SCOTLAND.
Mr. Mackenzie of Applecross retires from the representation of Ross- shire. A Conservative seat will tints be vacated.
Mr. Thomas Campbell Robertson, of Rossdhu House, has announced himself as a candidate on Liberal principles for Dumbartonshire.
The county of Linlithgow loses its presentsepresentative, Mr. Baillie; who retires for reasons wholly of a private nature. Mr. George Dundas, of Dundee Castle, is in the field, as a Conservative.
Mr. Wilson of Dundyvan does not come forward this time to contest the Falkirk Burghs with Lord Lincoln.
The colliers of the Airdrie district have struck work. The Scotch Re- former's Gazette states that these men were receiving about twice the wages that they had in the year 1844. In that year' pig-iron was 40s. a ton; in 1845 it was 100s.; but since that time, it has declined to 65s. At the latter price, the masters found they could not continue to pay so much to the colliers for their work; and they proposed to reduce the wages from 5s. 8d for two carts, to 4e; the two carts, says the journalist, can generally be got in five or six hours. The miners have refused the terms. The masters mean to endeavour to get other men. The miners' strike has caused several furnaces to be blown out, and more will follow; so that much misery may be expected in the district.
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