Glasgow Courier. — 1844-12-10 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCOTLAND.  Contemplated Alliance—We understand that Miss Menzies of Menzies is about to bestow her hand on Capt. Jack Murray, R.N. The gallant officer is closely connected with the noble houses of Atholl, Hamilton, Mansfield, Dunmore, and Strathallan ; and the fair lady is the eldest sister of Sir Robert Menzies, Bart., nephew of Lord Grantley. The marriage ceremony will take place at Castle Menzies, early in the month of June.—Perth Courier.  John Hay Mackenzie, Esq. of Clrotuartie, has presented the Rev. john Macrae to the church and parish of RR.  The Murder at Tyninghame.—We understand that George Hannan has, after a lengthened investigathip, beep fully committed to take his trial on the charge of esurder. Stirling Thieves.—The thieves in Stirling must be unusually bold scoundrels. We learn that on the night between Friday and Saturday last, they broke into the office of Messrs. Sewers & Sconce, the Procurator-nimbi there, and stole -£34 in money, two watches, some gra brdocbes, gold rings, and a silver vinegarette. So far as we have heard, the depredators have not been captured. Awful Ejects of Intemperance.—ln the afternoon of Friday, the 29th oh., six persons were drinking together in a public-house in Crieff. One of theta, Aotbody Culbert, a man in the prime of life, within half as bent after leaving the public-house, dropped down and expireld. Another, Wm. Robertson, millwright, advanced in years, managed to get home, but shortly thereafter was observed to be seriously ill. In the case ofshe former, the stomachpump was applied, but to no effect, inasmuch as life had been extinct for some time before its application. In that of the latter, it was hoped its application would have beeo followed by happier consequences; but nol he lingered apparently in great suffering till half-past two o'clock nent morning, when he expired. The general impression seems to be that death, in both cases, was caused by the quentiti of cold whisky each had swallowed—said to have been nnl less than sixteen glasses each, and that in the short space a half an hour. We have not heard of any of the other members having been seriously affected—Perth' COltfier; "Strange Discovery of a Murder."—A paragraph under this head, copied from the W'igtonshire Free Prue, has been going the round of the journals announcing that while workmen were making some alterations on a cottage in the parish of Kirkoolm, the remains of a human body were discovered, which, there could be little doubt, were those of a packman, who had entered the village some five years ago, and was never more seen or heard of. The suspicion of foul play was strengthened by the circumstances of the then cottager improving immediately after the packmau's disappearance—ergo, he was robbed and murdered. This frightful tale, however, is thus disposed of by the Dumfries Herald of Friday last :—" Our oontemporary has been sadly hoaxed in this matter. The whole affair, however, would be simply laughable, but far the broad inference of robbery and murder which the paragraph contains against the persons who lived at Merslaught, where the pedlar is said to have disappeared. Surely before giving publicity to a statement containing such a serious charge, the truth of the statement should hart been well ascertained. But the sole ground for all this gale of mystery and murder, is the carcass of a sheep, buried, pro. bably, from having died of the rot!"