Glasgow Courier. — 1864-02-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

NOT.—invalids may have an opinion of their case by sending particulars and a stamped directed envelope for reply.  The London Record says that the prize-fighters have received intimation that the railway company directors will no longer afford them facilities for carrying on their wicked work. Colonel Hogg, a son-in-law of Colonel Pennant, M.P., is the accepted Conservative candidate for Bath in the place of Mr. Way, M.P., who retires at the general election. The electors of Devonport have sought a second Conservative candidate and found one in Mr. John Fleming, of the great mercantile firm of Robinson and Fleming, Austin Friars.  We understand that the Earl of Shaftesbury has signified his willingness to take part in the great Church Defence Demonstration which the Church Institution intends holding at St. James's Hall on April 26. The movement is progressing in a most satisfactory manner. Amongst those who will be present to speak are the Archbishops of Canterbury (who will preside) and York, the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Marlborough, and many other influential Churchmen.  An officer of the Alabama, who left that ship in consequence Of a quarrel with Captain Semmes, states that the Alabama has the very best telescopes on board. A look-out man is always kept at the masthead. As soon as the faintest symptom of a sail is descried Semmes goes to the masthead himself, and if there is the slightest probability that the stranger is a man-of-war, the Alabama is driven with full steam on ant of sight, and, if possible, in a totally opposite direction to that of the strange sail.  At the Guildhall Police-court Julia M‘Millan, a highly respectable and lady-like young person, a regimental schoolmistress at Aldershott, was charged with robbery. One of the young men employed at Messrs. Nicholson's, St. Paul's Churchyard, deposed that he had watched the prisoner from above :--" I saw her put her mantle over the counter with one arm and with the other hand draw half a-dozen cambric handkerchiefs from beneath a quantity of others, and endeavour to slip them into her pocket, but they fell on the ground. She then passed her hand down inside her dress and picked them up, and asked the assistant who was serving her for a pin, with which she pinned the handkerchiefs to her dress." She was taken into custody. A strong appeal was made for her admission to bail, but the magistrate refused, and she was removed in an almost fainting condition.  A retrospect of the average price of corn in this country for the last 200 years is published by the Times. In that period the price has varied in an extraordinary manner from 225. 4d. to 1225. Bd. per quarter. The former was the average in 1687, and in 1743 and 1744 the average was only 225. id., while in 1812 (during the war) it was 1225. 3d. per quarter. The first five years of the present century the average was successively-675. 11d., 565. 2d., 445. 7d., 535. 5d., and 645. per quarter. In 1839 the price was 70s. 6d., and 1854, 1855, and 1856, were years of high average, being respectively 725. 7d., 745. 9d., and 695. 2d. per quarter. The lowest average in the present century was just before the highest—viz., 1851, when it was 38s. 7d. per quarter. The average for the last five years has been as follows :-1859, 438. 9d. ; 1860, 535. id.; 1861, 555. fid. ' • 1862, 555. 5d.; and 1863, 445. 9d. in 1822 it wa0446. 7d., and in 1547, 44% Od, per quarter. _  engiantl. The Shipping Gazette has opened a subscription for the second mate of the Flowery Land. The Thames Tunnel has been sbld to the East London Railway Company for £173,600. The Exhibition building is slowly disappearing. One of the domes has been almost entirely removed.  The Hon. Mrs. Yelverton is at present at Nevers, on the Loire, where she lies suffering from a serious pulmonary affection.  _ A quantity of spurious coins, an imitation of the recently issued penny-pieces, is now being circulated in Sunderland and the neighbouring towns.  Mr. Frank Buckland sends to the Timm some account of experiments which he is making to obtain a hybrid between the salmon and trout. A French gunboat has hrrived at Plymouth to watch the proceedings of the French fishing boats, several of which are there.  The Duke of Newcastle continues to improve in health. His Grace has taken occasional carriage airings, but is, for the present, unable to attend his place in Parliament. -  At a recent meeting of the London Congregational Chapel Building Society, it was proposed to change the name of "chapel" or "meeting - house" iuto ,that of "church," as the most respectable term. Mr. Thomas Richard Sutcliffe, corn factor, of Brighouse, near Halifax, hung himself on Wednesday. He had taken an active part in town affairs, and was highly respected. The cause of suicide is at present unknown.  The Great Eastern already threatens to be the cause of some trouble to her new owners. A Liverpool shipowner, who bid for the vessel. claims to have bought her, and has given notice that he will enforce his claim in a court of justice.  NE3IESIS. —Emperor of France—" Hem ! Prussia is extending his frontier; why shouldn't Igo to the Rhine ?" King of Italy—" Ha! Austria is doing the same thing; why shouldn't Igo to Venice?"— Lunch.  We regret to announce the retirement, owing to ill-health, of Mr. K. Seymer from the representation of Dorsetshire. Mr. Floyer has issued an address in the Conservative interest, and no Whig candidate has appeared at present.  _ The body of a young man, named Upton has been found in the canal at Leicester, and with such evident marks upon it as to conclusively prove that the deceased was brutally murdered. The deceased's father, William Upton, a frame-work knitter, was apprehended on Wednesday evening on a charge of perpetrating the crime, and remanded till Monday. _ _ _  An inquest was held on Saturday upon the body of a boy named Holford, who had been drowned in the reservoir of the New River Company in the Vale of Health, Hampstead. Holford, with other boys, had got upon the ice with which the reservoir was covered, when it gave way, and they were immersed. Mr. Donald Nicoll, formerly M.P. for Frome, was passing and heard the alarm. He plunged into the water and endeavoured fruitlessly to save the lad's life—nearly losing his own in the attempt.