The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-18 00:00:00

ever from its grasp, whose second will seal up its dimi- '
nished seaboard, and sweep its commerce from the seas, and
whose third will girdle the Lakes with a rampart of fire.
The game -of brag which the t tates has played so long, is
played out, and cannot be repeated ; no one now believes in
its prowess, or regards its threats.

HARE, THR NOTORIOUS MURDERER
-HOW AND WHERE HE DIED.
♦

The Canadian correspondent of the Feotsman gives the
following narrative of William Hare, who was associated
with Burke in the series of cold-blooded murders perpetra-
ted in the West Port of Edinburgh in the year 1828 :
About twelve or fourteen years ago, one of the most popu-
lar and best known men in Upper Canada (from whose lips
I have the following story) was travelling in the stage in
the township of Ekfrid, in the county of Middlesex,
:C.W. In the vehicle with him were two persons re-
siding in the neighbourhood. On entering into con-
versation with the one sitting next him, he discovered that
he was the doctor of the district, and that he had graduated
in Edinburgh. Being himself a native of your city, the con-
versation naturally turned on Edinburgh affairs, and the
doctor having informed me that he had studied under Dr.
Knox, whose name acquired an unenviable reputation in
connection with Burke and Hare, the circumstances con-
nected with the trial of these criminals were recalled and
talked over. The doctor then said he presumed he was not
aware that it was supposed that Hare was buried in the
township, and on my informant having expressed consider-
able surprise and interest, heproceeded to relate the circum-
stances connected with his death. Several years before a
man named Hare arrived with his wife in the district, and
settled on a cleating removed a considerable distance fron.,
any of hivieighbours. Here he lived inoffensively for some
years, and it was observed that as the settlements increased
be removed further into the forest. Among the settlers who
arrived from the old country, there was, a Scotchman, who
brought with him a copy of a pamphlet containing an ac-
count of the trial of Burke. In this pamphlet there was
a portrait of Hare, and also a minute description of his
appearance and height. It was handed about from one
farmer to another, and in the long cold nights of the
Canadian winter, its contents were perused with much
interest, not unmixed with horror. By and bye, some
one began to imagine that he fancied he saw a striking
resemblance to the portrait in their neighbour Hare,
Another thought the description corresponded exactly with
his appearance, and others, believing that his shy and re-
tiring life must be the consequence of some great crimes,
began to view him with suspicion. Soon suspicion became
changed into a confirmed belief that their solitary neigh-
bour was none other than the notorious Hare, and it was
not long till he came to be shunned by the settlers, who
regarded him with ill-concealed awe and aversion. The
cause of the odium with which he was regarded was soon
communicated to Hare, who, on learning it, went to the
owner of the pamphlet and asked permission to read it. It
was at once given him. He took it with him to his lonely
clearing, and began to read it. Before ho finished it, how-
ever, he was seized with violent paroxysms of mental agony,
and with fearful convulsions, He sent for a priest, but be-
fore his arrival he expired in dreadful torments. As Hare
had pretended to be a Protestant, the neighbours considered
the circumstance of his sending for a priest to be a confir-
mation of their suspicions. On his death some of them
went to the house, and, having measured the body and com-
pared the marks on it with the description giver? in the ac-
count of the trial, they found that they corresponded with
it in every particular.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 14.

The Queen has been pleased, by a commission, under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute Theophi-
ins Bennett Hoskyns Abrahall, Esq., barrister-at-law, one
of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy to act in
the country.

CROWN•OFFICE, DEC. 17.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Finsbury.—William Cox, of St. John's-
wood, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of
Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., deceased.