Glasgow Courier. — 1862-07-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FURTHER PARTICULARS.  Another important discovery was made yesterday morning, which tends to increase the weight of the evidence which is being gradually collected to prove her participation in the Sandyford murder. The police were informed that Mrs M'Lachlan had some day last week sent off a box to Ayr, per the Glasgow and SouthWestern Railway; and, having made inquiry at the clerks of that line, they discovered that such a box as they were in quest of had been left at their parcel office in Glasgow for transmission. By making a further investigation, the box was found at the terminus, and was given up to the Glasgow police authorities yesterday morning. On the box being opened, there was found within it various articles of clothing, some of which are supposed to be articles of dress belonging to the deceased. and which had been found missing shortly after the murder was discovered. The later facts connected with this box are as follows :—On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 9th—the day on which the pawning of the silver-plate was discovered—some person, whether man or woman cannot be recollected, called at the parcel forwarding office, Bridge Street, with a tin box addressed to Mrs Darnley, Ayr, to be called for at Ayr station. On the 11th instant the box was returned to Glasgow, and on that same day a man, dressed in sailor garb, called at Bridge Street terminus, and, claiming the box, took it away. Early yesterday morning a tin box, supposed to be the same, arrived from Greenock addressed to "Mr Thomson, County Buildings," and on this box being opened at the County Buildings a quantity of women's apparel, identified as having been that of the deceased M'Pheracin, was found in it.  The two prisoners were brought down in separate cabs from the North Prison to the County Buildings yesterday at noon, and were as usual the object of the gaze of a large number of the curious who had been waiting from ten o'clock. Old Mr Fleming seemed as fresh and as vigorous as ever, and by no means betrayed the slightest sign of disquietude. Mrs M`Lachlan appeased pale and enfeebled. We are informed that the poor woman partook of no food the previous day, so that this circumstance, the serious position in which she is placed, and the long examinations to which she has been subjected since her apprehension, account for her apparent weakness and emaciation. The second declarations of the two prisoners were taken down yesterday; for it is for this purpose, more especially, that the: female prisoner has been brought to the Sheriff's Chambers than for being identified by the witnesses from Hamilton, they having identified the unfortunate woman on Tuesday night in the North Prison. We have been informed that the legal gentlemen who are charged with the investigation of this clime were to proceed to Edinburgh last night in order to consult with the Crown counsel these. One of the objects of this visit, we believe, is to confer with respect to the further detention of Mr Fleming; because it is the practice in criminal investigations in Scotland that a prisoner must either be set at liberty or committed for trial within eight or nine days after his apprehension, and the time is now at hand when one or the other of these alternatives must be adopted with regard to the old man. The result of the examination made on Tuesday by Dr Macleod to the footmark of Mrs M`Lachlan, and that discovered on the floor of the bedroom in which the murdered woman lay, is, that the two have been found to correspond, and are beheved to have been made by the same foot as far as scientific investigation can induce certainty on such a point.  The new Aot of Parliament for the better regulation of public-houses in Scotland has been already published by Mr M.Phun, Argyll Street. It only received the Royal Assent on the 7th, so that he has lost no time in getting it ready. GLASGOW HIGHLAND Socurv.—At the quarterly general meeting of the society held in the Religious Institution Rooms on Thursday--Wm. Morison, Esq., preses, in the chair—the following gentlemen were elected directors, viz. :—Andrew Galbraith, Esq., James Sword, Esq., Wm. Fleming, Esq., the Rev. Dr Robertson, and G. W. Snodgrass, Esq. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Barony Parochial Board was held on Thursday—Mr Macnab in the chair. The minutes of the Finance Committee recommended the Managing Committee to levy an assessment at the rate of 7i per cent. for the relief and management of the poor, and a-half per cent, for the building debt. The assessment was unanimously fixeiL GLASGOW POLICE BlLL—This bill having been committed to a committee in the House of Lords, of which Lord Redesdale is chairman, the Lord Provost, Mr Monro (Town Clerk), Captain Smart, and other officials, have jiroceeeded to London to be present when the bill is brought up. The Faculty of Procurators have sent a deputation to oppose the bill, and certain clauses are also to be opposed by the Road Trustees, We understand that our townsman Sir James Campbell entertained at dinner on Saturday last, at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, London, a distinguished party of foreigners and other gentlemen, chiefly in connection with the International Exhibition. A mongst the company were M. Fortainps of the Belgian Commission, M. Scherer of the Russian Commission, Alderman *Sir Francis Moore, Bart.; the Mayor of Manchester; the High Sheriff of Kent ; the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart. • Sir Edward Colebrooke, Bart., M.P. ; Thomas liazley, Esq., MP.; J. Steel, Esq.' M.P. ; Professor Lyon Playfair; F. R. Sandford, 'Esq. ; Colonel Fowke ; Geo. Moore, Esq. ; 3. Murray, Esq.; John Dillon, Esq.; Sheriff Glassford Bell; Colonel Kinloch, to. On Thursday morning, Archibald Aitken committed suicide by iasigin himself from the ceiling of MOM ill WA hcasti