Glasgow Courier. — 1862-12-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ISLAND. —Captain Messenger, of the British brig Althea, from Salt Cay, arrived at New York on the 25th ult., reports that the supply of the last making of salt was nearly exhausted, and was selling at seven cents. —American Paper. Despatches received at Marseilles, and published in the Paris papers, state that Naples is in a very disturbed state, owing to the increase of brigandage. In certain provinces, it is alleged, communications are intercepted, and travellers go armed and in companies. Committees have been appointed at Nice and Florence for the purpose of collecting subscriptions in aid of the Lancashire operatives, and Messrs Tripp, English bankers at Paris, have sent a letter to Galignani, urging that a similar course ought to be adopted in the French capital. The office of public executioner at Graz, in Austria, having become vacant, a considerable number of candidates presented themselves. A man has been chosen who proved that he had already despatched into the other world, by the aid of the cord, no leas than 135 criminals. An Italian journal credits King Victor Emmanuel with a boa-mot, uttered during the late Ministerial crisis. His Majesty, it affirms, felt desirous of going out hunting one day, but was prevented by heavy rain. " Ah," said he, "1 see that, whether I will or not, I must keep my Chamber." The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has departed for Rome, and according to rumour, he has gone in the name of the Emperor to explain to the Holy Father his Majesty's views in order that the concessions, not only administrative, political, which the Pontifical Government has agreed to make may not be insufficient. The Emperor of Austria has conferred titles of nobility on M. &h. lossberger, a Jewish resident at Pesth. This act is opposed to the Hungarian laws. M. Schlossberger himself, when named by the Government in 1859 as a delegate at the Conference of Gran, found himself denied admittance by the Primate who presided. The urgent call for French reinforcements in Mexico is ingenuously disguised under the device of establishing a reserve at the island of Martinique. The reserve of the army of Mexico will consist of a brigade commanded by a General, comprising a battalion of foot chasseurs, two regiments of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, a battery of artillery, and a company of engineers. In Minesota, (U. 5. 303 Indians have been condemned for murdering 600 whites. A oorrespondent says "When the condemned are talked to on the subject they say, 'Kill me, kill me • I would kill you if I had you. An Indian despises to Leg for his life, but abhors hanging, for he feels that to be hung is to be treated like a dog. He would much prefer death by the slow lingering torture, such as none but an Indian can devise and execute, to a death on the gallows." A young Polish lady of remarkable beauty, named Kuszavinska, recently arrived from Warsaw, was burned to death while on a visit to a friend in the Rue Monthyon. When standing near the chimney she happened to turn round, and her clothes came in contact with the fire. In a moment she was enveloped in flames. She rushed to the door shrieking for help, which soon came, but too late to be of any service, for before the fire could be extinguished she was so dreadfully burned that she expired shortly after. King Ferdinand of Portugal is a nephew of the King of the Belgians, and cousin to her Majesty. He married Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, and it is through him that the royal families of Britain and Portugal are now so closely related. On the death of the Queen, in 1853, Ferdinand, then King Consort of Portugal, was called upon to assume the Regency of the kingdom during the minority of his son Pedro V., who came of age in September, 1855. During his regency he showed an undoubted capacity to be a vigorous and discerning Minis. for the last six months cattle in the different - has now shown - dairies of the with the The  which