Glasgow Courier. — 1850-06-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDER OF MR. MAIILEVERER.  To the Editor of the Times.  Sir—Fearing that some apology may be expected by the public from so near a-relative as the eldest surviving brother of the late Mr. Bobert Lindesay Mauleverer appearing in print at this early period, I wish to state that it is only lest a total silence on the part of the family of that gentleman should be construed into acquiescence as regards the article which appeared in your publication of the 29th ult , on the subject that forces me to come forward, and for a time to forget all the softer feelings of human nature, under a sense of the imperative duty of v indicating the character of a brother, wrapt in a bloody shroud and laid in an untimely grave, from the cruel calumnies and unjust aspersions you have so unsparingly heaped upon him. You say, "One of the witnesses before the coroner stated, 'there were a great many ejectments and notices to quit, served by the deceased, on the lands over which deceased was the agent—as near as I can compute there were of ejectmeres and notices to quit 200 in all—these were ejectment' brought to evict the interests of a middleman whose lease was dropped.' Of the consequences that followed this last proceeding the coroner himself gives the history. One house was pulled down, but when the hardened instruments of this reckless pursuit of a sordid interest came to the second doomed dwelling, the sight of nine helpless, Innocent, and most unhappy babes met their eyes—they, even they, felt some touch of humanity, and turned from their horrid task appalled, if not softened, by the unspeakable woe which that scene disclosed." Words fail, utterly fail me, to express the just indignation that arises to my breast in repelling the foregoing statement, which is nothing short of a foul, malignant, and deliberate falsehood. What will the public think of the misrepresentations of Irish landlords, Irish agents, and Irish affairs generally, almost without an exception, as published in the Times, when I state that my never pulled down a house, never ejected nine helpless, unhappy babes; nay, more, never ejected a single individual, or young, on the entire estate of the Messrs. Hamilton, Tipping & Jones, for whom he was land agent? Beyond this I feel it quite unnecessary to go farther than to state that the 200 ejectments and notices were almost all a mere legal form, essentially necessary on the death of a middleman, so as to bring the occupying tenants under their new and then immediate landlord, but without the least idea of proceeding to eviction. As to the tale of the Widow Larkin and her rent of 65., and also that of the other widow and her turf ticket, I leave the public to form their own conclusion after what I have already stated, farther than this, that my brother was a man of too superior a mould ever to descend to the resource of the vulgar alone, that of "maledictions" and "curses. The inhuman murderers of my brother were satisfied with the perpetration of that act; but you, exhibiting a still greater degree of moral depravity, 1.. h 4 LiM to your uttermost after death, not of his "gout, good name," dearer to him and to those he has left Winn. Aan " trash;" and also realising lit thtefullest extent the unenviable character of that item ranking amongst the very lowest in the scale of animated nature, who would kick at the lion when he was dead. I am, Sir, your obedient servant.  him '