SCOTLAND.
General Pasley inspected the whole line of the North Itritish Railway, which is nearly completed from Berwick to Edinburgh, yesterday week. A. portion is expected to be opened to the public on the 1st of June.
The Fafeshire Journal narrates an assault upon daptain- Wemyss, the Member fere the county, arising out of his indignation at a trespass by a boy upon a field. "He was, it appears, riding near Wemyss West Lodge, when his attention was aroused by the sight of a boy of about ten years of age trespassing on a field where a good number of pheasants were hatching. The child on spying the Cap- tain jumped over a hedge; when the Captain rode after him at full speed, over- took him, and attempted to strike him for his trespass. Upon this, between one and two hundred of the people at Boreland Colliery, men and women, turned out upon the Captain, some of them with stones and sticks in their hands and attack- ed him in a most riotous and disgraceful manner: some seized his horse, others took him by the legs and tried to capsize him; while others threatened him with stones in their hands, and others again swore with the most horrid oaths that they would knock the brains out of him. Others, still more insolent, told him that he ought to be at his duties in Parliament instead of watching pheasants' eggs and terrifying children. At last, three of the Captain's armed keepers came to his rescue; and, by threatening to fire upon the mob, got them so far quieted that our Member was enabled to escape their clutches." Occasional notices have appeared of late of farms out of lease being let at an advance of rent; but we have now to announce, perhaps the most remarkable in- stance of the late improvements in agriculture, and the expectations entertained of its continuance on the part of the tenantry, in the case of the large and fine farm of Mains of Elcho. This farm, the property of the Earl of Wemyss, is si- tuated on the banks of the Tay, about four miles below Perth. The lease, which has just expired, was one of nineteen years; and, at an average of the flare prices for that period, the rent has been about 6001. per annum. At the same average, the new rent, which is to be partly money and tient), grain, will reach nearly to 1,0001.; to be paid by no inexperienced and rash farmer, but by one of the oldest and most successful agricultural families in the country.—Perth Courier. The Earl of Wemyss is grandfather of Mr. Charteris, who lost his seat for East Gloucestershire in consequence of his Free-trade conversion.]
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