SCOTLAND.
The Baines agitation in Edinburgh has not been quite successful. "Dr. Chalmers," says the correspondent of the Daily News, "is understood to be decidedly favourable to the Government scheme of education. When Mr. Baines was in Edinburgh, he is reported to have had an interview with the venerable divine, with the view of enlisting him as an ally; but found him invulnerable."
The Town-Council of Edinburgh, by a majority of 12 to 11, have ap- proved of the Government scheme of education. The resolutions in its favour were moved by the Lord Provost, who is a Voluntary; and they were seconded by Baillie Mack, a Churchman.
A curious case of copyright was decided by the Court of Session immediate], before its last rising. A legal gentleman compiled an "Analysis of the Heritable Securities and Infeftment Acts"; and he claimed an injunction against the publi- cation of the report of a Committee of the Writers to the Signet, appointed to con- sider the forms of those acts, on the ground that in their appendix they had pirated from his analysis. The Court, both in the Outer and Inner Houses, granted the injunction; holding that copyright in a book of styles exists as much as in a chart, map, road-book, interest-tables, or any similar class of works; which, from their nature, mast have many points of identity, but in which intelligence of arrangement is entitled to protection.
On Saturday last an extraordinary case happened at Cockburnspatb. A poor Irish family, seven in number, lodged in the village on the night of Friday, and left next morning about seven o'clock; when, it appears, they put one of their number, a boy about eleven years of age, into a drain, about a quarter of a mile from the village, placed a large stone, nearly a hundredweight, over the drain, and went away. Not long after, the person who repairs the roads observed the stone over the drain replaced, and to his astonishment he found the boy under it quite insensible. He immediately got him conveyed to the lodging-house; where he was recognized. Means were employed to restore life, but they proved in vain. The other members of the family have been apprehended, and the case is under- going a strict investigation by the authorities.—Seotsman. [The boy seems to have been used for some days as a specimen of starving, in order to excite com- passion and attract pence.]
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