John Cock.-I am a weaver. In November last I saw the prisoner, and three others, at the Queen's Head, at Saffron Walden. It was on a Saturday, about this day three weeks. It was the sessions-day, the 22d of November. A neighbour and I went in together, a Mr Bacon. The prisoner had some beer drinking. He said, "Curse you, Cock, will you drink? You must mind and not get drunk; we have got to pay for getting drunk." I asked him, who it was that made them pay for getting drunk? He said, "Little Jem Mumford. A rascal! if I had him here, I'd smash him; but I'll be cursed if I won't be his match."

Susan Reid. I am the wife of John Reid. I know the prisoner; I knew the deceased. About a fortnight or three weeks ago I heard the prisoner say, "I shouldn't mind hacking Jem Mumford's whistle." I understood by that, that he would cut the deceased's throat.

Mr Thomas Hall, I am clerk to the magistrates at Saffron Walden. I was present when the prisoner was brought up on the charge of murder. I took most of the depositions. I read them over to the prisoner, I asked him what he had to say; he said,

knife sworn to by Mr George Mun ford, and told him that it was found in his pocket; and he said, that he found it in Baggot, (meaning Baggot field in Widdington,) about a fortnight ago. I was in Chelmsford on Thurs day evening. In consequence of a mes sage from the prisoner I went to him. He was then in a cart opposite the Saracen's Head. He had been brough in that cart from Widdington. I had not seen him before from the time! left him at Widdington; and the m gistrate, Mr Lodden, had cautioned him as to the effect of anything be might say. When I went to the cart, I made him no promise or threat. If he had not sent for me, I should not have gone to him. I asked him, whe ther he wanted to speak to me? He said, "Yes." He spoke very low, so that I could scarce understand what he said. He desired that I would get into the cart, which I did. He told me, that Kidman had given him the knife with which he cut the stick. I then asked him, whether Kidman had anything to do with the murder? and he said, "No, I alone did it.”—That is all, my lord,

Mr Justice Park charged the Jury; who, after a few moments' hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty.

JANUARY.

3. The Dublin Coach for Belfast was attacked seven miles below Ashbourn, at a place called Crossmacorehill, two miles and a half below Garretstown. The banditti consisted of fifteen or twenty persons, who had ar ranged themselves at each side of the road, across which they had laid carts and ladders. The villains, when the coach arrived at the spot, called on the guards to stop; this the latter refused, when instantly a fire was opened from both sides of the road. The horses turned quickly round, and the pole of the coach was broken. The villains continued to discharge their pieces, and we are grieved to state, that one of the guards received three slugs in the abdomen and hip; and the other, after having his forehead lacerated by shot, received a ball in the chest.

ly escaped their search. The know. ledge of this sum (which was for the Belfast Bank,) being in the coach, it is thought occasioned the attack. The robbers were two hours and a half in arranging their plans, before the arrival of the coach. They went round to the neighbouring cottages, and after shutting up every person in their place, and sending them in from their outhouses, they left an armed sentinel at the doors to prevent their coming out. The occasion of their getting possession of the Drogheda mail-bag was owing to the guard having it uppermost, in order to hand it out to the Post Office when passing through. There were four inside and three outside passengers, all of whom were searched and robbed of their watches and money; they also took the contents of their trunks; there were five watches and about 100%. taken from the pas sengers, but they had no great booty in the Drogheda bag. The guard, Lewis Byrne, was removed to Drogheda, and lies dangerously ill. There were several shots through the body of the coach, but happily neither the coachman nor the passengers received the least injury. The coach afterwards proceeded on to Belfast.

GLASGOW.-Considerable anxiety was manifested to witness the installation of Sir James Mackintosh, as Lord Rector of the University. The doors of the College Hall were opened at half past two o'clock for the admission of students, and at three to the public. The hall and galleries were crowded to excess, and numbers went away who could not possibly obtain admittance. Soon after 3 o'clock the Lord Rector entered, accompanied by a number of the Professors and distinguished friends, amongst whom we observed, Lords Belhaven, Gillies, and Alloway; the late Lord Rector, Mr Campbell of Blythswood; and Messrs Cockburn, Moncrieff, Murray, and Thomson. Sir

James Mackintosh was received with the most enthusiastic cheering, and having taken the accustomed oaths, he addressed the members of the Unversity. He began by expressing his sincere and hearty thanks for the high, unmerited, and unexpected honour to which he had been raised by the suf frages of this University. So unapected was the honour, that the elec tion was completed before he knew he was a candidate. In addressing his hearers, he was placed in a situation of great difficulty and delicacy. The tone of those calm and mild studies to which this University was consecrated, would not permit politics to intrude upon them, and his voice had for a long time been raised in political contention. Universities are of value only for the production of those pur poses which all good men of all ages, and sects, and parties, equally esteem and equally cherish. Nothing is to be studied and contemplated here, but that which is to render men good subjects of a just government. (Great applause.) He felt himself honoured by the consideration of the illustrious competitor to whom he was opposed, (Sir Walter Scott.) He would with great pleasure have taken this opportunity of saying of him in public, what he had uniformly said of him in private, if so much praise and admiration had not already been paid him by his friend and predecessor (Mr Jeffrey)— the effect of whose encomium he would not mar by attempting to repeat it in less skilful phrase. Speaking of his own feelings, he would have considered it no less of honour to have been vanquished by such a competitor. The presence of his excellent friend, the late Lord Rector, restrained him from saying all he could wish to say respecting him; "But I am sure," said he, "no man who knows me will think that I underrate my own feelings, in the general assertion, that he is a man

at least as much beloved as he is admired by his readers and his hearers. He is as much the darling of those societies of which he is an individual member, as he is almost a solitary instance of a long and brilliant literary reputation, joined to a professional career of equal length and brilliancy." He would be careful that there should not escape him a single expression which might create the least irritation. He would do his utmost to preserve concord and good will within the University. If his own character was not sufficient security, that he would not depart from these rules, he had then beside him, two of the dearest friends of his youth (Lords Gillies and Alloway,) who had raised themselves to the highest judicial situations in the country, and he was sure that even their friendship for him would not sanction party politics.

In reverting to the honour done him, he remarked that this was one of the most flattering distinctions that could have been conferred upon him, for it is peculiarly gratifying to those immersed in political affairs, that any part of their conduct should receive the calm approbation of those devoted to study. He felt in a more sensible manner the honour done him in this, that the youth of the University had been principally instrumental in the election. "I must confess there is something in this feeling of approbation of youth, (which must of necessity be pure,) which is extremely gratifying, especially to those who pass through a long and varied life. I recur to the early period of my existence; and I now feel a renovation of the pleasure I enjoyed when I was one of a similar class. I feel a sort of renovation of the pursuits and friends of my youth, my sympathy rises with your expressions of approbation; and I cannot but acknowledge that I feel as if I were sensible, that were I in your situation, I

should long to have done just as you have acted. (Loud and continued applause.)

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"I am satisfied that the privileges of the Academic youth of this University, which have been enjoyed for so many ages, are most beneficial to your academical institutions. They serve to promote industry, to lighten obedience, to enforce discipline, and to attach the students to the University. It seems to me that all great seminaries should serve but as means for preparation for the active duties of life. I am satisfied that the original institutions of this seminary, which conferred upon the youth the election of their first magistrate, have been wisely contrived, for they have never exercised that valuable privilege without doing honour to themselves and the University. looking over the list of names of those who have been raised to that distinguished eminence by their suffrages, I observe no name that I should wish to be expunged. They have always used this privilege wisely and honourably." The youth of Glasgow had shewn the highest veneration for the productions of genius; he, too, could revere the philosopher, and admire the poet, and yet he still thought that due applause should not be withheld from those whose lives had been spent in studying the nature and utility of government. In the year 1784, when, from the state of political affairs, it would have seemed peculiarly delicate for any literary body to have distinguished a person, so strongly opposed to the administration of the day, this University elected to be Lord Rector Edmund Burke, who had been called the most philosophical orator of his day, but whom he would rather describe as the most eloquent political philosopher of modern times.

"I am well aware I have no claim to engage your attention, but that of a countryman engaged in laborious pub

lic pursuits. I am well aware that I have no other pretensions than the love of letters; my life has been variegated, and has left little for the prosecution of projects that were formed in my early life, and the age of repose has been converted into an age of anxiety. I would advise those who are masters of their own time that they would con. fine their life to one object, and not be distracted by diversity of pursuit.

"I should think myself culpable, Gentlemen, were I to pass over a few of the extraordinary honours that have distinguished this University in former times. It was founded by the Roman Catholic establishment was coeval with the art of printing-with a period when a few mechanics, by finding out the means of inventing a new copying machine, changed in some measure the whole system of letters, and almost of civil society.

"The Reformation, the emancipation of the human understanding, gave a new vigour to the University. Under the government of Melville, the able lawgiver of the Presbyterian Church, this University acquired a new impulse, which led it directly forward to that prosperity at which it was soon to arrive. In a brighter period, Dr Gilbert Burnett, to whom England owes the history of the reformation and the exposition of her creed, to whom the liberties of England are deeply indebted, whose language is elegant and his sentiments liberal; he came from amongst you, and honoured the Divinity chair of this University by his virtues and his genius. To me it seems fortunate that the sciences have not retired here as elsewhere, to a hermitage, but have come and planted themselves in the heart of a great and populous city, which has risen to be the second in the island, and the third in the empire, and in the very midst of this great city, this University has been planted. It was owing to this

that the two most important new sciences discovered in the 18th centu ry, the sciences of chemistry and po litical economy, were both laid at the same time within these walls where I now address you. They are both of such a nature as to unite the active with the speculative duties of life. About the same time the discovery of the steam-engine was made by Mr Watt, a person connected with this University-one of the most import ant discoveries in modern times. This great increase of scientific knowledge was the result of the union of recluse speculation with the active business of life, and of the intimate connection which Dr Smith and Dr Black maintained with the practical business of this great city."

Sir James then delivered an elegant eulogium on the various distinguished individuals who had done honour to this University. The scientific and benevolent Hutcheson had led the way in a theory of morals, and his opinions had been illustrated in a life by Prin cipal Leishman, which deserved to be better known, written with great elegance, and occasionally rising into eloquence. Dr Smith had united great ancient learning, with a familiar knowledge of the affairs of active life, and in the science of political economy as well as of morals, and the principles of sound taste, had established a distinguished reputation. Dr Reid had discussed with excellent good sense the principles of Metaphysics and Ethics. The lives and opinions of those eminent persons had been made known to all Europe by Professor Dugald Stewart, in a style of splendid eloquence, a philosopher whose writings had infused the love of sound opinions and of virtue into more human bosoms, than it had ever fallen to the lot of any other man to do. "I cannot conclude," said Sir James, " without warmly adverting to the distinction conferred