SCOTLAND.
A meeting of the Edinburgh Reformers was held on Friday, at which Sir James Gibson Craig presided. A recommendation from the meeting, calling on the people of Scotland to fix upon the same day for celebrating by a jubilee the triumph of Reform and the rights of the people, was resolved upon, with an intimation that it ought not to take place until all the Reform Bills had received the Royal assent.
On Saturday night, a numerous band of colliers, with their faces blackened, [on purpose 7] and armed with pistols and cutlasses, attacked a house at Whiterigg, in which several of the new workmen were lodged, and, breaking open the doors and windows, began an assault upon the inmates. The latter resisted, and ultimately several shots were fired on both sides, the peaceful workmen having been also pro- vided with arms for their own defence. Three of the men belonging to the house were wounded. One of them was shot through the band with a bullet; and another had his ear grazed with a ball, while lying on the floor. How many of the assailants were wounded, has not been ascertained. One of them, however, received a shot in the body, and immediately fell down, exclaiming, " I'm-gone!" He was immediately
carried off by his companions. As marks of blood were afterwards observable for a considerable way in three different directions, there is every probability that several others of the assailants received wounds. —Glasgow Chronicle.
Upwards of twenty chests of tea have been seized at Dundee by the Local Board of Excise. The seizure is in consequence of the falsifi- cation of the respective numbers inserted in the permits of the East India Company. The teas belonged to one house in London, who have for many years been engaged in the wholesale trade. Besides the forfeiture of the teas, a heavy penalty is annexed.—.Dundee Advertiser.
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