11 OCTOBER 1856, Page 5

SCOTLAND.

The return of the Queen to her Southern home is now fixed for Wed- nesday next. On that night she will sleep at Holyrood, and on Thurs- day morning set out for London. The Duchess of Kent is already on her way home. The weather has latterly been fine - so that the Queen and the children have been enabled to spend much time in drives abroad, while Prince Albert has stalked the deer. The Royal Nimrod is reported to have killed forty stags during his stay.

Sir George Grey has been succeeded by Lord Panmure as Secretary of State in attendance on the Queen.

A favourable change has occurred in the weather in the Northern parts, and much corn will have been secured this week.

During the Into strike of miners in the West of Scotland, certain Sheriffs- Substitute held and expressed the opinion that they could not interfere to re- press great assemblages of men for the known purpose of intimidating miners who continued to work, unless violence had been actually committed. At the close 'of the recent Glasgow Circuit, the Lord Justice Clerk, addressing the Sheriffs who were present, referred to this matter, and stated that the law was clear on the point, and that such assemblages of men, though'no actual violence were used, are illegal, and should be suppressed.

On. Tuesday last, the Sheriffs of Edinburgh, Haddington, and Linlith- sitting on R.egistration appeals, decided an important appeal case. The Sheriff of Edinburgh had refused to allow a voter to be registered twice on the Parliamentary roll. The desire of the voter is to have two or more

votes in different places. The Sheriff of Linlithgow thought a plurality of enrolment legal, but the two other Sheriffs decided that it is not : the ap- peal was therefore dismissed. This is opposite to some decisions given in other Registration circuits.

At the Glasgow Circuit Court, last week, James M'Manus was tried for the murder of Henry M'Lavey, at Castleiill Iron-works. There was no doubt as to the homicide. M'Lavey and another labourer, Dinnan, were struggling. together; M'Manus hastened towards him, seized an iron bar, and struck M‘Lavey on the back of the head, fracturing the skull. There is no reason to suppose that M'Manus attacked the deceased with a view to aid Dinnan ; he had a grudge against M'Lavey for his violent behaviour to- wards himself and other grievances, and a sudden impulse for revenge ap- pears to have seized him when he saw M'Lavey struggling with Dinnan. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground " that he did not intend to kill." Sentence of death was pronounced. The prisoner, who was seized with remorse immediately after he had struck M'Lavey, appeared overwhelmed by his position during the trial.