Glasgow Courier. — 1853-06-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PORTLAND BREAKWATEL—PortIand Breakwater has now attained to 3,000 feet from the shore ; the opening between the two pierheads is 400 feet. A large piece of machinery (a gantry crane) started on the staging on Tuesday, for the purpose of laying the stone for the pierheads with the diving bell. Its weight is about six tons.—Thtmeshire Independent. On Monday week, a servant in tho goods department of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, at Offspring station, who formed one of a wedding w party that as proceeding to Penistone i church, n attempting to get into one of the carriages as the train was moving, stumbled, and fell upon the rails, and the wheels of the carriages passed over his legs, and cut them completely off. M. du Tremblay, a French gentleman, has built a steamer which is worked by the vapour of ether; and it appears that the same force and the same speed are obtained at one-half the expenditure of coal, and with engines which occupy less room. The ether presents also some other minor advantages, amongst which the incrustation of the boilers is not the .least. The ether-propelled vessel has been tried with success in the sea off Marseilles, and has been sent on a voyage to Algiers. The Rev. 'I heodore Williams, vicar of Hendon, has just been discharged from the Queen's Prison, by an order of the Insolvent Court. The actual debts of the insolvent, commencing in 1812, amount to £30,057 Os Rd The insolvency of the rev, gentleman was attributed to the depreciation of West India property (of which he held considerable) and loss by the purchase of pictures; but he has an income of about £BOO from tithes as vicar of Hendon, and his wife has a separate estate of £404 a-year. A Hungarian poetess' Theresa Ferenczy by name, ' has just committed suicide at Prcsbourg, by—an unusual thing amongst women—blowing out her brains. She is only twenty-six years of age, and was of wealthy family. Her works are greatly admired by her countrymen, and are more widely read than poetical works often are. Her last publication, called the 'Birds,' was brought out only a few months ago. Souse lines in it indicated that she should write no more; but no one could have believed that she contemplated self-destruction. . . .  A' Belgian soldier, while bathing three days ago in the fosses of Antwerp, perceived some dark substance floating in the water. He, with the assistance of another person who happened to be near, pulled it to him, and it turned out to be the body of a young woman. But on farther examination they perceived that it was firmly attached by a cord to the body of a young man. Both bodies were sent to the hospital, and there it was ascertained that the young man and the young woman were lovers who bad committed suicide through poverty—Galignanes Messenger. SOUTHAMPTON, Jetts 20.—The steam-ship United States, of 2,000 tons (formerly on the New-York, Havre, and Southampton mail line), and Acadia, of 1,400 tons (formerly belonging to the Cunard line, and sold in 1848 to the German Confederation to form part of the Germanic fleet), have recently been disposed of for 8120,000 to Messrs. Fritze & Co., of Bremen. These vessels are to be fitted as passenger ships, and are intended to run between Bremen and New-York, touching, probably, at Southampton.