1 AUGUST 1835, Page 11

SCOTLAND.

The registration at Edinburgh is certain to add considerably to the Reforming majority. The number of new claims on the 20th of July was 1148; and the Liberals are believed to outnumber the Conserva- tives in the proportion of two to one.

We hear with regret that Mr. Colin Dunlop, one of the Members for Glasgow, has intimated to his constituents his intention to accept the Chiltern Hundreds at the end of the session. Mr. Dunlop has been most zealous in his attendance on his Parliamentary duties, not- withstanding his severe indisposition before the commencement of the session ; but he does not find his health sufficiently reestablished to allow him to remain in Parliament. We have no doubt that the Glasgow constituency will return an honest and Liberal Representative in the place of Mr. Dunlop.—Courier.

On the evening of the 20th of July, a dreadful accident happened on board the Earl Grey steamer, lying at the quay, Greenock, en her to way Glasgow, by the bursting of the boiler. So violent was the explosion, that the deck was rent completely off from the funnel to within eight or nine feet of the stern. The persons on deck were blown into the air; some of them fell into the sea, and were drowned; two men were thrown violently on the quay, and died immediately, and many were scalded dreadfully by the hot water. Altogether, six persons lost their lives ; fifteen were severely, and eleven slightly injured. One of the passengers, a Mr. Somerville of Glasgow, saved himself in the following singular manner. Being in the cabin, he heard a hissing noise, the forerunner of the explosion, and he sprang sud- denly out at one of the cabin-windows. " The explosion occurred before his legs were quite out of the window, and his feet were scalded by the hot water or steam rushing into the cabin. Fortunately he suc- ceeded in catching bold of an iron rod projecting from the stern, by which he hung until the stern-boat had been lowered, when he was drawn up to the deck of the vessel." No certain clue is given to the cause of the explosion ; but it is said that the steam had been forced up, preparatory to a race with the Clarence, an opposition boat.