Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PLEASURE-S EEKER'S GUIDE, 1 Hotel Directory, and Excursionist's HSndy-book. This work, containing (in addition to much interesting information) a Tariff of Hotel Charges, will be found very serviceable to all who patronise Excursion Trains. Post free for seven stamps, by Johnson & Co., 10, Brooke Street, Holborn, New edition, for 1864, just out  n a land.  Lord Palmerston will be 80 years old the 30th of next month.  The Earl of Cadogan is dead. He was in his eighty-second year. It is stated that a Cardinal's hat will be conferred upon the very Rev. Monsignore Manning, D.D., Provost of Westminster, and that he will, as a prior step, be raised to the office of a Bishop. During the past few weeks locusts have been caught in almost every direction .in the west of Cornwall, and particularly in the district of Land's End. They have done much mischief among the cabbages. The Bury Post states that last week a flock of sheep were turned into a field of barley stubble at Wnodditton where they ate ureedily of the scattered grains, in consequence or. w LA.., • them died.  A woman named Sarah Whaley died in London a few clays ago from excessive drinking. She was fifty-nine years of age, and it was stated at the inquest that "she had not been sober for the last twenty years." The Rev. Matthew Jeffreys, 8.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, Rector of South Thoresby, near Alford, Lincolnshire, has committed suicide by cutting his throat. He had been in a desponding state for some time.  A printer's apprentice in London had so allowed himself to speculate on the probable fate of Muller that be tried an experimental hanging on himself in the office. He was found dead with a rope about his neck.  A paper this week mentions the arrest of a woman in the streets, and states that nothing was found on her person but a love-letter and a daguerreotype. Rather a "poetic" and "picturesque" costume for the metropolis ! - - •  Admiral Keppel of Manor House, Bishopstok,e Hants, through whose garden a small branch of the river Itchen runs, has commenced an extensive system of breeding trout. He has already reared some thousands of young trout from spawn. The illness of Brother Ignatius, which was pronounced to be a sham by a London clergyman in whose church be was to officiate last Sunday, is certified by his medical adviser, who has written to the Times to that effect.  On Wednesday, Dr. Collier was charged before the magistrates at Guildford with threatening to shoot Mr. Wilkin, a papermaker. The defendant denied the charge, but was bound over to keep the peace for six months.  The lovers of cal Aries have lately been frightfully imposed upon by the sale of real London sparrows, which have been painted yellow, and looked like nature. After a few washings in their bath they gradually put forth their native dingy plumage, A case of lamentable dissipation and destitution came before the Liverpool coroner on Wednesday. An inquest was held on the body of a man who died from pneumonia, and it appeared that the wife actually stripped the dead body, and sold the clothes to get drink. At Sheldon Regatta, on Monday, a sailor named Potter, of Budleigh Salerton, mounted the pier in front of the signal gun. A man named Greenslade, not observing -him, fired the gun. The wadding entered Potter's right side, fracturing several of his ribs, and inflicting such other internal injuries, that he died the following day. The deceased was about thirty-six years of age, and leaves a wife and six children, two of whom were present at the time of the occurrence.  On Monday forenoon a party of ladies and gentlemen, consisting of the Rev. E. Cheese and Mrs. Cheese, of Hanghton-le-Skerne, Miss Villiers (eldest daughter of the late Bishop of Durham), Mr. David Neesham, Miss Neesham, and others, arrived at Barnardcastle on their way to High Force. Mr. Neesham and Miss Villiers occupied a gig, whilst the remainder of the party were on horseback. At the King's Head door Mr. Neesham alighted, and was assisting Miss Villiers to descend from the conveyance, when the horse became startled and suddenly went off at a gallop. It had not proceeded more than fifty yards when the gig came in collision with a cart, Miss Villiers being thrown to theground with great violence. The young lady On being taken up was found to be insensible, and was pronounced to be suffering from concussion of the brain, in addition to which her collar-bone was broken. We are glad to hear that there is a prospect of her speedy recovery.