The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

THE MYSTEBIOUS MU.RDER. IN
GLASGOW.

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(From the AortA British Daily Mail.)

As we anticipated in our yesterday's impression,
the bloody clothes have been fully identified as be-
longing to the prisoner, Mrs. .M•Lachlan, and that
she is known to have worn l'hem on the night of the
murder there is also no doubt. The identification
is complete, nay superabund for several persons
can speak positively to the fact of their being hers,
and used by her on the eventful night. They con-
sist, as our readers are aware, of a brown merino
dress, and two flannel petticoats, all of which are
saturated with blood. One of these petticoats has
been made out of a blanket, and therefore is easily
identified; and Sarah Adamson, a little girl who
was servant to the prisoner for some time, can per-
ceive some of her own sewing on one of the gar-
ments. The trimming on the dress is likewise posi-
tively spoken .to.
The manner in which the discovery of the gory
clothing was made reflects great praise on the police.
The fact having been clearly established that Mrs.
M'Lachlan visited Hamilton last week, and left
behind her an empty box, in which was clothing
belonging to the deceased Jessie Macpherson,
strongly impressed the minds of the police with the
idea that she must also have left the clothing some-
where. Accordingly, simultaneously with Capt.
Nl‘Call setting about a diligent search for the
clothing in Hamilton, Edinburgh, and elsewhere,
Captain George Mackay, chief constable of the
Lanarkshire Police, instructed his men—and also
took a forward part in it himself—to search sys-
tematically and minutely the whole town of
Hamilton and surrounding districts for
several miles, particular injunctions having
been laid upon the constables to spare
neither time nor trouble in the investigation,
and to pass over no ditch, nor "burn," without
searching to their bottom, and to leave no hedge,
nor barn, nor out-house, nor, in fact, any nook or
cranny in the whole district unexplored, until they
should find some of the missing clothing, either of
that which belonged to the deceased or to the pri-
soner M`Lachlan—for it was not doubted but she
had done away in some manner with a portion of
her clothing. The town of Hamilton was first
scoured thoroughly, and then the constables spread
themselves over the adjoining locality. The result
of this search, which had been conducted for about.
a week, was the discovery of the dress and petti-
coats above mentioned. This was effected by
Donald Stewart, one of the first-class county con-
stables of the Hamilton district, between five and
six o'clock yesterday afternoon, in two grass fields
on the estate of Eddlewood, belonging to Mr. Allan,
draper, St. Paul's-churchyard, London. The gown.
and petticoat were found in a field known by the
name of the Quarry Park, and the other petticoat
was discovered in an adjoining field called Tommy
Linn. They had been torn into shreds, there being
no fewer than thirty-eight pieces 0f... them •in all.
Eddlewood-road runs alongside, of both -fields,
which are only divided from it 14 a low hedge, oven
which the clothes must have been thrown. There
is evidence, also, to show that the prisoner was on
the Eddltwood Road on the Monday or Tuesday
of last week, and near where the clothes were found,
so that this part of the case will bear most heavily
upon her. The clothes were retained by the con-
stable who found them until to-day, when he, along
with Capt. M'Kay, brought them to Glasgow, and
delivered them up to the Sheriff's Fiscals in the
usual and legal way. The blood upon them is now,
of course, being analysed to see whether it is human
blood, of which there is no doubt.
The prisoner has not yet been fully committed for
trial, although due sanction for that course has been
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clothing. This, however, ir„ not likely to be the
case; and she will in the way be fully com-
mitted for trial at the en.suing Circuit, which opens
here on the 15th Sep ember, on Monday next, be-
ing the eighth day of her incarceration. The pri-
soner has never refused food, but we understand
she takes a due quantity ; and as for the intention
being entertained of forcing food into her stomach,
that, we are assured, is a pure invention.

DEATH OF THE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening _Freeman publishes the following :--
"Belfast, Saturday, July 19.—1 t is with extreme sorrow
we announce the death of the venerable and beloved Lord
Primate of all Ireland. His Grace Lord John George
Beresford died this (Saturday) morning at Wyburn,
Donaghadee, the residence of George Dunbar, Esq., D.L.,
his nephew by marriage. His lordship, who was in his 89th
year, died without the slightest struggle, having literally
fallen asleep." The nearest relations of the Primate had
not, we are informed, received such information by tele-
graph up to a late hour last night. At the Primate's
house in Charles-street, St. James's, no authentic nevi's
has been received of his death. Lord John George Beres-
ford, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, whose death we record
to-day, was the second son of the first Marquis of Waterford,
and was born in 1773. He was educated at Christ Church,
Oxford, where he graduated in 1793. After filling various
minor offices in the church he was nominated in 1806 to the
Bishopric of Cork, and shortly afterwards was translated to
the sees of liaphoe and Clogher. 1820 he was appointed
by Lord Liverpool's government to the, Archbishopric a
Dublin, and by the same government in 1822 to the Arch-
bishopric of Armagh and the Primv,cy of Ireland. He was
Vice -Chancellor and Visitor of 'Trinity College, Dublin,
from 1829 to 1351, when he becrAme Chancellor. Connected
with the archbishopric are tb.e offices of Lurd Almoner of
Ireland, Prelate of the Order of St. Patrick, and the patron-
age of 56 livings. The province contains the dioceses of
Meath, Derry, Down and Connor, Dromore, Tuam, and
Elphin. The archbishopric is worth £15,000 a year.

THE MIDDLE LEVEL.—The tides rose so high is
the course of last week that they completely submerged the
famous dam, the construction of which in the middle level
drain excited such interest a few weeks since. For some
little time the water accumulated on the flooded land re-
ceived some additions, but on the dam being heightened by
t; a formation of a clay bank upon it all danger was speedily
averted. The banks of the drain from the dam to the out-
fall into the Ouse have become unsound from the contin—
uous soaking of water through them, and some of the fa"
joining lands are consequently unduly wet. To prevent
further inconvenience from this cause recourse has been
had to puddling, and with a fair prospect of success. The
waters continued in the week ending on Saturday to run
off the drowned lands through the outlets afforded them by
the Marshland, Smeeth, and Fen drain and Marshland
sewer, which has been rendered available pro ton by tvirc°
or three openings through the gravel bank. By means of
these outfalls the depth of the flood so long accumulated
is being reduced at the rate of about an inch per day, and
it is now some 2ft less than the average height which it
had attained before the completion of the dam and the clos-
ing of the staunch at Well Creek. It will be seen from these'
details that a general progress is being gradually made in
the right direction.
ARREST BY MISTAKE.--A strange affair occurred
at Farnham, on Friday morning, which has supplied food
for gossip both there and at the Camp, ever since. It
pears that a somewhat serious robbery having been cony
mitted at Aldershott, the Farnham police were on the look
out for the perpetrators, who were supposed to be soldiers'
Yesterday morning, at four o'clock two suspicious looking
fellows were observed approaching Farnham from the di'
rection of the Camp, and a policeman who met them on, the
road, immediately jumped at the conclusion that these were
the men that were " wanted. Accordingly he made his
I suspicions known to a comrade, and with his assistance
succeeded in arresting the men. While conveying them to
the station, they espied another person, walking at a rapid
rate, and although he was in civilian's costume, anyone
could have seen, with half an eye, that he was a soldier.
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whereupon
sctlaabimesdc'encluded that the stranger was an accomplice in
the robbery, or, at all events, a deserter, and they se'
cordingly arrested him also. The stranger declared that
he was Colonel Clifford, A s sistant Quartermaster
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General, and that he was out thus early for the Pur,...
pose of training, as he was about to share in the divisional
field sports shortly to take place at Aldershott. This expla-
nation the police treated as a capital joke • and it is stated
that they behaved with additional rudeness in consequence
of it. At all events, they marched the colonel to the house
of Superintendent Hollington ; where he made the sane
statement. The superintendent who was in bed, and c°9l—
with the men from the window, did not recce"
n-se the distinguished prisoner, and he was ordered to be
taken before the military provosts who were stationed at.
neighbouring ion. On the way thera, he recalled some cis'
cumstance to the minds of the policemen which satiefi
them that he really was the Hon. Colonel Clifford, an
ir
they immediately volunteered to release him ; but he n°_`ig
refused to accept their offer. He had been arrested a
ordered to the provosts, and to the provosts he would !a;
Here things were very soon explained ; and the colonci7_,
released. We understand that Colonel Clifford, with
re:set_
racteristic generosity, does not blame the police for red
ing him, and thinks that they may only have act
the performance of their duty in doing so; but that heeu_vas,
complain of the incivility and rudeness to which b
subjected after he had stated his name and rank. iS-11,„,,,
quiry will doubtless take place into all the circumstance
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