SCOTLAND.
Cardinal Wisemanis expected to visit Abbotsford on Tuesday, for the purpose of setting in order some things that are supposed necessary in the large hall of the mighty minstrel, mow, we believe, fitted up as a ,Pepish chapel. —North British Mail.
Mrs. Robertson, of Ednam House, has presented to the town of Kelso a piece of ground ten acres in extent to form a park fur the inhabitants, with 5001. to defray the cost of laying it out in an ornamental manner. It is to be called " Shedden _Park," in memory of Mrs. Robertson's ne- phew, Mr. Shedden, the lamented owner of the yacht Nancy Dawson, who volunteered.his services inthe search for Sir John Franklin.
The autuninaloseseion of the Glasgow- Circuit-Court of Justiciary, which ended on Monday, ".has been remarkable beyond any that preceded it," says the correspondent of the Times "for the number of trials arising out of deaths by violence and injuries from -shooting, and stabbing." A man bearing the ill-omened name of Hare was sentenced on Thursday last week, to be hanged on the 22dinstant, for.murder, byatabbing. On 'Mon- day, Thomas Haggerty, an Irishman, was found guilty of dangerously stab- bing Frederick Irvine, a tartan-manufacturer, whom he met in the street, and who gave him no offence : he was sentenced to be transported for life.
Current events promise that the next session of the Circuit Court will also be a serious one.
Patrick M'Quakey, en Irishman, has in a street quarrel been stabled by a man who is not at preeent known, in so serious a manner that he lies in the Infirmary in a critical state. At Greenock them. has been preferred the charge—"happily rare in Scot- land"—of a wife poisoning her husband. "An old man, named Thomas Maevey, who earned a living by dealing in apples, butter, fish, and other articles, took into his house about six months ago a young Irishman, named David Mullen, as a lodger. blacvey soon had cause to suspect an improper connexion between thia man and lis wife, Sarah li'Gullion ; when the for- mer was turned oat of-doors. Maovey was suddenly taken ill with vomiting and purging, on Thursday week, and after extreme suffering died on the fol- lowing Sunday. The late lodger (Mullen) made his appearance at the wake the same night, and on the following day the body was hurriedly buried. No sooner had the interment taken place than Mullen and the widow made preparations for getting married ; but-the suspicions on the part of the neigh- bours became excited, and Mullen was pelted by a mob of women and chil- dren as he left thelouse. In the mean tune it came out, that the woman had purchased arsenic at a druggist's on the Thursday .her husband became ill, and again on the Saturday before his death; which she ostentatiously mixed with oatmeal in the shep, on the pretext that the poison was intended to kill rats, although it has been ascertained that rats-did not infest the house. The woman was taken into custody, and the body was -exhumed on Saturday last.; and Doctors Auld and Laurie are engaged in making a chemical analy- ids of the contents of the stomach and'bowels, with the view of determining the existence -or non-existence of poison. Meanwhile, the people of Green- ock are in a state of painful excitement on the subject, 'until the result of the chemical analysis shall have been known."
`William Eraser, of Inver, near Tabs, has been poisoned with arsenic. It has been ascirtained that both his wife and his son, a lad of seventeen, pur- chased arsenil; and they seem to have had an ill feeling against the man, as they did not consider that he made sufficient efforts to support his family. Letters from the son to the mother 'were found, which contained severe re- flections against the father : in several of them the son urged his mother to destroy his father's life, and in one Of them even threatened to do it himself. On this discovery the mother and son -wore immediately taken into oustody, and have been.00mmitted for trial on the charge of murder.
Mr. Mackenzie, a farmer of Fodderty in Strathpeffer, has been killed by a hull, which assailed him on his letting it out of a shed. Mrs. Mackenzie missed her husband for a long time, and went in search-of him; she found him yet alive, but he died the following day.
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