Glasgow Courier. — 1848-11-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  We have letters from Palermolo the 29th of October. They bring, however, no important intelligence, exctept that active measures of defence were going on, and that it was understood as a certainty that the Duke of Genoa bad not refused the Sicilian Crown. The armistice continued in force, and all was quiet throughout the island.—Thwee.  Great Catch of Herrings.—Larger quantities of herrings were taken last week off Brighton and other plaoes along the Sussex coast than have been known for many years. Lately as many as nine or ten lasts (from 80,000 to 90,000) were brought to our beach, which was covered with mountains of fish. They were sold at 2s. per 100. At Hastings and the North Foreland the catch has been as great. Vast numbers of sprats have also been taken. One hundred bushels were brought in here and sold at 2s. per bushel. Our fishermen attribute tills early appearance of the sprat to the setting fi of cold weather. To the poorer classes it is a great boon, as the herring can be eaten without butter, and is therefore the cheapest of fish. They have been sold in the streets for 30 per is. Trawl-fish is more abundant than it usually is at this season of the year. Good soles have sold at 4d. per lb. Cod-fish was also plentiful and cheap: a good fish, weighing 161 b. or 161 b., for Is. ed. or 2s.—Brighton Herald. Suicide at a Shooting Gallsry.—On the 7th inst.,M.Doney, a well-known steeple-chase rider, committed suicide in a shooting gallery in Leicester Square, London. The deceased entered the gallery, and called for some duelling pistols. They were loaded by the boy engaged for the purpose, and he fired several shots at the target. Shortly afterwards the deceased directed the boy to deliver a note for him. When the boy was gone he loaded the pistols himself, and was seen to approach the target. He then placed the muzzle of one of the pistols to his forehead, and fired it off. A surgeon pronounced life extinct, the ball having lodged in the brain. The deceased bad latterly speaulated very largely on several races, and had Meta considerable'sum of money. He was in his 41st year, and has left a widow and three ehildren. . .  Tile Doeks 0/Liverpool—The extreme length of the river wall, which fronts the line of the dock's, IS within a few yards of four miles. The total water area now available amounts to upwards of 198 acres, and the total quay space to more than 14 miles. There are in all twenty-one docks in operation, exclusive of graving docks, half-tide docks, and basins. Of these, Rye, comprising about 38 acres of water area and nearly two miles of quay space, have been opened within the last few weeks. Two others, and a half-tide dock, which will yield together 21 acres of water area and one mile of qvay space, are in a state of great forwardness; and when all are brought into play, together with the contemplated increase in the neighbourhood of Wapping, the data of which we have not at present before us, Liverpool will be possessed of a vast and unrivalled extent of dock accommodation, which, nevertheless, gigantic as it may appear, will, we trust, be found, at no distant date, not more than commensurate with the augmented acquirements of her trade.—Liverpool Courier. Fated Accident on tile Great Western Railway—On Thursday morning an accident, attended with fatal consequenoet, occurred on the above line, at the Reading station, to one of the porters, named Edward Hitchings. The deceased was usually employed to superintend the arrangement of the carriages for the trains starting from Reading, and was engaged in putting in order those for the half-past 7 o'clock up-train, when the shocking occurrence took place. While in the act of connecting the link between two carriages, the engine intended to accompany the train, which was shifting two others on to different rails at the switch point, wrongly returned bank on the same line, from some cause not clearly , explained. The approach of the engine was so sudden and unexpected as to render the deceased quite unconscious et it, and the collision caused him to be completely jamined betwixt the two carriages, as, owing to the buffers givlnt - no intermediate space whatever was left, and the peer srer was fastened in this painful situation by the project., lamp-hook running into him. No time was lost in conhim to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where he within a very abort period afterwards. An inquest on the body the same evening, when, the above been detosed to, the jury returned a verdict 4 death.  way, I. f sufferer