The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-12-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SPAIN.—Our accounts from Madrid are of the 20th and 22d inst. It was reported that General Manuel de la Concha had refused the embassy to Paris. General Serrano had arrived at Granada, and assumed the government of the province. General Prim had reached Cadiz, on his way to Puerto Rico. The murder of a servant-maid, in the palace of Queen Christina, was the subject of every conversation. The unhappy woman was attached to the service of Her Majesty's chaplain, who, although absent from the palace at the moment the crime was perpetrated, was nevertheless arrested. Our correspondent says, nothing of a clear or positive nature has been as yet discovered. The authorities of Valencia, of which city she was a native, have been written to, as to whether she had a lover daring her residence there; and, if so, whether he has absented himself lately from that place. The chaplain of Maria Christina is under arrest, but the evidence of the medical men would go far to exculpate him. It 'ls to the effect, that when the door of the room in which the body lay was forced open, not more than three-quarters of an hour could have elapsed since the murder; and it was shown, on the evidence of ' the porters, that the chaplain had been absent at least five hours. The murderer, whoever he may be, appears to have done his bloody work perfectly at his ease. He not only washed his hands in the washing basin, but had the courage to wipe them on the cambric apron worn by his victim, and then dry them thoroughly on the towel. The marks of his fingers are plainly discernible on the apron. This was not all; he perfumed them, to take away the stains of blood, with eau-de-Cologne, a bottle of which was on the table. There is an additional feature of a most horrible kind respecting the time when the other crime was committed. Every circumstance connected with this tragedy is most shocking. As the body of the victim was being conveyed on a stretcher to the hospital, one of the bearers stumbled, and the body, all gory, fell on the pavement. Thexash in the throat of the unhappy woman was so deep that her head was nearly severed from the neck. She was a remarkably fine woman, and her age was less by three or four years than what I before mentioned. It seems she was only in her 25th year. Looking at all the circumstances of , the case, there is something which one cannot well understand. The papers seem almost afraid to dwell on the subject. I again refrain from alluding to the many, many stories the murder has given rise to." IT AL Ye.• 002 ( Times) private letters from Rome, of tie 18th inst., hold outs hope that the affair of Ferrara would be amicably and speedily adjusted. The ultimatum of the Pontifical Government had been forwarded a few days before to Milan, to Count Fiquelmont, who is now solely charged with the negociation. From what had transpired, it would appear that Austria had consented to withdraw her troops from the town, merely retaining possession of the road to the Po. Cardinal Ferretti proposed to guarantee that passage to the Austrian troops in possession of the citadel, and to establish a garrison of Roman troops in the town. The reply of Count Fiquelmont was expected about the 25th. Lord Minto had two long interviews with the Pope—the one on the 11th, and the second in the evening of the 12th. The affairs of Ireland were said to have been the principal topic discussed between them. The celebrated popular leader, Cicerruacchi, had paid his lordship a long visit. The Jewish residents of Rome had presented to the Pope, as an acknowledgment of their gratitude for the blessings he had conferred upon them, a copy of the Bible splendidly bound and -.a I illuminated, which had cost upwards of 1000 wadi. grades I