Glasgow Courier. — 1861-05-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GDS. Beheading and ripping open the abdomen are the most usual punishmente inflicted. Not long since, the murderers of a prince were boiled to death In large kettles. The other modes of execution by which the Japanese tribunals attempt to terrify oninitials are crucifixion, cutting open the chest, breaking the limb' with an iron bar; exposing of the on. mica! to the attacks of insects in hot weather, after stripping him naked, and smearing him all over with honey, tots. Tliese cruel punishments, however, do not dim' • h the number of crimes; on the contrary, they seem to have produced the most reckless con. tenipt of death. The following remarkable incident occurred not long Gimes—A Japanese policeman was walking along the middle of the street, when a Eurow,n on horseback told him to stand aside, and as the order was not obeyed, struck him with a whip. The Japanose rushed on the aggressor, unhorsed him, and drew his sword to kill him, when a neighbouring shopkeeper exclaimed that it was the English consul. The Japanese hesitated on hearinkthis, and the foreigner meanwhile got away. With his drawn sword in his hand, the policeman immediately went to the nearest tribunal, and stated the case to the priding judge. 'You drew your sword to avenge the affront,' said the Magistrate, 'that was right; but you did not kill your enemy, and you know that an insult, if not avenged by the blood of the offender, must be avenged by the blood of the offended.' The judge had hardly finished speaking, when the policeman ripped up his abdomen with his own hand, and diod on the spot." DIANOLICAL Acv.--dome person or persons on Wednesday evening last placed a pair ot wheels upon she line of the Leeds and Think branch of she North-Eastern Railway between the Pannal and gsarogate stations, and the consequence was that the efine-driver of a train was killed, the stoker injured, and much damage was done to the proptrtyof the company. The railway company are molting themselves 'nominally t,o obtain, if passible, Mae elite te the perpetrators of this wicked erhae, end have offered a reward of £lOO for any tifentatioawhich 11011 lad to their deteotion.  A rsztreit Tr.Ansmv.—The other day an extraordinary affair occurred at Montmartre. A married woman, named Lucius, met a workman, named Bartholomy, with whom she and her husband had been intimate several years before, and he accompanied her Home. After chatting a little time the man asked permission to send her servant to buy him some tobacco, and she consented ; and shortly after she went to her chamber to fetch something, leaving him in the sitting-room. On coming out of the chamber she saw him standing at the door with a poniard in his bawl, and, without saying a word, he plunged it into her breast, He was about to repeat the stab, but she resisted him, and a violentstruggle ensued. At length she wrested the poniard from him, and reaching the sitting-room broke a pane of class, and cried for help. The man, in order to get the poniard from her, stabbed her several times with a small dagger. Hearing some persons enter by the door, he ran up stairs to a garret, intending, probably, to escape by the window, but it was defended by iron bars. The people who had come in followed him close, and just as they entered he fell dead—having stabbed himself live times with his dagger, once in the heart. On searching the man's lodgings another dagger, stained with blood, which had evidently been on it sometime, was found. As there is no reason to believe that ho was insane, it is not possible at present to account for his acts. —Oalignani.