Glasgow Courier. — 1861-11-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PRESENTATION OF CARLISLE.-Mr W. Nicholson Hodgson (Conservative) of Newby Grange has issued an address to the electors.  Henry Winchcliffe, a post office clerk at Birkenhead, has been committed for trial, charged with the theft of a letter containing a .£5 note. Mr G. F. Arnold, builder, and a member of the Town Council of St Albans. has been committed for trial at the next assizes for perjury. The ships Austral and Saa Star sailed from the Downs on the same day, and, without seeing each other on the passage, both arrived at Adelaide on the same day. . . .  The Gove;nment of the Sultan has taken such steps in this country as will secure for the Porte the most approved drawings of iron-cased eteam•fri. gates. . . . . . . .  A coroner's jury has decided that disease of the heart cense 1 the death of the young woman who fell down the other evening amidst the crowd at the door of the Adelyhi Theatre. . .  The Board of Trade have awarded £lO to be divided among the crew of the brig Martha, of Liverpool, for rescuing the crew of a tishing-boat in Wick Bay (luring a storm in August last. The Hon. the Earl of Leven and Melville, Lady Leven, Viscount Kirkcaldy, and the other members of his Lordship's family, have arrived at }Weill:imp. ton, in Surrey, near London. . . . .  &formation' has been received that Mr Abbott, steward to the Earl of Aylesford, was accidentally shot by his nephew while in pursuit of game near Maidstone. and not the slightest hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mr Hutchinson, formerly Consul at Fernando Po, now Consul for Rosiario, on the River Plate, and who sailed from Liverpool a few days ago in the Santiago, has a commission from Earl Russell to investigate the subject of cotton growing in that country.  At Kirby Lonsdale, on Thursday, Francis M'Connell was committed for trial, on a charge of setting fire to the Holme Flax Mills, Westmoreland, in July last. He has only recently been captured in Belfast, a reward of .£5OO having been offered for his appro. hension.  An old soldier, named King, who served in the Crimea, has been fearfully burnt by an explosion at the Dowleis Iron Works. His eyes were destroyed, and the flesh was burnt from his bones. No hopes are entertained of his recovery. . .  It is said that an amalgamaiion has been arranged between the Mereantile Fire Insurance Company and the North British Insurance Company of London and Edinburgh. The North British has a Subscribed capital of .£1,000,000, and was established in 1809. Lord Dacre, who has recently arrived at the Him, his lordship's seat in Hertfordshire, from his shooting quarters in Inverness.shire, is, we are happy to learn, recovering from the injuries he received from the accidental discharge of his rifle, when out shooting at the close of the season,.. . . . .  drunken woman, named Stayers, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the Tyne on Thursday morning. She was prevented from com• pleting the rash and foolish act by the bravery of two French captains, who, hearing the alarm, jumped out of bed, plunged into the water, and brought the woman ashore.  A labourer was travelling on a stone waggon to the Langletield viaduct of the South Durham t ailway, when he perceived his breakfast can, with its contents, about to fall off the carriage. In attempting to procure it he over balanced himself, and was thmwn with such fearful force on to the temporary way that ire died in is few hours. We are told of marvels about wines which we shall have anon—tenpence a bottle from Italy, a shilling from Spain, and eightpence from South A frica ; in the meantime, 7:ls a dozen is the right price for port, and 60s for sherry—when a friend is asked to dine —and people should economise on Gladstone claret to themselves. flourt Journal. Another peculiar and mysterious robbery hea occurred at the Lower Wharf the Eastern Counties Railway Company, Blackwall. The thieves succeeded in getting up Bow Creek, abutting on the River 'flames, and conveyed away a hogshead of the best leaf tobacco. A reward of .6.50 is offered for their apprehension. Sir J. Pakington, at the annual meeting of the National Society last week, stated the position be intended to take with reference to the new Education Code; he will oppose it, believing that it aims at reduced expenditure rather than effective education, and that the principle of "paying fur results" is a "plausible sophism likely to deceive the unwary" The following inscription has been placed in Coniston churchyard, on the tombstone raised to the memory of the murdered infant Saville Kent:—"'l'o the memory of Francis Savile Kent, the dearly loved son of Samuel Saville and Mary Drew e Kent, who was cruelly murdered at Road, June 30, 1860, aged three years and ten mouths. "Shall not God search this out; for He knoweth the secrets of the heart." Corrox