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• 1:44 itiilaaanyaite Foot, bare record melees to
march Rein • Raninsearrig, A bbeysh r 01e,11114 Bari
The-Depolt of tho.llllllk Regiment of Jnfantry is mewed to too
' move t. Stockport; the Depot of
•the 95th ditto to B:ve(ley; tIK
Depot of the 110th akto, to the Isle of 'Alan; the Depot bf the let'
%Italian of the Royals, to the Isle of Wight; the DopOt 44.40
Stilt Foot, to Spike• Island; and the Depot of the 12th ditto, M.
Youghal.
The 10th Reiltnent of Foot bas been ordered front Fermoy tt;,
Templemore; the 224 ditto, front Kilkenny to Limerick ; the 24th',
ditto, from Cork to Kilkenny ; the 26th ditto, from Linivrlck to'
Naas; the 29th ditto, front Kilkenny to Waterford; the 34th do.
,1980 Longford to Athlone; the 58th ditto, (tom Waterford So
Dublin • the Gilt ditto, from Limerick to Longford; the 62d do.
from Dublin tia Enniskillen; the 65th ditto, from liullingar
Birr; the 68th ditto, from Athlone to Dublin ; the 73d ditto, from
Naas to Dublin ; 75th ditto, from Dublin to Newry ; 78th ditto,l
from Ennis to Fermoy ; 84th ditto, front Ferntoy to Limerick.
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HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.

The High Court of Justiciary met on Wednesday,
for the trial of William Allan, late crofter, at Arthur
Seat, parish of Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, accused of
murder and robbery.
The indictment charged him with having. on the
17th of September last, upon the road leading from the
toil-bar of Fyvie, along the south sideof the wood of
Den •of Rothie to Olaf Rayne, attacked Alex. M.Kay,
tailor and drover, or farmer's servant, and with the
leaded end of a whin. or some other blunt and heavy
instrument, struck him several times severely oil the
head, face, and sides, whereby he was knocked to the
ground, his skull fractured, and one of his ribs broker;
and while in that state of haying robbrd him of a one-
pound note, and several pieces of silver coin; and in
consequence of these wounds Alexander IvisKai was
mortally wounded, and died on the night of thelld Oc-
tober following.
Allan pleaded Not Guilty.
Janie. Hay, one of the Justices of die Peace for
Aberdeenshire, was told by Captain Forbes them was
visa') in the Inn of Fyvie, hurt. Went to Mr. Mackie's
house, and siw the bones on a table which had been
taken out of the man's head. He was in gloat dis-
tress; but gave his answers very distinctly. He said
his name was Alexander Nl•Kty, and he came fromtbe
parish of Farr, in Sutherland. He said he had come
from Cupar Angus with a man named William Allan,
and had slept at Manx with bins the night before. He.
suspected that he was wishing to take his money, as he
had wished him always to go the bye roads; and he
thought he felt his hand attempting to get at his
money during the night. That, when near Fyvie, they
had left the road and came through a muir, at a cer-
tain place, where there was a.road with a wood on one
side, and corn stacks on the other. Allan came behind
and struck him with a whip on the head, and he fell
among whins; but he recollected nothing more. Wit-
ness went to the place described, and observed a hat
lying inside the wood of Den of Rothie. Having a
horse with him, he marked the place and came to
Fyvie ; and, along with Captain Forbes and Mr. Mac-
kie, the innkeeper, returned and found the hat and a
stick. They took them down to Fyvie, and identified
them. They were shewn to M'lCay, who said they
were both his.• The place is a lone place; only the,
toot of one hOuse visible from it.--;-Saw 11. Kay iri the
Sande), and Monday following. On Monday, a regu-
lar deposition. was taken, from him, which witness
identified. He dist ,not, vary a single word ins dhis
story froth Erse to 14; Witness, never entiltainer
the least doubt of the troth of what M'Kay had said.
M'Kay described Allan as having lightish-coloured
hair, and hAd recently had the small-pox, with which
he aas nrar ked. When witness asters a' ds saw the
prisoner; his appearance agreed with this desc•iption.-
The prisoner was present when Nl,Kay's deposition was
taken; and was distinctly identified by him as the mall
whir had assaulted him. When M'Kay rook the whip
iti'his hand he shuddered. The %ship haj b..en taken
from the ptiioner by the constable.
John Fyfe, messenger-at-arms in Aberdeen, related
his apprehension of pannel, who was found by him and
Mr. Urquhart, on Sunday Morning feeding cattle in
,a moss. ale took hits into 'his house, ou pretence of
seeing a citation to the Circuit Court which pannel
had received as a viiine's; there 'made him prisoner
and demanded his whip, which pannel hesitated to
give, till he threatened to search fns it, when he gave
it up. Witness allowed pannel to shift himself, and
observed in his est a pocketbook contai..ing two
one pound notes, two five sh.lling pieces, three half-
crowns, and two and sixpence in silver, in the book.—
identified the money.
Several other witnesses were examined to make out
the case against the prisoner.
The Jury were addressed, in long and able s'eeches,
for the Crown by the Loan Auvocars, and for the
pannel by Mr. Jismas GORD.M. The Loan Jusvice
CLERK summed up. After being enclosed about 1.5
minutes, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
He was then sentenced to be execu ed at Aberdeen
on Friday, the Leh February next, between the hours
of two and fourin the afternoon, and his body given
over to the professor of anatomy in that city, for public
dissection.
The pannel is a young man, who, we understand,
was married only six months previously to the commis-
sion of the crimk for which he is to suffer.
After the verdict was returned, he could not believe
it, till assured of its nature by a person near hint, when
he exclaimed, " On, GOD help me!" He again asked
that person if be was sure, and on receiving his answer,
knit into tears and sobbed bitterly, while the Judges
Were delivering their opinions.

'Many of the priiate Bankers have closed accounts
with thane of their customers who betrayed di trust of
their stability during the late run.
The Moaning Papers contain an account of a great
failure in Dublin, but neither the Freest. an's Journal-nos
the Dublin Morning rest of Thursday, which we have
received, mention the circumstance.
The Court of Berlin and the
into mourning on the 1901 instan
the Emper. ALLIANUERI and
were closed- for three days by h.s
Sir Wit. DUNCOMBE bas issued.
of Griinsby, in which be/declares bib deter=
for the contlg of Yorbigunit consequently
don o: A nough.
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