The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-01-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SEPT EMBER. the building of upwards of 100 ships of war • a. .. Our ..,. ..1:1 - News from the United States indicate that a change has fercnt arsenals, among which there are no less than come over the spirit of President Polk's dream. Be is 35 seam frigates, now " pantinaor peace—and for pence with Mexico." The House of Commons gives its final deliverance on The French Chamber of Peers find the would-be regithe Coen Bill, and votes the third reading by a majority ride, Henri, guilty of an attempt on the person of the of 98—the numbers being 327 to 2253, King, and sentenced him to "hard labour for life." Lord Dudley Stuart is entertained to a magnificent A difference takes place between Lord Lyndhurst and banquet in London by the friends of Poland—Lord Sir Robert Peel. An explanation follows—and Sir Robert i hiorpeth in the chair, comes out of the affair scathless. Strong evidences of dsanion smong the old Tory party. The members and supporters of the Free Church in Edinburgh lay the foundation stone of a monument to Parliament is prorogued by Commission. The speech John Knox. from the throne is praised by the friends of government , for its brevity, candour, and the absence of anything like 27. Mr O'Connell, on the suggestion of Lord John humbug, Russell, gives notice that he shall move for the dis- A charge of extensive forgery is made against the chaircharge of Mr Smith O'Brien from the "cellar" of the man of a Railway Company. He is brought before Al. Horse of Commons. derman Musgrove, at the Mansion House, London, and News from India informs us that the British troops remanded. find in Lahore, from 90 to 100 pieces of ordnance be. A Colonel in the army charged with uttering forged notes commits suicide. yond what was expected. The Sikhs in and around the At the seventeenth half-yearly, General Meeting of the capital are tranquil enough, but turmoils arise in the Shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Jhelum. the existing Board of Directors is overturned by a body Several mines of coals are discovered in Upper representing the English Shareholders headed by Mr Egypt, equal to the best coals in Scotland. The learned Cheetham. men of Europe previously pronounced that, owing to O'Connell at the weekly meeting of the Repeal Assothe nature of the soil, coal could not exist in Egypt. elation insists upon the members giving earnest attention Prince Albert signifies his intention of visiting Liver- to the Registry. pool. Shawl printing very busy in Paisley. A row takes place at the London Opera House, in 9. A Grand Corporation Dinner takes place in Glasconsequence of the absence of some of the principal per- gow, "to mark the changes which the recently enacted formers. Municipal and Police Bill is about to effect in the local Mr Fielden's motion for alO Hours' Bill for facto- government of that city." The harvest in the Vale of Clyde and over Scotland is ries, is defeated in the House of Commons by a small brought to a close. majority. A complete Operatic Company with band and chorus appear at the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow. The circumstance is referred to in the newspapers as " a great era in the musical history of that town." The Annual General Meeting of the Highland and Agricultural Society is held at Inverness. The prises for stock are gained chiefly by parties from the north. The simultaneous marriages of the Queen of Spain with Don Francisco d' Moils, and of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier, occupy the attention of the public journals. The former of these transactions gives satisfaction to the great majority of the Spanish nation—the latter is looked upon with the opposite feeling. The "Cholera" commits fearful ravages in India. The Times newspaper lays bare a nefarious conspiracy, for which an action for libel is raiseclagainst the proprietors. The Times is triumphant, and the proprietors are entertained to a public dinner—the Lord Mayor of London in the chair. Miss Strickland, author of "Lives of the Queens of England," brings a charge of plagiarism against Lord Campbell. The Chevalier, Abbe Stewart, is murdered near Ancona. 16. A fire occurs at Liverpool, by which 1.60,000 worth of property is destroyed. Lord Metcalfe dies in his 62d year. The Marquees of Ailea dies. 23. Her Majesty Queen Victoria completes a second pleasure voyage in her yacht, acne upanied by her husband and children. 30. Lord Normanby at `Paris, and Mr Bulwer at Madrid, formally protest against the Montpensier marriage. Mr Alex. Rodger. familiarly known as "the Bard of the West," dies in Glasgow much regretted. The Great Britain steam-ship runs ashore on the Irish coast. No lives lost.