Glasgow Courier. — 1853-01-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND.  A private letter from Rome states that 'the Countess of Shrewsbury, accompanied by the youthful Earl, now in his 21st year, had arrived in that city. The health of the Countess was Improving ; she had 'been in a very precarious state for some weeks past ; and for several days after the, decease of the later lamented Earl her Ladyship's death wax hourly expected.' The captain of the Prussian brig the Flora, which arrived at Marseilles on the 22d. reports that on his way to that port, with a cargo of coals from Shields to England, he was stopped in the Straits of Gibraltar, on the 7th, by a strange vessel, manned by ten men, who immediately fired on the crew, and going on board ordered him to direct his vessel on the coast of Morocco, and to run it on shore; but from the calm which prevailed he was unable to do this ; whereupon the pirates, thinking the fault was in the helmsman, shot him dead, and threw him overboard. This murder terrified the crew, and they went into the hold, leaving the captain and his mate on deck. The pirates then proceeded to pillage the effects of the crew, the stores, and provisions, after which they quitted the vessel, and sailed towards Morocco. PORTSMOUTH, bsc. 28.—Vice-Admiral of i..... White, Sir Manias Jelin Cochrane, K C FL, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief 0 this port, arrived here yesterday afternoon, and hoisted his flag at the fore on board the Victory in this harbour; this morning at 9 t e usual salutes were exchanged, and the ships in co mission tinder the chief command ;t changed their ensi as from blue to white. The Dvina Russian corvette, Captain Besseraysky, which left Spithead on Thuroday to prosecute her voyage, put back to-day fromehe violence of the weather. The Termagant, 24, Captain Giffard, steamed into harbour this afternoon from Spithearl. The Duke of b .W:161 i tag go Ln, IA3I, largehas hl proportionag i n of herdocked t o machineryf a tli e r bas been put on board, and her huge boilers will be ' landed on Wedoesday. Tag NOTORIOUS Cseeor.—Thirteen convicts under sentence of transportation were, on the 22d inst., removed to the Beaford ptison from Newgate,to undergo the first stage of their penal career, which is 12 months strict separate confinement. Among the number is Caution, the ruffian who so nearly killed the unfortunate policeman Dwyer. Cannon appears in good health, and is evidently subdued. His general demeanour evinces a dispoulition to succumb to the conditions of his well-merited punishment. The two first stages of his sentence will occupy 12 years to complete--via., ono yearrin solitude, and the remainder in the quarries, or other equally severe labour; and should his conduet not be in all respects exemplary during that period, Norfolk Island will inevitably be his doom. The year's probation will in a great measure determine this.—Globe. A barbarous murder was committed at Hythe, near Southampton, on Christmas-eve. A labouring man, named Rand, as he was returning from the village of Hythe to his house on a common close by, was murdered and robbed, It was ascertained that three men of bad character passed by Rand as he was going home. Two of these men were apprehended. They declared their' innocence, but stated that their companion, a young man named George Dumper, a notorious poacher, left them after they passed Rand, and they knew not what he did, nor what had become of him. A pursuit was made after Dumper, and he was hunted down by some country people on Sunday, in a wood in the neighbourhood. On his apprehension blood was found on his smock-frock. Rand's age was about 67. It is believed that he had not above 5s about him when he was murdered.