20 FEBRUARY 1841, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

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sition signed by a large number of the most respectable members in that city, was to be held yesterday to take into consideration the late report by the House of Commons on the subject of the Import-duties ; with a view to a revision and alteration of the tariff of the United Kingdom, and to petition Parliament on the subject.

The Dumfries Herald states that a Chartist meeting was called by placards at Castle Douglas on the 6th instant ; at which M'Donall, a native of Galloway, was to hold forth on the rights of labour. Before he arrived, the floor of the room in which the people were assembled. gave way, and upwards of thirty persons were hurt.

Cameron, the man suspected of being the murderer of his father-in- law, Mr. Tulloch, at Knockando, to prevent his marrying a second time, has been captured, after an unprecedented chase over a mountainous tract almost impassable.

The Sheriffs of Glasgow have been engaged in a curious case of' robbery. The letterbag sent to the neighbouring village of Springbank was lost, with all its contents ; after some search, it was ascertained that a sow had seized the bag, when lying in the house of the postmis- tress, and eaten most of it. Shreds of the bag and fragments of the let- ters were found in the pigstye. It is not stated how the Sheriffs mean to deal with the matter.