The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GORLITZ'MURDER.—The investigation into the supposed murder of the CMintess of Gor libz which had been dropped, har suddenly been resumed. It has caused an unusual degree of excitement in all parts of Germany. On the evening of the 6th inst., the body of the countess was exhumed, and a post mortem examination was made, which ought to have been made the day the body of the unfortunate countess was discovered. The servant accused of an attempt to poison the count iestill under arrest. MURDER OF MB PRESIDENT Or ME COURTS yea PORITICAL OFFBROISS AT Catoom---Baren &jam kowski, presidentof the court for political offences, veas shot on the evening of the 4th inst., at Cracow. He was returning to his house at eight o'clock in the evening, when a bullet laid him dead in the street. Two men were observed to run off in contrary directions, but the darkness prevented them from being recognised. ARRIVAL or /ERAIIIIM PACRA PAKORORN•-...-We have received intelligence of the arrival of Ibrahim Pacha at Leghorn, on board a French frigate. Me is accompanied by a suite of fourteen persons) and intends taking up his winter quarters at Pisa. Dears OF /dRPFDELSSOHN, THIS CbIiPOSEIteWI3 regret to announce the death of Mendelssohn the great composer. "On the evening of the 4th (rot," says a letter from Leipsic, "the musical world suffered a deplorable loss by the death of ,Toeeph Mendelssohn Burtholdy. An inflammation of the brain baffled the skill of the first physicians, and carried him oft in the vigour of manhood: All Leipsic shed tears at the loss of a man who was universally honoured, loved, and respected." An atrocious crime was committed, in the railway station at Dresden, on the 30th ult. At about ten o'clock in the morning a well-dressed young man entered, and walked about for some time, in an agitated state, smoking a cigar. All at once he rushed towards a young female who was. about to enter a carriage, and drawing a pistol from his pockqt discharged it at her. 'I he ball entered her heart, and she died immediately. The murderer then drew another pistol from his pocket, and planed the barrel of it in his mouth, but just as he was about to pull the trigger, his arm was seized by a bystander, and the ball lodged in the ceiling. The murderer was immediately arrested and placed in gaol. He is the travelling clerk for a manufaotory of arms at Liege. The young female belonged to a respectable family at Berlin, and had been carried off by the murderer. Her father and mother having followed and overtaken her, insisted that she would return home, and she was about to set out wifft them on her return when the murder was committed. SOUTH AMERICA AND Taarm.—Letters from Valparaiso of the 28th of August mention the promulgation of a decree requiring foreign nations having squadrons stationed there to deposit their stores on shore instead of keeping them in store-ships, as has hitherto been the practice. This will prove incon, . .  merly mirried on with so MUDD have been stopped, and the moo observed in every department troops," it is said, "$l.O being se, seems to be getting tired of a cost so much, and that can nevi advantages." The Cormorant si log Valparaiso at the data ol 1,800,000 dollars on freight, a which had been collected in Me from the Carysfort. A small p is destined for Rio de Janet' England. The Cormorant, by of Colcura, on the south ooai Rio, and again at Fayal, will, i to steam all the way to Engler