Glasgow Courier. — 1862-07-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RANGED IN ERROR.  A man of considerable property, in or near London, died, leaving an only child, a daughter, aged about 18. and by his will appointed his brother her guardian and sole executor. The will directed that if the daughtei should die without having married, or if married without children, her fortune should go to the uncle, whos, interest was therefore supposed to be incompatible with that of the niece. Several of the relatives, discontented with the father's ultimate disposition, threw out dark hints that they ought not to live together; notwithstanding which, the uncle removed the niece to his own residence, near Epping Forest. They were both seen one day walking together in the forest, but the young lady suddenly disappeared, and the uncle declared that he had sought her as 800 n as he had missed her, and knew not whither she had gone, or what had become of her. This account was considered improbable, and appearances being clearly suspicious, he was arrested and brought before a magistrate, where other circumstances, which were hourly coming to light, • rendered his position serious. A young gentleman from the neighbourhood had been paying his addresses to her, and it was stated, and generally believed, that he had gone a few days before she had been missed on a journey to the North, she having declared that she would marry him on his return. The uncle had repeatedly expressed his disapprobation of the match, and she had loudly reproached him with unkindness and abuse of his authority over her as his ward. A woman was produced, who swoie that about 11 o'clock in the forenoon of the day the niece was missed, as she was passing through the forest, she heard a young lady's voice earnestly expostulating with a gentleman, and upon drawing nearer to the spot distinctly heard the following expressions:—"Don't kill me, uncle—don't kill me." Being greatly terrified she hurried away from the scene, and immediately afterwards heard the report of fire-arms. On this combination of circumstantial and positive evidence, coupled with the suspicion of interest, the uncle was tried, convicted of murder, and immediately after, according to the Draconic code then in force, executed. About ten days after the execution the young lady reappeared, and, stranger still, all the evidence given on the trial proved to have been strictly true. The niece then declared that, having resolved to elope with her lover, they had given out that he had gone on a journey to the North, while he had merely waited near the skirts of the forest until the time appointed for the elopement, which was the very day she disappeared. He had horses ready saddled for them both, and two servants in attendance on horsebock. While walking with her uncle he had reproached her with her resolution to marry a man of whom he had disapproved, and ofter some remonstrance she passionately exclaimed. "1 have set my heart upon it. If I do not marry him it will be death to me; and don't kill me, uncle, don't kill toe !" Just as she had pronounced those words she heard a gun fired, at which she started, and she afterwards saw a man come from amongst the trees with a wood-pigeon in his hand, which he had then shot. On approaching the spot appointed for the meeting of the lover she formed a pretence to induce her uncle to go on before her; and having fled to the arms of her suitor, who had been waiting for her, they both mounted their horses, and immediately rode off. Instead, however, of going to the North they retired to the neighbourhood of Windsor, where they were married the some day, and in about a week after went on a tour of pleasure to France. There they passed some months so happily. that in those days, when newspapers were scarce, when there was no very regular postal communications, and no telegrams, they never heard of the uncle's sad fate until their return to England. —All the Year Round.  On Thursday evening a superb gold snuff box was brought to Liverpool by Mr A. Bower, as a present from his Highness Said Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, in acknowledgment of the courteous reception and princely hospitality which he met with from his Worship the Mayor. on the occasion of his late visit to Liverpool. The box is an exceedingly rich and beautiful one, get in brilliants, and placed on a pedeetal of the finest meleohlte.