The 72d regiment in the Castle was on duty during the whole period, some of them employed in keeping order in the streets, and others in working the engines. On Tuesday, the assistance of the dragoon guards from Piershill barracks was called in, and a part of the artillerymen from Leith Fort, with their officers, some of whom were particularly active, and rendered most able assistance. Wednesday morning the Edinburgh troop of yeomanry cavalry were called in, and to them was allotted the duty of keeping the HighStreet clear.

On Wednesday morning there were 22 fire-engines in full operation, namely, those of the Sun, Caledonian, Friendly, North British, and Royal Exchange Assurance offices; two belonging to the city, and two to the Castle; one to Sir W. Forbes & Co.; one from Queensberry, and one from Piershill barracks; one from Leith, three from the Naval Yard, and three from the Fort; one from Musselburgh, one from Dalkeith, and one from Buccleuch Palace.

Nothing can equal the consternation that was spread through the city by these dreadful events. After the fire that broke out on Tuesday night was announced, a feeling of indescribable alarm seized all classes.

They did not see where the evil was to terminate. In the High-Street business was entirely suspended; every one seemed only to consider of the best means of avoiding any farther calamity. The whole street was crowded, until it was at last cleared by the military, and an empty space left for the operation of the engines, which were constantly driv. ing backwards and forwards to the points of danger. The distress became at last so great and general, that not only those in the immediate vicinity of the danger, but many at considerable distances, thought of nothing but securing their furniture and other property by removal, and the scenes of confusion which in consequence ensued are altogether beyond description. The wretched families that have been burnt out are far more numerous than ever was known in any similar scene of

berry House as a temporary shelter for those whom the present disaster had deprived of a home. Besides those buildings utterly destroyed by the fire, a great deal of property has been damaged by the falling of the burning ruins, and much has been destroyed or lost in the removals which were occasioned by the general alarm; for such was the threatening appearance of the fire on Wednesday morning, that not only in the Cowgate, but even in Hunter's Square and Blair Street many individuals removed their most valuable furniture. On the South Bridge, and other parts in the direction of the thick showers of fire then falling, persons were stationed on the roofs of most of the houses to sweep off the burning embers as they fell, and occasionally to pour water on the roofs.

It could not be expected that such a calamity should pass over without some serious accidents; and accordingly we have to record the death of eight individuals, either killed on the spot by the falling of ruins, or who have died in consequence of their hurts. Two of these are boys who were assisting in carrying water, a dragoon employed in keeping order, and the others were firemen belonging to the engines. A number of others received hurts, from the effects, of which they either have recovered, or are in a fair way of doing so. The bodies of two of these known to have been killed are still buried among the ruins.

The number of families rendered houseless by these disasters are between three and four hundred, for whose relief a subscription has been commenced, that promises to be beyond example liberal.

25.-Convention of Royal Burghs.On Monday the 22d, an extraordinary meeting of the Convention was held in the Council Chamber, Edinburgh, the Lord Provost of that city in the chair. The Resolution of the Annual Committee was read, calling this meeting in consequence of a letter from the Provost of Brechin, stating that he had been served with a summons before the Court of Session, to have it found that the new sett

ing from the Cowgate, southward, the Royal Exchange, the Parliament Square, and the Court of the Police Office, were crowded with the wrecks of furniture rescued from the flames, and watched by the houseless inhabitants. There was something extremely touching in the desolate appearance of many of those groupes. The Lord Provost, with an active humanity that does him honour, by an application to the officers of Government, obtained the use of Queens.

celerated, that, instead of six o'clock, the mail might arrive at mid-day. He therefore moved that a Committee of the Convention be appointed to attend to that important subject; which was agreed to, and the Committee appointed. The clerk then read the reasons set forth in the summons for setting aside the new constitution of the Burgh of Brechin, and having it declared that the Convention has no power to make any alteration on the sett of any Royal Burgh. Mr Burnes, delegate for Montrose, concluded a speech of considerable length upon the rights of the Convention to alter the setts of burghs, by moving a set of resolutions, declaratory of the powers of the Convention, voting £.500 to defend the actions against Brechin and Dundee, and empowering a special Committee to appeal the case, in the event of its being lost in the Court of Session. The two first or declaratory resolutions were carried unanimously; the third and fourth, voting the £.500, and the manner of raising it, being opposed by the Provost of Aberdeen, were carried on divisions of 30 to 8. The last resolution, authorising the Committee to appeal the case, was withdrawn by the mover. The Provost of Aberdeen entered his protest against the resolutions, and the Convention dissolved.

25.-Edinburgh Southern Markets.These markets were opened on Saturday last. They are finished in a very neat and elegant style, and have entries from West Nicolson-Street, Chapel-Street, and Gray's Court. There are about fourteen stalis for butcher meat, besides stalls for poultry, fish, fruit, and vegetables. In the butcher market, on Saturday, we are informed, one individual sold meat to the amount of £.70. The only objection that strikes a visitor is the smallness of these markets: but we understand the Company has already purchased the adjoining property on the westward, including the house and garden possessed by Mr Miller; and this ground, when add ed to the former markets, will double their extent, and add considerably to their beauty and comfort.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.Nov. 9. Wm. Tutton, alias Titton, alias John Knox, and John M'Kenzie, alias M'Kinlay, were brought to the bar, accused of having, in the evening of 5th July last, feloniously entered the house of Captain John Forbes Drummond of Hawthornden, R. N., in Charlotte Square. They had entered by one of the lower windows, and carried off a number of articles from drawers, chests, &c., principally ladies' wearing-apparel. When called on to plead, the Lord Advocate rose

and said, that he could not, from the ag. gravated nature of the case, restrict this libel to any punishment short of death. They, however, pleaded Guilty. Lord Pitmilly then stated, that the Court had no alternative; they must pronounce the last punishment of the law; and his Lordship concluded by advising them to make much of the time allotted to them, and proposed that they should be executed on Wednesday, the 15th December next, at the usual place of execution. The Lord Justice Clerk then addressed them, and admonished them not to indulge in any vain hope of mercy here, for he could not hold out to them the slightest hope of an alteration of their sentence, and that they would do well to prepare themselves, by a due and diligent attention to their religious duties, for the awful fate that awaited them. He then passed sentence in the usual form. [Their sentence has since been commuted to transportation for life.]

Mary Graham, or Fraser, was next placed at the bar, accused of stealing, from the house of Ralph Wilson, tailor, Little Jack's Close, Canongate, on the 30th June last, a quantity of linen apparel, and of being habit and repute a common thief. She also pleaded Guilty, and, after a suitable admonition, sentence of transportation for life was passed upon her, the Lord Advocate having departed from the capital charge. So incorrigible had she been, that no less than 15 convictions for theft before the Police Court were set forth in the indictment against her, for which she suffered various terms of imprisonment in Bridewell.

10.-Isaac Simpkins was placed at the bar, accused of having broke into the house of Matthew Pemberton, Esq. in Albany-Street, and stolen, at different times, from a drawer, 25 sovereigns, in the month of July last. The prisoner pleaded Guilty before the Court and Jury, to the charge libelled. The public prosecutor restricted the libel. John Campbell was then put to the bar, accused of breaking into and entering the house of William Frier, publican in the HighStreet, with intent to steal, but was apprehended in the house before he had got any articles. The prisoner pleaded Guilty before the Court and Jury. Mr Neaves, council for Simpkins, submitted to the Court several certificates from gentlemen with whom the prisoner had served in the capacity of valet, and stated that he had committed the crime when in a state of intoxication, and that he had a wife and five children. They were then sentenced, Simpkins to 14, and Campbell to 7 years transportation. Ann Adams was then put

to the bar, accused of abstracting from the person of William Rankine, on the 11th of June last, in her own room, in the Grassmarket, a silver huntingwatch, with brass chain and three gold keys. The pannel pleaded Not Guilty to the indictment. Mr M'Neill stated to the Court, that three witnesses had failed to attend, and moved for a warrant for their apprehension. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner, who, it ap peared, during the night libelled, had abstracted the watch from Rankine while asleep, and had pawned it in the shop of one Conolly for six shillings. It was proved by police officers that the prisoner had been five times convicted of theft, and that she was considered habit and repute a thief. The Lord Justice Clerk summed up the evidence; after which, the Jury unanimously found the prisoner Guilty, in terms of the libel. The Court then sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life.

15. Thomas Leinster, late a gentle. man's servant, or waiter, accused of three different acts of theft, viz.-stealing from the lobby of Oman's Waterloo Hotel, in June last, a silver fork; and from a Hotel in Prince's Street, a silver saltspoon; and from Thomas Drysdale, watchmaker, a silver watch; pleaded Guilty, and sentence of transportation for seven years was pronounced against him.

John M'Gregor, a boy apparently about twelve or thirteen years of age, accused of housebreaking and theft, aggra vated by having been previously convicted of theft, having, by forcing in a window, on Sunday the 13th June last, entered the premises situated in Nicolson Street, belonging to Messrs Guthrie and Tait, and stealing therefrom £.17, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years.

The case of David Watt, tried for robbery and theft at the Glasgow Circuit, was then called. The charges set forth in the libel were robbery and theft, and the prisoner pleaded Guilty. The Jury returned a verdict, finding the prisoner "Guilty, in terins of his own confes

sion." The prisoner's Counsel, in bar of sentence, pleaded that the verdict was not explicit, as his client meant to have pleaded guilty to the minor charge, and from the pressure of business at the time the case was certified to this Court. Mr W. Steel very ably stated the objec tion, and was replied to by Mr Dundas; Mr Donald followed for the prisoner. The Court expressed an opinion that no punishment could follow an uncertain ver. dict, and Watt was dismissed from the bar.

22.-David Craig, accused of housebreaking and theft, was placed at the bar, and pleaded Guilty. The Lord Advocate having restricted the libel, the Jury found him Guilty, in terms of his own confession, and sentence of transportation for life was pronounced upon him.

Joseph Bogle, James Sutherland, and John Muir, night watchmen on the police establishment, were then put to the bar, accused of murder, by violently assalting Terence Delancey, in the Cow. gate, on the night of the 7th, or morning of the 8th July, and striking him several blows on the right leg, which was fractured. Being carried to the Royal Infirmary, he languished till the 24 day of August, when he died. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. Dr Ballingall, one of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary, deponed that Delancey's death could not be attributed wholly to the local injury, as there were morbid symptoms which had no connexion with it; and Dr Wishart, likewise a surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, that his death could neither be ascribed to the constitutional symptoms, nor to the wound he had received, but to a combination of both. Both of these gentlemen, as well as Dr Black, concur. red in thinking that the fracture could not be occasioned by a blow, but by a fall. After a long examination of evidence, both criminatory and exculpatory, had been gone through, and the speeches of counsel heard, the Jury, without retiring, returned a viva voce verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoners were dismissed from the bar.

I. CIVIL.

Oct. 26. The Earl of Aberdeen elected Lord Rector of the University there.

Nov. 2. George Bosanquet, Esq. to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid.

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Henry Stephen Fox, Esq. to be Secretary of Legation at Turin.

5. Viscount Granville to be Ambassador at the Court of France.

Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, K. B. to be Ambassador at the Court of the Netherlands.

II. ECCLESIASTICAL.

Oct. 4. The King presented the Rev. Dr James Hunter to the Church and Parish of St. Leonards, Presbytery of St. Andrew's.

18. The Relief Congregation at Hawick gave a unanimous call to the Rev. J. Brown to be their pastor.

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Nov. 1. The Rev. James Foote, of Logie Pert, elected one of the Ministers of Aberdeen.

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13. The Relief Congregation of Crieff gave a unanimous call to the Rev. John Martin to be their Minister.

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Hon. F. Petrie, Ens.

2d Lieut. Price, from 60 F. Ens. vice Tathwell, prom. 7 Oct. Gent. Cadet, Wilbraham Egerton, from Royal Mil. Coll. Ens. by purch. vice Lord Chichester, prom. in 7 F. 4 đỏ. W. Hope, Ens. vice Harrison, 83 F. 4 Nor. Lieut. Graham, from h. p. 25 F. Lieut. vice Hutchinson, 76 F. 11 do. Bt. Lieut. Col. Fraser, from 36 F. Maj. by purch. vice Price, ret. do. Capt. Shaw, from 97 F. Capt. vice Bartley, h. p. 89 F.

do.

G. Brockman, 2d Lieut. by purch. viee Price, 41 F.

21 Oct.

14 Oct.

J. R. Somerville, Cornet

do.

6

R. Whyte, Cornet by purch. vice Lord Pelham, Royal Horse Gds.

do.

Ens. Hickson, from h. p. 12 F. Quart. Mast. Campbell, exch. do.

75

21 do.

Bt. Maj. Badcock, from 14 Dr. Maj. by

purch.

28 do.

76

Lieu. Morgel, Capt.

1 do.

Cornet Spooner, Lieut.

B. Wodehouse, Cornet

do.

Lieut. Duval, Capt. by purch. vice Jenkins, ret.

do.

14

Lieut. H. Gage, Capt. by purch. vice

Badcock, 8 Dr.

28 do.

Cornet Musgrave, Lieut. by purch. vice

Willes, ret.

27 do.

Smith, do.

28 do.

A. Splaine, Ens.

Lieut. Campbell, from Col. Comp.

Mauritius, Lieut. vice Holdsworth, h. p. Col. Comp. Mauritius

do.

do.

Lieut. Wathen, from 1 Dr. Lieut. vice
Bayard, ret.

Gren. Gds. 2d Lieut. M'Kinnon, from Rifle Brig.

Ens. and Lieut. by purch. vice Wig-
ram, ret.

Bn. Surg. Watson, Surg. Maj. vice Nix-
on, ret.
11 do.
Assist. Surg. Armstrong, Surg. vice
Watson, ret.

.G. Ens. Cotton, from 62 F. Ens. and Lieut.

by purch. vice Greaves, prom. 6 do. Capt. Glover, Maj. by purch. vice Bt. Lieut. Col. Nixon, ret.

do.

90

do.

38

83

Ens. Harrison, from 45 F. Lieut. vice Summerfield, dead

do.

84

Surg. Callow, from 31 F. Surg. vice White, exch.

do.

lean, 95 F.

do.

21 Oct.

Bt. Major Dixon, vice Wright, dead

Lieut. Cox, Capt. vice Dixon
Ens. Popham, Lieut, vice Cox do.

Eyles, Lieut. by purch.

vice Fox, prom.

Capt. Logie, from h. p. 92 vice Schaw. 50 F.

20 Sept.

do.

vice Mac

6 Nov.

Capt. by

28 Oct.

F. Capt.

99

Ens. Last, Lieut. by purch. vice Beau

clerk, prom.

4 Nov. 20 do.

do.

do.

Ens. Lord S. A. Chichester, from 43 F. Licut. by purch. vice Greaves, prom.

34 F.

4 do.

Bt. Lieut. Col. A. S. King, from h. p. 98 F. Maj. vice Gordon, exch. il do.

VOL. XV.

Jaffray Nicholson, Ens. by purch. vice do.

Ens. Caldwell, Lieut. by purch. vice Hamilton, 2 W. J. R.

28 Oct.

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