Glasgow Courier. — 1845-04-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DAY MORNING, APRIL 1.  r Commons would meet yesterday, for the Easter, when we have no doubt that some he course to be adopted respecting the rid Mexico would be elicited from ministers.  intelligence from the Continent of any is reported that the aspect of public affairs s threatening.  log very captivating about a public execuhe mode of putting • criminal to death may e allude to the exit of the malefactor Tawell, had we not a higher object in view. That d for a murder so deliberately pleased, and rated, that it would seem to have been ranked the ordinary occurrences of life. The recol. ler disturbed his digestion nor his comfort, e chain of circumstantial evidence been so leave not the shadow of a doubt as to his o reason to suppose that the memory of the d have interfered to the minutest extent of personal enjoyment. Mr. John Tamil We villain. He had an eye to appear. rovided he stood well with the world for anything else. To destroy a human misfortune if by accident, and • great crime ; but the guilt even of murder is increased be dependent and confiding, for there are in criminality. Strange to say, however, s admirera—people weak enough or wicked vs that he was innocent. The Times tells ad a "very great number of letters advo*nee," which, with unusual forbearance it but to make up for this it publishes an actecution which will suit the atmosphere of ~houses. The reporters of the press were he court-house by order of the sheriff, and request of the wretched culprit; whereupon give" of the leading journal is exceedingly sot enough that a criminal is put to death, all the law requires. There must be a scene dialogue, or the thing won't tell; and the tember of the "fourth estate," who has been lesbury, is obviously of opinion that be has rievance worthy of • "leader," which will rthcoming one of these days. lie abuses I deputy, the jailor, the chaplain, the hang. )nneeted with this melancholy affair; and in rage does not scruple to allege that the f public executions will be destroyed if the e followed elsewhere. "Only let these gen. he, "carry out their principle, and we may criminals condemned to death strangled in Under pardon, we think differently, and in igh an authority we would even go the length provided the execution be publie,and be mine formality, it matters little whether new,; sbe present or not. Such spectacles are not heir amusement or gain, and a complaint on , must class among the ludicrous insolenoes of eh nothing is so conspicuous as the usurps. by men who hive no title to it whatever. i calls this a "mischievous report," but it is than might have been expected considering of the paper in which it appears. oints, however, which we would particularly nit are, the alarming increase of murders in the misplaced sympathy displayed towards their Scarcely a paper reaches us which does not con. sit of some enormity of this kind. Human life ned in Ireland, that we have ceased to wonder of the outrages committed, in the southern icularly ; but a , ing over a not duals. Is I and solely dusting passion—love, the rase of Tawell, a In other words, intense instances there is, of t the mental constitution