Glasgow Courier. — 1844-09-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MISCELLANEOUS.  Attempted Ascents of Mont Blanc.—MM. Bravais and Martins have for some time engaged in attempts to ascend Mont Blanc, but without success. After spending the intervening time in collecting a series of meteorological and geological observations in the Alpine country which surrounds the mountain, the ascent was happily effected on the 29th ult. The travellers found their tent on the Grand Plateau uninjured, and formed the design of passing a night each on the summit of the mountain, while their companions (M. Lepileur being now added to the number) encamped in the tent. But the intense cold defeated this part of their project. The thermometer stood at 7 4-10 degrees below zero, in the shade, at a quarter past two o'clock in the day, and the ascent was most painful, notwithstanding the fineness of the weather. At a short distance from the summit they were assailed by a piercing wind, and the cold which it brought was so-intense; that' they describe their sensations on attaining the summit, when they had in some measure escaped its severity, as being that of men who had entered a well warmed saloon. A Double Assassination.—A double assassination was committed on Wednesday night between eleven and twelve o'clock, at Romainville. A sergeant of the Nth of the line, returning home drank to the camp, knocked at the door of M. Windier, the baker, and on its being opened, asked for wine. The baker, seeing the state the man was in, anwered very courteously, " My friend, you see I sell bread and not wine," and was returning into the house again, with one of his men named Magnan, when the drunken soldier drew his bayonet from its scabbard and wounded them both. M. Wineker died very shortly afterwards, and Magnan, though not mortally wounded, had a narrow escape, as the weapon entered the side, and would have pierced his heart had not the direction been turned by striking against one of the ribs. The cries of the victims put some of the neighbours, who were still up, in pursuit of the murderer, who was taken, and has been delivered up by his Colonel to the ordinary court of justice.  , r I inquyed  Where Think ▪ his spade, " I • ch the continued the sound of the. ▪ companion's t smoke; and in the sgoa shot went part of the seeming to • heels, like iliar tones Cuirasto a wall my reelsod a wtd, se be energy.  afforded.  ever go 'e their  opportunity a. Bultio without  RUlSian  VOSSelll  _ - 4 losing the anchors, nod parting to,, cables; e the blessing of a moderate storm always furnishes a long accom of stores and guns thrown overboard, which, nevertheless have seldom been entrusted to Father Neptune. When the iussien fleet, in Alexander's reign, was kept as hostage in England, it is well known that every rope, and soil, and cable, was publicly sold in detail by its officers. We had always formerly imagined, es perhaps our readers, who may be acquainted with this circusstance, do now, that the consideration of England's having to refit the ships, which their officers were fast reducing to naked hulls and bare poles, had given rise to this conduct; but experience soon convinced us, that it is the comnion custom of the Russian I navy, which is carried on to a considerable extent, even under the very eyes of the emperor; but the dangerous prevalence of which, directly a vessel or a fleet sails out of their own waters, it is impossible to check by soy severity, since all classes connive at its continuance. If it would be a rare ocourrerce to see a Rus,ion fleet sold wholesale by its admiral, as the Turkish has been, every part of a Russian vessel of war, except the masts and hull, may generally be purchased in deteiii.—Necelations of Russia.