Glasgow Courier. — 1862-01-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PAIR. —A husband advertises thus—" My wife, Maria, hus strayed or been stolen. Whoever returns her will get his head broke. As to trusting her, anybody can do so if they see fit; for as I never pay my own debts, it's not likely I'll pay hero."-American Paper. A correspondent of the Times has revived the old cry of Russian designs on India. Russia, he says, is advancing throm,,l Tartary towards our frontier, and may one day take advantage of native discontent and pour in an army, to he assisted by a second uprising of the martial population, and so deprive us of India. . . .  The Prets says we believe that not the least important purpose of the aged King of the Belgians' visit has been to see and confer with the loading statesmen of both parties An to the best means of repairing, in this respect, the loss which her Majesty and the country have sustained by the lamented death of the Prince Consort. Does any one, who knows the Americans, believe that 4,000,000 of negroes, slave or free, would be suffered to remain in the midst of that pushing. imperious, violent, lawless, go-ahead people, without working for their livelihood—without, in fact, the coercion needed to induce them to grow cotton being applied in one form or another ?—gconomist. Poidacal Calendar for 1862 has just been published. It declares that there are 938 dioceses in the Catholic world, and that 75 episcopal sees, most of them Italian, are now vacant. It designates Cardinal Milesi as being still Legate at Bologna, and Mgr. Lasagna as being Legate at Forli; everything is retained as if the Legations, the Marches, the Umbria, were still governed by the lloly See. Threats having been made by Americans on the frontier to blow up the tube of the Victoria-bridge, have been taken to prevent any such attempt. s is to be closed at both ends by strong gates, • be opened to allow the paensage of of the passenger cars will be lockugh the tube, to prevent any ; and a picket guard is to be Canada.  The Russian Government is said to be placed in a considerable difficulty in consequence of an anathema launched by the Israelitish clergy of Poland against the spy system. All the best spies in the Russian service were Jews; their refusal to do this dirty work any longer has completely disorganised a department of the State. It is well known that the expedition of Captain Smyth, so warmly supported by Lord Canning, which intended to penetrate from India towards China, was frustrated by Mr Bruce refusing Chinese passports for the party; and thus has he a second time thrown cold water on an enterprise which might have been the means of establishing British relations with the northern part of China awl the little-known regions of Tartary and Tibet, where Russian influence is all-predominant. The Chinese have compensated the families of the men murdered in the Chinese war as follows :—To the legal representatives of Messrs De Norman, Brabazon, and Anderson, the sum of £15,000 each. To the legal representative of Mr Bowlby, the Times' correspondent, the sum of £15,000. To the legal representatives of Private Phipps, Ist Dragoon Guards, £2,400. To the families of the eight Sikhs who were murdered, £12,000. To Messrs Parkes and Loch, £B,OOO each. Before the Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna from Venice, he was present at the latter place to witness some experiments in submarine blasting. Two large cases were sunk before him to a depth of 14 feet in the sea, each containing 400 lbs. of cotton powder. The first was then exploded, and a large brig adjoining was blown out of the water to a height of 50 feet and shattered to pieces. The second blew up another vessel as high, it was conjectured, as the tower of St. Mark. The experiments were considered quite successful. WE Ltvit