Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LLB., of New College, London, has received a cordial and unanimous invitation to the pastorate of the North Hanover Street Congregational Church. On Tuesday afternoon, the dead body of a woman, apparently in middle life, was found in the Candrem Burn, near Paisley. The body is to undergo a post mortem examination. At a meeting of the directors of the Scottish Imperial Insurance Company, held lately, Mr A. Gordon Brown was appointed manager, and Dr M`Call Anderson physician to the company. The steamer Stettin has brought here from Dunkirk 8000 bags of beetroot sugar, weighing atout 800 tons—the largest quantity of this kind of sugar which has yet been brought to Clyde. At a meeting of feua.rs and householders of Gourock, held there on Thursday night, a resolution was carried agreeing to petition Parliament in favour of the Caledonian extension line to Gourock. _ _  The Hon. G-. F. Boyle has subscrihed the handsome sum of £lOO to the Working Men's Club at present being formed there. What makes the gift all the more acceptable is that it was unsolicited. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Friday morning, the dead body of a woman named Elizabeth M ills, about 60 years of age, residing alone at 51 Wigton Street, was found floating in the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Caledonian and Glasgow and South-Western Railway Companies have kindly granted a free pass for the present year, along their lines in the south of Scotland, to the teacher of the mission to the blind for that locality. On Tuesday forenoon, a joiner in the employment of the Messrs Baird, Gartsherrie Iron Works, named Daniel Lavery, aged 44 years, residing at Smellie's Land, New Dundyvan, was killed at No. 6 Pit, Gartshore, Kilsyth. A correspondent at Fairlie, has forwarded a number of flowers in full bloom, which afford a beautiful proof of the mildness of the season. The bouquet contained white primroses, double snowdrops, polyanthuses, hepeticas, and one crocus. A young lad, named Prosser, while repairing the roof of the Clydesdale Hotel, Lanark, fell to the ground, owing to the breaking of a rope to which he was attached as he sat on the slates, and when picked up he almost immediately expired. The election of members of the Local Marine Board took place on Thursday, when the following gentlemen were elected—Messrs Allan Gilmour, Geo. Smith, jun., .Janes Allan, Charles Kidston, Robert Edmiston, Thomas Henderson. James Thomson, a carter, residing in Strathleven Place, Dumbarton, was found by his wife, head downwards, in a barrel of water beside his stable. He was quite dead; and various circnmstances lead to the belief that he committed suicide. On Tuesday, the remains of Mr Robert Watt Torrance, eldest son of Thomas Torrance, Esq., surgeon to the Bth Administrative Battalion, and a member of the 21 Company of the 48th (Airdrie) L.R.V.. were interred with military honours by his comrades in arms. The first general meeting of the Society of Writers was held in Glasgow on Tuesday in the Religious Institution Rooms. The leading objects and purposes of the society, which has been recently established, are "to consider and give united expression to the opinions of the members upon all matters, measures, and questions, relating to or affecting the laws of Scotland and the interests of the legal pramion,