Glasgow Courier. — 1864-01-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GLASGOW COURIER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1864.  On Thursday morning, a sailor named Alexander Frazer Scott, belonging to the St George, of Glasgow, committed suicide, by shooting himself, on board his vessel, while anchored off Kilroot, Carrickfergus. There is a curious story afloat in Ireland, to the effect that Sir Robert Peel will not offer himself as a candidate for Tamworth at the next election, but that he will be brought forward for Londonderry. Mr Richards, chairman of the county of Waterford, stated, in opening the quarter sessions at Waterford, that not a single case of Ribbonism came before him during the 18 sessions in which he had sat in that court.  The usual notice from the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper announces that writs are ready to be forwarded to such peers as are entitled to vote for a representative peer of Ireland, in room of the late Earl of Charlemont.  There is a rumour that Judge Ball means to make way for the Attorney General's promotion to the bench. In that case Soliflitor General Lawson would be advanced, and Sergeant Sullivan would su .:ceed him—one or other of them coming in as M.P. for Tralee in room of Mr O'Hagan. The Rev. G. Porter, of Stonyhurst College, has been lecturing on "The destiny of the Irish nation." He said the mission of the Irish to the English was like that of our Saviour—a mission of the poor to the wealthy; and in the success that had been attained they might detect the finger of God. in an article on the recent innovations in the National Board of Education, the Londonderry Standard announces that conferences have already been held both in Belfast and Derry, with reference to the recent ultramontanisation of that system, and the proper mode of constitutional resistance to that insidious-aggression. On Sunday, in all the Catholic churches and chapels in Galway, at each mass, the priest celebrant, by order of the bishop, announced that the parents and guardians of the children, as well as the children themselves who attend the model schools, would in future be cut off from communion with the Church and deprived of the sacraments.—Galway Vindicator. Mr Burke, an auctioneer at Sligo, was selling goods on a loft on Thursday, surrounded by about fifty people, and while he was with uplifted hammer crying "Going, going, gone !" the loft gave way with a crash, And the whole party were precipitated upon an earthern floor, a distance of about twelve feet. No one was killed, but Mr Burke had his shoulder-blade broken. .  A dreadful fire occurred in Dublin on Tuesday week, by which a range of five or six houses, situate at the corner of Henry Street and Stafford Street, and occupied as warehouses and workshops by an eminent cabinetmaker, Mr Beakey, were burned to the ground, and their valuable contents totally destroyed. The fire raged from ten o'clock to three A.m. Fortunately no person was injured. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, two attorneys were struck off the roll of the Court at the instance of the Incorporated Law Society. Walter Fitzimon and Eugene Plumor Blennerhasset were the subjects of the motions. The former was convicted and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment at Cork for an attempt to defraud an insurance company, ard the latter was sentenced to the same term of imprisonment in London for stealing books, ete., from the British Museum.  On the 7th inst., John A. O'Keeffe, Esq., of Ballylemon Lodge, High Sheriff, county Waterford, received a letter through the Dungarvan Post Office, intimating that if he did not immediately part with his steward, John Christopher, either master or man would soon fall by the hand of the assassin. The letter was couched in foul and blasphemouslanguage, and ended with a rude drawing of a coffin. Mr O'Keeffe evicted a number of tenants in the latter end of December, and the impression is be was influenced to do so by his steward. The police, as usual, say they are actively endeavouring to discover the perpetrators of this outrage. A