Glasgow Courier. — 1855-01-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

YEAR 1854.  JANUARY.  I. The frost ; 70,000 persons sksted, &c, in St. James's and Hyde Parks.  2. Railway —Ace. idents Midland Railway, one man killed by being knocked down by an engine; St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway, collision with luggage train, many passengers severely injured. Midland Counties Railway, collision between an express and • luggage train near Rugby; so perion•l injury beyond briiives. . _ . .  weather, the coldest night remembered for many years; traffic on the river partially stopped. 3. Rochdale, destruction of Messrs. Kebsall's mill by Bre.  Shipwrecks in the United Kingdom: An official return issued, showing that there were 1,115 shipwrecks In the United Kingdom, of which 500 were total wrecks. Wages movement at Preston, Messrs. Birley Brothers, in conneaion with the Master's Association, Issued an address. . _  4. Colliery accident near Ruck,'le; two lives lost, twu severely injured. Convocation, prorogation of. - Plunket, Lord, dcith of, at Old Connaught, near Bray  Railway Delay.: Penalties reeovered from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, by an engineer, for not being able to attend a meeting in time. Snowstorm, .erious interruption of railway traffic. Poisoning a whole family in Bermondsey, diabolical attemptut.  kuilway Accidents: Eastern Counties, collision between two train., four lives lost ; Great Northern, two collisions durinx the snow-storm, no It, lost. Snow-balling on Change RI Liverpool—extraordinary scene.  'Curley and Russia ; The Sultan's reply to the Note of the Four Powers. 6. Dread riots at Crediton. Railway Accidents ; Great Northern, a man desperately injured by failing across the rails. T. Crystal Palace at Sydonlism, dinner in Ibis Igoenoton.•  S. Railway Accidents: Great Western Railwi.y,a man killed by strain running over both his legs. General Viscount 13eresford, G.C.8., G.C.H., death of, at Bedgebury Park. Major-General Thomas William Taylor, governor of the Niiiitary College at Sandhurst, death of. 9. Bread riots at Exeter. Railway Accidents: Midland Railway, °collision with empty trains, many passengers severely injured. 10. Bread riots at Tiverton. 12. Railway Accidents Eastern Counties Railway, verdict of manslaughter agaiiibt Mr. Ashcroft, the superintendent of works. Turkey and Russia : Intelligence reached Vienna of the defeat of the Ituisians near Citate, in Wallachia. 13. Wages movement at Preston, address of Messrs. Sharpies and 11. Dover, great Oast of cliff at. -- Wages movement, great meeting at Preston. 15. Railway Accident: Great Northern, collision on, no lives lost; ltlidland Railway, bursting of an engine boiler, the engineer and stoker very dangerously wounded. 10. Sir Robert Berry Inglis, Bart., retirement of, from stllblie life. Did lizeise Office, City, accident at the, two men killed, fire seriously injured. 17. Shipwreck : Loss of the John o' Gaunt, many liver lost.  Reform banquet nt Sheffield. 19. France, the Bank of, the rate of interest raised. Railway Accidents: Eastern Counties. collision with a coal train, no li.es lost ; Edinburgh and Glasgow. a broken rail, no personal injury. 29. Shipwrecks: Wreck of the Scotland, near Kings.  town 21. War: Important address hy Admiral t' e Hon. R. S. Dionlas, CB., to the crew of her %lajesty's ship Thetis, at Portsmouth. The Wear, groat floods in; destruction of Lermley docks.  22. Railway Accidents: Shrewsbury and Hereford gates at Holes ham eerily.] away, without farther injury ; Great Western, train ran off the rails, no serious personal Injury. 23. Allied combined fl eta returned from the Black Sea to the Bosphorus. Sir John Franklin, the fate of, smiled by the Admiralty: the crew• of the Erebus and Terror to be wiped out of the books from 3let March neat. 24. Sir Ralph Lopes, Bart., M.P., death of, at Monistow*, near Plymouth. Shipwreck of the brig Canadian off Aldburough ; —crew saved by the life-host. Vt. Railway Accident : Midland Railway, mail horse and cart crushed, no personal injury done to the passengers or drivers. Shipwrecks, Ste.: Intelligence received of the loss of the United States mail steam-ship San Francisco. 26. The Wages Movement: Meeting of the Masters' Association at Preston. 27. Railway Aocidents: Groat Northern, °Melon with *coal train; no personal injury. Rear Admiral Sotheby, death of. 2s. Shipwrecks, Sic.: Destruction of the screw ship Petrel by fire; wreck of the Olinda, Brasil steamer. 30. Howard, Dr., suicide of. Railway Accidents: Great Northern, by breaking of azletrees, the eighth case of. 31. Parliament opened by her Majesty in person.