Glasgow Courier. — 1850-12-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  Viscount Ponsonby, we hear, has resigned the Embassy at Vienna, and Mr. Magenis will continue to act as Charge d'Affaires until the arrival of his Lordship's successor. Lord and Lady Ponsonby have arrived in Belgrave Street for the winter.—Standard. The balance-sheet of James Stevens Tripp, a sharebroker, of Lombard Street', London, shows that the bankrupt owed to unsecured creditors .£58,505. To meet this, the assets were put down at .£2 in good debts and £4 17a. doubtful. Paris.—About six weeks ago great sensation was caused in the English circles of this city by the melancholy suicide of a young lady of highly respectable family, who bad recently arrived with a married sister and her sister's husband from Dieppe. She bad, it seems, gone to the house of an English physician, with whom, though much her senior, she had been on terms of intimacy. In consequence of something which took place between them, she swallowed a dose of opium which she bad brought with her in a phial. She, however, was able to walk home, and the poison, it seemed, was not likely to have any dangerous effect; but the next morning she sent out for another larger dose, and this caused her death in a few hours.—Brighten Gazette. Chester and Holyhead Railway. - -We hear that the arrangements between the London and North-Western, the Chester and Holyhead, the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin Steam-packet Company, were completed on Friday last, and that the matter now merely awaits the formal sanction of the respective boards. The steam-boats of the and Holyhead are to be purchased by the Dublin Company, who are to exert themselves to bring traffic upon the Chester and Holyhead line. The London and NorthWestern are also, we understand, to afford every facility for throwing the through Manchester goods traffic upon the same railway. It is farther stated, that the arrangements leave the Cheater and Holyhead Company perfectly at liberty to make terms with the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Chester Junction Company.—Morning Herald. Weather in the English Channel.—Our Southampton corre. spondent, writing last night, says that a tremendous squall from the westward passed over that town last evening about six o'clock; the ships in dock all held on without damage, but the baggage warehouse suffered considerably in the roof, the lead being rolled up like paper, and the slates blown into the dock. Whilst the West India mail steamer Clyde was being extra secured, two of her crew fell overboard, when Mr. Heathcote, the second officer, courageously jumped into the water, and, after considerable exertion, in which his own life was placed in imminent danger, succeeded in saving their lives. The packet brig Brilliant went out of dock yesterday and anchored in the Southampton water, to await better weather before sailing for Madeira; it is now (8 P.M.) blowing a terrific gale at S.W., with a very low barometer, and still falling.—English Paper of Monday. Liverpool, Friday Evening.—The anti-Papal meeting at Birkenhead took place this day in the market square, a space reckoned to be capable of accommodating 15,000 persons, and it is thought that nearly 7,000 were present. The absence of any attempt at disturbance was doubtless attributable quite as much to an address issued yesterday by the Catholic clergyman, Mr. Browne (requesting the Catholics to abstain from attending the meeting), as to the precautionary measures of the magistrates; and placards had also been posted, signed by Mr. Browne, reiterating his request. The chair was taken at eleven o'clock by John Laird, Esq., who was supported by the most distinguished and influential of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and who opened the proceedings by reading the requisition which had been presented to the magistrates to convene the meeting. The resolutions embodied the address, which is couched in language similar to that adopted throughout the kingdom on the recent similar occasions; and the address having been adopted nem. con., a vote of thanks was proposed to the chairman, and the meeting was dissolved without the slightest disturbance or unpleasantness having occurred.  Chester  Fire in Southwark —Narrow Escape of Five Persons.— On Friday morning a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Biddle, No. 62, Great Suffolk Street, Southmark.' The flames, when first perceived, were raging in the lower part of the house, at which time the inmates, consisting of two women and three children, were in bed. The whole of the parties were after some trouble aroused, and made sensible of their great danger, but not before the flames had gained the stairs and cut off all chance of escape by the regular means. A man named Purser, who was passing, seeing the imminent danger to which the residents were exposed, and perceiving a horse and cart moving down the street, immediately had the vehicle drawn on to the pavement and placed under the windows of the burning house, and by mounting the cart he was enabled to rescue the whole of the inmates. One of the women,however, was much hurt by her headstriking the wall as she descended. Engines quickly attended, but the fire was not extinguished until it had extended into every part of the building.—Daily New:.