THE KING—Since the King took up his residence at Windsor

Castle, he has experienced a slight attack of the gout in one of his hands, which confined hint to his private apartment for several days. The attack, however, was of short duration; and his Majesty was able to join the Russian Ambassador, the Princess Lieven, and a numerous party of the nobility and gentry, at dinner on Wednesday. Among those presentwere the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Dorset, Lord and Lady Granville, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Ellis, Earl Dudley, Lord Melbourne, Sir Frederick Lambe, Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord Fordwich, Lady E. Cowper, and the Earl of Chesterfield. Most of the party remained at the palace on Thursday, and were joined by several other distinguished personages, who arrived at the palace to spend New Year's Day with his Majesty.

The company which had the honour of ,dining with his Majesty on Wed- nesday last still continue their visit, and were on Thursday evening entertained by the King in the same style of splendour. The young Queen of Portugal is expected at the Castle on Monday next to visit his Majesty.—Muraing Post, Saturday.

The remaort of the King's going to Brighton has been revived.

A suite of apartments is now preparing for the reception of his Majesty in that part of the new Royal Palace which forms the corner of it next the Green Park.

ROYAL PATRONAGE OF TEE ARTS.--The King is said ID have given direc tions to Mr. Chantrey for the execution of four statues, of the heroic size, in Carrara marble, to be placed in conspicuous situations in the gallery at Windsor Castle. The persons to be :represented are, his present Majesty, the late Duke of York, the Great Duke of Marlborough, and the Duke of Welling- ton. From the undisputed pre-eminence of the artist-selected, and the libe- rality of the terms proposed (four thousand guineas each figure), it is proba- ble these statues will afford the most splendid proofs of the progress in the fine arts hitherto exhibited by English talent.—Mnriiing Chronicle.

The King has purchased from Wilkie, at a most liberal price, three of the pictures painted by this admirable artist, during his residence abroad. They are already placed, together with some exquisite portraits, painted by the accomplished President of the Royal Academy, in the New Gallery, built bx Sit Jeffery Wyatville, in Windsor Gude.. THE CABINET.--It has been rumoured that the Speaker of the House of Commons is to be raised to the Peerage, and to have the Privy Seal. The Standard says, there is no ground for supposing that Mr. Manners Sutton wiU at present retire from his present situation.

DON MIGUEL'S AMBASSADoit.—The Minister who arrived in England some time since as the accredited Ambassador from Don Miguel, is King of Portu- gal, has lately had several interviews with the Earl of Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington.

HONOURS IN THE GIFT OF THE PREMIER.—There are at present two vacan- cies in the list of Knights of the Order of the Garter. The Morning Chronicle

asks—very needlessly, we apprehend—if "it be from motives of policy that the Premier Is so tardy in the distribution of honours, as well as of the other more substantial marks of approbation, for which assuredly there is no lack of aspirants ?" From what motives but those of "policy" should it be ?

CIVIL SERVICE AND HALF,-PAY.—The Lords of the Admiralty have directed, My a circular order, that the affidavits to be sworn to by naval and marine officers, for half-pay accruing after the 31st December, shall contain a decla- ration, in addition to the present form, that they do not hold any civil appoint- ment, either at home or in the colonies; or that such appointment qr office (provided they do hold one) was given to them prior to the 1st of January 1829; as it is the intention of the Government to withhold the payment of half-pay to officers who may be appointed to civil situations after that period.

OFFICIAL RESIDENCE.—The furniture of the Duke of Clarence has been removed from the-house in the Admiralty occupied ity his Royal Highness as

the head of the Naval Department, to his new residence in the King's Pa- lace, St. James's. Some of the domestics of Viscount Melville took posses- sion of the house on Thursday, his Lordship intending to take up his resi- dence there.

Viscount Melville held a levee on Wednesday, at the Admiralty, which was numerously attended by naval officers.

Earl Bathurst left his seat at Cirencester on Tuesday morning, for London. Mr. Secretary and Lady Jane Peel left town yesterday morning for Brighton.

The Duchess of St. Alban's had a grand party on Friday, followed by a ball and supper. The first part of the entertainment was a concert performed by the pupils of the Royal Academy of Music, and De Begnis.

It is rumoured in the Court circles that Dr. Briscol, the Domestic Chaplain of the Duke of Wellington during the peninsular war, is likely to succeed to the Prebendal stall in the Worcester cathedral, now vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Professor Gaisford.—Mreester Journal.

DONNA AIARIA.—The Queen of Portugal has received several visits from the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Kent.

THE LATE LORD LIVERPOOL.—A report in the 41forning Chronicle esti- mates the property left by this nobleman at 700.000/. The Standard says that he has only left 120,0001.; of which 100,0'004 was bequeathed hint by his father. The Standard also states, that the Duke of Wellington "has ac- cepted the wardenship of the Cinque Ports, merely that he might give Wid- mer Castle ((lie only advantage of the situation, as the salary has been abolished) to the Dowager Countess of Liverpool during his Grace's life." The situation of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, though "shorn of its beams," in the article of pecuniary emolument, is one of high dignity and ex- tensive patronage; and we are inclined to believe would, in the event of a war, be still found extrenzelyluerative.-21corniag Chronicle.

TIIE BISHOP OF NORWICH.—This venerable Prelate died at' Norwich on Thursday,after a short illness. His death was sudden and unexpected, although his Lordship was upwards of eighty years of age.

LORD NI aRYBOROUGIL—This nobleman has been for some time seriously in disposed.at Foam n Lodge, near Windsor, of inflammation in the lungs. His complaint is supposed to have now taken a favourable turn.

Earl Spencer experienced a dangerous attack of illness during the present week, while staying at his seat Althorp-park, Northamptonshire. Sir Henry Halford was sent for express. Sir Henry left town to attend his Lordship, and remained at Althorp till all danger from the attack had subsided, when Sir Henry returned to town.

The Master of the Rolls is so much better, that he has been able to take an airing daily in his carriage for the last three or four days. Mr. Abernethy, the celebrated surgeon, is at present extremely unwell.— Morning Chronicle.

THE GREAT CITY BANEREPTCY.--Ill the larger Part of our impression last week, we mentioned that the banking-house of Remington, Stephenson, amid Co., in Lombard-street, had stopped payment; and that Mr. Rowland Stephen- son, a Member of Parliament, and Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, bad absconded. The bankruptcy of the firm appeared in the Gazette of last night. The state of the affairs of this unfortunate company has excited bound- less speculation ; and has furnished the City correspondents of the daily papers with a text which they have spun out to the last degree of tenuity, al- though they confessedly know little of the real state of the affairs of the house, and nothing at all of the fugitive partner Stephenson. Stephenson is said to have taken with hint money and notes from the bank to the amount of 58,000/. Besides this sum, Exchequer Bills and other securities to a large amount have been missed, and part of them are known to have been fraudulently disposed of by him. Every day of the week has added to the incredible amount of the defalcation ; and yesterday it was stated at no less titan 320,000/. For the 38,0001. Stephenson left his check. He is said to have drawn 30,000/. on Friday from the account kept at the Bank of England without the knowledge of the other partners. Time London Life Association loses 39,0001; and Mr. Ex-Sheriff Parkins, who is in America, 15,000/. The Ex-Sheriff has been saved 1000/. by mere accident,--a bill to that amount having been found in the desk of Lloyd, a clerk, the partner of his master's guilt in making false entries in the bank-books, and the supposed companion of his flight. Chilian, Colombian, Mexican and Brazilian Bonds, to the amount of 36,0004 which were in time hands of firm, have not been "forthcoming upon the request made for them." They are the property of Mr. J. A. Fructuozo; and are the latest mentioned as missing. A reward of 1000/. has been offered for the ap- prehension of Stephenson; but neither of him nor of Lloyd, for whom also a reward has been offered, is there any distinct trace. Stephenson left St. Bar- tholornew's Hospital about four o'clock on Saturday morning in a hackney- coach ; and it is supposed that he waited for Lloyd in a street near the Re- gent's Park. This person slept in the bank, and was heard to go out about midnight. The next supposition is, that they had gone to Portsmouth, and

made their escape to the United States, on board a vessel which was waiting for them off the Isle of Wight. The coachman has brought back his carriage and horses, which were missing for some days ; but the coachman himself has not been seen. Stephenson has left eight motherless children behind him. It is a curious circumstance connected with this failure, that only two weeks ago, five of the principal bankersin London were engaged in investigating the affairs of the house. So satisfied were these gentlemen of its solvency, that they urged individuals who had withdrawn their accounts to replace them ; and each of themselves, it is said, advanced 20,0001. on such securities as they found it to possess. They never imagined that securities lodged merely for safe custody could be removed or disposed of ; but it appears that the Exchequer Bills and other floating securities which the bank held in deposit, had been made available to give that appearance of solvency which deceived them.

The following remarks on the whole case are from a correspondent of our own—one of the best-informed men of business in the City :—

" The popular belief is that Stephenson has carried all the missing mo- ney with him, whether abstracted from the till or raised upon bills or otherwise. Although it is pretty generally agreed that he took directly from the till on Friday night a very large sum (58,0000 yet until this matter is further and better explained, I cannot myself credit it implicitly. With respect to the other defiCiencies, the probability seems rather to be that the different sums were taken at different times to stop up old gaps, made formerly either by unfavourable speculations, losses at play, or general extravagance in personal expenditure. Some of the larger sums (that of the London Life Association, for example) were used most probably to prop the tottering credit of the house during its recent trials, as the bills were only recently brought into the market for sale. In short, I am of opinion that this of Stephenson is a parallel case to that of Faunt- leroy. The credit of the house has been long doubted. As early as No- vember 1825, it was very freely spoken of; and lately, nearly a month ago, it was alluded to in one of the SPECTATOR'S articles on the Money Market. Stephenson managed the business; and his partners finding things going on indifferent well, appear to have asked no questions as to where the funds came froM. It is known that the partners were at va- riance with Stephenson, on account of some separate speculations of his own, which involved the credit of the house. But they appear, like Fauntleroy's partners to have known very little of their own affairs. Ei- ther they believed the house to be solvent, or they did not : If they did, Stephenson must have been able by their want of circumspection to ab- stract large sums for his own purposes at former periods, and afterwards to replace them with their customers' money ; if they did not believe their firm solvent, they must have shut their eyes upon the means adopted for sustaining its credit so long. That Stephenson has carried off a consi- derable sum, is probable enough ; but that he took away the whole defi- ciency, hitherto ascertained, is beyond belief.

There are the usual assortment of wonderful escapes of parties who drew out their balances, and lamentable instances of others who paid their money in—and doubtless many of them are true, but quite as many are mere coinage.

FRAUD AT LLOYD'S:A meeting of the Subscribers to Lloyd's was held on Wednesday, to consider sedain resolutions of the Committee for expelling Messrs. Hoskin and Russell, for having made false returns on policies. Mr. Dewar stated, that the Committee had inquired fully into the matter of Hoskin and Russell, and were perfectly convinced of the fraudulent conduct of the factors' who had admitted their guilt, and tendered their resignation as subscribers; but this had not been accepted, as it was thought a public ex- pulsion would more decidedly mark the sense of the house. Mr. Lindsay seconded the motion. Mr. Sharp thought, that besides being expelled, the parties should be prosecuted. The Lord Mayor (who was in the chair) said that the subscribers as a body could not prosecute; but if any of the parties defrauded by Hoskin and Russell successfully prosecuted them, a motion would be made for paying their legal expenses. The resolutions of the CM'. mittee were contirmed.—lt was mentioned at this meeting by Mr. Dewar that Mr. Grey, the Head Master at Lloyd's, bad resigned on account of ill health ; and he moved that his resignation be accepted, and a pension of 200/. a year granted to him. The amount of pension was referred to a Commatee.

CABINET Msgre ES.—The Duke of Vv'ellington, and several other di sr guished public characters, arc gone on a visit to the seat of the Earl of West- morland, in Northamptonshire, to enjey the sport of pheasant-shooting. From Northamptonshire the noble guests are to repeat their visit to the Marquis of Chanties; but the place of reunion will be Stowe instead of Wootton. The indefatigable Mr. Holmes, of course, forms one of the party at both places.

" Eeee Remo Crispinus, et est hie szepi vueandus

Ad partes."

In fact, whenever and wherever any work is to be done, the last-named honourable member is an inseparable appendage. We believe the Stowe party will comprise the seine names as (lie former one at Wootton, with a single exception.—Morning Chronicle, Friday. .

Sr. JAMES'S PARE.—As soon as the improvements are completed, and the shrubs are all planted, the walks will be thrown open to the public, under the same restrictions as are observed in Kensington Gardens; and a light iron bridge will be erected over the Canal. This will prove a valuable acquisition to the inhabitants of the lower parts of Westminster.

PUBLIC SECURITY IN Losuos.—Mr. Peel has addressed circulars to the different parish-officers touching the management of the daily and nightly watch. He wishes to know the number of the watchmen, their hours of duty, their pay, and in short every thing connected with their appointment, ma nagement, and expense to the parish ; and also under what authority the watching department is carried into effect. The Times, complaining of the present system—which it says, is erroneously called a " protective" one of people's lives and properties—suggests that if robberies be committed through the negligence or unfitness of the watch, the power which appoints them ought in some degree to be made responsible,—just in the same manner as a. parish becomes respousible for the damage done by a mob.

ST. LUKE'S, MIDDLESEX:A vestry was held on Tuesday, to ascertain the rate necessary to be raised for the relief of the poor, and the other expenses of the ensuing quarter. Mr. Wall, the Vestry-Clerk, read the proceedings of a previous vestry, which had fixed the rate at 9d. This he thought too little, and proposed that it should be 10d. It was, however, moved and car- ried, that the present rate of 6d. should be continued.

Bustscee.—The foreign exchanges fell yesterday to per cent. Stand- ard gold of course remains at the Mint price. Doubloons rose one shilling per oz., silver 2d. per oz., and is very scarce; dollars from 4s. 9id., rose ti 4s. 91d., and few to be bought at the advance.— Globe, Wednesday. One day last week the noble Premier purchased stock in the 3i per Cents. to the amount of 120,0001.

ASSESSED Taxes.—In Nottingham, Hull, Liverpool, and other places, great complaints are made of overcharges in the assessed taxes. In seine cases, persons have been rated on an increased rental, which amounts, in ordinary instances, to one-third more than that on which they have hitherto been paying. In the present depressed state of trade, it is observed by slime of the provincial papers, such a mode of increasing the revenue has caused very general dissatisfaction. The people of Hull mean to represent their case to the Government; and it has been advised that other places should do the same.

FRAUDS ist DISTILLATION.—In consequence of the report made to Parlia- ment relating to the Distillery Laws, in which it was stated that the revenue sustained a loss of one-fifth owing to the abstraction of liquor during the progress of distillation, large sums of money have been expended by the Board of Excise in purchasing and making trial of different machines calcu- lated to prevent the frauds practised. Hitherto none that have been tried have been found to answer practically the purposes intended ; but within these few days a machine, by order of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has undergone a trial before some of the most experienced officers of the Board of Excise, and the Secretary to the Board, which promises to answer in the most satisfactory manner the end required, since it affords access to the dis- tiller to the stream of the liquor issuiag from the still, preventing at the same time the distiller from taking more than is necessary for that purpose. Among other things, it secretes a correct average of the strength of the liquor for the use of the Supervisor.

SENDING Larruns PRIVATELY.-0IIT attention has been called to an impor- tant amendment made by the 5th Geo. IV. cap. 20, in the Act of the 42d Geo. III. cap. Si, in regard to letters sent by friends. The words of the last Act exempt from penaltyparties who send letters by any private friend, in his or her way of journey or travel, so as such letter shall be delivered by such friend of the party to whom such letter shall be directed. This amendment is not adverted to in the post-office regulations ; it is a very important one.— Liverpool "'Eldon.

ALARMS.—The Duke of York steam-boat arrived some days since, from Gibraltar ; and the passengers were relieved front quarantine on Tuesday,—to the alarm and annoyance of a correspondent in the Times, who thinks that there has been "a great remissness on the part of those charged with the pro. tection, of our lives," in so soon allowing them to mix with the inhabitants fo this crowded city.

PORTUGUESE REFUGE as.—Four transports, with Portuguese emigrants on board, are ready to sail from Plymouth, and only wait for a fair wind. No- thing is known as to their destination—whether it be Terceira or Brazil.

RUSSIAN SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD.—A report which has been some time in circulation is now confirmed, that the Russian Government has resolved to coin a large sum in Siberian platina.. It appears that Count Denidoff, the proprietor of the locality where the platina was discovered, has disposed of the quantity of that metal which had been collected, to the Government. He has sent four young Russians, destined for official situations in Siberia, to be educated at the Mining Academy of Freyberg.

WINTER ASSIZES. Kisosrox.—Aaron Wolfe was charged with stealing five gold watches and a quantity of jewellery from a person in the King's Bench prison. It appeared that Lyon Samuel, the prosecutor, sent his bro- ther to the prison to receive 10s. due to him by the prisoner. The prisoner paid the money, and then desired to see the contents of a box in his posses- sion. The lad having complied, the prisoner took five gold watches and went away with them. His wife also took a quantity of jewellery, left the room, locked the door, and detained the lad for some hours. The prisoner returned and gave him a paper purporting to be a check on the Bank of England for 95/. in payment of the goods: this check seemed to be drawn by the prisoner on Mr. Foreman, which person turned out to be the messenger of the King's Bench. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years.

William Owen was convicted of having forcibly entered a dwelling-house at Ripley, and stolen two coats-and some other articles. Sentence of death recorded, see:tied, but the Judge said filet his life would be spared. Four men were convicted by a long train of circumstantial evidence, of having broken open the dwelline-house of the Reverend George Henry Stone, and stolen plate to the amount of 1504 They were all sentenced to be trans- ported for life.

William Wittman was arraigned on the Coroaer's inquest for the murder of his wife, and on the finding of the Grand Jury for manslaughter. The pre- sent proceeding was confined to the latter charge. The evidence against the prisoner was his own confession to the persons whom he saw after the deed was committed, the substance of which was given in our 25th Number. The prisoner is a poor looking crippled man; and the deceased, alio was a strong, hearty, woman, according to one of the witnesses, appeared to possess sufficient strength to overpower hint. The Jury found him guilty of manslaughter. The Judge remarked, that considering, the provocation which the prisoner had re- ceived—his wife having repeatedly struck him with a poker—his crime did not call for heavy punishment ; and he was sentenced to three mouths' impri- sonment.

Philip Gale was convicted, on his own confession, of having stolen consi- derable propeity from his master. The Judge, in directing sentence of deatt to be recorded, said that though he should recommend his life to be spared, it must be spent in perpetual banishment.

John Jardine was indicted for having administered arsenic to his wife. The prisoner had been married about sixteen years ; and for thirteen of these he had conducted himself as an excellent husband. The prisoner had also been kind to some children which she had by a former marriage. Latterly he got connected with other women who estranged his affection from his wife, and then began his cruelty towards her. He refused her the common ne- cessaries of life, and she was ultimately obliged to go to the workhouse. As part of his pension was stopped for her support, he prevailed upon the Com- mittee of the workhouse to let her come home, promising 2s. 6d. a week for her support; but this he soon reduced to 2d. per day. She threatened to have recourse to a magistrate. He rejoined, " Don't speak too fast, or perhaps you may not be able to go." The next day, while she was taking tea, she became very ill ; the prisoner laughed at her, and with great unconcern put on his hat and left the room. The surgeon who was called suspected that

THE EDINBeRGH MURDERS.—The High Court of Justiciary met on Wed- nesday the 24th of December, for the trial of William Burke a native of Ire- land and a shoemaker by trade, and Helen Macdougal, will; whom he lived in concubinage. The indictment charged the prisoner Burke with three dis- tinct murders. 1. With having, in May, murdered Mary Paterson, while she was in a state of intoxication, by sitting or lying upon her breast or face, by covering her mouth or nose, and compressing her throat, so as to prevent her breathing ; and this with the " aforethought intent of selling the body" to a physician or surgeon for dissection. 2. With having, in November, murdered James Wilson, " commonly called Daft Jamie," an idiot, by the same means, and with the same intention. 3. Burke and the woman Macdougal were charged with having, in November last, murdered Mary Macgoosegal, or Campbell, or Docherty, in the same manner that Burke murdered the other victims, and with the same intent of selling her body for dissection. The counsel for Burke stated a preliminary objection—that he could not be called upon to plead to an indictment which charged him with three unconnected murders, committed at different times, and which combined his case with that of a woman who was not charged with having any concern with two of them. It was decided by the Judges, that the Lord Advocate should select one of the three cases for trial; reserving to him his right, if he. failed in the first, to try the prisoner Burke upon another indictment. The Lord Advocate se- lected the last charge, which included both the man and the woman. The prisoners pleaded " not guilty ;" and the public prosecutor proceeded with his evidence.

Mary Campbell, a poor old woman, came to Edinburgh in October, in search of her son; and having renslined with him for a short time, she had resolved to return to Glasgow, begging her svay home. On the 31st October, she was seen begging at Portsburgh (one of the suburbs of Edinburgh), in good health. She entered the shop of Mr. Rymer, grocer, for the purpose of soliciting charity. William Burke was there buying whisky : he asked her name; and said that she must be a relation of his mother, whose name wa • Docherty. He then took her home, on the pretence of giving her breakfast. The woman was afterwards seen in Burke's house by different people ; and to one of these the prisoner Macdougal said that she was a stranger, a friend of her husband's. Inure course of the forenoon, Burke and. William Hare, also an Irishman, and now the principal witness for the prosecution, met and drank whisky together ; when Burke invited him to go to his house and see the "shot" he had got for the doctors,—alluding to the poor woman, whom Hare understood Burke was to murder. He then saw the woman empleyed in washing her gown. A partfof this night was spent in dancing and drinking at the house of a woman named Connaway,—by Macdougal, Hare, his wife, and Campbell, but Burke was not then present : there was also dancing and drinking in Burke's house ; and it appears that the old woman was singing to the party. Burke was observed by Connaway to pass to his house between ten and eleven ; and when Campbell was told so, she rose and followed him. At this thine the okl wontm is described as having been very drunk. A quar- rel, real or pretended, arose between Burke and Hare, betwixt eleven and twelve o'clock. A cry of "murder," and the noise of two men as if wrangling and strug- gling, were heard by a person who was going. along the passage.. This lasted about a minute, and was succeeded by a cry as if from a person being stran- gled. At thins time, a person who looked through the key-hole saw Macdougal holding a bottle to the woman's mouth, and pouring whisky into her. In the scurn:between Burke and Hare, the latter knocked Campbell off her seat. According to Hare's evidence, she was so drunk as to be unable to rise, but rested upon her elbow. At her request Burke and Hare ceased fighting. At this time, says Hare, Burke stood astride over her, andlaid himself' down above her—his breast being on her head : she gave a cry and then moaned a little : he put one hand on her nose and mouth, and the other under her chin, and stopped her breathing: this was continued for ten or fifteen minutes ; during which time Burke never spoke. After he had risen from above her, he put his aim upon her mouth for some minutes: she appeared quite dead. While this was going on, Hare was sitting on a chair. He stripped the body of the clothes, put it into a corner, doubled it up, and covered it with straw : Hare's wife and Macdougal, when they heard the first screech of the out woman, ran into the passage, ad did not come in again until the body was covered with straw. Before this, they were lying in the bed, and witness sat at the head of the bed. Burke had not been above the woman a minute or two, when the women started out of bed and ran to the door: none of them attempted to save or assist the old woman. The women came back again and went to bed ; and Burke weut out : he soon returned, with David Paterson, the " doctor's man," whom he NViShed to look at the body ; but Paterson said it would do well enough, and bade him get a box and put it into it. Next morning, Burke, Macdougal, Hare, his wife, and Broggan a carter were assembled in Burke's. A man trained Gray, and his wife, who had lodged in Burke's, but who had been sent out of the house to Hare's, under the pretence of making room for the stranger, also entered the room. Some one asked for Campbell; Alacdougal answered that sine had kicked her out of the house for making too free with Burke. In the forenoon, Burke threw Nvilisky about the room, upon the bed, and crept under the bed with a cupliil of whisky in his hand n he also poured some into his bosom. Mrs. Oray attempted to search about the bed and among the straw for some things she wanted ; but Burke ordered her with an oath to keep away. He also told 'Brog,gan, the carter, to sit next the post of the bed, and not to move off the chair till he returned. Broggan, however, did not stay many in ; and just before it was dark, Gray and his wife were left alone. Mrs. Gray then lifted up the straw, and discovered the lifeless body of Campbell lying naked. Her husband lifted up the head In the lonir, and saw blood upon her face and about the mouth. They then took up their bundles and were about to depart, Nvhen they met Macdougal, to whom they mentioned what they had seen. She offered them a few shillings to hold their tongue, and said that if Gray NVOttld be quiet it would he worth 10/. per week to them. He said, " God forbid that I should be worth money by dead people." They soon after went and informed the she had taken arsenic ; applied the stomach-pump, and ascertained from the contents of the stomach that his opinion was well founded. In the stomach- pump, and on the sides of the kettle, from which the water bad been taken, he found nearly eight grains of arsenic. The evidence of the woman bore out these facts; and that previous to her taking the poisoned tea, she saw her husband at the tea-kettle with the lid in his hand, after the water had been boiled. The prisoner in his defence merely said that he was entirely inno- cent, and that the charge was the result of a conspiracy. The jury found him guilty. The prisoner was then sentenced to be hanged,—a doom which he was assured would inevitably be carried into execution. In the mean time, Burke, Hare, and a porter, came to the house with a tea-box which Burke had purchased for the purpose before the murder was perpetrated.. The corpse was crammed into it, and they walked off, as had previously been arranged, to Dr. Knox's house at Surgeons'-square. The body was there put into a cellar ; 21. 7s. 6d. was given to Burke, an equal sum to Hare, and 5s. to the porter, mid 54 more was to be paid on Monday. Burke and his wife were apprehended the same night. The woman's gowns was found in their house, and fresh blood was seen under the bed. The body was found just as it had been left at Dr. Knox's house; when the box. was opened by Paterson, the face was livid, with bloo flowing from the mouth. The appearance of the countenance indicated death by strangulation or suffocation. The medical men who examined the body said it was " pro- bable" that the woman had died by violence.

Such is the substance of the evidence given on the trial. The prisoners were defended grataitbusly by Sir James Monerieff, (the Dean of Faculty) Mr Cockburn, and other distinguished advocates, in order that, notwithstanding the prejudice excited by the horrible disclosures connected with this case, justice might be administered with calm and impartial solemnify. Mr. Cock- burn subjected Hare to a cross-examination of unparalleled power ; but, warned by the Court that he need say nothing which could criminate himself, that. miscreant—whose appearance in the witness-box is described as terrific and unearthly—declined to say how often he had seen bodies carried to the ant' germs ; or whether the old woman's was the only case in which he was cots- cerned ; or whether murder had been committed in his own house itt Octobres At the close of his examination), the Court ordered him into custody. Hare's' wife admitted that she thought Burke was going to murder Campbell; be- cause she had often seen "tricks" of the same kind before.

After twenty-four hours of the most intense and painful interest ever excited by a judicial proceeding in Edinburgh, this trial closed at ten o'clock on these. coed day. The Jury, having deliberated about fifty minutes, returned a verdict finding Burke "guilty," and the charge against Macdougal " not proven"—a verdict which screens her from the punishment of guilt, without clearing her, fronts its indelible stain. Burke was condemned to be executed on the 28th ot this month. The Lord Justice Clerk, in passing sentence, said—" The only doub. I have on my mind is, whether, to satisfy the violated laws of your country and the voice of public indignation, your body ought not to be exhibited in chains, to bleach in the winds, in order to deter others front the commission of similar offences. But taking into consideration that the public eye would be offended by so dismal a spectacle, I am willing to accede to a more lenient execution of your sentence, and that your body should be publicly dissected. I trust that if it be ever customary to preserve skeletons, your skeleton will be pre- served, in order that posterity may keep in remembrance your atrocious crimes."

Burke stood up and heard his sentence with unshaken hardihood. Not a muscle of his features was discomposed during the solemn address of the Lord Justice Clerk consigning him to Iris doom. The female prisoner was much agitated, and was drowned in tears during the whole procedure. In the course of the trial, Burke, about four o'clock, asked when he would get dinner ; and being informed it would be about six, be begged that he might have a biscuit or two, as he would lose his appetite before that time. Be- fore the Jury retired, and during the time they were enclosed, he endeavoured to prepare the mind of Macdougal for her fate, as, from the address of the Lord Justice Clerk, he supposed she would be found guilty; in the view of which, he gave her directions how she should conduct herself, desiring her to look at and observe him while the Lord Justice Clerk was pronouncing sentence. When the Jury returned with their verdict, they mentioned first that they found the libel against Macdougal not proven. He was immediately heard coolly to exclaim, " Nelly, you are Out of the scrape." After the Lord Justice Clerk's address to him, he was very anxious that permission should be given to Macdougal to remain a day or two in the lock-up house, for her per- sonal protection.—Eclinbueek, Evrniny Courant.

After tile trial, Burke arid Macdougal were removed to the lock-up housey whither hare and his wife had beer' conveyed after giving their evidenced They were detained there till four o'clock on Friday morning, wince Burkets and Hare and his wife, were taken back to the Calton-hill gaol. On his way from the Court to the lock-up house, on Wednesday eveniug, Hare was seized with a fit of fiendish merriment, exulting, jeering and laughing, at his own fancied escape, while Burke was likely to be caught in the noose. His wife appeared to be in all respects worthy of her husband. While giving her evi- dence, she had in her arms a child, ill of hooping-cough, and altogether the picture of abject misery, wretchedness, and disease ; but instead of treating it with that maternal tenderness which even the tigress shows for her whelps, she seemed to regard it with aversion and hatred, shaking and squeezing it, whenever the cough seized it, with the expression of a fury in her countenance. The woman Macdougal was liberated on Friday night ; and on Saturday she had the effrontery to present herself in a whisky-shop. Here she was recognized : a mob assembled ; and it was with difficulty that the police suc- ceeded in saving her, and conveying her to a watch-house. The windows of the house were demolished ; and some disposition to take it by storm was manifested. Those inside disguised the woman in men's clothes, and put her out by a back window ; after which, the mob, disappointed of their prey, dispersed.

In the course of this case was disclosed the horrid and appalling fact, that in cestain holes and dens, both in the heart and in the outskirts of this city, murder has been reduced into a system, with the view of obtaining money for the bodies murdered ; and that it was perpetrated in the manner least likely to leave impressed upon it any evident or decisive marks of violence, being invasiahly committed by means of suffocation or strangling, during par- trial or total intoxication. 'Finn public is therefore, to consider the present as only one out of many instances of a similar nature which have occurred Hare's wife admitted that she had witnessed many "tricks of the same kind ;" aria Hare himself, when undergoing the searching cross-examination of Mr Cockburn—a cross-examination such as was never before exemplified in any court of justice—durst not deny that he had been concerned in other mur- ders besides that of Docherty, that a murder had been committed in his own house in the month of October last, that he himself was a murderer, and his

hands steeped in blood and slaughter ; we say lie thirst not deny it, and only r took relhge in " declining to answer" the questions put to mini; which the Court of course apprized him he was entitled to do in regard to questions that went to criminate lihnself so deeply, and but for wh:cli caution we have little doubt that he would have confessed not merely accession, but a principal share in several murders. In fact, this " squalid wretch," as Mr. Cockburn so picturesquely called him, from the late and look of the carrion crow in tlia witness box, was disposed to be extremely communicative, and apparent'y 1.1 ad no idea that any thins he bad stated was at ail remarkable or extraordi- nary. Daft Jamie was murdered in this miscreant's house, and be has men- tioned some circumstances connected with the destruction of this poor inno-

cent, calculated to form a suitable pendant to the description we have already given of the murder of Docherty. Jamie was enticed into Hare's house by Burke, the.usual decoy-duck in this traffic of blood (the appearance of Hare himself being so inexpressibly hideous that it would have scared even this

moping idiot), and ,he was plied With liquor for a considerable time. At first he refused to imbibe a single drop ; but by dint of coaxing and perse- verance, they at last induced him to take a little ; and, after he once took a little, they found almost no difficulty in inducing hint to take more. At length, however, he became overpowered, and laying himself down on the floor, fell asleep. Burke, who was anxiously watching his opportunity, then said to Hare, "Shall I do it now ?" To which Hare replied, "He-is too strong for you yet ; you had better let him alone for a while." Both the ruffians seem to have been afraid of the physical strength which they knew the poor crea- ture possessed, and of the use he would make of it, if prematurely roused. Burke accordingly waited a little; but getting impatient to accomplish his object, he suddenly threw himself upon Jamie, and attempted to strangle him. This roused the poor creature ; and muddled as he was with liquor and sleep, he threw Burke oil' and got to his feet, when a despepate struggle ensued. Jamie fought with the united frenzy of madness snd despair, and Burke was about to be overpowered, when he called out furiously to Hare to assist him. This Hare did by tripping up Jainie's heels ; alter which both the ruffians got upon him, and at length, though not even then without the greatest diffi- culty, succeeded in strangling him.—Caledonian Mercury. We have been informed that an elderly woman belonging to the Grass- market, who gained a livelihood by washing, and who was employed for that purpose by Burke, was murdered by him about fourteen days previous to the death of Mrs. Campbell, and that the body was packed up to represent a bale of goods coming from the country. Also, that in the course of the au- tumn a poor Irish mendicant and her son, a lad of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and of weak intellect, were murdered. The female was bereaved of life by Burke when lying asleep on the straw in the corner so often described; she was stript and put into a herring barrel among brine; while Hare strangled the lad over his knees, by the fire-side, and thrust the corpse into the cask above his mother.—Edinbargh Courant.

The Caledonian Mercury of Monday says—" We have learned from good authority, that Burke admits having sold in all (we shall not say to whom) from thirty to thirty-five uninterrecl bodies during the last two years." From this admission the Mercury thinks " the conclusion inevitable, that he and his associates must have committed as many murders I" The greater number of the victims are supposed to have been unfortunate females,—who had none to care for them, or to inquire what had become of them,—inunbers of whom had disappeared, no one knew how. "The girl Paterson or Mitchell was one of them, but not the only one ; and she was murdered in the house of his brother, Constantine Burke. In Burke's own house, however, there are still appearances visible which must impress every one with a persuasion that others besides Docherty have been sacrificed under the same roof. Bloody straw in a corner, a heap of bloody clothes on the floor, and a pile of old boots and shoes amounting to several dozens (for which the miscreant's pre- tended trade of a shoemaker can never account), seem to us strong indications that the den of the monster, now so justly condemned to die, has been the scene of manifold murders. Many 'persons have been to see this horrid place, and all have left it impressed with the same conviction. The Author of Waverley, who also visited it, admits, we understand, that even his imagi- nation, with all its richness, fertility, and power, could have portrayed nothing at all equal to the dreadful realities of Burke's residence. The robbers' cave in Count Fathom loses all character for the horrible compared with it." The Mercury calls aloud for a searching investigation; and con- tends that all the anatomical teachers, both within and without the University, should be examined as to the manner in which they were accustomed to re- ceive their subjects. Some of them are known to act with the most anxiclus scrupulousness; but without an investigation the public can have no certainty that every anatomical teacher has not a Burke in his pay. The present im- pression on the minds of the people is, that one gentleman stands in the same relation to Burke that the murderers of Banyuo did to Macbeth."

Fins—On Saturday morning, the premises of Mr. Box, oil and colour- man, Spitalfields, were entirely destroyed by fire. It was only by great ex- ertion that the whole neighbourhood was saved front destruction.

A woman residing at Mile-end-road, fell into the fire on Wednesday week, in a fit of epilepsy. She was dreadfully burned, and died on the following Sunday.

INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-ARMS.—A gentleman at Hollaway Hill, Derby- shire, was last week killed by the explosion of his gun ; a briar in a hedge that he was passing having caught the trigger.

A gentleman at Stoneleiglt entered his kitchen on Thursday, and left his loaded gun. It was knocked down, and the charge lodged in his lady's foot, who in consequence is likely to lose her limb.

On the morning of Saturday last a child about four years of age, the son of Mr. Cooper, Providence-row, Finseury-square, fell from the parapet wall of the house, which is three stories high, to the curb-stone of the foot pavement. He was immediately taken up by his father in a seemingly lifeless state, and carried to a neighbouringsurgeon's. It being ascertained there that no bones were broken, he was ordered to be placed in a warm bath. Shortly after- wards, animation was restored; and the little fellow is now moving about scarcely the worse for his fall. A gentleman residing at Norton, near Hereford, while returning to his house on Thursday week, slipped in getting over a stile, and not being able to re- cover his footing, fell head foremost into a well about four feet deep, near -the spot ; in which he was found dead some time afterwards.

On Christmas evening, a lad having fallen into a quarry at Poulton, near Bath, in which were eight or nine feet of water, a poor man, named Joseph Hew, intrepidly plunged in, and succeeded in bringing the unfortunate lad to the side of the pit ; but it was so precipitous that no foothold could be gained, and before help could be obtained, they were both drowned.

On Sunday, the captains of three trading vessels lying off Spurn, with four men and a boy, went !ashore in a boat, and spent a part of the day at the Spurn Light-house. They all got aboard the boat again, but never reached their ships. Their dead bodies have been washed ashore : how they came to be drowned is unknown.

EXPLOSION or Gas.—On Friday evening, a serious accident occurred at

the Union Fowl:tory in Bolton, The ineter, which is placed in a small build-

ing roofed with large flags about seven feet in length, was out of repair, by which the gas escaped. Mr. Spooner, the manager of the gas-works, went for the purpose of viewing it, accompanied by four men. Mr. Spooner and one of the men carried candles; and immediately en their entering the build- ing, a violent explosion with a loud report took place. All the men were severely burnt, and the building was greatly damaged. In a factory in Manchester, last week, Thomas Firth, the engineer, by some means got entangled in the fly-wheel, and was literally torn to pieces before the accident was discovered.

A few days ago, in Manchester, a spirited horse in a gig, which had taken fright and was running away, catne in contact with a horse and cart proceed- ing in a contrary direction. Both horses were killed on the spot ; the shaft of the cart entering the body of the one, and the gig-shaft that of the other.

SCALDINC.—Last week, while two men were attending a cistern of boiling water at a factory in Bath, the one gave the other a slight push. He fell into the cistern, and in his fall pulled his companion after him. They were taken out so terribly scalded that they died in a few days.

T:1 LATE STORMS.—The tempestuous weather has been truly terrific throughout the county of Monmouth, and the country round Abergavenny Is entirely inundated. The river Usk has overflowed its banks, and the Merthyr mail-coach has been washed front the road through one of the arches of the bridge. One of the passengers was drowned, and the whole of the horses.— Bristol Journal.

SCOTCH EAIITHQUAKE.—About four o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday week, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Comrie, being the third time within the last four months. A loud thundering noise accompanied and followed the shock, which was heard eastward at the distance of twelve miles. —Perth Courier.

AVALANCHE.—A melancholy accident has just occurred in the valley of Calauka (Orisons.) On the 19th November, whilst the inhabitants were at church, a dreadful noise was heard throughout all the valley ; and it was soon ascertained that an avalanche had fallen from the Beer, a mountain in the val- ley of Agro, -where about fifty workmen, partly Italian and partly Swiss, were employed. Three of the former were found dead, and the remainder were seriously wounded; several of the latter also received dangerous wounds.