Glasgow Courier. — 1862-05-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PROTESTANTISM IN SPAIN.  The Epoca of Madrid has the following:—Great efforts have recently bees made, out of Spain, to get up an excitement about what is called a religious question, though it does not deserve the name. The conduct of the governor of Seville is severely blamed for prohibiting religious meetings which took place there. These meetings were not held in the house of the British consul, as stated in a telegraphic despatch, but at the residence of a Protestant minister, and were repeated every Sunday. The facts of the case are that the ecclesiastical governor communicated to the chief civil authority a complaint addressed to him by r...eral priests and other persona, relating to meetinr; ,eld at the Protestant clergyman's; that appplication had been vainly made to the consul for him to prevent the scandal caused by the great number of persons attending the said meetings; and that the civil governor informed the consul how desirable it was that the wishes of the ecclesiastical authorities should be respected in order to avoid a conflict which might become a serious matter, owing to the attitude of a great part of the population. As we have been informed the civil governor thought that the end might be gained by adjourning the meeting for two or three weeks, and then resumingthem in other places, so as not to attract pnblicnotice, if the consul, as he alleged, could not openly resist the demands of the English residents. The consul, who is a Catholic, admitted the necessity of preventing the threatened conflict, but he hesitated in presence of the firm resolution of the English subjects, andrequestedthat an official note, or a private letter, might be addressed to him, stating the necessity of interdicting these periodical meetings. The civil governor declined to send either, and expressed his intention, if further complaints were addressed to him, of preventing the meetings as contrary to the penal code, owing to the number of persons present, and no competent authorisation having been granted. Since then nothing more has been heard of the matter. Matters passed as we have stated, and allthe other allegations are unfounded.  The improvement in the health of King Leopold of Belgium is so decided that no further bulletins will be issued.  The departure of the French court for FontainWean is fixed for the end of the month. From that residence the Emperor will go to Vichy, as announced, and will afterwards undertake the joarney, some time back projected, into Auvergne and the Western Provinces.  The Army and Navy Gazette, in an article on the American War, says that, on the 18th nitime, an order was issued to the Chief of Ordnance to send 50,000 stand of arms, and as many sets of old uniforms, to Port Royal for the use of the slaves. This is scarcely credible, but it comes from good authority..  The students of the University of Copenhagen are making grand preparations to receive their Swedish and Norwegian colleagues, who are expected to arrive in the Danish capita on the 12th June. The students of Upsal, 300 in number, have engaged for their private use the Swea steamboat. The Pope, knowing that General de Goyon is about to take a final leave of Rome, has nominated him Grand Cordon of the Order of Christ. Only five individuals have been honoured with this decoration —Charles X., the Emperor of Austria, Francis IL, General de Lamoricier, and now, General de Goyon. A curious calculation respecting suicides in France has just been published. It shows that the number of suicides committed in France since the beginning of the present century is not less than 300,000. The returns, however, are not complete, except from the year 1836. From that year to the year 1852 there were 52,126 suicides, being an average of 3066 yearly. In 1858 there were 3903 suicides, of which 3050 were by men and 853 by women. The last return given is for the year 1859, when there were 3057 suicides committed by. men and 842 by women.  During a recent bull-fight at Mairid, one of the torreadors, named El Pedeto, was Waned by the bull just as he had rescued, by means of his cloak, one of the picadors who had fallen from his horse. The animal's horns had entered his chest, and made a fearful wound. The unfortunate man with great difficulty got on his iv), and after staggering a few steps, pressing both his hands on his chest to stop the blood, which flowed fast, fell into the arms of his companions and expired. The fight continued, and his colleague, El Gaetano, who afterwards killed five bulls in succession, narrowly escaped a similar fate.