10 SEPTEMBER 1853, Page 5

SCOTLAND.

The election of a Representative Peer, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Earl of &afield, took place at Holyrood Palace on Wednesday. Sixteen Peers were present' and on the roll being called, it was found that Viscount Strathsillan had been elected, the number voting for him being fifteen. There was no opposing candidate. There is at present another vacancy, caused by the death of Lord Sal- toun : the Earl of &afield is a candidate.

Notice of motion was given at the last meeting of the Glasgow Town- Council, that at their first meeting the Council would be moved to petition her Majesty to confine the administration of Scotch affairs to a Secretary of State for Scotland.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was to be presented with the free- dom of Inverness on Thursday last.

There was an interesting trial of reaping-machines at Stirling on Tues- day, in the presence of about a thousand person; undeterred by the charge of half-a-crown a head for admission to the field. The contest lay between M'Cormick's and Bell's. The decision of the judges was in favour of Bell's.

A prisoner charged with poaching, who was conveyed on board a steamer from Glasgow to Dumbarton, escaped by leaping into the river, and safely swam to shore.

Six fame deer, belonging to the Chisholm, which had strayed from Erch- less Castle, were killed by farmers who discovered them among their corn. A considerable quantity of salted venison was found in a farm-house ; the occupier was arrested, and taken to Dingwall. But a lawyer there advised the captors to liberate the prisoner—deer are not game. The farmer was immediately released.

The estate of Islay, the largest and most valuable, perhaps, ever sold in this country, was on Wednesday sennight exposed in Messrs. Cay and Black's rooms, George Street, at the upset price of 440,0001,; and, after competition between Mr. Morrison, of the great firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co., Lon- don, and Mr. Tames Baird, of Gartsherrie, M.P. for the Falkirk Burgh; was knocked down to the former, at 451,000/. The estate has been in the mar- ket for upwards of five years, and has been repeatedly exposed to sale, both as a whole and in three divisions, at successively reduced upset prices ; the last, in 1862, being 440,001/I.—E4inburgh Courant.