Glasgow Courier. — 1846-01-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE NEW-YEAR IN PARIS.  The Ist of January draws nigh. Alas! slack ! and should it be so; for, of all the days in the year, that of the New-Year is, in France,the most detestable. Everybody visits everybody, almost everybody kisses everybody, everybody wishes well to everybody, and everybody makes to everybody of his acquaintance some present or other ; 'whilst porters, servants, postmen, shopmen, waiters in the restaurants, the cafes, attendants in the cabinets de lecture—everybody, in •short, who regularly or occasionally is in the habit of ren"daring you little services, comes to wish you une bonne armee, and,-above all, to bleed your wretched purse. It is give, 'give, give, give, all day long. Presents to your friends' , wives—presents to your friends' children—presents to your friends' servants—presents to your own—presents to all and every one—piles of presents for people for whom, perhaps, you don't care a single straw—pleasant prospect, truly, for the unhappy wight who has not the wealth of Rothschild, the coffers of the Bank of England, or the yearly revenue of Ring Louis Philippe to fall back upon ! Take my word for it, New-Year's-Day is a nuisance; aid it is a disgrace to France that it was not abolished long tgo. Last session they passed a law for emancipating the black niggers of the colonies; and yet in all the legislature not one voice was raised to demand the emancipation of the more wretched whites from the monstrous exactions of the odious and abominable joinr de ran !—Paris Correspondent. .„  Attempted Suicide.—On Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock, a most determined attempt at suicide was made by Mr. H. Thurstell, a gentleman residing in Albany Street, Regent's Park, who, from extensive losses caused by railway speculation, has been for some time past in a very desponding state of mind. On returning home his landlady observed that he appeared more than usually depressed, that he had scarcely entered his room when the report of firearms. She immediately ran to his room when, she found Mr. Thurstoll lying on the ground bleeding from a wound in his throat. Medical assistance was obtained when it was ascertained that he had fired a loaded pistol into his mouth, but the ball taking a downward direction had come out through his throat, and some hopes are given of his recovery.—London Paper. _ . . . •  Low Duty Goods.—Application having been made by certain parties, owners of bonding premises on the banks of the river, requesting that potato flour, which, under the provisions of au order dated July last, as being subject to a duty of upwards of 15 per cent., is required to deposit in iwarehouscs of special security, may, with reference to the low value of the article, be deposited in warehouses of ordinary security, and the revenue authorities being of opinion that potato flour, and also pots of stone, slate pencils, and whalefins, are articles which may be exempted from the restrictions of the minute referred to and may be allowed to be deposited in a warehouse of ordinary security only, have issued directions for the same to be permitted in future accordingly.  GLASOOVt /