Glasgow Courier. — 1862-07-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TRADE IN FRANCE.—The improvement in the weather. and the confidence now felt that the approaching harvest will be equal to that of a fair average year, are beginning to restore animation to the t manufacturing districts. . . . .  A scene took place in Banbury recently, in consequence of the forcible removal from the nunnery, by her father, of a young novice. The police were called in, but refused to interfere, and the lady was taken to her former home at Birmingham. The plans of the Industrial University, should there be any considerable surplus at the Great Exhibition, are being considered by the commissioners. It will be founded within the building, which is to be greatly improved, domes raised, and another erected in the centre.  The Emperor is expected to return from Vichy to Paris about the Bth August, and will remain at St. Clould until the 12th, when he leaves for the Camp of Chalons with the Prince.lmperiiil. The Empress on her side will proceed to Biarritz. The Emperor of Russia is at present making a tour of some of the towns in the Baltic provinces. On the 21st his Majesty, accompanied by the Empress, entered Riga, ambist great rejoicing on the part of the inhabitants, who had decorated their houses and the public buildings. A telegram received on Monday announces the successful submersion of the first portion of a new telegraphic cable between England and Holland. The cable is the heaviest yet constructed, and contains four conducting wires. The English shore end (fifteen miles) weighs no less than 16 tons per mile, and is above two inches in diameter. The remaining portion will be shipped immediately. Au atrocious crime is reported to have been committed last week in Berlin. About sixty Jews were keeping up a marriage festivity at the "Thiergarten," the proprietor of which is a man named Maeder. The man had put deadly poison —crystallised morphium—in the coffee cups of the Jewish guests, for no other reason than that he hated Jews. The lives of several. of Maeder's victims are despaired of. We understand that Messrs William Denny & Brothers, the well-known iron shipbuilders of Dumbarton, have concluded the arrangements regarding the details of the first-class 2000 tons screw steamer, laid down by them for Messrs A. Lopez & Co., of Alicante, and that the construction of the vessel will be promptly proceeded with. On Saturday last there was launched from the Victoria yard, Dumbarton,—Messrs Denny & Rankin's—a handsome wooden brig, of about 190 tons, and classed A 1 at Lloyd's for seven years. She is named the "Peep o' Day," is the property of James Longton, jun., Esq., Liverpool, and Is intended to trade between that port and the West Indies. The vessel left the stocks completely finished and with sails bent.  On Friday forenoon, a carter, named John Thomson, about 30 years of age, committed suicide, by leaping into the river at the Weir quay, near Hutchesontown Bridge. Deceased, who resided in Dobbie's Loan, had been in a desponding state of II mind for several days past. He was unmarried, andl lived in lodgings. On Monday, a valuable horse, belonging to Mr Spiers of Burnbrae, Paisley, while crossing the bridge over the Black Cart, shied, and sprang over the parapet into the stream, a height of about 16 feet, and was killed. The boy who rode the animal fortunately saved himself by getting off its back before it made the leap. On Thursday, a telescope, which had been awarded by the Board of Trade to Captain George Dalgarno, of the barque Commodore. of Aberdeen, for rescuing the crew of the Hope of Fleetwood, from their sinking vessel on the 27th of February, last, was presented to the Captain by the Lord Provost in the Shipping Office, James Watt Street. While two men. named Archibald Watt and Peter Robertson, were engaged discharging the cargo of a vessel at the Forth and Clyde Canal, Port Dundee, Robertson accidentally fell into the water, and Watt, in attempting to rescue him, fell in also, his head coming in contact with the curb stone on the bank. He was able to make home shortly after, and (lid not complain much at the time. He grew worse on Thursday morning, however, and expired. On Monday, at the Eastern Police Court, J. Oreig, Brown Street, Bridgeton, was remitted to the Sheriff for examination on a charge of fraud and imposition. From the paper now in possession of the police, it appears that amongst the gentlemen who have been induced to subscribe are:—The Duke of Hamilton, £5; Sir John Maxwell, £5; Rear Admiral Melville, £3; Sir Win. Maxwell, £5; Archbishop of Dublin, £3; Earl Shaftesbury, £3; Mr R. Dalglish, M. P., £5. Oreig, we understand, was formerly imprisoned on a similar charge. On Monday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, fire broke out in the works of Messrs J. & R. Hutcheson & Co., oil manufacturers, situated at 19 Bishop Street, Port-Dundas. The building in which the fire occurred was two storeys in height, about 150 feet long, and 30 feet wide. The flames were prevented from spreading to the adjoining buildings; but several windows and part of the dwelling-house were somewhat damaged. Messrs Hutcheson & Co.'s premises were completely destroyed, the damage being estimated at from £BOO to £lOOO, which is fully covered by insurance. Beta een three and four on Saturday afternoon, Matthew M`Kinnon and William Hunter, shankers in No. 1 Croy sinking pit, in the parish of Cumbernauld, were precipitated from the mouth of the shaft to the bottom, a distance of forty fathoms, and killed. The two men had descended for the purpose of bringing to the pit-head an iron cistern. The men and the cistern were being drawn up, and when within four feet from the pit mouth the edge of the cistern came into contact with the side of the shaft, simultaneously the bolts snapped, and men and cistern were precipitated to the bottom, in which were five fathoms of water. WEinnon's body was got in the course oi an ;lout a Ifunter's body in four hours accident. - unfortunate men were John  and  resided