Glasgow Courier. — 1847-11-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LONDON, NOVEMBER 27.  We hear that the East India House, which is applying to the Bank of England for assistance, is unable, at present, to furnish the requisite amount of security. The sum required is said to be very large. It is hoped that some arrangement may yet be effected.—Globe. It was reported in the highest quarters of Paris that the Queen of Spain was in a condition which promises an heir to the Spanish throne.— Times. The Earl and Countess of Buchan and Lady Margaret Erskine have arrived in Harley Street, from Leamington. William Stewart Sheridan, said to be the grandson of the celebrated Richard Brineley Sheridan, and the god-child of a noble lord whose name he bears, has been committed for trial on the warrant of Mr. W. Baker, coroner for East Middlesex, for the murder of his mother, Mrs. Frances Sheridan, the widow of an officer in the army, on the charge of having administered arsenic to the deceased. The Two Double Returns.—At a meeting held at Manchester on Monday evening it was announced, that Mr. Cobden had elected to sit as representative of the West Riding, and that Mr. C. Villiers, with many expressions of grateful acknowledgment to the electors of South Lancashire, declined to desert his former constituents of Wolverhampton. Writs will accordingly be issued for now elections for South Lancashire and Stockport.—Thies. Portugal—Southampton, Friday Night.—The Iberia steamship, Captain Bowen, arrived this evening at five o'clock from the Peninsula, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieut. Newenham, Admiralty agent. The latest dates brought by the Iberia are—Gibraltar, Nov. 17; Lisbon, 21; Vigo, 23; and Oporto, 22. Her freight consists of eighteen packages of specie, forty-five boxes of eggs' besides a variety of miscellaneous packages. The Marchioness of Breadalbane, a small steamer of eighty-four tons, which was despatched from Southampton about ten days since, as a present from the Oriental and Peninsular Steam Company to the Paella of Egypt, arrived in safety at Lisbon, coaled, and proceeded on her passage to Alexandria. The Indus steam-ship, Capt. Soy, arrived in the docks this afternoon, about an hour previous to the Iberia. She brings the heavy portion of the overland mail, and eighty passengers. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel from Hamburg brings £lB,OOO in bullion, but much more was expected, some of the private letters stating that £BO,OOO would be shipped. During the week to Thursday last the exports of the precious metals from London amounted to 30,000 oz. in silver bars to Rotterdam, and 8,000 oz. in silver coin to Belgium. Contract for Rum.—The Government contract for 100,000 gallons of rum for the navy was again taken on Thursday by Messrs. Lemon Hart & Son, of 50, Fenchurch Street. A Sessional Order was made on Wednesday in the House of Commons, directing the House to meet at twelve o'clock on Wednesdays, and to adjourn at six precisely: It is understood, on such occasions, no Government business can be brought forward until all other matters am o disposed of, unless upon special order.—Morning Chronicle. Melancholy Event. —M. George Fabricius, a German violinist and musieal ,ompoNcr, committed suicide a few days ago at Brussels, in consequence of having, from agitation, failed in the rehearsal of a concert which he was to have given on. Monday at the Theatre-Royal.