Glasgow Courier. — 1857-07-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 18.  The Bank of England have reducNi their rate of interest to Si per cent. and according to reports in well informed circulars, a farther reduction to 5 per eent. may be expected in • very few days. The amount of bullion in the Bank by last night's Gazette is £110592,160, showing an increase over the previous return of £75,304.  The steamship Orinoco arrived at Southampt on on Thursday with West India and Pacific mails. liar dates are Greytovn, 19th June; Nassau, ISt 1; Trinidad and Demerary, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27 h ; and Porto Rico, 29th. Yellow fever was rag ag at St. Thomas, and the deaths were unsually large. The other islands generally healthy. At Jamaica business was dull, but the crops were looking well. The Orinoco brings 922,551 dollars in specie. Amongst her crew on the passage home there were 70 cases of yellow fever, 28 of which proved fatal. None of the passengers were affected.  Lord Palmerston had a small triumph in the House of Commons on Thursday night, when Mr. Roebuck moved a vote of censure on the ministry for its conduct in connexion with the Persian war. He would push his motion to a division, when the House manifested its displeasure by leaving him in a minority of 38 against 332, all parties uniting to rebuke the untimeous folly. There can be no doubt that Mr. Roebuck was right on the abstract question, for nothing could be more supercilious than Lord Palmerston's treatment of the Commons on that occasion, but a discussion,and a decided expression of dissent would have met all the requirements of the case without running the risk that wOuld have attended a vote of censure if carried. Of course a majority in such circumstsnces has no political value whatever.  The recent attempt at revolution in Italy by Marzini and his followers is a very disgusting affair, and its details absolutely reek with blood.. There was a regular proscription list drawn up, and the houses of the rich were to be set on fire, and their owners and inmates murdered. 'ilia plunder of these houses was to be the reward of the assassins, the jails were to be forced, and the prisoners set free, and, if necessary, Genoa was to be burnt to the ground. The "officials" to a man were to be poinarded, and in the midst of the confusion consequent on these interesting proceedings, Italian liberty and independence were to be proclaimed. How any man in his senses, and with a single grain of human feeling in his bosom, could have devised and attempted to carry out so diabolical a project we cannot even imagine; but Italy has always been the favoured land of political desperadoes and plotters from the age of Catiline downwards, and M. Mazzini threatens to rival, if not to outshine, all his predecessors in that walk; The plot had extensive ramifications all over Italy, and extended to France through the complicity of the London reugees. The Emperor was to have been assassinated and the republic proclaimed, and so well arranged were the plans of the conspirators that a programme of a provisional government was all ready, and in the possession of the leaders of the movement This hideous attempt to throw Europe into confusion was discovered by the French police who communicated intelligence of the meditated rising to the Italian authorities ; but they do not to have profited by it, for they were quite un.  I plotters  { fugees.