The Sun. — 1832-07-23 (London, England)

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 Duncan 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 appears, 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 worthless person, who, in order to gratify her insa'iable desire for whisky, is said to have sold the greater part of the articles in his house. In such circumstances it is not easy to conceive a more hapless fate than that of their daughter, 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 evidently not been used in the commission of the crime. The Procurator-Fiscal having been immediately sent for, arrived 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, e lliin uekte. ortfceß ive uc CL EU ACH will arrive at Dalwho 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