The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

ATTOiNTILENTS you TNE INSUINC) REEL.
Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Brick Bridga,
s'2ltr the Forest ; and Friday, at Salt-hill—at half-past ten.
If lot pravented by the weather they will meet at the same
P lace on the follol'aing day.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patalm ; Wed-
naaday, near is Raoe Conroe ; and 'Friday, at the Dyke—
at half-past ten.
The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every
Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race
Conran ; and Friday, at Telleaceinlie Tye—at half-past ten.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Foatou; Tlinrs-
'lira at Calton; and Saturday, at Blithfield—at half-
Past tea.
.t haWoreeatershire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Bishop's
Woad; and Thursday, at Grafton Church—at half-past tea.
Lord Petre's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Landon-hills;
Thnrsday, at Downham ; and Saturday, at Margaretting.
The Packeridge Month, on Monday, at Birchanger ;
Wt(lntulay, at Winekee, near Hadham ; and Saturday, at
The
half-put ten.
lha Granaden Hounds, on Monday, at Everaden-town ;
and Friday, at the Kenos;—at ten.
Earl Fitawilliana'a Hounds, on Monday, at Elton New
I,n
;I`)l‘' ulay, at
Qa"c4 ; anti Strawday, at Balwick—at ten.
and y
,„, arooronglia Hounda, on Monday, at Croxhy
1),(17 ; ^"lneaday, at Kettleby Thorp ; Friday, at Kin-
Theg li and Saturday, at Rye-hill—at eleven.
Cra`tn Hounds, on Monday, at Lily ; Weslneeday,
at Lye Hi
the !I Friday, at Chilton Lodge ; and Satur-
day, at florae Shaaa, yLoorn at half-past ten.
Lord Anoton's Honnti ore Monday, at Sibeon ; Tees-
day, at Bnrlpage ; Friday, at Thorpe ; and laaturday, at
Detford Town End---at half-past ten.
The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Barr-bridge;
Wednesday, at Shavington ; Thursday, at Comberrnere;
and Saturday, at Wrenbury Village—at half-past ten.
The Ang
Imea Hounds, on Monday, at the Star Inn ;
Wednesday, at Dragon-hill ; and Friday, at biadoe Ina—
ba half past ten.
Lord Scarborough'. Fox-hotinda, on Monday, at CI n tuber-
honse ; Wednesday, at Gate Wood ; Friday, at Grove ;
and SAtariay, at Sandheak Park—at half-past ten.
General Wm. Fitaroy's !founds, on Monday, at Brialey ;
Wednesday, at Sporie Town's End; and Friday, at Mr.
Deceit, litileisant--at eleven.
The Westatve Stag-hattade, on Monday, at Dunham
Lodge-gate ; and Friday, at the Kennel—at half-past ran.
Mr. Alien's Harriers., on Monday, at Eastwinch ; 11414
Friday, at Shernborxiss—at eleven.
The Qeora lionada, on Monday, at Allexton-hall ;
Weolaesday, at Borten-ball ; Tharaclay, at Stankin-hall ;
41441 Friday, at Arnesby—et half-past ten.
Sir John Cape's !founds, en Monday, at Bear Place,
iier,heich ; waaaetalay, at Basildon-park ; aad Friday, at
tit, Mule Bowe, Aucklabnry—at half-peat tea.

Jr. Free-mill/I's Harrier., on Monday, at Charlton ;
Tharaday, at Denchworth ; and Saturday, at Cnrbridge-
gato-._at eleveci.
The Vine Hounds, on Monday, at Popham Beacon ;
'Wednesday, at Grotto Coppice; and Saturthy, at West
Sherbourne Church—at ten.

'The Emit Saseex Hounds, on Monday, at Hellingly—
a quarter before eleven.
Mr. Boycott's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Thatcher's
'
Wood • and Friday, at Cantle-hill—at half-peat ten.
This Shropehire Hounds, on Tuesday, at Pythian't-

gate; Wednesday, at riardwklc Orange ; Friday, at sun-
borne Castle; and S:itti:.d:ty, ttti, —at lialf-pamt ten.
Mr. IVickstead's Fox-Ilttund4, at Crewe;
and Friday, at Bridginrre htt!rtist tt n.
Mr. Densey's ll(undt;, nn Itirsday, at Er1.71,11.1%-;,te ;
and Friday, at Wilier:kr t-n.
Mr. King's Hotrnd.:, on l'ilegday, at Oxon-hon.:to ; and
Friday, at Llinekland 13eacon—at ten.
Mr. G. Uwe's Hounds, on Tnesday, at fitowlingtort—
at ten.

Mr. 11. M. Cbailirick'i Fox-hounds, on Tueetlay, at
Tambora Park ; and Friday, at Ckelmsley Wood—at half-
past ten.

Sir George Sitrell's Fox-Lounds, on Tneeday, at Win-
gercrorth ; and Friday, at the Ksnnels—at ten.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, nt Pollington ;
Thursday, at Robin Hood's Well; and S.:turd-Iy, at Frys-
ton—at malt-past ten.
The Burton Bradstock Harriers, on Tuesday, at Corn-
comb Down; and Friday, at Toiler Water.
The Blackmoor Vole Hounds, ats Tuesday, at Zears
Green; and Friday, at Plumley Wood—at ten.
Upton-upon-Severn Harriers, on 'friesday, at Castle-
morton ; and Friday, at the Kennel—at ten.
Lord Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Cross-
roads; Thursday, at Barnhani Moor; and Friday, at
Tocktrell—at ten. •

Mr, Lester': Harriers, on Wednesday, at the Shoulder
of Mutton ; and Saturday, at Mr. Clapeott's Farm—at
half-past ten.
Sir T. Sykefi's Fox-bounds, on Wednesday, at Flaxton ;
and Friday, at Nlillington—at ten.

THE WEST-PORT MURDERS.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
(Flom the Edinburgh Evening Courant.)

It is a matter of general and unfeigned sur-
prise that the sanguinary traffic of Burke and his
crew should not have been sooner stopped by those
with whom they were in the practice of dealing.
The suljects which he offered for sale were unin-
terred-- they were taken tyr in full health—some
of them had about them vis;ble signs of recent mor-
tality; and,to the practised eye of professional skill,
marks of a violent death. The corpse of Daft Jamie
was, it appears, recognised in the class-room by a
student who had actually seen him alive two days
before. Now, how could this fact be possibly
known without exciting instant suspicions ? Were
there not here good grounds for investigation, and
for setting on foot an anxious inquiry as to the
source from which such a supply of dead bodice was
derived ? Some questions appear indeed to have
been asked at Burke respecting the body of Pater-
son ; and he grew angry, and threatened that he
would supply them no longer if he were thus
troubled. Here was farther ground of suspicion.
Being again pressed, however, he framed a lying
story, that he had purchased the body from the
house where she died ; and this we are told sa-
tisfied all doubts. In this case they must
surely have been easily satisfied. Did those
who questioned Burke really expect that he wee to
tell them that he had committed murder? Did
they imagine that be would ever be in want of a
lying story to hide his rillainies ? The plain course
was to hare followed up the inquiry—to have asked
what house he got the body from, and to have pro-
ceeded instantly to that house, either to verify his
story, or to convict him of falsehood. On this sub-
ject the public are agitated to an intense degree;
hard reflections are freely and fearlessly thrown out
against those who had dealings with this man, and
it is only by a thorough investigation into all the
.circumstances, not only of the murder, but of the
subsequent sale of the body, that their characters
can be cleared of the stigma under which they at
present labour. It is needless to add, that the me-
dicel faculty, generally, are above all suspicion.
When Burke was removed from the Court-room
to the lock-up-house, he was considerably agitated,
and, throwing himself upon his knees, addressed a
raver to God, whom he had so grievously offended.
uring the rest of the day he was composed, and
even spoke cheerfully to the police-mun who had
the charge of him. He expressed his joy at the
acquittal of M'Dougal. He also said that the Irish-
woman was murdered, not by him, but by Hare, in
the manner described in Hare's testimony ; but ad-
mitted that, during the shocking operation, he held
hands. He confessed that he had participated
in many more murders than those he had been in-
dicted for; and said, that after his mind was com-
posed, he would make disclosures, which would im-
plicate several others, besides Hare and his wife, in
the same crimes as those for which he was doomed
to die. Ho was asked, how did he feel when
he was pursuing his most horrible avocation ?
He replied, that, in his waking moments, he had
no feeling, but that, when he slept, he had fright-
ful dreams, which previously he had been unaccus-
tomed to. The fact is, that the wretch, when awake,
by means of ardent spirits, steeped his senses in for-
getfulness ; and his excessive use of spirits accounts
for his absolute penury at the time of his being ap-
prehended. He expressed a wish that one of his
Counsel, whom he mentioned, would call upon him,
that he might furnish him with notes of his life and
adventures, as he was desirous to have his history
published. At night he had short fits of sleep,
during which he raved, but his expressions were
inarticulate, and he grinded his teeth in the most
fearful manner. Whenever he awoke, he was in a
frantic state, bnt always recovered his composure ;
and in the course of the evening he read two chap-
ters of the Bible. At two o'clock on Friday morn-
ing he was removed in a coach to the Calton Hill
gaol, and put upon the gad. As before his trial,
Burke had intimated his intention to destroy himself,
he has, since his conviction, been constantly watched
by a person stationed within hie cell.
Burke, who is aged 32 or 33 years, was born in
the parish of Orrey, county of Tyrone. His parents
were of the order of peasantry, but respectable in
their station. He was educated in the Catholic
faith ; but, as a worthy Irishman, of the same re-
ligion, observed to us—" Since he came to Scotland
his person was never known to darken a chapel
door." He received good education for one of his
rank, and seems a man of some intelligence. At one
period, he made considerable sjms of money in the
West Port, by writing begging petitions. Burke
was originally brought up a weaver in Straban, but,
tiring of that sedentary employment, he became a
baker. The board teeing toe oppressive for his head,
he deserted the baking trade, and entered himself
a private in the Donegal Militia, in which his
brother Constantine was a non-commissioned
officer, and in which he himself served for five
years. During most of that time he was a
servrent to one of the officers, and acquitted him-
self with such propriety as gained the respect
of all who knew him. He married, during the
same time, a woman in Ballinha, county of Mayo,
by whom he had two children, who are (lead; but
his wife still survives in Ireland. Soon after his ar-
rival in Scotland, Burke engaged as a labeurer on
the Union Canal, when he came to reside in Edin-
burgh, about eleven years ago ; but he has been oc-
casionally absent from that city for long periods. He
pretended to be a cobler, but how he learnt the
trade, or whether he ever learnt it, is known to no
one. When he was upon the canal, he engaged in
the trade of a resurrectionist, and practised it more
or less until he entered upon the wore horrible ono of
murder, the one, from its brutalizing tendencies,
being a fitting preparative for the other. Previ-
ously to eighteen months ago, ha lived at Peebles,
and went daily to road-making in the neighbour-
hood of Inverleithen. He then came to reside in
Hare's house, and it was there he was first initiated
by Hare, in the mysteries of kidnapping and murder.
Of Bare little is known, his adventures not hav-
ing been no diversified as those of Burke. He was
born in the neighbourhood of Londonderry, and re-
ceived a decent education. He came to Scotland to
work at the Union Canal, and never rose higher
than the rank of a labourer. He was in the custom
of going to the country with a horse and cart,
having crockery, for which he took old iron, and
sold it to dealers in this city and the surrounding
I country-. There is no doubt that for a long time
past he has supported himself, and lived in profii-
gacy, upon the profits of murdering. A few years
pgo, he connected himself with her whom he calls

his wife, who had just become the widow of an
Irishman of the more of Log, who kept a stall in
the Grassmarket. She also is of Irish origin.
Shortly after Log's death, and the commencement
of her connection with Hare, she bore a child,
which people in the neighbourhood assert (and upon
very strong grounds) that she murdered, and that
there would lie no difficulty in establi.shi►ig the case
against her.
It is singular that Hare's mother and sister arrived
the other day in this city, on a visit to him; and it
was not till they were within two miles of it that
they were apprized of what had happened.
Constantine Burke, who is now at large, labours
under great depression of- spirits, and dread of the
violence of the mob. He has been discharged from
the employment of a scavenger, and received from
the Sheriff a small sum to enable him to convey his
family from Edinburgh. He always was a sober,
most industrious, and poverty-oppressed man, which
demonstrates that he had no connection with the
crimes of his brother. It has been fully ascertained
that he was absent front his house at work when
Paterson was murdered within it. He admits that
he once took a chest to Surgeons' Hall, being con-
ducted to the place by his brother and Hare, but
without knowing its contents or its destination. He
received 10s. for his trouble, which opened his eyes
to the nature of the commodity he had been made
the vehicle of; and he then declared that he washed
his hands of all connection with their transactions.
His impression then was, that they were simply re-
eurrectionists. He appears to be a very simple, in-
genuous, and kind-hearted individual; and the rank
he bore in the army should speak loudly in his fa-
vour. It would be cruel in the extreme were the
poor man to suffer on account of atrocities which he
detests, committed by a man to whom it is his mis-
fortune and sorrow to be related.

On Tuesday M'Dougal, who is still lurking
about town, applied at the gaol to have an inter-
view with Burke, but was refused. Burke, since
he went to gaol, has been remarkably composed and
devout. The other day the Rev. Mr. Marshall of
the Tolbooth church, and the Rev. Mr. Stuart, Ca-
tholic priest, called at the gaol to see him; and, on
being asked which he would wish to converse with,
he replied that he would hare both.
It will afford some satisfaction to the public to
know, that Hare and his wife are kept in close con-
finement, in separate cells, in the Calto►► gaol. No
person is admitted to see them ; and there ca►► be
no .doubt that if the Lord Advocate can procure
eridence to convince a jury that they have been
guilty of any other murders than those charged
in the indictment on which Burke was tried, they
will yet be visited with the punishment they de-
serve.

Tke above statement is chiefly abridged from n
contemporary of yesterday, and we have to add
some farther particulars. There are several stories
in circulation which have no foundation in truth.—
In particelar, it has been stated that Burke denied
any active participation in the murder of " Daft
Jamie." 'Elia is not true, as we know, from the
best authority, that he confesses himself guilty of
all the charges in the indictment ; and, in particular,
of his being a principal in this, as in various other
murders. As far as we can learn this atrocious
system has been carried on for about a twelvemonth
past; and it does not appear that more than 13
persons have been murdered. The greater portion
of these were females, there being only four men,
poor wanderers from Ireland, and a boy imbecile in
his mind, exclusive of " Daft Jamie." The females,
in addition to those already mentioned, were, let,
a drunken ein•ler-gatherer, decoyed, it is said, by
Hare's wife, into a stable, rented by Hare, where
she was murdered by Burke, Hare's wife standing
outside the door, and watching through the key-
hole the accomplishment of the bloody deed. 2d,
Jean Macdomgal, a young married female, and niece
of the proper husband of Macdougal. 3d, Another
female, reported to be a relative. It has been sup-
posed
that Burke and his associates sold no bodies
except of those whom they had murdered. This is
a mistake. They were dealers in bodies, which
they contrived to procure in such a manner that no
suspicion was excited. The woman Macdougal
waited on the Sheriff both on Saturday and Mon-
day, to give information against Hare. r Last night
she left town it second time, in a canal boat, accom-
panied by a police officer as far as Slateford, for
Redding% near Falkirk, her native place.

(From the Glasgow Courier.)

The trial of Burke discloses a scene of horror un-
precedented in enormity in the annals of this coun-
try, and fixes a stain upon our national character,
which immediate and further investigation, accom-
panied by punishment prompt, severe, and terrible,
can only, can scarcely, wipe away. Let who will
suffer, let who will be implicated in the crime and
the consequences, the wholesystem, of which the con-
duct and proceedings of Burke form but a small part,
must be exposed. Thera must be nothing left to
imagination. The truth, and the whole truth, must
be made known, and this in a manner that can nei-
ther be suspected nor disputed. Unless this is
done, the public mind so dreadfully excited, and the
public feeling awl character so dreadfully wounded,
can never rest satisfied. Sufficient, and more than
sufficient, has been disclosed to show that deeper
and darker scenes of guilt and crime remain hid from
the public eye, and which the public honour and
public safety requires should be exposed and pu-
nished. The judicial authorities of this country,
however painful the task, have no alternative left
them.

We neither pity nor envy the situation and the
feelings of those medical men in Edinburgh, who
have by some means or other, got themselves
brought into notice by these tc:rible disclosures.

(From tila Caledonian Mercury.)

Every hour some fresh tale of horror reaches us.
Since our last we have been told of many things—
(aye, and told, too, by Anatomists)—calculated to
freeze the very blood in our veins. Murder upon
system—murder almost by wholesale, has been car-
ried on in this city for the last year and a half; and
not only has it been systematically committed, to an
extent which it is appalling to contemplate, but it
has been perpetrated upon the most refined princi-
ples of anatomical science, and with a knowledge of
the functions and organs of life, which few ordi-
nary medical practitioners possess, and which must
have emanated from some higher source, yet on-
suspected or unknown. In fact, this is the most
fearful, as it is the most melancholy and deplorable
attribute of the crime; and it is one circumstance
among many which calls loudly, and trumpet-tongued,
for further investigation. The horrid circumstances
which have been stated to us in regard to victims
the disappearance and murder of whom have not
yet been brought to the knowledge of the public,
we for the present refrain from me►itioning, in the
hope that the Lord Advocate will redeem the so-
lemn pledge which he gave to the Court and the
country in the course of the late trial ; but matters
have now coma to such a pass, and a system of
such infernal iniquity has been revealed to us, by
those whose dearest interest are concerned in hav-
ing the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, unravelled, that, unless some steps are speedily
taken to bring to justice all those who have been
concerned in it, we shall feel ourselves called upon
to throw aside every feeling and every wish to
spare by which we are now restrained, and to dis-
elose facts which we have reason to believe are al-
ready known to the legal authorities, but which,
openly proclaimed to the world, they can no longer
hesitate or refuse to investigate. To show the in-
dispensable necessity for a full explanation we beg
our readers to attend to the mode in which it was
proved at Burke's trial that the late murders had
been committed. To render our statement intelli-
gible, however, it will be necessary to give some
preliminary explanations.
At every inspiration, the ribs of the chest or
thorax are dilated by muscular action to an e;:tent of
about one-f►fth larger than immediately after expira-
tion, and in cases of a full or strong inspiration, to

nearly one-third. A paqial vacuum is thus pro-
duced, and the atmospheric air rushes in by the
trachea to till the cavity in the diaphragm, the
recipient of the air inspired, and to oxygenate the
blood. In murder upon scientific principles, there-
fore, the first point is to compress the ribs of the
thorax so 83 to prevent this dilation ; and if the
compression be powerEl, it will of itself be turflicient
to destroy life in a few minutes, without the applica-
tion of pressure to the throat at all, and without
leaving on the body any external marks of violence.
Even a full grown bull might he destroyed in this
way in a very short space of time ; for independently
of the necessity of respiration to the support of
life, the blood, for want of oxygen, instantly be-
comes poisoned, and this of itself would occasion
inunediate death. lf, however, to this compression
of the ribs of the chest be added what 1);-. Christison
called " throtling," or the simultaneous application
of pressure to the trachea, nay, if the head were
even thrown back so as to strain the windpipe out
of its position, without any application to the throat
nt fall, the consequence of the use of both means
would be the immediate extinction of life. But
mere " throtling" without compression of the chest,
though it might produce deaf!' if carried the length
of literal strangulation, would always leave external
marks of violence, and might, as in the case of Daft
Jamie, lead to a struggle perilous to the assassins
themselves ; while the combination of both—of the
compression of the chest and the trachea—is.equally
easy and effectual, and is, moreover, the only mode
in which the assassin could accomplish his deadly
purpose without leaving traces of his murderous
work on the body of his victim.

We pray our readers to compare this desciiption
with the mode in which Burke is proved by tile
evidence on his trial to have proceeded in the mur-
der of Margery Campbell or Docherty. He threw
himself upon her body, with his knees upon her
chest, to compress the respiratory organs, in the
manner above mentioned ; and at the same instant
he grappled her by the throat : he prevented by his
weight the expansion of the ribs, and at the same
moment ha stopped the canal which communicates
with the external air, thus insuring the almost imme-
diate and easy extermination of his victim. The
clicking sounds that were heard must have been oc-
casioned by the sudden pressure npon the chest of
the unfortunate woman when Burke threw his
weight upon her, expelling violently the air contained
in the lungs ; for after that she could have uttered no
sound, and must have died in the gripe of die assas-
sin in the course of two or three minutes. And, in
further illustration of the efficacy of this scientific
mode of perpetrating murder, we may allude to what
is stated and believed to hare taken place in the case
of Daft Jamie. From his impatierice and impe-
tuosity the assassin missed his intended aim of plant-
ing his knees on the breast of the poor victim, and
only grappled him by ttie throat. The consequence
was, that the muscles of the chest being unencum-
bered, and the rest of the body free, the poor crea-
' tura was able to exert his whole strength, and a des-
perate, a mortal struggle ensued, in the emirs° of
which several severe external • wounds were inflicted
on him. But had the assassin been as deliberate as
in the case of the woman Docherty, the result would
hare been the same*.

Now, we ask, who taught Burke, a common
Irish labourer of the very lowest class, to commit
murder after a fashion, the science displayed in
which is a subject of wonder and dismay to many of
the most skilful anatomists in this city, with three of
whom we have conversed in regard to it, and found
them overwhelmed with horror and amazement.—
Who, we say, taught Burke ?—for, that he was
tutored as to the mode of committing the crime, no
human being c.in entertain a shadow of doubt. We
will answer the question,—it was Hare! But the
same question again returns, who taught Hare, a
person of the very same country and class with
Burke ? This is a point to be resolved by the
Public Prosecutor alone; and we adjure him, by the
regard he is known to bear to the law, by the solemn
pledge which he gave at the late trial in the face of
the Court and the country, and by the sacred interests
of eternal justice, to lose not a moment in taking steps
to have it resolved. With unspeakable astonishment
we have learned thu Hare is only detained in jail for
his own personal protection until after New Year's
day. But we cannot permit ourselves to give credit
to the statement, notwithstanding we hare heard it
from quarters where accurate information in regard to
such matters is usually obtained. We would fain
think it impossible. This subtle fiend was Thirke's
master in the art of murder, and he has been longer
engaged in the trade than his apt scholar, who is
now delivered over to justice. We know, too, and
are ready to state, where and to whom he offered
murdered bodies for sale, recklessly admitting that
they had been " popped," or in other words mur-
dered by him and his associates. Daft Jamie was
murdered in his house, and in that assumption he
was a principal, cot an accessary. But it may be
said there is no proof. We utterly ridicule this
idea. We know there is proof, and the mode in
which it may be obtained has been pointed out to
one of the honourable and learned Counsel for the
Crown. Two individuals have been named, whose
apprehension would lead to the unravelling of the
whole of this great mystery of iniquity; from them
every information necessary may be obtained neces-
sary to insure the conviction of this monster.
We have heard it alleged that the Officers of the
Crown became alarmed at the gigantic system of
crime which, in the course of their inquiries, began
to unfold itself; and that not knowing whither it
might lead or whom it might ultimately implicate,
and front a regard to the credit and honour of the
country, they have been induced to stop short with
the conviction they have already obtained, and to
" smother" all further investigation. This, how-
ever, is mere stuff. As to the consequences said to
be dreaded from pursuing the inquiries which had
been opened up, we are sure that we speak the pub-
lic sentiment when we sly justice ought to be done
ut whatever cost; and with respect to the honour of
the country, we cannot conceive a mode in which
it will be mote effectually Lased than by interposing
to quash a matter of such terrific magnitude as this,
and to leave suspicion to fancy horrors still more
appalling than even the dreadful reality.
A contemporary of Monday, speaking of Burke
and his associates, says,." This gang of murderers
found it Necessary rtt times to deceive the Jbudomista
into a belief that the subjects sold had come from a
distance." No such deception :vat ever practised!
We have conversed on the subject with three of the
most distinguished Anatomists of Edinburgh, who
most solemnly assure us that no such deception was
ever attempted upon them ; and that it could not by
possibility have been " practised," because they
would have infallibly detected and as certainly re-
fused every such subject. Moreover, they state that
it is impossible to obtain before interment bodies
which have died a natural death ; at least, that in
the course of fifteen years' experience, they hare only
known two instances in which such bodies were pro-
cured. The strongest feelings of human nature,
they say, are opposed to it; and even if this were
not the case, there are extrinsic difficulties (we need
not specify them, as they must be easily divined
by all who know any thing of the modes in which
the Schools of Anatomy are regularly and legiti-
mately supplied) which render it quite impracticable.
The inference from this is obvious. Uninterred bo-
dies:offered for sale would, from experience of the in-
superable difficulty of obtaining them, have roused
their suspicion, and prcvmted the possibility of their
being deceived in the manner stated by our contem-
porary. In illustration of this we may add, that the
body of the unfortunate woman Campbell or Do-
cherty was offered for sale to a most respectable
Teacher of Anatomy i n this city at or near one
o'clock in the morning of the Ist of November (she

" That such traces and marks were left on the body of
Jamie is sufficiently proved by the fact, that his body was
kept four or five days in spirits before it was laid on the dis-
secting table. The effect of immersion in spirits, we need
scarcely say, is to remove the lividity consequent on exter-
nal bruises or contusions, to corrugate the skin, and to give
it all one uniform colour.

hail been murdered, as nor readers will remember,
I;et,vixt 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the 31st
October;) that is, in less than an hour and a half
after site had been murtbred ; and fifteen guineas
rcerc,, demanded for the body ! hut our friend, after
putting a few qne,tion,, to the fellows who waited
upon him, peremptorily and tstt,rnly refitted to pur-
chase it any price, or to hare any thing whfttever to
do with it. One of the fellows who waited upon
him on this occasion was a conspicuous witness at
the late trial, aril stated, upon oath, that all he
learned from Burke when he called at the house of
the latter about midnight was, that Lurke " had
something there (pointing to the bed) for the Doc-
tors, which would be ready in the morning." To
the gentleman in question, however, an hour or
thereby after the murder was committed, he stated
that the body he wished to dispore of was the body
of a woman ; and that he had " a desperate gang"
in his pay, through whim he could procure sit many
subjects as he wished for.

(From t 1), Glasgow Courier.)

We return to this subject with fear, and with
pain, and with shame and with horror. The narra-
tives in our present number give us the particulars
of no fewer than six other murders committed by
Burke and his associate Hare, each attended with
g eater cruelty and barb::rity than the other. Besides
three, we are here informed that Hare has confess-
ed himself kuilty of twelve different murders: Burke
of many; and that within two years he had sold to
one intlividual from thirty to forty bodies, which hail
never been interred, and which there seems no room
to doubt he had obtained by deliberate murder ; and
we are told, moreover, that otl-,er n.isereants were'
also on their own account, engaged in this trade in
human blood !
The anatomists and dissectors to whom these
murderers sold these bodies may say what they will,
but they will never succeed in persuading any rational
being that they could not have been aware fro: the
appearance of the bodies that they must have come
to death by violence, or, if it is possible that they
could be so scientifically ignorant ; then, we say, the
honour and the safety of the population of our coun-
try imperatively demand that they shall be placed
before the public, and a special act of the Legislature
procured to prohibit them from studying the science
of anatomy, or from ever again coming ticar a human
body, either as teachers or scholars, in any thing that
appertains to either anatomy or medicine.
The country will demand inquiry. We hold in
our hands a letter from Haddington, which informs
us, that a requisition is already lodged with the
Provost of that Burgh, to call a meeting of the in-
habitants, in order " to take into consideration the
nature of these dreadful deeds, and what measures
may be necessary to prevent the perpetration of
such diabolical crimes in future." Such meetings,
says the respectable writer of the letter alluded to,
" will, I hope, be general anti immediate. The
country is outraged, and the desperate assassins must
he exposed, and punished to the very utnost." So
we say—so every rational being must say, on this
occasion.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF HYDRO

PHOBIA AT LOUGHBOROUGH.

(FROX OUR REPORTER.)

The attention of the Faculty of Leicestershire has
been considerably excited by the death of an indi-
vidual at Loughborough, in that coancy, under the
following peculiar circumstances :—lt appears that
the deceased in question, an itinerant vender of tin-
wares, whose name was Grange, a resident of
Loughborough, was proceeding, about six months
ago, through Mount Sorrell, a small town between
Loughborough and Leicester, with his stock in trade
upon his head, when a large dog, of the cur species,
attacked a smaller one, which was following at his
heels ; the tinman, in order to save his faithful little
servant from the jaws of the savage cur, stooped
to lift it from the ground, when the cur seized
him by the lip, which was bitten severely. The wound
was sore for upwards •f a week, and at length
healed. Nothing more was thought of the mat-
ter for four or fire months subsequently, when
on various occasions he mentioned to his ac-
quaintances that a fancy continually haunted him
that he would die in a similar way to Mr. Bryan's,
of Six, Hills; alluding to a farmer who some time
ago died raving mad from the effects of a dog's bite.
He also expressed his fears that the ferocious cur
which had bitten him months previously at Mount
Sorrell was in a rabid state. The deceased being a
man accustomed to indulge rather freely in his pota-
tions, his repeated assertions that he should " die
mad," were treated by the persons to whom he
made them with derision, supposing him to be in-
toxicated. However, on Monday last, the unfortu-
nate man was suddenly taken dreadfully ill, and be-
gan to betray the usual symptoms of insanity
attending this horrible malady. He occasionally
barked similar tola dog—frothed at the mouth,
refused all sustenance, and recoiled at the appear-
ance of water. He was sensible of his situation at
intervals, cautioned his attendants to bo aware of
him, and having expressed his conviction that his
death was at hand, he gave orders for his funeral,
and threatened the surgeons with his re-appearance
after death if they dared to touch his body with the
knife. The physicians and surgeons by whom he
was visited resorted to the customary means in casts
of hydrophobia, which seldom prove efficacious;
but their endeavours to save him were of no avail,
the poor fellow expired in the greatest agonies on
Wednesday last, being but three days from the first
symptoms of hydrophobia appearing.
Dr Pecch and Mr. Palmer, two eminent profes-
sional men, of Loughborough, opened the body,
which they examined with the most minute care,
but there were no appearances of disease in the
least, on the contrary the interior seemed in a per-
fectly healthy state.
The deceased was a widower and had no family,
and is stated to have been some time since in good
circumstances,

Mr. Secretary and Ma. Peel left town yester-
day morning for Brighton.

Since the beginning of the year three new
periodical publications have appeared in Moscow., each
twice a month : the Atenei, by Parisi", devoted to scien-
tific literature and bioAraphy ; the Ruskei Zretel,
Spectator, by Kalaidovrich, fur history, antiquities, and
general literature ; and the Nordische Bulletin, Northern
Bulletin.—All2. Lit. Zeit.

THE CoLLossEum.---A meeting yesterday
took place at the Collosseum in Regent's-park of Mr.
Horner's private friends, assembled for the purpose of
suggesting some plan fir the raising of the funds necessary
to complete this grand exhibition, which may be said to
be of a national character. The several gentlemen who
attended, after having been allowed to view the panorama,
front the three tiers of circular galleries, representing a
bird's eye view of London from the top of St. Paul's, the
execution and large dimensions of which excite astonish-
ment, met at the lodge, when, after much desultory con-
versation, Sir S. •Bentham took the chair. Front Mr.
Horner's own statement it appeared that he was plunged
into his present dilemma by the disappearance of Mr.
Stephenson, who had promiseti him extensive supplies,
• but who, instead of keeping his word, had amused him
with promises which he did not perform, and, instead of
adding to the means which he lately pa/scaled to complete
his works, had rather curtailed them. Front all that
transpired it appeared that about 6,0001. and six weeks'
time, were Alone wanting to finish the stupendous under-
taking ; hut, after the suggestion of various plans, by the
issue of tickets or the obtaining of subscribers, the meet-
ing adjourned, under the impression that Mr. Horner
would be able to supply all his wants by means of private
negotiation, the persona who attended the meeting being
naanimonsly of opinion that so magnificent and lucrative
a concern would readily find the small amount required
for its completion, in so wealthy and enterprising a country
as this, the moment the circumstances of the case were
ne,le known, supported as the projector was by persons
of the highest rank, as well as others distinguished by their
professional acquirements. It would seem that Mr. Hor-
ner. had his hands completely tied by Mr. Stephenson's
presence, and the latter, not having fulfilled his promises,
has been the chief cause of the exhibition not having already
been opened for pablie view.