Glasgow Courier. — 1864-01-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JAPAN.  PARIS, January 23.—The Pr* paws publish news from Japan, received by telegraph from Malta, asserting that ?rine° Satsuma had refused to pay the indemnity until the English should have evacuated Yokohama. The English are said to be awaiting reinforcements.  It is reported that M. Lamartine is about to marry a Russian Princess of groat fortune.  The Pope has created a now Cardinal without publishing the appointment. The dignitary is said to be Dr. Manning.  A bill has passe(' the Legislative Assembly of Routh Australia, authorising the payment to the Imperial Government of £6BOO a-year for the use of imperial troops in that colony.  John T. Gordon, Esq., sheriff-deputo of the county of Edinburgh, at present sojourning at Caen, in Normandy, gave a fete on the 13th inst., in the theatre there, to the French and English gentry of the place. The entertainment, which was on a grand scale, consisted of a lecture on Shakspeare, with dramatic illustrations, a ball, and a splendid supper, at which wag produced a monster plum pudding. The peat* Vga very numerous; among them were the 4Viegk and other dignitaries of the town; and alaq quite a galaxy of female beauty, French llRci Ufili4h,—iiiiiliratea London New:.  The Madrid journals state that a mysterious murder was committed in that city last week on the person of a wealthy lady of good family, named Donna -Picea% living separated from her husband. She had egkirca servant, a young woman name d aphrsno, who left the house one morning, telling the porter that !le was going to purehmt wavisiona. As she never returned, Red eothiug was seen of her mistress, the porter ilifurmed the lady's husband that he suspected Something wrong. The husband accordingly applied in the police, and the door of the apartmaPt w4s forced, when Donna Vicenta was found till deArn in bed, with a handkerchief drawn tiqbt MR her nook and two deep stabs in her hreaatk VIA must have caused instant death. The servant Was arrested three days after at Valladolid, and brought back to Madrid, but nothing further has yet transpired to elucidate the muse of this dreadful crime. A tale of a murder, perpetreted in a mysterious manner, and of the digicovery of the murderers by scientific mewl, is now the common talk of the inhabitants At tlo Russian capital. In the so-called old city, on the right shore of the Neva, behind the fortress, is a small house which enjoys the reputation of having once been the residence of Peter the Great. One of the few rooms in the house is stated to lieVe been used as a sleeping chamber by the celetttated monarch, and this apartment is now visited with feelings of veneration and awe by maw thousands of Russians. Although the roopAis nos in reality a chapel, a priest is attached toil i , and t is richly adorned with gold and preeicalsi atones, on which account two soldiers are constantly on duty there. A few evenings since, _atter the priest had withdrawn to his dwelling, sAtuated on the opposite side of the itteet, h@ vas summoned to return to the chapel, as tym VO4l voquired his services. The good man soon eared to the little chamber and aftomiu;da returned to his house. On the following roorrung the two soldiers on guard were fonnd nuArdered at tbeir posts, and the alms-box, wh,itch cuutained 400 roubles, had disappeared trc aexuatarned place, whilst the costly articiaa \NOY Whie the room was so plentifully adorned \Mg fenntt undisturbed. It was suggested that the eyes of the murdered soldiers should be immediately photographed, in the hope of successfully testing the surrrise of all, the result was the production of the guard at the discovery recently made in Engleud, when, to the portraits of two soldiers of the private palace on whos of St.,georae. no uninicrera wort, at ma sought Qat amolionciocis broists were the insignia of the Cross