SCOTLAND.
Lord Murray, a distinguished Scotch lawyer, died on the 7th March, at his house in Edinburgh. He was in his eighty-first year. "In the case of one so well-beloved, says the Scotsman, "we had rather a few days should pass before speaking ; we make the mournful announcement, therefore, only in the simplest words. Not in Edinburgh only, of whose society he was the brilliant and acknowledged head, but throughout the wide circle of the il- lustrious in rank and intellect in every part of Europe to which his friend- ships extended will the loss be deplored. Lord Murray's withdrawal makes a blank which cannot be supplied. Venerable age, extending to the four- score years that mark the human term had not impaired either the activity of his intellect or the warmth of his affectionate nature ; and as his health had been in the early part of the winter unusually vigorous, it was natural to look to his having not a few active and beneficent years yet to spend among us. It is indeed, only a fortnight this day since he last occupied his accustomed seat in court, having throughout the session discharged his ju- dicial duties without interruption His death will be felt not only as the departure of a man universally beloved and esteemed as a munificent public benefactor, as the honoured head of many schemes of usefulness, as the pa- tron of every worthy charity, and the warm supporter of all improvement, but as the last of that highly distinguished band who throughout the first thirty or forty years of the century reflected more lustre on Edinburgh than did even the great intellectual lights of an elder day—and which included such nausea as Jeffrey; Playfair, Sidney Smith, Francis Horner, Thomas Brown, Henry Cockburn, and the still surviving Brougham. Our generation can have no such loss again to deplore—no such man is left among us." All classes in Edinburgh showed the greatest sympathy with the illness of the judge and all lament his loss.
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