Glasgow Courier. — 1864-03-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ROBBERY AND MURDER IN ROME.--A letter from Rome gives an account of a most audacious crime committed in one of the most frequented thoroughfares of the city. M. Baldini, a money-changer, who has a shop on the Corso, but resides at some distance, has long been in the habit of removing his specie to his dwellinghouse after business hours in a hackney-coach. On the evening of the crime, when .two clerks were conveying the money, the carriage was suddenly stopped in the Via Lucina by three men, one of whom held the horse while the two others poniarded the clerks, seized the money, amounting to 10,000 scudi (53,000 fr. and got clear off. One of the clerks was killed on the spot, and the other died the next morning. The coachman, whose complicity appears probable, has been arrested, but the robbers have not yet been discovered. - As soon as General de Montebello was informed of the crime, he instructed the commander of the French gendarmerie to lend every assistance to the Roman police. The general, impression is that the perpetrators belcaig- to the same . band trita rec6fills4stole 30,000 scudi from the Roman Railway Company. Some persons, however, seem to think that both these robberies were committed by political desperadoes belonging to the party of action, to raise the 500,000 fr. which a recent manifesto of Maszini .declared, to be necessary for the success of the revolutionary cause.— Galignani. FATAL ALPINE ExCURSION.—On Sunday morning, *February 28, a young Russian gentleman, M. B—, and an English friend, Mr. set out on an Alpine ascent of some difficulty. Accompanied by four guides, and well provided with all the necessaries for a similar excursion, they left Sion at two o'clock, A.M., and proceeded to a village called Arden, whence they commenced the ascension of the Dent d'Ardon. Owing to .the heat of the sun, and.under the influence of the warm wind which prevailed, the snow was exceedingly soft, and on nearing the summit it became almost impossible to advance. Still persevering, however, in their hazardous enterprise, the travellers waded, so to say, through the yielding snow, when suddenly the mass on which they were gave way, and dashed down the mountain with fearful velocity. At the time of time accident all were properly attached by a new rope, made on purpose for the ascent. In some unaccountable manner the rope snapped in two places during tho ascent, so that when the avalanche reached the valley below after a slide of 600 -metres (or 1800 feet), the travellers were no longer roped together. The two gentlemen and one of the guides were entirely burie,t in the snow, another guide partly so, and the only two uninjured were the remaining'guides,.who were attached to the two ends of the rope. - Notwithstanding the most heroic efforts ~of these two men, only two of the party could he got , out in time to save their lives. M. B— was found in a recumbent position, with his head downwards, and it was only after two days' continued search that the missing guide's body was found. This sad affair has thrown. a gloom over the surrounding neighbourhood, and those who knew M. B---will long remember the deep impression that his untimely fate- has left behind. The funeral took place on the 3rd inst., at Lausanne, in the Ouchy burial-ground. It is but right to add that the inhabitants of the yalaislook the most kindly interest in the affair, and had it not been for their prompt and eager assistance the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers would most likely still have been where they were buried alive.  Donohoe, who killed Mr. Gray,, the mate of the Saxon, is an Irish Roman Catholic,- and a volunteer in the American navy. It is one of the peculiarities of the Danish army that it boasts not a single drum, with the exception of the Roy:dr foot-guards .at Corenbage,p, not a mark of whom has as yet reached the map. The alarth was, therefore, given by the trninpeis. A young man in Paris, between the age of twenty end thirty, committed suicide on Wednesday evening by throwing himself from the top of the column at the Place de la Bastille. No papeFs befit.' found on the unfortunate manic) show his identity, Co was conveyed to the Morgue.  The France says that the Grand Duke, the heir-apparent to the Russian throne, is coming to London and Paris this spring, and that he will be accompanied by Count Sergius Strogonof and Colonel 'Richter, of the Imperial Guards. He is expected to leave St. Petersburg about April 15. The last mail from the Cape of Good Hope contained 11,305 letters and 11,325 newspapers. During 1863 nearly £lOOO was sent from England to the Cape in postal money orders, and nearly £9OOO was sent from the Cape to England by the same means. The customs dues at the Cape amounted last year to nearly a quarter of a million sterling. • •  Advices from St. Petersburg state that in the Southern provinces of Russia a largo extent of country has been Lapped yielding very fine petroleum. Should the supply prove to be in any degree permanent and of the quality supposed, the disco Very is likely to, have an important bearing on the trade of Odessa and,Sebastopol, and to hasten the contemplated construction of a rail, way to the latter place, which is to be declared a free' port. ' The Turkish Government, says the Levant Herald, is about to institute a radical change in the laws which at present effect the newspaper press in the Ottoman empire. - The existing regiments de la presse are to be abolished. The old system is about to :be swept away entirely into the past; there is to be no further censorship there are to be no more avcrtissements or communiques ; journalism in Turkey is to be allowed to pursue the even tenor of its way unimpeded and unruffled by these capricious freaks of authority,