Glasgow Courier. — 1862-10-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE SANDYFORD MURDER CASE.  Sheriff Young, the Commissioner appointed to conduct the investigation into this case, arrived on Friday morning. The examination of witnesses commenced on Friday afternoon, within the Chambers of Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison, in presence of Mr Gemmel, Proc orator-Fiscal, and the prisoner's agents, and terminated on Monday afternoon. Besides the examination of several witnesses for the Crown and also for the prisoner, Dr Macleod and other medical gentlemen were examined.  We understand that the" report of Mr Young, the Crown Commissioner, in regard to the case of Mrs M`Lachlan, was sent off on Tuesday night to the Home Secretary, so that in a few days an answer may be expected. Regarding the publication of the "evidence" alleged to have been led before the Commissioner, the Scotsman says :—" We have been informed, on good authority, that the reports in question are very far from presenting a correct statement of the business really done before the Commissioner." This has also been affirmed in our hearing on unquestionable authority. The convict continues to maintain a behaviour altogether becoming one in her position. She gives commendable heed to her spiritual advisers, the chaplain of tbe prison (the Rev. Mr Doran) and the Rev. H. S. Paterson, who are unremitting in their daily attentions to her best interests. She speaks but little, and occupies her time mostly in reading the Bible, and other good books. Her husband has frequent interviews with her, and we believe, with the exception of Mr J. A. Dixon, one of her agents, no other person but those already mentioned and the prison officials see her, although applications have been most numerous and influential. There is no "condemned" cell in the North Prison, so that the prisoner has been confined all along in an ordinary apartment. With the view, however, of shutting her off completely from the outer world, since her conviction, two cells at the far end of the corridor of the top flat of the prison have been boarded up. Means have been employed to keep the prisoner quiet, and under strict surveillance continually. Female warders, accoi dingly, are constantly with her, and none but the two rev, gentlemen named, the prisoner's husband, her agent, and the prison officials, are permitted to see her.  Mr Robert Wright writer, has been appointed one of the Sheriff-Substitutes for Renfrewshire.  Miss Catherine Sinclair, the accomplished authoress, arrived at the Garrison last week on a visit to the Right Hon. the Dowager-Countess of Glasgow, and the Hon. Mr and Mrs Boyle. His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, accompanied by the Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, and the Marquis de Rosteign, left Hamilton Palace on Monday for Garscube House, Dumbartonshire, the seat of Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart., of Succoth.  We understand that, since the lamented death of Mr Hosie, the Forth Iron Works have been put under the charge of Wm. Moore, Esq., of the firm of Messrs John Mackenzie & Moore, of this city, who, with the present staff at the works, will direct the operations. Mr Dunlop, the Member for Greenock, addressed his constituents on Monday, in a speech of great ability, on several of the local and general measures passed during the last session of Parliamant. He also referred to the American and Italian questions at considerable length. We observe from the colonial newspapers that Messrs P. Henderson & Co.'s ship Helenslee, which left the Clyde for Queensland in April last, arrived at that colony in the beginning of August, after a very successful voyage. There were two births and seven deaths, all of children, on the voyage out. A fire broke out on Monday night, shortly before midnight, in the Camlachie Flour Mills, but it was soon extinguished, without much damage having been done.  Messrs Burns having sold the steamship Giraffe, she will be replaced very shortly by the Wolf. now building by Messrs Napier for the royal mail line between Glasgow and Belfast.  The steamer' Pearl, lately sold to the Confederates, left Gonrock Bay for her destination on Thursday forenoon. It is said that other sales of Clyde steamers are on the taptis. . _  At the Justice of Peace Court on Monday, six girls were found guilty for having left their employment without giving due notice. Sentence was delayed till Monday week,  -Robert Gallaclier, dealer, Glasgow, was on Saturday found guilty, at the Paisley Police Court, of attempting to pledge as genuine silver guard chains, for which he was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment.  As John Bain was engaged on Monday wheeling coals on board the Mountaineer, the barrow came in contact with the bulwark of the vessel, and he was precipitated into the water. Owing to the heavy flood in the river he was carried away before assistance could be rendered, and was drowned. James Scott, farmer, Kirktown, in the parish of Houstoun, was discovered dead in his bed on ihursday morning last, having committed suicide. Deceased was a widower, with four children; being in easy circumstances and of a cheerful disposition, no immediate cause can be assigned for the rash act. Four persons were charged at the Southern Police Court for having been in the shebeen or premises of Duncan Brown, Butterbiggings Road, on Sunday evening. Two of them were fined in lOs each, and the other two forfeited their pledges to the same amount for non-appearance.--Brown was fined in  _ On Sunday morning, the constables on the beat found in a cellar in Tontine close heavy manacles or fetters which had evidently been taken off the legs of escaped convicts. They also discovered a quantity of liquor in bottles, and other articles, hut the liquor was claimed by a shebeener who lives in the neighbourhood.  On Sunday night, John M‘Grogan, miner, Linnwood, while convoying two companions on their way home to Johnstone, went by a private road along the Linnwood Mill lade side, and while crossing the lade by a small bridge, he accidentally fell in and was drowned. Owing to the swell in the water, and the night being dark, his companions could not see him, and two hours elapsed before the body was found.