15 SEPTEMBER 1832, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

Sin WALTER SCOTT.—It grieves us deeply to state, that not many hours can elapse are the great author of Waverley will be no more.-7-',. Edistburyh.:Weeldy,journal.

The Established Churches of Glasgow arc all uncollegiate. The Ministers prepare and preach two sermons each Sunday, and in their turn preach on Thursdays and Sunday evenings in St. Mary's Church. They examine the youth of their congregations, and give ministerial visitations; they visit the sick, and assist in relieving the poor; they superintend the parochial and other schools, and attend Presbyterial and Synodical diets ; and to all this the clergymen of the Established Church are too often subjected to secular duties, which occupy hours which otherwise might be devoted to recreation. With the exception of the clergymen of the Inner High and Barony parishes, whose livings arise from teinds in the possession of the Crown, all the others receive their stipends from the corporation of the city; and there is no in- stance of a Seceder, Dissenter, Episcopalian, or Roman Catholic, being taxed to support the established clergy in Glasgow, as is done in England and Ireland by church-rates, and in Edinburgh by a tax on rental, whereby the inhabitants, whatever be their religious creed, must contribute six pounds per cent. on their rental towards the maintenance of the established clergy. When the revenue of the corporation of Glasgow, small as compared with that of other large towns, is taken into account, it reflects no small degree of honour on the magistrate that they build and endow their churches without any rate or tax on the community.—Glasgow Herald. {" Let Glasgow flourish ! "1 A melancholy occurrence took place, on Friday evening, in the house of a respectable family in Broad Street, Aberdeen. It appears that a mixture, containing arsenic, which had been prepared for rats, had been inadvertently left lying for a few minutes on the top of a chest of

• drawers; when a boy about nine years of age, the son of the possessor of the house, ate a small quantity of it, and the consequence was, that he shortly afterwards died, in the most excruciating agony.—Scotsman.

Ben Nevis has till very lately been considered the monarch of Scot- tish mountains; but it now appears, from the trigonometrical survey lately made by order of Government, that he must yield the palm to Ben Macdui, a mountain in Aberdeenshire, who o'ertops him by about 20 feet. The height of Ben Nevis is 4,370 feet; of Ben Macdui, 4,390 feet. Thus Ben Maedui is the loftiest mountain, not only in Scotland, but in Great Britain.—Caledonian Mercury.