Glasgow Courier. — 1853-05-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND. Castietown (Isle of Man) is to be lighted with gas. A company is being established for the purpose, with a capital of £1,500, in shares of £5 each. Miss Eliza Crabtree, a maiden lady, with an income of .£7 per week, died lately at Walton, Surrey. The evidence at the inquest disclosed the fast that she frequently drank twu or three pinta of gin per day.  ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR ExETSII—.A Jew pedlar was found in a copse in the neighbourhood of the city of Exeter in a state of insensibility, and with several dreadful wounds on his head and face, he is not dead, but is past all hopes of recovery. The police have discovered that on Sunday he left a lodging_ house at Cullompton, in company with another man, apparently a Jew, and that when he left he complained of being unwell. The lodging, house keeper asked him why he did not allow his companion to carry his carpet bag and box, to which he replied, 'Me afraid. The police are using their utmost efforts to find out this other man. ROBBING A DEAD PorE.—.-We road the following in the Bilancia of Milan, under the date of Rome, 2cl:—. • A very painful discovery was made the other day in the Ilasilicaof Lateran. Those who are acquainted with the locality will recollect that Pope Mattin lies buried in the nave. The body having to be removed in consequence of certain architectural repairs in progress, the coffin was opened in the presence of the chapter. To everybody's surprise nothing was found butithe bones of Martin V.; the rings, the gold and silver chalices, the tiara, all studded with precious stones, had disappeared. Their existence in the coffin had been verified about 50 years ago.'  RIPE 'WM: WAGES OP THE SPIT tLFIELDFI WEtVEIOI. —lt ig notorious that during the last seven years the Spitalflelds weavers have been subjected to many reductions—indeed an wretchedly low has been the price of their labour that the poverty of that class of workpeople has been proverbial. The weavers have, however, been making an effort to share in the general improvement in the silk trade. Several manufacturers have already made a small advance, and are willing to advance a trifle more on the Ist of June next, provided others in the same branch of the trade will do the same. The movement has the commiseration of the clergy and other influential persons in the district.  DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—lnformation was on Thursday received in London of one of the most extensive incendiary fires that has occurred for some considerable time past in the county of Surrey. About 385 acres of furze were set on tire on Frimley-common and plantations, and for a period of six or seven hours the flames continued to rise several yards high into the air. The villagers hastened to the spot, and tried to subdue the conflagration, but without success, and finally the fire penetrated the outbuildings belonging to a private gentleman, and burnt to death a number of pigs. A number of chemical preparations have been found secreted in the furze, which no doubt were employed to fire the plantations, not merely on the common, but on several others.  The Crystal Bonnet, worn by the Empress, appears to be driving the votaries of fashion in Paris almost frantic. Its transparent character shows the graceful contour of the head, and displays, as through a cloud, the masses of hair in softened contrast with the lucid neck and shoulders. These bonnets will be worn more forward than those of late, and while they reveal a temperate sense of taste they get rid of the awkward, not to say efet pedlar ci of the recent mode. The means by which the appearance of woven glass is produced we have not been able to gather from the Messrs. Jay, of Regent Street, who are already in possession of some of these chapeaux, which certainly combine the elements of lightness and transparency with a fitting protection for the head for a passing shower, or the more terrible visitation of a coup de soleil.