Glasgow Courier. — 1846-01-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LANEOIIB. Gardener's Xatertdar for January.—When the frost Is not , severe, trench, manure, and turn up in ridges all vacant ground, and prepare hot-beds. In open and dry weather, sow I in mild exposures, for a succession, a few early-frame pease, ' common beans, short-topped radishes, lettuces, carrots, onions, spinach, and curled parsley, protecting them from the frost by mats or straw; and, in hot-beds, sow cauliflowers, melons, cucumbers, small salading, early cabbages, and kidney-beans. Plant, prune, and train standard and wall fruit trees, gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes. Edge beds, form new flower gardens, and shelter from frost tender evergreens, tulips, ranunculuses, &c. Pot choice dahlias, placing them in a stove or hot-bed. Air and keep dry carnations and stage auriculas. . Plant snowdrops, crocuses, gladioluses, irises, &c. New Planet.—Professor Schumacher, a German astronomer, thinks he has discovered a new planet. It is in the constellation Taurus, near the bright star called Aldebarran. It has been seen by Mr. Hind from Mr. Bishop's observatory. in the Regent Park, and has the appearance of a star of the ninth or tenth magnitude. It may, however, be a comet. The number of lost, that is, strayed children, in the borough of Salford, reported at the Police-office from October 23, 1844, to October 14, 1843, was 1,307, a melancholy result of the employment of women in factories. The Irish Society of London, who possess large estates in Ireland, have humanely given directions to their agents not to spare any cost in taking care that no want of sufficient food shall prevail amongst the tenantry in any district of the  property. Dress.—There is not in the world a surer sign of a little soul than in striving to gain respect by such despicable means as dress and rich clothes. None will depend upon those ornaments but they who have no other. A new fuschia of very great beauty is about to make its appearance. The flower is said to be between three and four inches in length, of a pure white colour in the sepals, and rich purple petals. The King of Prussia has just bought the wine vase and cup with which Luther used to administer the sacrament. New Invention.—A newly-invented process for making shot red hot has been exhibited in operation at Woolwich; it is a small portable retort, and is the invention of Captain Addison, of the Bengal artillery. Taxation in Jantaica.—The planter pays two shillings and sixpence for a mule; the negro is charged eight shillings for  an ass. Bathing in London.—The warm baths, wash tubs, and drying apparatus of the London baths for the labouring classes have, during the first six months of their existence, been used by 29,080 persons. Before the temperance movement, Messrs. Beatuish and Crawford, of Cork, brewed 100,000 barrels of porter a-year. Father Mathew reduced the quantity one-half: it has since returned to its former amount. Miss Jane Galon, an eccentric maiden lady, aged 57, residing in Camden Town, last week committed suicide by cutting her arm and left side with a pen-knife, under the fear of becoming blind, having been for several years afflicted with bad eyes.