Glasgow Courier. — 1853-05-26 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JOURNALISM IN AUSTRALIA.—The Melbourne Argus (a file of which to the sth February has reached this country), has taken a step which its proprietors deem to be unexampled in the history of newspapers. With all the appliances that could be mustered in the colony, ! no more than 10,000 copies per day could be struck I off, and as the demand exceeded this number, and ! was constantly increasing, it was thought necessary to announce that 'for the present, and until the arrival of new steam presses, no new subscribers were wanted!' ! To the subscribers already on the list the paper would be supplied at the old price of £2 yearly; to all others the price was to be RA; and this was to continue till the fast-printing engines were received! RESOURCES or Cues.—An American, writing from Havana, furnishes the following intelligence:—.There area crowd of vessels still pouring in here for freight, and its consequence of the large supply of shipping the prices of sugar are steady. The planters of Cuba under the warehousing system of the port, which enables them to stow sugar for one rial a month, and which enables them also to obtain money upon certificates of storage, have a more independent position now than ever before, and with their factors control the market. They have been resolute, therefore, in their demands. There are now seventy American vessels in port. Some which eame in ballast will go away empty. Others would leave empty If they had not cargoes, which subjects them to heavy port dues. While, therefore, the product market is stiff, the freights are vet, low. Enormous fortunes are made here in the cultivation of the cane. Some of our own countrymen are interested in sugar estates which have yielded 8120,000 clear profit per anaum.'—ffalifaz Chronicle, May 12.  Till CAMP &T Cnoanan.—The 11th company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Capt. Jervois, Royal Engineers, and at present stationed at Alderney, have been placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness to come up to Woolwish at the latter end of the present month, for the purpose of proceeding to join the troops to be encamped on Chobbam Common during the ensuing month. It is said, that an addition to the field-batteries of the Royal Artillery under the command of Capt. Price at Shorncliff, and Capt. Campbell at Chatham, two additional batteries will proceed from Woolwich garrison to Chohham. It is also expected, as so few troops will be left in garrison, that the malitia will be quartered in the various barracks in , the kingdom, and go through the regular routine of garrison duty. SUICIDE BY A Boy—On Saturday, an inquest was held at the Hero of Waterloo, Waterloo Road, on the body of Morris Frankford, aged 15 years, whose body was found in the Thames, opposite West's wharf, Commercial Road, Lambeth. The father of the youth said that his son had been apprenticed in a cigar manufactory, and that he had not only been severely beaten by his master on several occasions, but his wages had been stopped. This treatment caused a great depression in the boy's spirits ; in fact, he was reduced to a state of madness. Several apprentices in the same establishment deposed that they believed that the deceased destroyed himself in consequence of the ill usage he experienced. One witness was about to state how the apprentices were treated, but the coroner stated it was not the province of the jury to inquire. The jury consulted a short time, and returned a verdict of Found drowned.' -  - _