Glasgow Courier. — 1864-06-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

OOO. The erection of the mills has commenced. - . _  Mrs Greenhow, the lady who committed suicide at Esher last week by throwing herself on a tailwa train, was a sister of Miss Mai titieau's. Captain J. C. Mitchell, a son ot the I. ish Mr John Mitchell, is in command of Saar e Itom_ the temporary absenee ot Lieut.-Colonel Elliot. The Boitian Catholic inhabitants of Ciontert hay,. joined almost unanimously in a te•tinionial to thi.: late Vicar, the Rev. W. Maziere Brady, D. D.  the Hants papers record the do ,t,_ of Mr Abi'aliani Crowley, the brewer et the fanion> Aitou aio. deceased geutlernan was ne.tr:y 7,1 .‘ ears of age. A quantity of materials for illicit distillation ‘va.discovered a few days ago under the altar ot thy Roman Catholic chapel at Crimlin, county Mlyo. The Evening Herald says that L)rd Hawardcn has undertaken to assist, Lord Colville in co,lnection with the Conservative party in tliHow,o Lords The Hon Mr B Bethnell has resigned th offive of Registrar in Bankruptcy, and Mr t& ,ceret-try to the Lord Chancellor, has been appointe4 to succeed him.  Cheers, a custom-house officer in Live,•pool, has died from the effect of injuries received in consequence of a box of lucifer matches accidentally igniting in his pocket. On Thursday, a woman named Jane Middleton, about sixty years of age, residing at Bridge-end, Ballynnicarrett, was burned to death under very melancholy circumstances. The rector of the parish in which Covent GArden, market is situated has begun a series of outdo.ir services on Sunday evening. The Rev. Lord Wr.othealy Russell was the first preacher. The experiments at Valentia, in Spain, for getting a crop of silk in the open air, have been attended with good resuits. This sear the worms bred in that manner present an excellent appearance. In the mail packet services estimate for the current year, £50,000 is set out for the postal service between Galway and ports in America. Under such circumstances it is probable that the line will again commence.  A telegram from Malta announces that a powder mill near rripoli exploded on Tuesday, killing forty men. The telegraph station wa, much damaged, but none of the clerks were killed. The service was not interrupted. The Spanish Ministry have received news from Peru announcing that the Government of Peru was disposed to satisfy the demands of Spain. A cabinet council was held at Aranjuez at which this question came under discussion  In the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday, a plan for the better laying-out of the only civic park of the town, the Meadows, drawn up by lr David Cousin, the city architect, was read. and referred for consideration to a committee. We understand that Brodie of Lethen and Coulmony has is-ued a presentation to the church and parish of Raiford, in the Presbytery of Forrest and county of Elgin, in favour of the Rev. Robert Smith, .M., school master of Knockando, Elginshire. Within the last few days the weather has become much colder, with occasional showers. On Sunday, at Amulree,snow fell to the depth of several inches, and the bigher portion of the Grampians, as seen from the Bridge of Perth, were as white with snow as if it were midwinter.  A parish priest was condemned a few days ago by the Tribunal of Siene to four moUhs' imprisonment, for having, while performing mas 4, uttered imprecations against one of his flock, and instigated the Congregation to assault him. His advice, however, had fortunately not been followed. The case of Ferguson v. Hely, in which a clergyman, the Rev. Samuel Ferguson, rector of Moyne, county Kilkenny, and his daughter obtained damages amounting to £5OOO, has ended happily in the marriage of Miss Ferguson to the defendant, which took place in Dublin on the 4th ult. _ Intelligence received at Marseilles from Tunis. to _  the 25th inst., state that the Arabs having di-,eovered that the Caid of the tribe of Alecijees had betrayed the Bey set up by the insurgents, put him to death, together with 60 of his relations And servants. Eighteen vessels were in the Roads of Tunis ready to take on board those Europeans who might desire to embark. Mr Hume, M. P. for Wicklow, succeeds through the death of his mother to the largest fortune left in Ireland for more than a century. She was tbesister of Mr Quintin Dick, long member for Malton. To her Mr Dick left the whole of his immense property, estimated at upwards of two millions sterling, accom• panying the bequest with a direction that the money should be invested in the purchase of real estates in Ireland.