Glasgow Courier. — 1864-01-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28.  Tug Rev. Edward Harold Browne, 8.D., Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, Canon of Exeter, Principal of the Theological College at Exeter, and Chaplain to the Bishop, has been appointed to the vacant Bishopric of Ely. Amongst his works, Professor Browne has published lectures on "The Pentateuch and the Elohistie Psalms," in answer to Bishop Coleus°.  THE King of Prussia has again resorted to the extreme measure of closing the Chamber of Deputies because it condemned the votes of the Upper House in passing the Budget. The royal will, and not the voice of the people as spoken through their representatives, is the only rule of law which seems to be known to his Prussian Majesty. In the present complication of affairs there can be little doubt of the inexpediency and folly of thus running counter to the popular wishes.  MOST persons in this country will hear with regret of the reported murder of Dr Livingstone, the celebrated African traveller and missionary. The last Cape Mail states that a rumour had reached the colony that Dr Livingstone had been murdered near Lake Nyassa. The local Ecclesiastical Court had completed the trial of Bishop Colenso for heresy, had found him guilty on nine counts, and had sentenced him to be deprived of his see, but gave him to the 4th of March in London, or to the 16th of April at Cape Town, to retract the heresies of which he was accused. Bishop Colenso denies the competency of the Court to try him, and consequently disputes the validity of the judgment.  THE Japanese difficulty is not yet got rid of. Prince Satsuma, as we more than suspected he would, refuses to pay the indemnity he promised for the murder of Mr Richardson until the British troops evacuate Yokohama. As the withdrawal of the troops formed no part of the arrangement last made with this slippery Prince, his insisting upon it is a mere dodge to evade the obligations he came under, and we may therefore regard the whole question of our relations with the Japanese as being as far from settlement as ever. The only way to compel compliance with our just demands is to have on the spot a naval and military force sufficiently strong to overawe the unscrupulous native rulers; and this appears to be the opinion of our representatives in Japan, who, by the last accounts, are described as waiting for reinforcements.  THE American advices by the Persia are of little interest. The severity of the weather has for the present rendered any military movements on a large scale impracticable, but a few skirmishes on the Rappahannock are reported. The shelling of Charleston was maintained, with results much the same as already stated. The Confederates were concentrating a large force in Texas. The only political intelligence of interest relates to the efforts making by the Republicans to secure the re-election of Mr Lincoln as President. The feeling of bittern ess against France in reference to Mexico was increasing, and a resolution has been introduced into the Senate. and by it handed to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to the effect, that if the French troops are not withdrawn by the 15th of March, it will be the duty of• the Federal Government to declare war against France. Meanwhile the French conquest of Mexico goes on bravely, and soon promises to be complete.