Hutchesontown Bridge, Glasgow, was on Wednesday night the scene of an atrocious murder, arising out of a quarrel of which the following are the main facts.

A silly report, which had got abroad about a house being haunted in Buchanan-street, Gorbals, had at intervals, since Sunday night been the means of collecting together a gaping crowd in that locality, composed mostly of idle and worthless characters; in the evening these crowds have been more numerous, and on Wednesday night the crowd continued in and round Buchanan Street as usual.

Shortly after nine o’clock a band of disorderly lads in the crowd began maliciously to amuse themselves by stretching a rope across the street, laughing heartily at those who stumbled over it in passing.

Among others who thus stumbled was a young man of 21 years of age, named Bernard M’AULAY, a miner, residing in Main Street, Gorbals. He resented the trick by knocking down a man who appeared to him to be one of the principal aggressors. This person finding himself worsted, slunk off to Bridgegate, and, with some accomplices, set out to wreak vengeance on M’AULAY. They encountered him on Hutchesontown bridge, and threw stones at him, and when M’AULAY saw that they were bent on assaulting him, he put himself on the defensive, and a scuffle ensued, in which M’AULAY was stabbed with a knife or other sharp instrument in the left breast, a few inches below the nipple. He immediately fell, and his assailants made their escape.

He was at once conveyed to the shop of Dr. PEARSON, in Adelphi-street, where he was found to be dying, and breathed his last almost immediately afterwards, giving an utterance to an expression to the effect that it was a flesher who did it.

About six o’clock yesterday morning the man who committed the crime was apprehended. His name is James MOORE, 9, Gallowgate. Along with other two assailants of the deceased, whose names are James CLARK and Harvy CARSON, he was brought up at the Central Police Court on Thursday, and remanded for examination.