Glasgow Courier. — 1846-05-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WEEKLY STEAM MAILS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. We are enabled to make an announcement regarding the conveyance of mails between this country and America which will be hailed with gratification by the whole community. The Government have entered into a further contract with the British and North American Royal Mail Company, the effect of which is to secure,a meekly communication by steam betweeil Jfiverpool and the Uffited States of Amer:ca. A steamer of great power and size will be despatched direct from Liverpool to New-York every alteritate‘Saturday during eight months of the year. These trips are to be performed as additional voyages, and irrespective of the fortnightly voyages to Halifax and Boston; as this latter service will contiuue just as at present, with the alteration of sailing from Liverpool as well as from Boston always on Saturdays, instead of a fixed day of the though, as at present. The steamers to New-York will alio take their departures always on Saturday. By this arrangement there will be it steamer from Liverpool to America every Saturday, and from the American side also every Saturday, the only difference being that Boston and NewYork trill alternately be the ports of departure. At present we are not enabled to state the precise time when these weekly sailings will commence, but no doubt we may look for the alteration to come into play as soon as the required number of ships can be got ready to undertake such a vast service.—Standard of Thursday.  University of Edinburgh.—On Saturday the Senates Academicus of the University assembled in the Senate Hall, and inducted John Goodsir, Esq., F R.S.E , Professor of Anatomy in the room of Dr. Alex. Monro, resigned. The attendance of the Senatus was numerous, and among the patrons were Bailie Duncan, College Baillie, Treasurer Thomson, Councillors Grant, Russell, Stott, Shepherd, Tullis, and Dick. . _ _  The Right Ron. the Earl of Glasgow arrived from England, per the Fleetwood steamer, at Ardrossan, on Wednesday, and went per railway en route, supposed for Ilawkhead. .Burglary.—On Tuesday night, about nine o'clock, a lady residing in Montague Street, Edinburgh, while sitting in a front parlour, heard a suspicious noise in a bed-room, and on searching it, put her hand on the head of a man, ensconced under the bed. The lady instantly cried out for assistance, but before any could arrive, the burglar sprang from the window, ran ok and made his escape. Fortunately no property is missing. Dlrearbances at Lockerby.—Saturday, the 25th ult., was pay-day here on the Caledonian Railway, and in consequence of some disputes betwixt the contractors and their agents, no money was forthcoming. There was great excitement among the men, who gathered into the town in the course of the afternoon; many of them became intoxicated, and the confusion was farther increased by the arrival of a body of navies from Ecclefechanorhere there was a similar , deficiency of cash. There was every appearance of a very serious riot; but the police succeeded in maintaining something like order, until a person arrived in the evening from Carlisle with money. The pay books were not forthcoming for some time; and it was not until about 4 o'clock on Sunday moraine that the claims of the men at Lockerbv were satisfied. The men at Ecelefechan were paid on the bollowing Monday For several days after this they continued in a very unsettled state in both places.—Diumfries Courier. Melancholy Suicide.—On Monday afternoon, Mr. Reading, an active, intelligent, and much-esteemed superintendent of the Liverpool police, who has long laboured under great depression of spirits, from an illnes3 produced by injuries received while assisting to extinguish one of the great fires for which Liverpool has been notorious, put an end to his earthly ills by commiting suicide. Deceased, lived at Sea. combe, a beautiful rural village across the Mersey; and having spent tbe morning in Liveepool, where it is supposed he purchased the deadly draught, he went home, kissed his youngest child, and bid her good bye; he then retired to his chamber, where he was found three hours afterwards in a state of stupor. Medical aid was quickly procured, and the stomach pump employed, but in vain, as he died shortly afterwards. Pecuniary embarrassments are said to have been the cause of this distressing circumstance. The de. ceased has left a widow and five children.  Two curious sales have lately taken Place in Paris; the first was of four shrubs, being of as many differht varies of 'camellias, sold for the sum of 10,000 f. (.E400) at the mere inspection of the drawing representing them; the other was by IT de Lamartine, who has sold to the Prate the copy. right of a volume of about thirty being the " Youth., fel Memoir,' and Confidcaces" et tile Mariana poet,  RA.I'