Glasgow Courier. — 1844-09-07 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CASE OF MURDER IN THE PARISH OF CAMPSIE. A case of murder, we regret to state, took plane in the parish of Campsie, on Thursday forenoon. The person murdered belonged to Campsie, and was named John Dunn, or Donlon, and the murderer's name is John WLauchlane. Both of the parties were engaged an reopen on the farm of Alton, we have been informed, and a quarrel having taken place on the harvest-field, M‘Lauchlane assaulted Dunn, struck him below the arm with his reaping-book, the point of which having entered his heart he died instantaneously. hPLaachlane's father, we have likewise heard, 4160 was concerned in the reel. The murderer immediately absconded, and, so far a have learned, has not yet been apprehended. M‘Lauchlane, peara, is an Irishman, who had worked for some years at Kirkintilloch as a plasterer's labourer, but for a few days previous to the fatal occurrence, had been employed as a shearer in Campsie parish. He is about twentpthree years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high, walks straight and smart, long thin face, long light brown hair, grey eyes, very melt marked with the small-pox, and no whiskers. He was dressed, when last seal, in a brown vest with sleeves, coplaroi imam, and brown sad white velveteen cap:  • One of our of gallantry French, for On vho, if any  Sugar Duties.—The Lords of the Treasury,haging had under consideration an application of Messrs. Macfie and Sons, of Liverpool, sugar-refiners, praying to be relieved from payment of the duty on certain quantities of bastard sugar and treacle, being the deficiency which has arisen from sundry parcels of those articles produced from foreign sugar refined in bond, and deposited in the warehouse for the purpose of exportation, and that no duty in future be demanded upon deficiencies of sugar and treacle deposited in the warehouses under similar circumstances, directions have been issued by their Lordships authorising the Board of Customs to direct in the present case, and in all similar instances in which there may be no reason to suspect fraud, Police and without exposing the revenue to risk, that the duty employ of a bookseller in town, w. may be remitted. This order has been made general, and ~ Anderson, to thirty days' imprisoi communicated to all the departments. several sums of money belonging ao hi Acts of the Session.—On Monday the Lord Chancellor appropriating them to his laid on the table of the House of Lords a return of the Accident at Dalry.—On Tuesday, while a number of Royal Commissions assenting to public bills such bills severally were read the first time in the House of in excavating the found during the present session; also noticing the dates at win/ ced, as we think we workmen were engaged ' rid will not be di,' l Free Church about to be erected in this piaci .id tween the Emperor in taking down an old wall of 12 or 14 feet in heig ,c, a Lords. There were 11 Commissions, the last being on the 9th of August. To that period, inclusive, 105 bills relarge portion of the wall suddenly fell down, burying Wm. true that the late raised the Royal Assent and became Acts of Parliament. Hannah, the contractor for the building, beneath the MEL bat France would Medical aid was immediately procurA but when be was Of that number 45, or very nearly one-half, were read for Tunis on the one Fot out he was found to be dead, his skull being fractured the first time in the House of Lords, in the course of July. 11 were read for the first time in August. should fear that so in two or three places, and his left leg broken. One or %outs Philippe and Lady Aldhorough.— two others who were beneath the wall escaped very naro become barren for Paris letters contains the following instance rowly from a like deplorable fate. ision of that regency on the part of his Majesty the King of the 1 . We regret to learn that, owing to the state of his health, the truth of which the writer pledges himself ... t., 41.4,,,.. yvhich rt.. mom... IA under the necessity of reluctantly declin- Thursday or Friday last Lady Aldborough (w'