Glasgow Courier. — 1855-11-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDER OF MISS HINDS.  We copy the following from the Dublin Warder: ' The inevitable catastrophe which alone was Wanting to make the outrage upon poor Miss Hinds a physical as well as • moral murder is now complete. Having lingered for 14 days, with a marvellous and almost horrible tenacity of life, with the contusions and lacerations of a hundred mord:tons blows upon her, and the slugs and bullets of three pistol shots in her brain, this poor lady was relieved from her stooge agony of '!life in ath" on Thursday last. The records of Irish criminal jurisprudence are (Toweled with fearful instances of the providential discovery of crime. We recollect an instance in which nine men were successively tried and capitally convicted upon the unsupported evidence of one child, only five years of age, concealed, by the melancholy providence of its unordered parents, in the cabin-thatch under which they were butchered. Each prisoner was severally tried, and nine times did this preternatural child tell her awful story, unmoved by the vehemence and skill of O'Connell, who cross-examined her with all his cunning and all his ferocity. Mere was a psychological and amoral miracle; and luc,c. is poor Miss hinds' case, we hare seen all the experience of medical science contradicted, and the very laws of physical existence and mortality apparently suspended, by a preternatural vitality which, with distinct articulation and unclouded reason, enabled the mangled and murdered lady, like an apparition from the grave, to identify her assassins, and leave their punishment sea legacy to society. "Murder, though it have no tongue, will often speak By most miraculous organs." The case of Miss Hinds is indeed miraculous, for the retention of her senses for fourteen days of agony, and after, what we are taught to suppose, the sent of reason and sensation bad been cruelly mangled by her barbarous assassins, is, wo beliere, wholly without preesdent. It must be regarded, with all humility, as a special interposition of Providence to ensure the punishment of villains who, there is reason to fear, would otherwise escape punishment. The spectators of the murder, if there uric any, as doubtless there wei e ; the confederates of the murderers, probaby co-extensive with the whole Romanist peasantry of the neighbourhood, would not denounce the murderers, or if they would, dared not to do so. The priest might pretend the sacredness of the confessional as to any revels ion made toldin—sacredness which in Ireland extends to this, that the minister of religion, as religion is understood by Humanists, may not exact from his penitent to discharge their duty to man and to their Creator by denouncing criminals of whose guilt they are cognisant, though not participators In it. There is not a crime committed in the Romanist districts of Ireland, or in any Romanist country, of which the priests are not in few a days fully cognisant, as well as of its authors; but where is the instance in n hich a priest has caused even the most atrocious criminals to be brought to justice? and yet the people of this country pay annually £30,000 for the education of those persons who will not discharge the common dilly of aiding in the exposure of the perpetrators of the fonlobt crimes. Mark kwe blame them not for keeping sacred the communisations made to them in confession, convinced though we ore that the confessional is the fruitful parent of murder and of every other crime where it exists. What we do charge npon the priests is this, that they do not use the influence w Sikh the confessional gives them to promote the exposure of crime by withholding the absolution, held so precious by their dupes, from all cognisant of atrocious crimes, which they do not denounce to public justice. We see that some of this Irish journals infer from the omission from the Dublin Gazette of the proclamation offering a reward for the discovery of Miss Hinds' assailants that the discovery bas been made. It is pos. sibk, lion ever, that the omission in question is caused by the necessity of changing the terms of the proclamation, in consequence of the lamented lady's death.