Glasgow Courier. — 1863-05-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXTRAORDINARY CRIME.—A trial for murder, which will be a cause celebre, is now going on before the Assize Court of La Vendee. It appears from the indictment (borne out in its main details by confessions of the accused parties), i that a lady of fortune, the wife of a retired captain n the army, named Olive, but who was separated from him in consequence of her disorderly life, compassed and imagined his death, in order that she might have uncontrolled possession of his property, and for several months together made offers of money to various persons to put him out of the way. At length, after much negotiation about the price, she agreed with a neighbour, named Gendreau, to pay him 13,900 f. (2520) to shoot her husband. He did the deed and received the money. One of her lovers, a young farmer, named Guillet, who had at first promised to do her bidding, backed out of the business, on the ground that, having come into some property, it was not worth his while to run the risk. He, however, is included in the indictment, as having a guilty knowledge of the crime. HUILA/cur OF GENERAL Las.--An officer in the British army, in a letter which appears in the Witness, says :—Apropos of Fredericksburg, I bad a chat with the officer who carried over the flag of truce on the day after the battle, requesting permission to bury their dead. When admitted to General Lee's presence, the latter remarked to him that the Northern troops must have suffered very severely on the previous day • the Yankee officer replied that they had, and expressed his surprise that the Southerners did not follow up the victory. "Sir," replied General Lee, "had I not been a man of humanity, the army of the Potomac would be now lying beneath the waters of the Rapahannock : there was sufficient slaughter for one day." This anecdote is quite characteristic of Lee, who is a most humane and generous men. Had he chosen, not the slightest obstacle existed to prevent his destroying the whole army of the Potomac after the battle of Fredericksburg, for the Northern pontoons had gone adrift, riddled by shot, and the city in which the defeated Yankees congregated was within a mile of the Southern batteries, and exposed to bombardment from them.  A SCANDAL AT Tuanc—A scandal has broken out at Turin in connection with the brethren of the order of lgnomntelli, who do not enjoy a very good reputation in Europe, and against whom serious charges have been made in France and Belgium, the trial of Father Looted° being fresh in all memories which can date back fifteen years. The pupils a college of boys, under the superintendence of a certain Father Theoger, belonging to the order a Belgian by birth, were, it seems, educated in licentiousness and hypocrisy, under an appearance of religion, which made matters worse, a licentiousness, too, it is stated, of a most revolting description. At the same time unpatriotic and reactionary principles were instilled into their minds. A few days ago, Gen. Franzmi, now in the southern provinces, received a letter from one of his sons, who is a pupil in the college, full of such strange details that he telegraphed for the lad to be immediately taken away from the seminary. As it chanced, this letter by mere accident had not previously been read by the superiors. They taught all kinds of pernicious principles hut did not care that any trace of those principles should be left in the correspondence of the pupils with their parents. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Father Theoger, who has fled, and though one of the papers has stated that he has been caught, the assertion needs confirmation. One thing is certain, the Government has provisionally placed the Abbe Rayneri at the head of the college, and informed the pupils' relatives of the change which has occurred, in language so clear that those relatives, if they are not all blockheads, will at once fetch home the children they have confided to the unscrupulous care of instructors against whom they have been warned he foreign awl by liUlowa* f