SCOTLAND.
The Committee on the Scott monument have directed the Sub.. Committee to procure additional plans and suggestions, and not to accept any which does not include a statue. General Sharpe's constituents gave him a public dinner at Dumfties on the 11th instant. Several gentlemen of property in the vicinity were present ; and among them Mr. Aglionby, M. P. for Cocker- mouth, who, it seems, is Laird of Rotchell. After his own Ilea,* had been drunk, Mr. Aglionby proposed "Mr. O'Connell and the Reforming Members for Ireland ; " which was cordially received. Mr. Aglionhy, who appears to have been the chief orator, also proposed "the Reforming Press of England, and the health of John 'Mack, Esquire, editor of the Morning Chronicle." The Reformers of Caithness, shocked by the treatment they had received from Mr. Sinclair, sometime ago invited Mr. George Trail, the late independent and liberal Member for Orkney, to be prepared to take Mr. Sinclair's place in the event of a vacancy ; and Mr. Traill, we are glad to find, has been prosecuting a most successful can- vass.—Courier.
We hear it rumoured, that when another election shall take place, it is not the intention of the present Member, Lord John Scott, to stand again for the representation of Roxburghshire, but that Sir George Murray, the rejected of Perthshire, will be brought forward by the Conservative party, and nominated as a candidate.—Kelso Chronicle.
Dr. Hunter, Professor of Humanity, is appointed to succeed the late Dr. Nicol, as Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvador and St. Leonard.
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