SCOTLAND.
Mr. Andrew Rutherford, M.P., was installed as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, on Friday, in the midst of a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, including Lord Cockburn, Lord Fullerton, Lord Ivory, the Lord Provost, Sheriff Alison, Dr. Candlish, aud several ministers and meme hers of the bar from Edinburgh.
John Neill, a young printer, was tried on Monday, at the High Court of Jus- ticiary, Edinburgh, for forgery and fraud. He pretended that he was appointed by a ladies association at Liverpool to collect subscriptions for the relatives of those who perished in the President steamer: he had a. paper to that effect printed, and skilfully forged to it a number of names with large subscriptions attached; Sir C. Fergusson, Dr. Chalmers, and a number of Glasgow merchants, were among the fictitious subscribers. By means of this paper, he obtained a bona fide subscription of 25l. les. from Mr. Archibald Stirling, of Keir in Perth- shire. This case was clearly proved, and the prisoner was found guilty. He was sentenced to be transported for ten years. Other charges, of obtaining large sums of money from divers persons by pretending he was the son of a man who had been lost in the Manchester steamer with all his property, were not proceeded with.
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