Glasgow Courier. — 1855-05-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MALTA, MAT I.—The Great Britain steamer had arrived. Orders are received to embark a battering train of 280 pieces of beavy artillery and two divisions of infantry.  The Observer says, ' It is rumoured that a fresh proposition for the accommodation of the differences which arose at the Vienna conference has been submitted to oar government.'  The Bishop of Gibraltar has left Malta for Balaklava for the purpose of consecrating the ground in Atoll so many of our brave troops lie interred. His Lordship will also consecrate the ground at Constantinople on his ritturn. The Emperor Napoleon HI, gave atteraiicesThit Friday to Ministers from Austria, Prussia, Holland, and gpain, who delivered letters of congratulation from th'ir several Sovereigns on his Majesty's recent escape from assasination. We (United Service Gazette) understand that an expedition is forthwith to be organised to operate against Kertch and the coast of Circassia. The Sea of Azoff is also to be visited. An important' diverbion, if nothing more, might be created in that quarter by the small craft and boats of the fleet.  augAcPs—  According to the Athenaeum, one of the finest pictures in the Royal Academy exhibition this year, painted in the true, as distinguished from the modern Pre-Raphaelite style, is 'the Procession of Cimabue,' the work of Mr. Leighton, a young painter of twentyfour. This fine picture was bought by her Majesty at the private view for £6OO.  Advices from Natal describe favourably the progress of that colony. Several hundred acres of sugar cane are being cultivated, and the yield and quality are said by reputed judges to be superior to those of Mauritius. Indigo also is about to be extensively Froduced by two persons who have recently arrived from Java, where they have been for many years engaged in its culture and manufacture. , sus —On Saturday Captain Bevis to survey a new screw-steamer, the Glasgow for Messrs. W. J. Fairind the Dido, also a screw-steamer, Cork Steam-packet Company. The ,mo, at present repairing here, for the transport service. that her Majesty's frigate ..,ng 24 guns, will shortly arrive with two of Nasmyth's monster anons, which are said to be capable shot to a distance of five miles. Dr. Vidal, of Sierra N 5 sea to  wag  ITsme  and  Kangaroo,  re-engaged informed  been  mounting  aimed  cannons,  Bishop offered  the see. Thomas's  According to letters from St. Petersburg of the 20th ult., the Caspian Sea has recently been visited by violent tempests, which have done immense dam. are. On the eastern coast alone not fewer than SC vessels were cast ashore, and 12 others were broken to pieces; the inhabitants of the coast lost besides all their boats, and a great many of them were drowned. Moreover, many of the towns on the coast and the islands near it suffered greatly; the Isle Aschurode had been completely under water, and tho town of Astralod had been devastated.  The Progrds du Pas de Calais relates an extraordinary murder committed in the commune of St. Michael, in that department, by a boy of only ten years of age, named Zephir C—. During the absence of his parents, feeling himself annoed by the cries of a little sister, only two-and-a-half months old, he got into her cradle and stamped savagely on her with his feet; and then, finding that she still breathed, he pressed her throat with his hands until she was dead. On the return of his parents he did not attempt to deny what he had done, but related the circumstance with the most perfect sang froid. The idea of forming a Foreign Legion (says the United Service Uazette), although checked for a time by the mischeivous outcry raised by a part of the British press, does not appear to have been entirely relinquished by the government. Instead, however, of raising a force of 14,000 men, it has been determined to limit it at present to 5,000. Of this number it appears that 3,000 may shortly be expected from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the men having been recruited in America. The remaining 2,000 will be Germans, in all probability, and the whole body will for a time be located at Heligoland. The organisation, drill, and equipment of this force has, we hear, been entrusted to Colonel Kinloch, formerly of the Life Guards, Spanish Legion, &c , who recently returned from Spain, whither lie had been sent for the purchase of mules.  TIIE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE Or ROBERT AGAINST • LADY or