Glasgow Courier. — 1863-02-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AUSTRIA.  will  The Marquis de Boissy has re-appeared in the French Senate, and inaugurated the session with one of his vigorous and characteristic onslaughts upon England, which seems to have provoked the usual amount of hearty laughter in the Assembly. The first stone will soon be laid of the new English Episcopal Church in Stockholm. It is to be in the English Gothic style, 80 feet long and 40 broad. The outside will be of dressed sandstone, but the interior will be faced with Swedish marble. Pr lace Napoleon, forming all by himself a minority of one, has voted against the address in the Senate. The positive command of his cousin and sovereign prevented him from speaking on the Roman question, but he has shown his feeling by his vote. A painful case of suicide occurred in the city of Corfu a fortnight ago. A young and accomplished lady—it is said the wife of an English banker in Turkey, and who had been residing tnere some time—shot herself dead with a pistol in a hotel or. the Esplanade. A telegram from Toronto, dated the 16th ult., states that great excitement exists in Enniskillen, in consequence of the sudden stoppage of all the flowing oil wells. Drilling to a greater depth is being resorted to, and there are sanguine expectations of reaching another atisrta of oil. A report published in the Giornale di Roma, by order of the Pope, gives a very mournful picture of the situation of the Christians in the Annamite empire. During the year 1862, says that document, 16,000 Christians were put to death, and 20,000 reduced to slavery, in that country. It is said that Count Fleury informed his imperial master that it was his intention to come over to England and challenge Mr Kinglake, and, if he declined the challenge, of inflicting on him personal and public chastisement. But the Emperor forbade his equerry from taking such a step. M. Alberto Mario, the husband of Mies White, has declined to sit in Parliament for the constituency of Medic* in Sicily, by which he was lately returned. His refusal rests on merely political grounds. He professes himself a republican, and as such unqualified to sit in a constitutional assembly. Binghampton, New York, Tuesday, Jan. 13.—A very mournful catastrophe occurred at Harpersville, Broome County, yesterday. A pleasure party of thirty-seven ladies and gentlemen were skating on a pond in that vicinity, when the ice gave way, and twenty-seven of them were drowned. Advices from Vancouver Island to the 7th December report that trade was quiet, the mining season being over. A company had been formed to construct a railway from Esquainalt Harbour to Victoria, a distance of about three miles and a-half. A larger number of miners were wintering at Victoria this year than usual. The Marquis of Hartington, who has been visiting the Confederatecapital,on his passage through Washington, was introduced to President Lincoln by Mr Seward. " Hartington did you say !" exclaimed the President. "Yes," replied the Marquis. "Oh ! Hartington rhymes with Mrs Partington," said the President, much pleased at his own wit. An American gentleman, Mr J. L. Linton, has lately visited Paris for the purpose of submitting to the French Government his new method of generating steam. Instead of the ordinary fuel, he uses petroleum oil, or, should that be wanting, ordinary coal ; and, as the machinery which he employs can be easily applied to the steam engines in general use, he claims the merit of effecting a very considerable saving. The Shipping Gazette discredits the report that the French Consuls at Galveston and Richmond had endeavoured to induce Texas to secede from the Southern Confederacy, and says the independence of Texas would not advance the French policy in Mexico, while the mere attempt to achieve it would frustrate the proposal to bring about a cessation of hostilities in the American States.