Glasgow Courier. — 1862-07-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE HANDBOOK OF SOVEREMNS.—The Alinanack de Gotha presents this year some curious discrepancies worthy of note. It preserves in their places the States of Italy which have been annexed to the Piedmontese Monarchy, and yet admits the Kingdom of Italy, saying, "Victor Emmanuel takes, by the law of the 17th of March, 1861, the title of King of Italy." In addition, full details of the new provinces are given in the statistical part. But, on the other hand, it admits some new States not before recognised by the Almanack, such as the Republic of Hayti, the Kingdom of the Sandwich Islands, and the Empires of Japan and China. In the Sandwich Islands the King, named Alexander Giholiho Kernehameha IV., is declared to be 26 years old, and married to an American lady, Miss Roker. His son has the title of Prince of Hawai ; his brother is Generalissimo, and his sister Prime Minister! He has a Council of State, three Ministers, and a Marshal, a Receiver-General,- and a Surpreme Court. The majority of the European States have representatives there. The kingdom forms four insular provinces, peopled by 70,000 inhabitants. The oldest Sovereign in Europe is still the King of Wurtemburg, 80 years of age, and the youngest the Prince of Reuss-Greiz, who is IN years old. The Sovereign who has reigned the longest is the Duke of SaxeMeiningen, who came to the throne 59 years ago, while the most recent is the Sultan. The work also gives a list of the different Orders, 134 in number, of which six are for women. The State possessing most is Bavaria, which has 11; then Spain and Austria, which have 10; Russia 8 ; and Portugal and Sweden 6. The Italian Revolution suppressed six Orders in Naples, one in Modena, two in Parma, and five in Tuscany.  The Queen has subscribed £2OOO to the Lancashire Relief Fund. A female threw herself into the Thames on Mon• day, at the foot of Blackfriars Bridge, and was drowned. Mr John Granville Penn, whose name appears among the holders of pensions for civil service, is, says the Spectator, the heir of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. The descendants of that great man were deprived of their property 94 loyalists during the revolution, and received their pension of £4OOO a-year as compensation. Mr Francis Crozar, a musical instrument maker, has drowned himself in the Thames. It appeared he had advertised very largely in anticipation of a brisk business during the Exhibition time. This hope had been completely disappointed, and the evidence left no doubt he committed suicide through  chagrin. An inquest has been held on a lady named Snellgrove, who died from starvation, having been rendered destitute by sickness and misfortune. Her son has been taken to the hospital in so exhausted a state as to cause serious apprehension of his life. Verdict on the lady--death from disease accelerated by destitution. COMMERCIAL Tsxns. —The penny unit of entry charge upon imports, which produced £80,868 in 1860. brought in £138,319 in 1861. The Is 6d bill of lading stamp, which brought in £30,254 in 1860, produced £43,640 in 1861. The revenue derived from the charge of a quarter per cent. on warehoused goods, which was £28,956 in 1860, reached £48,129 in 1861. A murderous attack was made on Sunday morning by a coloured seaman named Walter Hill upon Honors Morris, a prostitute, in one of the Shadwell dens. The fellow asserts that the woman had robbed him, but however that may be, he stabbed her in the neck, and wounded she ran into the street, where she fell senseless, and is not likely to recover. Hill is in custody. The Indian Empire, paddle steamer, lately belonging to the Galway line of American steamers, was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning in the river of Deptford. She had become the property of Z. C. Pearson. Esq., of Hull, and had for the last six weeks been undergoing a thorough refit. An attempt to scuttle her failed. She appears to have been insured in the Commercial Union Office for £lO,