Glasgow Courier. — 1866-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AUSTRALIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.  Melbourne, Nov. 26.—A motion of want of confidence has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly, and resulted in a majority for the Ministry. The Tariff 13111 has be3n rejected by a large majority. The Ministry refused to bring in the Appropriation Bill, and announced the prorogation of Parliament, and an appeal to the country. A petition to the Queen to recall the Governor has been signed by the members of the Executive Council. Great dissatisfaction prevails. Sydney, Nov. 22. —Advices from New Zealand announce further skirmishes with the natives. They have been attacked at Opotiki and several were shot, among them one of the principal murderers of Volkner. The natives at Poverty and Hawk's Bays were laying down their arms. Kawa pah has been captured by the volunteers. The rebels suffered great loss.  Shanghai, Nov. 26.—Sir Rutherford Alcock has arrived at Pekin at a critical moment. The anti. foreign party are endeavouring to carry out an exclusive policy. The Inspector-General has been dismissed without a cause. Articles of war are being manufactured in large quantities. General dissatisfaction is felt at the irregularity of the mail service. Mails in succession have been days behind time. Trade generally is brisk. The cotton crop has failed.  Advices from Japan state that the combined eVpedition had returned in consequence of the Mikad's refusing to open the ports of Ossaca and Hioga. Advices from Shanghai to the 9th Dec., received via Galle. and published on the 6th inst., announce that the Mikado has since sanctioned the treaty, and that the ports would be opened on the Ist January. A Chamber of Commerce had been established at Yokohama.  Wagner has taken up his residence at Vevey on the Lake of Geneva--celebrated for a brand of swiss cigars. A Montreal paper says the old dispute. wLether lager beer is intoxicating or not, came up in the Troy Courts the other day, and a witness swore that he drank fiftyfour glasses of it one evening and was still perfectly sober.  On the 16th November last, a young married lady only in the first half of the honeymoon, left her home in Paris at 6 p.m., to take a warm bath. She has not yet returned, and all the efforts of her husband and friends to ascertain her whereabouts have proved fruitless.  At the Horse Repository, Barbican, the other day, an extraordinary animal was sold by auction. It was the product of an Alderney cow, and possessed six legs and the frame of two animals. It was knocked down at 20 guineas, and the purchaser subsequently refused 200 guineas for his bargain. A man and woman named Brandon have been charged before the Tribunal of Correctional Police in Paris with annoying a neighbour named Fauconnet, by having trained a parrot to repeat the words, " Fauconnet is a thief, a miser, a pig, Sm." They were fined 16f each, and ordered them to pay between them 50f. damages. The Binghamtown (United States) Republican announces that the Inebriate Asylum has opened another ward, which will accommodate 22 additional patients. The inmates are said to comprise men of strong intellect victims of and chained by the fiend of intoxication. I is stated that encouraging instances of cure have been given. The Vienna journals mention the suicide, in that city, of a young collegian of good family, aged fifteen He had been in the habit of calling at the house of a dramatic authoi, with whose daughter he fell violently in love, and was in consequence forbidden by the pa rents to continue his visits. In despair at the prohibition he provided himself with a pistol, went to the girl's residence, and blew out his brains before the door of her apartment. ' A discovery was made at Toulon, where the iron plated frigate Provence is undergoing repairs, which shows the danger that menaces the whole iron-coated fleet of 'France. The Provence was fitted out for sea only 15 months ago, and already a great number of her plates are nearly consumed with rust. The Director of Naval Architecture is of opinion that, if a composition be not discovered to prevent the action of rust, the iron plated fleet must be renewed every five years. Yankee Profanity.—An American paper states that in the most elegant part of the cemetery at Ringold in Georgia, there is the following inscription on a tombstone :—" Sacred to the memory of Tennessee Thomptaan, jun. He lived to enliven the happiness of his parents three years, two months, and twenty three days, when death tore him from the mountain's brow. An angel caught him and bore him o'er the sea, and placed him in God's white house, to live and play through all eternity." The silk husbandry societies in France have for the last thiee or four years paid great attention to the breed of worms which feed on oak leaves and the result is reported as highly satisfactory. The bleed has been propagated with great success in seveial departments. It is announced that a joint stock company is about to be organised on a large scale for extending the the breed of this silkworm, which comes opportunely to replace the old silkworm, whose destruction by disease has for the last ten or fifteen years caused so much distress and suffering in the silk producing departments in France  IiAMMMoim