Glasgow Courier. — 1845-02-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STATE OF PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES.  We have received by the last mail, from an intelligent friend in New-York, the following encouraging account of the state of parties in the American commonwealth :  Now for a word about our defeat on the presidential election. What though the field is lost, all is not lost.' The Whig party is neither few nor faint, but fearless, determined, and indomitable still. You plainly see that the corruption of the Democrats was middy 'infused into the great States of Pennsylvania and Newtlfgrakt which elect very nearly one quarter of tbe Electoral College. But *het It meagre triumph have they achieved I In Pennsylvania the whole number of votes polled is 332,000, and Polk's majority 32441 In New-York, the vote is about 470,000. Polk's majority not exceeding 4500; while the abolition vote is said to be 18,000, thus leaving Polk in a real minority in New-York of 13,500. It is undoubted from 4000 to 5000 foreigners were naturalised in New-York a few days previous to the election. Amid all this yillany, there has been no riot heard of, although considerably over two and a half millions of votes must have been polled. Aft the small states have voted for Clay. Thus we shall probably maintain a preponderance in the Senate, which is our Conservative arm.  " It is believed the aggregate popular vote for Clay exceeds that for Polk.  Thus I trust that in your correspondence with your friends you will dissuade them from deserting us. Tell them their Saxon relations have fought bravely, and that our armour is untarnished, while that of our enemies is nauseous with filth, hell in their hearts, and hangman in their faces. We will ride over them yet. We have a host of honest and talented men in Congress, that sill not slumber at their posts. Depend on it, Polk will not 'sleep in down of the cygnets of Ganges.' "I am as sure that we are now silently, steadily, and rapidly progressing in the curtailment of uni 1 suffrage, that blight of our system, and in the consequent reform of our representation, as I am," &c.  Sir Robert Peel is adding to his mansion, at Drayton Manor, a picture gallery, 100 feet in length, for the reception chiefly of portraits of the most eminent men of the present day. His present collection of pictures at the manor is already among the largest, if not the largest, of modern date in ttis part of the country, and it is constantly being extended. The new gallery will be fitted tip in the richest manner with carved oak and polished marble, now preparing.  ,lion  The late Railway Accident.—We understand that Mr. E. Roberts, of Sneinton, commercial traveller, whose leg was amputated in consequence of the injuries be received in the late melancholy occurrence on the Midland Railway, and who yet lies in a very precariotto state, has received the sum of £l,OOO in compensation; and the company have agreed to pay all:surgiftl bills to the Ist of March next. We are informed that Mr. Lightfoot has commenced actions for libels against two of the jurors, who issued the letter to M. Justice Patteson, for statements which it contains reflecting upon and injurious to his character—Nottingham Journal.  Melancholy Suicide in Liverpool.—A very shocking suicide, which has plunged a respectable family into the deepest distress took place in Liverpool, on Thursday morning last, about 11 clock, and which threw the whole neighbourhood of Dale Street into great consternation. Near the above named hour a woman was seen to throw herself backwards from the four story window of the Saddle Hotel in that street. It appears that the hostler of the house was taking a gentleman's horse to the door at the time of the dreadful occurrence, and, seeing a lady fall upon the pavement of the yard, having first alighted on 801 D, Oir ran Co the spot. when to his be his mistress, Mrs. Martin. The unfortunate lady was instantly conveyed to the hotel, and surgical assistance having been promptly procured, it was discovered that she was so shockingly mutilated as to render it impossible for her long to survive, and after lingering in a state of insensibility for two hours she died. It seems that the deceased had been delirious for the last few days from the effects of erysipelas although she attended church on Sunday last in tolerable health. Her recent strange manner induced her family to place an attendant with her, froth whom she suddenly escaped to commit the deplorable, act. Mrs. Martin was the sister of Mr. Sidney, one of the Sheriffs of London.  Fraud and Imposition.—lu the Gorbals Police Court, on Friday, Charles M'Hardy was charged with obtaining under fraudulent pretences, a gold eye-glass, gold ring, silver pencil-case, silver tooth-pick, silver pen-knife, tortoise-shell card-case, and blank account-book, from the owner of a house in Hutchesontown, where he bad been lodging for a few weeks; also, with pawning and selling the said articles. The charge being clearly proven, the prisoner was sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. *Hardy, it will be recollected, was lately convicted in the same court, of defrauding a lodging-house keeper in the same locality. Railway Share Market.—The railway account is at last settled, and the result has been more favourable than the most sanguine could have expected. Although the market for the last three days has been the scene of continued excitement, in consequence of the arrangement of differences, which in some eases were remarkably heavy, from the speculative range of business, and although money has been in excessive demand, the whole affair has passed over in the most satisfactory manner, and the market presents as sttong an appearance as ever. This was a day regarded with dread by many of the more prudent operators, and, notwithstanding it must be a matter of congratulation with all parties that it has ended in such a pleasant way, a caution may be hinted to those who, flushed with the success ,of late transactions, feel inclined to continue them. The favourite shares of the day were Birmingham and Gloces-1 ter and London and York, both of which descriptions experienced an advance, as prices will show.—Times. The Earl of Cardigan and the Court Journal.—A rule was recently obtained in the Court of Queen's Bench, calling on the printer and publisher of the Court Journal to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for a libel against Lord Cardigan. Yesterday, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, on the part of the defendant, stated that the proprietor of the Journal had made every possible atonement, by inserting in it, the week after the publication of the article, a letter containing an apology, which was also sent to the morning papers. The Solicitor. General said that, at present, not having had any communiesteeerwitirbie client, he eould onty snake the rule absolute. Lord Denman observed that the apology was most ample; an opinion in which the Solicitor-General fully concurred.