Glasgow Courier. — 1863-12-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SINGULAR SENTENCES. —We have no sentimental tenderness for a miscreant, British or foreign 1 but wo think that after a man is hanged hp might be let alone. Not so, however, think the eolonial authorities, according to the 7'arau4i herald, which says :—" The trial of the half-caste prisoner, Hon, on the two charges of having taken part in tho murders at Wait-an. and on the attack on Lientenans Waller, was concluded on Monday. He was found guilty of both charges, and was sentenced t ) be hanged for the first offence, and imprisoned for life for the second." We are curious to know how these sentences have been parried out, and which was executed first But as people's heels are above their heads at the antipodes, we conclude that they have other extraordinary arrangements of truly Rabelaisian character —Punch.  _ A boat accident, attended with the loss of seven lives, took plane at Warton, near Lytham, on Tueaday evening. A Mr. Sugars, of Manchester, with his wife, two sons, and three daughters, had been staying at Lytham for some weeks, and on Tuesday morning the son e and daughters, accompanied by Mr. Wilson and Miss Wilson, friends of the family, took a boat on the river for the purpose of shooting birds, The party did not return, and their friends were naturally greatly alarmed for their safety, and a search was carried on during the night without success. The next morning the search was renewed, and the boat in which the missing party left Lytham, was discovered opposite Warton, and soon after,. wards the body of Miss Laura Sugars was found ca the sand. No farther bodies could be found duripg the day. On Thursday, the search was continued, and in the course of the forenoon the body of one of the sons of Mr. Sugars and that of Mr. Walter Wilson were found on the shore. . .  _ Australia is up in arms at the bare idea of meshing any more convicts from this country. It is prepared to do all sorts of dreadful things, and go to say extreme, rather than endure the humiliation and disgrace recom. mended by the Royal Commissioners on the question of transportation. New South Wales and Victoria are the colonies which so strongly object, and which are determined that henceforth no convicts shall be landed upon the coast of Australia. They look upon the whole Continent as their own, just as the Yankees claimed the whole of North America, according to the Monroe doctrine. The inhabitants of Western Australia, 16,000 in number, would be glad to receive a certain number of convicts, who would be useful to them as labourers; but Sydney and Melbourne will not allow it. It must be confessed that the prohibition seems a little arbitrary on the part of the Eastern and Southern colonists, and, before they published it, they might well have waited to ascertain whether there was any intention on the part of the Home Government of carrying out the scheme to which they are so bitterly opposed. If we mistake not the announcement has already been made that the Government do not intend to act upon the recommendation of the Royal Commissioners against the strong opinions and wishes of the majority of the Australian people. At the same time, it seems that thiflaim set up by the Australians is somewhat too e naive in its range. We need hardly say that thriv,colonies do sometimes grow out of convict settle;nts, and why should the establishment of the latter prohibited on any part of Australia by the people of ydney and Victoria? Is it for the old reason that the of people are not always the cleanest, or that the respectable who have risen from the dregs of society are always the hardest against their old friends? —Pro&  A da C