Glasgow Courier. — 1848-05-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLAND. American Envoi to Rome—The Hon. J. L. Martin, Cliargd d'Affaires of the tinited States of America to the Pope, has arrived in London on his way to Rome. The Pictures of the laa M. Casimir Perier.—Twenty-six pictures, forming part of the collection of the late M. Casimir Perier, of the highest class of the Dutch school, were sold by auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson, King Street, St. James's, on Friday week. The Weather and the Crops in Cheshire, May 11.—The most glorious weather still prevails, and seems likely to continue; and from the remarks of friends who have recently travelled extensive districts, we infer that it has been very .general and uniform. Now, therefore, all anxiety about spring corn sowing will vanish, and the next source of anxiety, we suppose, will be to obtain growing showers; for the hay grass and clovers will soon fall off if such a vast amount of solar heat should continue. For the sake of the wheats, however, such privations should be cheerfully endured, for assuredly the present weather will remove all remaining doubts about the position of this valuable crop. Potato planting, we are glad to say, prevails to an immense extent: we have the utmost faith in the earlier crops, and have little doubt that this plant, like most others, possesses a self-restoring power, providing it receive more generous treatment. We, therefore, say, plant all you can, especially of those kinds which combine early maturity with keeping properties. The usual "turning-out" time for cattle in leys came round on the tenth, and it is the general impression that there is an unusual amount of pasturage all through the country; we never knew it so good at this early period. Anecdote of Lola Montes.—The Brighton Herald relates the following respecting this too-famed lady: "Some of her acts in a private capacity are less known, and one ot these redounds to her credit. We have it from the party himself, a young man, the son of a clergyman in the west of Sussex, who, with his brother, entered the Austrian service, and was stationed at Milan. In the revolution that took place his brother was killed, with every other officer of his regiment, and he himself only owed his rife to the fact that he had not yet received a commission, but was awaiting the necessary documents from England to prove that he was a gentleman by birth. From this cause he escaped with life, but in circumstances of such destitution that he was obliged to beg his way from Milan to Switzerland, and walked the greater part of the way barefooted. On arriving in Switzerland, he learnt that Lola Monies was a refugee there, and having known her in England as Mrs. James, he waited upon her and described his situation. Lola Mentes immediately gave orders that he should bete& clothed, and boarcled,.audalso provided him with means to reach England, where hejoined his family. Of his unfortunate brother nothing is known beyond the fact of his having fallen." Thomas Cribb, the once celebrated pugilistic champion of England, expired on Thursday, at the house of his son, a baker, at Woolwich. _ _  Bridal Murder near Swansea—A fearful case of double murder took place on Monday night, the Bth instant, about two miles from Swansea, on the Lougher Road, the victims being two inoffensive middle-aged men, named John Williams, a sub-contractor on the South Wales Railway, and Jenkin Evans, a carpenter. It appears, that at a cottage at the place just mentioned, a drinking gathering of labourers took place that evening, and a party of Irish navies, out of employment, having arrived and remained for some time, a dispute took place between them and the Welshmen. After a while, however, matter' were arranged, and the company partly dispersed, some remaining inside, while the navies were supposed to have left; but on a sudden, • cry of "murder" was raised at a short distance from the cottage, and on some persons rushing out, the bodice of the two murdered men were discovered, one of the navies being then in the act of drawing a knife from the breast of Evans. The most active search is being made for the murderers, and a description of them has been forwarded to the metropolitan polioe.—Morning Chronicle. Horrible !Warders on the High 5641 .—A ferocious-looking sailor, named Cuecha, a Russian, was brought before the magistrates at Malta, on the 10th nit., for having murdered two of his fellow-seamen, and seriously wounded-a third, on board the Russian brig Olimpia, off Cape Sparlivento, flve days previous. The prisoner was discharged for want of jurisdiction the crimes having been committed beyond the territorial limits of Malta and its dependencies.