SCOTLAND.
We understand that Major-General Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.B., has arrived at Inverness, being deputed by the Government to examine into the causes and extent of the late floods, and the injury thereby done to the town.—Inverness Courier.
The Edinburgh Parochial Board and the towns of Dundee and Perth have petitioned against the Marriage and Registration bills; and county meetings are rapidly getting up hostile petitions.
A committee of poor-rate payers in Glasgow propose that a uniform mode of assessment should be resorted to over the whole country; that assessment should be levied on income from all sources, a distinction being drawn between realized incomes and those drawn from precarious sources; that parochial divisions should be abolished, and Parliamentary boundaries substituted in their stead, and that relief given to Irish paupers should be recoverable from the Irish authorities.
After a long discussion on the union of Church and State, the Town- Council of Dundee have appointed a committee to prepare a petition to the House of Commons praying it "to consider in what manner the ecclesias- tical revenues of the country can be best applied for the benefit of all classes of the community, respect being had to the claims and rights of the present incumbents."
An illustration of the effect of railways in opening up new markets to sequestered districts, and equalizing the price of farm produce over the country, has been furnished at Perth lately; the contract for the daily sup- ply of milk to a large public institution there having been taken by a farmer in the neighbourhood of Dunblane, upwards of twenty-five miles off.
The Danes and the Prussians and Holsteiners have been exhibiting their na- tional animosity in Leith harbour by divers outrages. Two Danes tore down a flag from a Holstein WW1, and an English sailor attempted to repeat this in another case: all three have been fined by the Magistrates. On Good Friday, a general melee among the belligerents arose in the harbour, and the police and special constables had great difficulty in quelling it. About a dozen of the rioters were captured. Many Danish and Prussian vessels are now at Leith, and it is necessary to mount an extra police force at the docks to keep anything like order.
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