SCOTLAND.
. The offices of Lord Justice-General and Lord President of the Court of Session are conferred on Lord Colonsay, one of the junior Judges of the Court of Session, better known as Mr. Duncan It was generally understood that it was the intention of the present Government to offer the Outer-House Judgeship, vacated by Lord Colon- say, to Sheriff Alison, of Glasgow, who has done so much as a writer in Blackwood, and otherwise, to promote the cause of the party ; but it was found at the eleventh hour, it is said, that the office of a Judge could only be conferred, by statute, upon a practising barrister, which he was not. Tinder these circumstances, the office has been bestowed upon Mr. Adam Anderson, the Lord-Advocate ; who was one of the candidates for the Ministerial interest for the borough of Lymin' gton. Mr. Anderson was called to the bar in 1818, and was in extensive practice ; and his appoint- ment will give much satisfaction to the bar. He is succeeded, as Lord- Advocate, by Mr. John Inglis, the present Solicitor-General, and the Ministerial candidate for the representation of Orkney and Shetland. The vacant office of Solicitor-General has been conferred upon Mr. Charles Neaves, who has to resign the Sheriffship of Orkney ; which has, it is said, been given to Mr. W. E. Aytoun.—Times.
Lord John Russell has taken a lease for several years of Gart House, near Callender, the mansion of Admiral Houston Stewart, M.P. for Greenwich, as an autumn residence for himself and family. Gart House is delightfully situated on the banks of the Teith.—Falkirk Herald.
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