SCOTLAND.
The vacancy in the Hebrew chair of Edinburgh University has been filled up by the election of Mr. Liston, brother of the late eminent surgeon.
MqVheelan, the murderer of the youth Young, was hanged at Ayr last week It was not till the day before his execution that lie confessed his guilt. The man's life had been "one continued round of blackguardism." Though he avowed in- fidel opinions, he stood on the scaffold with the rope round his neck for thirty mi- nutes in prayer, without giving the signal for death; at length the Magistrates made a signal, and he was hanged.
About seven o'clock on Monday morning, the large sugar-house of Messrs Wilson and Sons, in Alston Street, Glasgow—a building seven stories in height— fell down with one mighty crash. There were some twenty men on the premises at the time, and all were buried in the ruins. Every exertion was made by the au- thorities of the city to rescue the sufferers; and gangs of men succeeded each. other in removing the rubbish, though in peril from the tottering condition of two gable-walls. Daring the day, five men were got out alive, some of them little hurt, others more seriously, though all were expected to recover. At midnight, three corpses had been taken out; bat there were still eleven people in the ruins: one had been spoken with, and there were hopes of saving him, but the fate of the others seemed too certain. Meanwhile, the workmen continued their opera- tions by torch-light. It is said that the building was very old, and not sub- stantial; yet heavy machinery and quantities of sugar had been accumulated in the upper stories. The ruins showed that the whole building, with the exception of the gable-walls, fell simultaneously; the machinery sinking down as if delibe- rately lowered into its present position. Early on Tuesday morning, the man who had been spoken with was got out— dead: while he was still in the ruins cordials had been administered to him, but he gradually sank, apparently from loss of blood caused by a great gash in the shoulder. Another man was beard beneath the ruins for some hours; but he too died before he could be disinterred. On the same morning, a third corpse was taken out, so horribly mutilated that no one present could identify it.
Two labourers on the North British Railway were killed, last week, while heed- lessly walking along the line, by a truck- train's running over theme they did not notice the whistle of the locomotive.
Kera, a guard on the Edinburgh and Granton Railway, has been thrown from a carriage and killed, by striking against an arch : it is supposed that he had risen from his seat under the impression that all the bridges had been passed.
A man employed on the Aberdeen Railway, at the bridge of Dun station, has been killed in a singular way: in chaining two carriages together, he was so in- cautious as to put his head between two buffers; the engine moved, and his head was crushed.
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