Glasgow Courier. — 1864-01-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXECUTION AT MELBOURNE.—A Melbourne letter of November 25 says :—" We have had of late an unusual number of murders. . Western Australia, of course, has contabuted her contingent of offenders ; Tasmania hers. Among several other very horrible cases, we have witnessed within the last fortnight the first female execution ever known in Victoria. A lwoman, young and very good looking, was hanged a few days back for inciting and taking part with her paramour and with a third murderer, her servant, in the deliberate shooting through the head of her own husband, as belay sleeping off a drunken debauch in his tent at one of the distant 'diggings.' In company with the two men she walked from her cell to the gallows with the indifference—for all that appeared outwardly—of one taking an ordinary morning. walk It has been ascertained that all of these criminals are but late arrivals in this colony • that all received their education—such as it was—in 'England ; and, therefore, even our moderate people grow somewhat intemperate in speech when they read of fresh intended arrivals from the same country • via Western Australia."  The Berlin correspondent of the Times says that a fortnight must elapse before the 60,000 AustroPrussian troops can be got ready to enter Holstein.  A pastoral letter from Cardinal Wiseman on the late royal birth was read in the Roman Catholic churches en Sunday, and the Te Deum was enjoined to be performed next Sunday. On Sunday morning, St. Ann's Church, near Liverpool, was totally destroyed by tire. The damage is estimated at about .-ClOOO, and the building was not insured. The fire originated nverheatirin of the flues ,in and. prepaying the Church for Divine service. A boy, fourteen years of age, was accidentally hanged in a stable in Cumberland the other day. The unfortunate lad had just been told vome stories of Peuplo suspended by the neck being unable to release themselves. IL;) laut:hed at this idea, and resolved to try the experiment himself and soon afterwards was found by his father quite dead. A meeting of Great Eastern creditors took place on Saturday, but beyond deciding to abandon the lottery scheme nothing definite was determined. Arrangements are being very promptly made to re turn the money already subscribed, and Mr. Stoess' connection with the lottery is a guarantee that no time will be lost in winding the affair up. It is said that the insurances on Whittlebury Lodge, the seat of Lord Southampton, burnt down recently, are all vitiated :by his Lordship having lately built a gasometer and introduced aas into his house without giving any notice to the 'fire offices. He kept a private watchman, but the night being very cold, the man neglected his duty, and went home to bed!  On Friday, a person named Higlist was committed for trial at Liverpool, in pursuance of informations charging him with a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act. The specific offence was the aiding in or facilitating the shipment of sailors for the Confederate cruiser Georgia, which, it will be remembered, was built on the Clyde, and thence went to Liverpool to receive or complete her crew.  A few days ago, while Lord Broke was strolling on the beach of Sussex coast near Worthing at ebb tide, an infant in charge of a nurse wandered away to a place where it was surrounded by the water coming in, and was carried along with the tide into the deeps which alternate with the shallows along this coast. Lord Broke, although unable to swim, dashed in without a moment's hesitation and succeeded in saving the child after being once or twice overwhelmed by the waves. Lord Broke, the eldest son of the Earl of Warwick, is a boy eleven years of age. A mysterious crime is now under in estigation in Birmingham. A young man and his wife lived together for some time in lodgings, on apparently peaceable terms, although they occasionally resorted to the injudicious practice of drinking together in publio-houses. On Monday evening they were so engaged until midnight, and they did not prepare for retiring until two or three hours afterwards. A cry was suddenly raised by the man that his wife had taken strychnine, and all possible aid was soon at hand; but the woman died the same morning from the effects of the poison. The man alleges that she took it out of his pocket, where he was in the habit of carrying rat poison, but the police do not credit his statement, and have arrested him, and obtained a remand on the charge of murder.