21 SEPTEMBER 1839, Page 7

Throughout Scotland, the rivers were swollen to an unusual height

by the late rains, and much damage was done to the crops. In Edinburgh, ' on Saturday, the weather is described as " absolutely disastrous "—strong winds with torrents of rain, which continued during the whole of Sun- day. The fields on the banks of the Water of Leith, time Alinond, and the Avon, were flooded, and a "considerable breadth of crops" de-

stroyed. In Peeblesshire, Stirlingshire, Ross-shire, Stitherlandshire, Inverness-shire, and Aberdeenshire, the same tempestuous weather pre- vailed, Perthshire did not suffer so much, but considerable damage was done. The schooner Byron, with coals from North Shields for Inverness, was wrecked on Sunday night, off Dornoch ; and the Captain, three seamen, and a boy perished—the mate alone escaping.

Mr. Thomas Constable has been appointed her Majesty's printer in Edinburgh, with the privilege of printing and publishing Acts of Par- liament, edicts, proclamations, and other papers to be printed for her Majesty's public offices in Scotland.—Scotsman.

The Arbroath Herald of the 13th instant mentions the death, by a re- markable accident, of Mr. James Walker of Arbroath-

" Mr. Walker had been in Montrose on business; and while rcturnin,g in the evenhet (of the 12th) on horseback, a vivid flash of lightning startled the ani- mal when passing the bridge at llossie Mills • and, after rearing and plunging

for a moment, ient, it sprung over time parapet-wail of the bridge into the den below.

The fall, we are informed, is nearly thirty feet ; and Mr. W:dlter servived the accident only a few minutes. The horse was killed on tie spat. This most

lamentable event has thrown a greater gloom over the entire community of Arbroath than any similar occurrence within our memory. Mr. Walker was

an active and enterprising merchant. and as a public man his place will not be

easily supplied : he took IL warm interest in every thing relatieg to the prospe- rity of the burgh. As a :ifagistrate, he brooLdit:te the Tisch: r.,:e of his duties

a degree of impartiality, talent, and perseverance, rarly snrpased ; and if he had not been removed from a sphere of usefulness, it is generally luiderstood he would have been chosen Chief .■Iagi,trate :et next election."

One wing of the extensive dye-works of Messrs. Henry Monteith and Co., at Barrowfield, near Glasgow, was on Friday totally destroyed by fire. The flames were observed between two and three o'clock, and every effort made by the people near the spot to extinguish them, but without effect, as the part of the buildings hi which the fire criginated was completely burnt down. We have not learned the value of what has been destroyed, but that of course will fall upon the insurance com- panies. It is likely a number of the workpeople will be thrown out of employment for some time.—CoUoeian Mireury.