Glasgow Courier. — 1854-11-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO.  An extensive fire had occurred at Lockport. The total loos is eetimated at $55,000. Total insurance, $28,000.  At Baltimore, on the sth, the manufacturing establishment of Messrs. Knabe, Gail)le & Co., piano-forte manufacturers, was destroyed by fire. The value of the stock was estimated at jfki,ooo. Fifteen emigrants had died front ship fever on board the Anna Large, during her voyage front Bremen to Baltimore.  A disastrous accident had occurred on the Rock Island Railroad, near Minooka. Numerous persons lost their lines, and e large number were severely scalded. „ .  The yellow fever continued prevail at New-Orleans. Amongst the victims was the Lieutenant Governor. At Montgomery, Alabama, it had entirely diaappeared; Et Charleston and Savannah the authoritzes had notified that the fever had ceased an epidemic. At the United States Circuit Court • trial was proceeding against Captain James Smith, of the Julia Moulton, on the charge of having confined and detained five hundred negro., foe the purpose of making slaves of them.  At the request of Mr. Collins the carrying capacity of the boats of the Arctic, taken intolphis by the Osprey, had been tested, by their being rowed about for half-•n-hour with fifty-seren persons. chiefly sea captains, in each. The bulwarks were sixteen inches out of the water, and there mall no doubt sunongst the nautical men but that they could carry sixty persons with safety.  A woman, who was upon her tri•l at Philadelphia, had confessed to murdering fire of her children, by throwing them into a sink.  _ The first snow for the season fell at Boston on the sth.  It was expected that Sir Edmund !lead would leave Bunton for Csnad• or, the Irk, to assonte the pool of Govarnor-C•neral, and that Lord Elgin would shortly sail for England, first smiting Now-York and Washington.  The Reciprocity Bill passed the New Brunswick House a Parliament by • rnajority of fifteen. Me new Ministry heel hewn named. A break, which it would take three days to repair, had occumed In the Erie Canal.  Th. Nee- Yorh Herald says, ' Out private ad•loes enable as to state with certainty the result of the Ministerial and Ambassadorial conference recently held at Ostend, and the object of which was, it •ppeare, to determine upon a lin• of policy by whic.l our didiculties with Spain would be:adjusted, and that government be imitated to mak• repsration for past outrages and indignities upon our citizens and commerce, aa well as security for the future. The con entice nerves:oily brought up for discumion the peculiar position in which the government of the United States is pieced by the refusal of Spain to afford any suitable satisfaction for th• Black Warrior and other outrages; or, indeed, to continue liegotiathaes apon the subject. Matter, have arrived at that criele where nothing Is left for the United States but either to abandon the arh•de question, or to continue It In wanner which will afford no opportunity for farther shaming Such being the °tumors of Mew.. Buchanan, Mason, and Souls, we are not surprised to leen that they agreed to recommend that O. government of the United States should declare, In effect, that our safety demanded, and our Interests retrired, we should pi...chase or take Cuba at once. Die matter it now being deliberated upon by the Cabinet at Washington, and the country will look with deep interest to the result. Messrs. Buchanan, Meese, and /Soule have also eapreased their conviction that France and England are favourable to the sale of Cuba to the United State., a marked change haying re. eently taken place in the policy of thou* countries in this respect.'