Glasgow Courier. — 1858-05-22 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.  John Sbiels, boatswain, and George Williamson and James Thom, sailors on board the ship J. S. Parsons, an American ship, are in custody in Liverpool, charged with having cau•ed the death of Henry Barwell, a seaman on board the•same vessel. It was stated that the ship left New Orleans for Liverpool on the 19th March last, on the evening of which day the prisoner Shiels dragged the deceased out of his bunk on to the deck, and knocked him down with a slung-shot, and he and Williamson and Thom beat him to death with belaying pins. The body of the deceased was seen lying on the deck a short time afterwards, but a few minutes after that it was missed, and the prisoner Weis was beard to say that ' they had planked him,' meaning that they bad thrown the body overboard. It was not seen again. On the arrival of the ship at Livernool information was given to the United States Consul, which led to the apprehension of the prisoners on Friday at a lodging house in Gibraltar Row. The prisoners have not yet been taken publicly before the magistrates, the necessary authority from the Home Secretary, in connection with the authority of the United States Conan!, being required before removing the prisoners for trial to New Orleans, they being American citizens, and the offence having been committed under the American flag.  WHAT IN THE EVENT OF A DISSOLUTION?  The debate on Mr Cardwell's resolution has been adjourned till Thursday, and it is not expected that the vote eon be taken before Friday. This delay is not to be regretted. A mail from India is even now on its way from Marseilles, and its contents may throw such alight on the actual state of affairs in our great Oriental dependency as may exercise a salutary influence on the passions of the House of Commons, and compel its members to reflect on the consequences which their vote may produce in India. Ministers have expressed their readiness to acquiesce in the amendment proposed by Mr Dillwyn ; and really the more the question is ventilated the more it appears advisable that all parties should agree to the adoption of such a middle course. Meanwhile, as it is possible that a majority may insist upon Mr Cardwell's resolution being carried, and as it seems now admitted on all hands that in that case we are to have a dissolution as soon as the routine business of the session can be got through, it behoves the Liberals throughout the country to be prepared for such an eventuality. If recent precedents are to have any weight, the course pursued, in the event of Ministers being outvoted, sill be as follows :—As soon as the indispensable business of the session is at an end, Parliament will be prorogued. The announcement of the dissolution, the calling of a new Parliament, the issue of writs, am, will immediately follow. When the elections aie completed an autumnal session will be held with a view to a trial of strength the result of which will be, either that Ministers will retain their places, or that they will resign, and a new administration will have to be formed. The late humiliating scenes in Parliament afford an instructive illustration of the pernicious consequences of allowing a general election to be decided simply by a cry of up or down with this or the other individual atatemau.—Daily Wawa.