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 to Surgeon's Square, with the intention of attacking the Lecture-room's. But a strong body of students armed with pistols, and flunked by two detachments of police, showed so formidable a front, that they were compelled to retreat without accomplishing their object, or indeed, doing any mischief. Some pitiful ruffians then proceeded to the College, and broke several windows in Dr. Monro's apartments, from North College Street.

At four o'clock yesterday morning, Burke was conveyed in a coach from the Calton-hill Jail to the Lock up-House. The time of conveyance was such, that no one, but the instruments employed, were present at it. He was under shackles of a peculiar magnitude and strength. He preserved the composure of mind which belongs to him peculiarly; but upon his dead clothes—(a suit of sables, very generously furnished to him at the expence of the city)—being produced to him, he manifested very great emotions and, by his own confession, he felt it. During the whole of the day he was perfectly composed. On being asked on the subject of Daft Jamie's murder, he said that Hare's wife decoyed him into Hare's house, and that Hare and his wife murdered him.

Such was the intense anxiety of the public with regard to the execution of Burke, that at a very early hour this morning, people from very remote districts came in crowds to the Lawnmarket. Never, we believe, was such an assemblage seen—not even upon the occasion of the execution of Mary M'Kinnon, who, poor woman, had not the advantage of having such an indulgent jury as that which acquitted Helen M'Dougal. The tread of many feet, as of the