Glasgow Courier. — 1857-02-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WEST INDIA MAILS. Tbe Magdalena steamer, Captain Abbott, arrived at Southampton on Thursday with the West India mails. She left St. Thomas on the Ist of February. She has sixty-nine passengers and 888,104 dollars in specie, precious stoves value £4,000, and cargo of cochineal, indigo, &c., ace. The sugar plantations at Jamison were improving, and the health of the Island was good. On the 20th of Dec. a slight shock 1 of an earthquake took place at Mexico; and on the 1 same day a fearful storm occurred at Vera Crux, when seven vessels were lost, and eighty persons tw The Costa Ricans have taken possession r Bay and all the river steamers. A strong shock of earthquake , the 27th. A TRAGEL Political matters have been s In New-York by one of those terrible stand out with awful distinctness in crime. The last steamer probably ' nouncement, as the first details of published en the morning of the Ist; but could give no idea of the excitement ' extended over the whole city. A Dr. dell was found during Saturday, the ary, dead in hie room, at 31, Bond St, with 15 stabs in different parts of his .. murder must have been committed in the night day, the 30th, but no alarm was heard in the There had been no forcible • forty upon him or in the pin*, es* not have been , .. IlieMpetr seas a surgeon-dentist, an was wealthy, and the house, one .-. best streets in the city, was his own. As suspicion MOM the lint did not extend beyond the house Itself every Inmate of it was put under arrest as a beginning, and the coroner's inquiry, although it has not yet fixed the guilt on any one person, has revealed • state of things in that one dwelling anrival. led in any romance. Burdett was the owner of the house and lived in it, but was not its master. He had In an evil hour become acquainted with a 'waterlog-place' widow named Cunningham oruizing • Ilarataga and elsewhere, to whom the wealthly Iforted a prey. He installed her in the house, • lodger only, next as tenant she established 11. &mart iffbo became lord of the establishment, Ore hters, one of whom introduced a I tan pismises also. While living in the eiklaw brought an action against the dt U.* of promise of marriage, which he compromised by a written promise of constant 'friendship,' and something more definite—a lease of the house. Then comes the most extraordinary part of the transactions. A few days after the action was put an end to the widow procured some man to personate the doctor, and to that man, whoever he was, was regularly married in October last by the minister of the Dutch Reformed church. While obtaining, as far as the law and registers are concerned, the position of Burdell's wife, he, quite unconscious of the singular fraud, lived on very bad terms with her and the whole of the inmates she had gathered round him; there were constant quarrels, and gradually . he felt such fear and hatred of the woman, or som, of those about her, that he expressed to a friend t terror that something would happen. He however, he was always armed, and would tt out till May,' when be had taken legal . to put an end to the occupancy or the ivThe foreboding of the unhappy man was nails. ~ mn the night of the 31st of January, withot. • - any previous threat or quarrel stronger than the ordinary indications of ill-will, he was murdered. The present supposition is that the man who per50n...441 . ated Burdell, and was married in his name to the woman Contingham, washer paramour, living in the house—a man named Eckel. The minister who per. 4'ormed the ceremony fully identifies the woman, but -4. speak so confidently of the man, He th ,ught '-isie he had false whiskers on, but the sus-t strong enough to induce him to make '-• the aid of a wig and thene fahe --- "d Eckel passed himself as the . ~e East India Railway, - s that for some months thern Bengal Railway, and the other i o / n_doiaß4ilway, ehich most soon develope 'he man who had been qs and profitable accompaniments iiiv name. ^ iessi_ undertaking, of I am, sir, your obedient lb..