The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-23 00:00:00

SHOCKING MURDER.

At an early hour on Tuesday morning, the inhabitants
of St. Ninians were alarmed with the intelligence, that
one of th • roost atrocious murders had been committed in
tie village during the night, of which the most depraved ,
or insane wretch in existence could be guilty; and, in
consequt nee of which, Margaret Robertson, wife of Dun-
can I'slacAnsh, a labourer, has been taken into custody, on
suspicion of being the unnatural murderer of her own
daughter. The husband of this miserable woman, it ap-
pears, has been lately employed at a little distance in the
country, and has been in the habit of leaving home early •
on the Monday morning, and not returning till Saturday
night. His wife is represented to be a dissipated worth-
less person, who, in order to gratify her insa'iable desire
for whisky, is said to have sold the greater part of the ar-
ticles in his house. In such circumstances it is not easy
to conceive a more hapless fate than that of their daugh-
ter, Janet MacAnsh, who was found dead in bed on Tues. •
day morning, with her throat cut from ear to ear. For
several days before the deed was committed, the mother
was in a state of intoxication ; and on Monday evening I
the deceased expressed a wish to a neighbour who visited
her, that that pet son should sit up with her all night, as
she dreaded some mischief at the hands of her mother. It
seems that between three and four o'clock in the morning,
the mother alarmed two women who live at the foot ,
of the stair of the house she occupies, who went to
her assistance, and that shortly afterwards a man who
lives on the same floor with her, went in to inquire what
was the matter. He is reported to have asked, if Janet
was dead, to which the mother is said to have replied,
that she was. The alarm was instantly given, and in a
short time a number of men assembled in the house. It
was then discovered that before the two women were
called by the girl's mother, part of the blood of the victim
which stained the floor had been covered with ashes, while
part of it was wrapped in clothes which lay in different
parts of the house. Some chairs and a table, and the
front part of the bed, were besmeared with blood, and also
the mother's clothes ; but the unfortunate girl's hands
were clean when examined. When the mother was taxed
with the crime, and asked with what instrument she had
dune it, she flatly denied she knew any thing of it; but on
bring hard pressed, she is said to have drawn a razor,
clotted with blood, from a press where it had been se'
creted ; and, on being asked if there were any other
razors in the house, she gave up another, which had evi-
dently not been used in the commission of the crime. The
Procurator-Fiscal having been immediately sent for, ar-
rived before six o'clock, and shortly after the woman WO
lodged in Stirling jail.—Stirling Journal.

h have not heard of a single case
kei in t Prince _DELBERT and his suite,
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ACH will arrive at Dal-
who are on their route from York to Edinburgh. The
Duke and Duchess, and the young Earl of DALKEITIIt
(tit; etihresochno y
,Louw de on, it is said, under an alarm
in the quarter of the town where the Duke resides.
I lel i althoughl

SMALL BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—The diffi-
culties of the times, arising out of a restricted circulating
medium, would be very inwh diminished by a reduction
of Stun') duties On small bills of exchange, drawn upon
London bankers on account of country banks, at a date not
exceeding two or three monibs. The advantage of this
vantages
species of circulating medium was formerly felt in the
Wae t Riding
ofs
ld not fail to be renewed, if the same facilities
w
te rYorkshirehitherto.—Leeds
Lteoedasglrifeaetrceuxrtyen:, and the ad'
:ea allowed a
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EXTRAORDINARY.-011 the night
of the 27th ult, the wife of JOHN CAN NAN, of the town °f
Catia, in Fannet, was delivered of four children, one boy
and three girls; the mother and children are doing "11'
but they have no means of supporting the children, their
only cow having died a few days before the woman's cow:
tineinent, and left the family without any means of support
except potatoes.—Belfast Chronicle.

WHITE OR SPOTTED CROWS.--The gar'
dener at Kirkconnell discovered in spring two birds in s
small rsokery of twenty nests, which look more like rnag'
pies than common crows. The pir_ut birds were co,"
pletely black, as Mr. PATERSON had an opportunity of
certaining, and might have said, in the words of the pro"
verb, their crows were unduul,tedly the whitest. The
pie-bald bipeds are now quite tame, inhabit a phew-
Santry, and come readily when called on to feed. They
4ppear to be male and female, and bid fair to prove tbC
progenitors of a new race of crows,
HALL describes the rook as the most unvarying bird in
same world, being the sae in the Loo Choo I.lands that !t
is at the Pole.—Elyira Courier. although CaPlahl