Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO. Phe Postmaster-General has issued the following notice :—" On the Ist October next and thenceforward the scale of progression for charging letters addressed to any state on the Western Coast of South America, sent by packet, will be modified by substituting for the existing scale a scale of weight having half-an-ounce as a unit, with the postage advancing by single rates for each additional halfounce or fraction of half-an-ounce."  A novel and impudent robbery has been committed at the new national schools being built in Bodmia. Some rogue or rogues removed the foundation stone recently laid, and stole from the crevice in which it had been placed the bottle containing coins and other articles, deposited there at the time the ceremony was performed. A young man named Snowdon, a mason, is in custody, suspected of having been concerned in the theft. A number of the ladies of Canterbury recently got up a subscription to defray the cost of placing a figure of the Dean of Canterbury in one of the new niches of t'3e Cathedral, as a tribute of the esteem entertained for the Dean. So soon, however, as intimation of this intention was given to Dean Alford, he declined the proffered compliment, and suggested that the figure of Edward the Black Prince should be substituted. The Dean's suggestion will be carried out.  A Skiff match has been arranged between Green, of Australia, and Chambers, of this country. The stakes are to be £5OO on each side; the course to be on the Thames, at Putney; and the race is to be. rowed in June of next year. The immediate friends of Chambers, and indeed all interested, will be extremely glad to learn that Chambers has accepted Green's Challenge; and that public confidence in his ability, which has always attended him, will, no doubt, be on his side in his present contest.  in arguing at the British Association at Bath for the rneteric system, Bishop Colenso said—" I remember well my own schoolboy days, and the difficulties which I found in mastering the details of Bonnycastle,' and other dreary books with which boys were plagued in those days. My arithmetical lessons were a perpetual misery, and if I was ever punished it was always certain to be for my sums." The Bishop's troubles with arithmetic are, we suspect, not yet over. - -  A curious story regarding the alleged murderer, Muller, is given in a Canadian paper, he Defricheur. According to this journal, he once lived in Quebec, and afterwards at Three Rivers, where he married a young Canadian girl of good position. About two months after the marriage, and when he had got hold of whatever property his wife possessed, he was obliged to go to Europe, by way of the United States, two other wives whom he had previously married, and both of whom were living, having put in their prior claims. The date of his residence in the province is not given. The unfavourable result of the tercentenary celebration, lately held at Stratford-on-Avon, has given occasion for an act of rare liberality. The balancesheet, as we have stated, showed that a loss of above three thousand pounds had been sustained by the committee. From the public enthusiasm having been completely exhausted, the prospect of raising this large sum appeared to be exceedingly gloomy. The family of Mr. Flower, the popular Mayor of Stratford, have, however, come forward with an offer which at once sweeps away a third part of the liability. The mayor himself subscribes the handsome sum of £5OO, while his two sons each contribute £250.  A shocking murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, has been committed in Middlesbro'. The perpetrator is a German Jew, named Henry Kerne, residing in Vine Street, in that town, and who on Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, cut the throat of his son, a fine interesting boy, named Daniel Henry, about five years of age. It appears that the lad and his father were in the room together, the mother being absent in another part of the house, which is a tenemented one, when a female neighbour went up stairs and told Kerne that his wife, with whom she had had some conversation, was going to leave him on account of a quarrel which they had had that morning. On this, the man, in a state of apparently great perplexity, came down stairs into the woman's apartment, and complained bitterly of the conduct of his wife, in stripping the place of its furniture. Having thus unburdened himself of his sad tale, Kerne returned to his room, from which loud screams were soon heard issuing. Alarmed by the noise, Mrs. Kerne and the neighbour previously alluded to, rushed up into th?, apartment, in which a horrible sight presented itself. Side by side on the floor lay the little boy and his father, with their throats cut from ear to ear, their heads being nearly severed from their bodies. The floor was saturated with blood, and in the case of both the unfortunate victims life was found to be extinct, the murderer and suicide holding in his right band a razor, with which he had doubtless made the fatal attack on his helpless son and afterwards, in a similar manner, put an end to his own existence. The poor man, who was thirty-six years of age. had for some time suffered from the loss of his eyesight, and this, with the unhappy state of his domestic arrangements, Is assigned as the motive of the rash and terrible deeds.  MR.