portswood station-master on the South-Western line, was killed on Friday night. In saving a woman from being run over by the train that left London at 4 P.AI., he slipped on the rail, and his body was cut to pieces. FORTUNATE MlNERS.—Messrs Cobden, Bright,and some friends, about three years ago, purchased the Dylifte mines for the sum of £24,000, and they were bound also to lay out £lO,OOO in explorations. Their late returns have been upwards of 200 tons of lead ore pet month, which it is believed yields a profit of about £lOOO per month, and they expect now to return upwards of 250 tons per month. Mining Journal.