power of conciliation and persuasion under the guidance of a self-love and power of will not often to be met with, and all this professedly not regulated by any sense of religion or respect for public morals. In him we have seen already the one gut-string playing several airs, but without a touch of pity: the soft was not indeed his forte, his preference lying in the direction of those examples we have already given--the joke upon Professor Jameson, the poisoned satire upon Liston, the egotism among the Taymouth Castle guests, the adulation of the Marquis of Breadalbane. Nor can we forget, beyond all, the admitted perspicacity of one of the best anatomists of his time, which, if it had been called in question in an ordinary autopsy, with the most recondite appearances of poison or violence, would have been vindicated by a power and success, accompanied by a bitterness not often witnessed among scientific men. In his letter of 11th January 1829, to the curator of his rooms, he said, "All such matters as these subside in a short time." "Not so," added the editor of the _Mercury_; "such matters cannot subside till such time as he (Dr Knox) clears himself to the public satisfaction." Time, we fear, has shewn the falsehood of the one statement, and the hopelessness of the other. The same suspicion remained, yea, remains still, and we fear will go down through all time with the record of a story destined ever to be the greatest example of man's wickedness, when left to his idol, that has ever appeared. The Trial. In November 1828, a citation was served upon William Burke and Helen M'Dougal to appear before the High Court of Justiciary to be held at Edinburgh, the 24th day of December, at 10 o'clock forenoon, to underlie the law in the crime of murder, on three separate indictments. The first comprehended the case of Mary Paterson, as having occurred in the preceding month of April in the house of Constantine Burke; the second--that of James Wilson, or Daft Jamie--in October of the same year in Log's house, situated in Tanner's Close; and the third--that of Madgy, Marjory, or Mary M'Gonegal or Duffie, or Campbell, or Docherty--in November, in Burke's house, Portsburgh. The libel contained also a list of a great number of articles of dress worn by the victims, and identified, and, among others, Mrs Docherty's gown, and Daft Jamie's brass snuff-box and spoon.