Glasgow Courier. — 1863-06-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AUSTRALIA.— The returns from the New Zealand gold fields continue satisfactory. The Australian miners were not returning in any great numbers to spend the winter at Melbourne. In New South Wales the English February mail had affected the price of wool. Mail robberies by bush-rangers and the sticking-up of stations were prevalent. Subscriptions had commenced for a statue of Daniel O'Connell. In Victoria trade was in a healthy state, and gold supplies well maintained. The Intercolonial Conference had terminated. It condemned ad valorem duties, and approved of the principle of a uniform tariff. An energetic address and protest to her Majesty against the revival of transportation had been signed by every member of the conference. Fortnightly mails and telegraphic communication with England are recommended. In Queensland the Governor's speech on opening Parliament was full of promise for the colony.  . A-Chinese Anitaisatkir heient to PariZ 4.4 law months, who will doubtless prove one of the chief features in the.neat Paris season. . On the departure of the King of .Pressia for Carlsbad the Queen will proceed to Windsor-at the invitation of her Majesty Queen Victoria. • • M. Ferdinand de Lesseps has arrived in Paris, and a cry has arisen that the .Suez Canal scheme is about to succumb through the influence et-Dowiung Street. Mr Charles Armellini, formerly Minister of -the,Llterier in the Roman States, and ex-Triumvir of the Roman Republic, has just died at Brunets, aged eightyseven. The New South Wales Government has offered £30,000 . year, and the New Zealand Government has offered £30,000 a year, towards an Australian mail conmunication ran Panama.  The Pope has ordered a grand jubilee to take place in the diocese of Posen, commencing upon the 20thinst„ to oelebnite the thousandth anniversary of the intro-. duction of Christianity into Poland. An American paper states that the pension office at Washington has lately recorded the nineteen thouwidth application of wives made widows by this war 'between the Northern and Southern States. Prince Coma has nominated himself Commander-inChief of the Moldo-Wallachian troops. M. Tell, Minister of Public Worship, has resigned his office, and the vacant portfolio haa been transferred to M. Obobesco.. During a skirmish near Greenwich, Virginia, on the 30th, °entails Haskins' formerly of the British army, was mortally wounded by a 41l in the beeir,-and, being in a dying condition, was paroled and taken off the field. The Opinion Natior.ale says that Earl Russell h:ai sent a confidential note to Berlin, remonstrating with the King of Prussia an his ordinances, and maintaining that th,ty seriously imperil the peace of Prussia, and the interests of the House of Hohenzollern. The French services Maritimes des M essageri es Imperiales have now 48 steamers in the Mediterranean and in the Indian and China seas, the horse-power of which is 14,220. Their gross income last year was £1,122,000.  Letters from Tripoli report that a company of French merchants established there have just entered into arrangements with a Manchester company for the cultivation of cotton on a large scale. A considerable extent of land is taken for four years, and a good breadth of cotton is already in the ground. There is a weed called the sida retuaa, which grows wild in unfrequented streets and vacant places at Brisbane, in Eistern Australia, and was looked upon there as a pest. This weed has been found to yield a valuable fibre, and £3O a ton for 3000 tons have been offered for it for shipment to hugland. There is no chance of the young King of Greece taking up his residence among his faithful subjects till December. He has first to be confirmed, a ceremony of great importance in the Lutheran Church, and this cannot, in conformity with usage, be performed before the time mentioned. It is said that orders have been sent to Cherbourg to suspend the reinforcements to Mexico, and at Paris a general hope is expressed that an early termination of hostilities may now be possible. The Liberal journals urge this course, as it would enable the Government to regain the freedom of its movements on European quesboo&  A correspondent of the Times states that Cardinal Dennet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, employs a printer who is not only a Protestant, but the proprietor.of an opposition journal, and had the good sense to remark, in reply to a complaint made to him, that he employed a workman who WRS not a Catholic, "I do not inquire about his faith; I only know that he is an excellent workman." Advices received announce a robbery, at the Bank of Warsaw, of 3,500,000 roubles, of which 3,200,000 in value consist of obligations of the Polish Landowners' Association. It is necessary, under these circumstances, to caution the public against negotiating any of the obligations which have been thus surreptitiously removed. In the place of the notes and gold abstracted there Was left a receipt signed by the National Government. Four officials, and the books in which the numbers of the missing bonds were entered, have also disappeared. It is said that all the telegraph lines leading from Warsaw have been destroyed. A well-known wine merchant of Montreal made lately a bet with the rams of the Grenadier Guards that he would walk or run, at discretion, 80 miles in 24 hours. The match came off at Chambly on Wednesday last, terminating on Thursday morning. The civilian won easily, having an hour and a halt to spare. It is said that he was £l5OO richer after his exertions than he was before.— Canadian paper.  -• • A young non-commissioned officer of artillery, in garrison at Wurzburg, recentlyfellin love with the daughter of an innkeeper of that town, and made her an offer of marriage, but the match was opposed by the girl's parents, because the young man was poor. In their despair the two lovers last week resolved to commit suicide, and after taking the sacrament at the parish church they tied themselves together with a cord, jumped Into the Maine, and were drowned.  PLAIN TlN:Tit—Our pickets and the enemy's on Slorri:, Island (Uluirleston harbour) converse freely across the narrow creek which separates them and miniature vosse4 freighted with tobacco have been often sent to our tile with requests for reciprocal cargoes of coffee, the tdal want of which the rebels say is a source of great discomfort to them. "Say, Yankee," was shouted across the river the other day, " haint you tired of this war "No, litir-ee," responded our picket, "It's a -6," insisted the rebel. "kou're just as sick of it Uam And you know it,l)-- eto York Tribune,