SCOTLAND.
The Chartists of Scotland have marred the sport of the Nonintra- sionists at Airdrie. A public meeting was held there on the 9th, to pe- tition Parliament for the abolition of patronage. A chairman was pro- posed and seconded ; when the Chartists suddenly made their appear- ance, named their own chairman, and carried that motion. Addresses were then delivered on each side. Ultimately, the Nonintrusionists proposed the adoption of their petition for the abolition of patronage; while the Chartists proposed the five points of the Charter, as the grand panacea for all the ills of Church and State ; and both motions being put from the chair, the Chartists were proclaimed the victors by a consi- derable majority.
On Tuesday, a meeting of the Emigration Societies connected with Glasgow was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of hearing an address from Dr. Rolph, of Canada. The meeting was chiefly composed. of working-men, and was numerously attended. The Lord Provost having taken the chair, Dr. Rolph intimated that he did not want destitute emigrants, but persons who have sufficient means to support themselves until they could obtain employment, or families possessed .of small capital. And he took pains to show why war between the United States and England was not likely to ensue.
We learn that the intended proceedings in the Court of Session against Mr. Candlish, for breach of interdict, have been dropped. As matters stand, this is probably a wise step. He is already sufficiently humbled ; and to add fine and imprisonment to the mortification of losing his Professorship, might have inlisted public sympathy in his fa-
vour.—Scotsman.
Peter Cameron, who is accused of the murder of his father-in -law, _at Knockando, has made an attempt to escape from Elgin Gaol. For want of room, he was confined in the same cell with three men and a boy ; and they were thus able to cooperate. Cameron wrote a letter, which he showed to the gaoler. When it was returned to him for seal- ing, he slipped in a note, directing the person for whom it was written to supply the wife of one of the other prisoners with 5s., and to instruct her to purchase a set of files. The secret was discovered from some- thing which the boy said; and it was found that Cameron's instructions had been fulfilled, the other prisoner's wife having purchased files, and afterwards called at the gaol ; where, however, she was refused ad- mittance.
The town of Hamilton and its neighbourhood were thrown into great consternation on Tuesday last, on hearing of an extensive explosion of , fire-damp in the coal-mine near Quarter, accompanied with the loss of eleven lives. It appears that about eight o'clock that morning, the breakfast-hour, there were six men and a boy in the mine, all of whom must have perished instantly by the explosion. On the alarm being given, the overseer of the mine not being at hand, seven men who were outside of the mouth rushed thoughtlessly into the pestiferous atmosphere of the newly-exploded mine. Three of them were dragged out alive, and four dead. Unceasing exertions were made to relieve the mine of the noxious vapour ; but it was not till Wednesday morning that the bodies of the first seven sufferers were recovered. Some of them were shockingly mangled by the explosion, in a way that showed that the death of the whole must have been instantaneous. Of the eleven who died, nine were married, and have left widows and families behind. them. The proprietor of the mine, the Duke of Hamilton, on hearing of the event, immediately sent pecuniary assistance to the families of the sufferers.
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