SCOTLAND.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce have resolved, by a majority of' 19 to 6, to petition in favour of the abolition of the Navigation-laws.
During the last eight or ten days, both the police and parochial authorities of Glasgow have been a good deal annoyed by numbers of disbanded soldiers, who, in conformity with the proposed reduction in the numerical strength of the Army, have been discharged from their respective corps. They are discharged with their regimental kit, and 11. of money to take them home; but in nine cases out of ten, the men, in the course of a few hours from the time of their leaving barracks, have been left absolutely penniless, and in many cases even their stock of clothes has been stolen.
A party of gentlemen went to the Horse Island at Ardrossau, on a shooting ex- cursion, and fired at the Beacon Tower as a mark. Some boys went with the party; and, though cautioned to keep out of harm's way, one of them got into the tower. When the company were about to embark, this boy was missed: he was found in the tower, mortally wounded, a bullet having passed through a two-inch board and struck him in the head.
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