Glasgow Courier. — 1853-02-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12.  We have an arrival at Marseilles from India, with dates from Calcutta up till the sth, Madras 10th, and Bombay 13th ult. A proclamation has been issued that Pegu is henceforth to form part of the Eastern British empire.  The insurrection at Milan has been suppressed. Five lives were lost ie the conflict. Both blazzini and Kossuth, however, are at work, and mischief will be done in so far as these men are able to do it through proclamations and addresses to their dupes from places where the agitators themselves are safe.  Parliament met on Thursday, when, after some routine business, Lord Derby, in the Peers, asked he Earl of Aberdeen what specific measures his Cabinet meant to propose, a question which the 1 noble Earl declined to answer. In the Commons, however, Lord John Rtisell was more communicative, and, with one exception—his hobby, the Jew Bill, which he proposes to refer to a committee—his bill of fare was reasonable and moderate enough. The Reform Bill is to be shelved for the present session, and as nobody can tell what may happen before another comes round, we may hear no more of it. The noble Lord talked about Ireland, the Canadian clergy reserves, general education, and the shipping interest, and wound up with a flourish about the universities. The budget will be brought forward as soon as possible, hut nothing was said about its nature or previsions. Weave glad to find, however, that the condition of the Australian colonies is to occupy the attention of the ministry, for it is a subject of great and growing importance. An abstract of last night's Parliamentary proceedings will be found under the electric telegraph heading. It is not of any importance.  A change of politics in Ireland has been indicated by the new Viceroy which is perplexing most people, and is embarrassing even the Times. We are glad to perceive, however, that Lord Roden haadeclined. the proferred honour of a restoration to the office of which Lords Clarendon and John Russell so unjustly deprived him. This is Lord Aberdeen's first check to the compromise system in Ireland, but we will undertake to any that it will not be the last.  line4-i  An incident occurred on Monday last in London which has excited the somewhat melancholy wit of our old friend the ' Thunderer,' who has devoted a heavy article to it in Thursday's impression of the leading journar—vix., the formal dissolution,by its own officebearers, of the ' National Association for Protection.' 'Let them laugh who win' is an old saying, which Shakspeare himself was not ashamed to appropriate; and if our metropolitan contemporary can contrive to extract mirth out of the letter of Mr. G. F. Young and the speech of the Duke of Richmond, it would be mere churlishness to grudge so harmless a source of pleasantry. By all means let the Tinge enjoy its joke so long as the present fit is on. By and by there may be a change of temper and of feeling which will justify a different tone, and when that time comes the loud laugh will be converted into a solemn frown at the enemies of British industry. We can afford to wait till then, meanwhile a w ord or two on the main subject of so mach clumsy merriment. Nobody can doubt that the questions involved in the great controversy now closed were of primary magnitude, and as such entitled to the gravest consideration. It was not surely a slight matter that drove one of the most distinguished and experienced statesmen of his age from the convictions of a long and studious life, and which has led to consequences the importance of which no sane man disguises from himself. All the badinage and all the abuse in the world will not alter the complexion of the mighty struggle which last election brought to a termination ; and the Times may rest assured of this, that the sentiments expressed by Mr. Young and the Duke of Richmond are confined to a by no means insignificant portion of the community Protection, in our judgment, is gaue for ever; but it by no means follows that, in consequence of this, we, as a people, shall be either happier, more prosperous, or more powerful. A noisy and energetic faction has triumphed over a listless and indolent one, and that, for the present, is all that can-be said about the matter; but the future is hid alike from both parties, and what it may disclose it is not for ordinary men to anticipate. Let the Times, then, be modest, if that virtue be within its reach; and lot it not forget, when sneering at intelligent and honourable men, that a paper which strenuously advocated a ten shillings fixed duty on corn has little to say in reproach of the Duke of Richmond or Mr. G. F. Young. The dissolution of the Protection Society was a proper act. It had survived its functions, and farther agitation on the subject was useless; but we must be allowed to add, that some grace would have been communicated to commentaries on that event had a proper spirit animated the commentators. That spirit, however, is awanting, and a coarse and offensive tone has taken the place of a generous and a manly one. The reason of this is well enough understood even in the provinces; but whatever the issue of the great experiment' inay be, nobody can deny that resistance to a change in our domestic policy, abrupt in its nature, and doubtful in its results, was a legitimate, and neither a factious nor an interested resistance.  Tot. WHATPlClL—Yesterday morning we had it fall of snow which lay a couple of inches. deep upon the streets During the day occasional flakes fell,.and tewafes the evening frost set in which rendered the streets dangerously slippy. It would seen), from accounts received, thnt the onfall has been pretty general, both in England and Ireland. Yesterday afternoon's London mail was iii consequence some hours later in its arrival, and the express train which brings our London papers of the morning was fully an hour later. The atmosphere indicates a snow storm.  THR GLASGOW ATHSNZU/1 LISCTURE ON SCOTTISH Slosh—Mr. Ballantine delivered his second lecture in the City Hall last night to an enraptured audience. Want of space compels us to defer a notice till our next.  Ambient, Suicinv.—On Thursday morning a shoemaker, named John Fraser, residing in John Street, attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Reverses in business were supposed to be the cause of the rash net. Ho was removed to the Infirmary, and is expected to recover. NIGHT Asnrg.—Number of Inmabes in the Night Asylum for the Houseless, North Frederick Street, for the week ending Thurhday, Ugh Feb.,18.53: Hro. Buys. Women. Girls. Total. 112 ft 295 65 543 Average number of nightly inmates 78, exclusive of 3-1 in the lion., of Industry.  LAUNCH et