Glasgow Courier. — 1862-04-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STATE OF FEELING AMONG THE CONFEDERATES. The evidence relative to the state ef feeling in the South is conflicting. This much appears tolerably certain, that there is in the Slave States proper, not exposed to naval operations, a dispoiition to resist to the last, and to destroy cotton crops, cities, and all that belongs to them, rather than let them fall into the hands of the Yankees. Of the bitterness of this animosity there can be do doubt wherever it exists at all. There is no juide milieu in Secessionism. The feeling of a large mass of the inhabitants of this city was well shown on the removal of the Confederate prisoners to Philadelphia on Saturday, and during their stay here liberal supplies of clothing, money, necessaries, and luxuries were furnished to them by the inhabitanta. In Washington some ministers have refused to read the prayer drawn up by the bishop for the recent Federal victories, and guards were placed over their churches yesterday to prevent disturbances. The Republicans are becoming very earnest and strenuous in theft efforts to secure the passing of the bill to abolish slavery in the district just as the opposition to it assumes a more formidable aspect and threatens to overthrow their measure. The confiscation projects which are legion, will probably be so modified and amended at the distant period when Congress has done with them all that other forms of treatment will be necessary. The Federalists are glad enough to get rid of the Donnelson prisoners, and the cost of keeping them, by releasing those who take the oath of allegiance; and they find it difficult enough to manage the contrabands at Port Royal as it a. "What could we do with four or five millions negroear they ask, and get no reply. Meantime the Confederates are using them to build batteries, and do their heavy work, and their masters who have little or no work for them perhaps in the cessation of labour in the cotton fields, which is said to be becoming rather widespread, are willing to lend or hire them, the price at Norfolk being 60c a day and rations. Some curious scenes are reported from the Federal camps between runaways and their masters, and in some instances the latter have been beaten by their chattels and forced to fly. Nev erthelees, though it may become all powerful if the war goes on, abolitionism is not as flourishing in high places as it would fain make us believe.—Times' Letter.  The Diet of Saxe-Weimar has voted the abolition of the punishment of death by a majority of 19 votes to 10.  Plates far thicker than the scales of the Warrior were perforated last week at Vincennes by French guns. La Presse of Paris states that numerous arrests have taken place at Corfu, by order of the Lord High Commissioner. The Berlin journals state that suicides have greatly increased in that city of late, not fewer than eight having taken place one day last week. Jean Dorangeon, who murdered two women in the Rue St Placide, Paris, on the 25th of November last, was executed on the Place de la Roquette. A telegraphic despatch announces that the Spanish Government has received the indemnity from Morocco—namely, forty millions of francs in drafts on London, and twenty millions direct at Tangier. The Monde announces that the Abbe Bruno, canon of Turin, chaplain of the late Mgr. Fransoni, has left Lyons for Rome, for the purpose of laying at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff several chalices and other holy objects which the late Archbishop of Turin bequeathed to the Holy Father. The Ost-Deutsche Post of Vienna says :—"Prince Ipsilanti, who, after the fetes of Easter, is to marry the Countess Sine, has arrived here from Paris with a numerous and brilliant suite, most of them wearing the national costume. Baron Sina gave a grand musical soiree in honour of the prince." A Vienna letter says :—The fever of speculation runs so high here that it has even attacked the fair sex. For some time past groups of females have assembled every day in the neighbourhood of the Bourse, whilst others more timid remained in the houses near, where they received the visits of the brokers, who come to report the fluctuations in the market, and receive orders for sale or purchases. The Vienna correspondent of the Brussels bide. pendance states that there is not the slightest truth in the story of the English Minister, Lord Bloomfield, having undertaking a mission from the Austrian Government to the leaders of the Hungarian party. Lord Bloomfield, says the writer, merely visited Pesth as a tourist, and had no interview with any Hungarian of note. Every new exploration in Australia discloses sectione of country larger than Victoria, rich in pasture and available for almost a fabulous rate of increase. The private enterprise of a squatter, Mr Read, has lately made known an immense country to the eastward of Burke's track, upon which numerous flocks of sheep and perhaps of alpacas and llamas will be grazing in a few years from this time. Flocks are migrating from the Darling and Lachlan northward, and from New South-Wares westward, and a great company is now forming at Melbourne, with a capital of £5,000,000, to colonise the northern part of Australia.  FRENCH OvsTsits.—The Echo Rocheleis has the following :—The oyster-beds on our coast, once so abundant and so prosperous, are rapidly decreasing. and the fishermen are in danger of seeing this source of industry completely exhausted. To prevent such a result, our Council-General petitioned for the introduction, duty free, of English and Spanish oysters; a petition, signed by the fishermen, of the Canton of Tremblade, also demanded earnestly the suppression of the duty levied on foreign oysters imported into France. The Minister of Commerce declined to accede to the demand for the following reasons :-1. A simple duty of If. 50c. to 2f. cannot impede importation. 2. If the oyster-beds about Marennes are becoming unproductive, there are numerous creations of artificial oyster-beds on other points, which give compensation to the consumers. 3. It is not possible for the English fishermen, for instance, to supply our markets OR better conditions than our own fishermen, as our oyster-beds are much more numerous than those of England.