Glasgow Courier. — 1848-12-14 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FARM. party, on the condition of his giving the name of the party who Wymondhana Thursday Evening. was the author of the story. It appeared that the party con- Potash Farm, where the suspected assassin, Rush, was apprecerned had declined to accede to Mr. Macbeth's proposal, unless headed on the morning following the murders, is now undergoing he farther agreed to engage by letter not to proceed against the almost a perfect demolition, with a view of discovering the pistols author of the story if his name was given up, either now or at any future period. Mr. Macbeth had been advised not to accede used in the tragical affair. Numerous carpenters, brkklayers, and to that proposal, and aceordiney it fell to the ground. Now, other labourers, at the direction of the magistrates, have been the Presbytery was under the impression that that was ph°. position engaged during the last few days in displacing stoves, pulling in which the case at present stood; from the information which they had, they of course supposed that what he (Dr. B.) down walls, ransacking roofs, and indeed any part which appeared had now described was the precise shape in which the matter to have offered any fealties for the secretion of the weapons. Up stood; but he had been informed that the shape in which it now to this period, however, they remain undiscovered. stood was somewhat different; In other words, as he had been informed, the proposal which Mr. M'Beth had made had been accepted on the part of those concerned in this civil action, and al- Jermy and her maid, Elisabeth Clastney, to be going on favourthough accepted by them, was not now acquiesced in by Mr. ably. The poor girl, whose injury Is most critical, passed acornMacbeth. He (Dr. B.) merely wished th 9 Presbytery to under- fortable night, and this morning she was considered by her medistand that the statement which they had got in regard to the kind cal advisers to be in so favourable a condition as to enable them of hindrance in the way did not apply at this moment, so far as to place her in the position rendered necessary to effect the per. be had been advised. If Mr. Macbeth was now in the position feet setting of the fractured thigh. The poor creature continues which he appeared to be when he made the statement, the obsta- in a terrible state of suffering, which she bears with much reeigele would be oat of the way, and they could get at the case now • nation. but this it would seem he was not, and therefore the obstacle still The magistrates who have been engaged in investigating the exists to their getting at the branch of the subject alluded to. It evidence against Rush are daily in attendanoe in the vicinity of was necessary that the Presbytery should know this, and also that the hall, and giving directions to the pollee as to the course they parties, witnesses in the ease, and many oat of doors who are no should pursue during the extensive search of Potash Farm, and doubt interested in the case, should understand distinctly the the land adjacent. circumstances in which the Presbytery was placed. The housekeeper of Rush, the widow James, remains a priMr. Maximo said he had no doubt it would be considered pro- soner in the town bridewell. per, after the statement which had been made by Dr. Buchanan, The prisoner Rush will undergo another examination before that he (Mr. M.) should make such a statement as would place the magistrates, at Norwich Castle, to-morrow (Friday). It is this matter in what he considered to be the right light, because expeoted that the proceedings will be conducted in private, and he was afraid, if the impression made upon the minds of those who that the press will be again excluded. were to sit as judges upon the other charges could be ascertained,