The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-30 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, Dso. 28.
Commercial matters are still very anfavount-
ile. In addition to the disasters consequent on
do failure of the Ayrshire Iron Company, many
reties here will lose by an English joint-stock
NMI company. Great alarm is also felt ttbout
eashange companies, and notices are being pub-
lished on all hands of the parties who have sold
oat. To each an extent has this proceeded, that an
advertising agent in Glasgow has a special announce-
ment, offering to takwharge of getting such intima-
tions made in the Edinburgh Gazette. The failure of
some more shopkeepers and lawyers is spoken of to-
day.
Fay, the shoemaker of Glasgow, who immured his
wife untier cirsumstaucr., of a peculiarly disgusting

character, has been tried for culiable hornicide-at the
winter circuit, and sentenced to transportation for life.
This sentence is a practical rebuke to the paltry bail
asked by the Glasgow local authorities on the first
apprehension of Fay, and also shows the great
efficacy of the press m discussing such matters; bat
for it the case might have been disposed of by an in-
ferior court. A report of the trial is given elsewhere.

SKIRIFFDOX OF EDINDVILON.—Mr. Alexander Danlop,
Mr. John Cowan, Mr. J. T. Gordon, &c,, am all spoken of
for this offiee. Mr. Speirs' funeral is to be a public one, and
his grave is to be near that of Dr. Chalmers, with whom Ye
was on terms of greet intimacy.

Lou OP Live AT THB ENT/LAT:CI OP THB TAT.—On
Friday morning, about daylight, the schooner Favourite,
Capt. Corte, ef Jersey, bound to Newcastle, broke away
from her moorings. The wind having died away, and the
breakers bang clue ahead, the crew, four in number, left the
vowel in the bat without the master, who eta& by the
ship, and saw the boat swamp class to the schooner's side,
when, melancholy to relate, the whole four mat a watery
grave. The master, being uow the only survivor, peeing the
perilous situation of the vessel, slipped the cable, and drove
pip with the flood tide into the river. . When off the South
Ferry, he received the asustance of • pilot-boat, by which the
sere wee brought into the dock this morning. Captain
Corte was muchhurt by the tiller among the broken sea.

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A NSW Otis Timm—Abut ten days ago a poacher named
Graham was suspected of stealing a gun from a farm near
Lauder, and an officer named Dobie was employed to endea-
vour to trace out the retreat of thiorposed thief, Dobie
resolved to assume the costume of a el., and in thin dis-
guise he learned some accounts the haunts of Graham,
Alter traversing several counties, including those of Lanark,
iss Perth, and Fife he at WI introduced to the object of
his pursuit in the vicinity of horn with the stolen gun
in his pommies. It veer to have a night's poaching
together, milli with that view Dobie, who alio carried a gun
with Mat PrilllONd that they should ask another
poacher, who lived in Leghorn, to join in the ex-
' canton. Graham oonasated, and they proceeded with
the greatest amity to Me village. On Wiring
it Dobia wee net long la vaseeing a pease eutolabb, ea
which he new kb lisle wee WIMP, and 1M10141.11117 tamed
round ea kb opmgenimt end made him yeleener, smiling on
the Mime mestabie Mudd ban in milt the Muir gars
whirl dieehdee ambd under his m The aserna et.
et the latter wee of sense pest, but be reemined bra ony-
=ye& Dale task ids prisoner with Wm ea beard tie
remembeet, to mersey Mu by allehmet Is Ds-
wish. 00011.1tallb, Nevi fea the mess el his ebeeMerm
and exposits( in the mane of the ohms= to me to sew
am onsemmeled by having the pm idenlified by the
owner. Mae loss cogitating Graben Wild his alleMise
to some wafts Awl prise mar the emsere, aid asketl Me
gee le here a shot et them. To Ws remit DeMe
semplied, sal. ease homMeirt=thembietialiMlC2
aide to gene et the unit. te Mil-
wadi', look eisei Mei, cad thus ma theses lees the Firth.
On the binged Debts demanding why be led dose go, the
=ay egad, "Sorely a man our do wi' his am as
m;
yen 11l me, now I have done yon." Graham is
Mal is traslody, bat of ewes he awe be seavieted of
stsalisi the pan, es it wee set Mistilei by llos NNW