SCOTLAND. - The nomination for the office of Lord Rector
of the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen took place on Saturday. Two candidates were named—the Earl of Carlisle, and Mr. Benjamin Disraeli : at the . mention of the name of the latter, a storm of groans and hisses dravrneI the 'cheers. On the names being put, there was an overwhelming majority in favour of Lord Carlisle. The election takes place on the let ondaich, and the installation in the course of the month.
John Williams, an American, has been convicted at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, of the murder and robbery of Andrew Mather, a toll- keeper, on the public road in the parish of Lauder, Berwickshire. Mother's daughters found his body on the road-side ; there was much blood on the head and neck ; the clothes were torn to shreds. Williams was near the corpse, and ran away. When taken, he said he had killed the man, and that the Devil had tempted him: but he did not think they would hang him ; if they transported him, it was just what he wanted, as lie could not get back to his own country any other way. He is to be hanged at Green- law.
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