SCOTLAND. .
The Queen has driven to Lochnagar, Altnagusack, and other places, sometimes accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and sometimes by the Princesses Alice and Louisa. The Prince Consort has been deer- stalking, and the Prince of Wales and Count of Flanders have fol- lowed his example. The Queen-gave a ball on Monday. The list of guests at her table includes the names of Loitl John Russell, the Earl of Elgin, and Mrs. Farquharson and Miss Farquharson pf Invercauld. The Queen and the Prince Consort were to receive the loading mem- bers of the British Association, at Balmoral on Thursday evening. There had been very extensive preparations made for their entertainment by her Majesty.
The Liberal candidate for Ayishire is Mr. Campbell of Craigie, and a more worthy successor to Lord James Stuart need not have been looked for. During his whole life Mr. Campbell has been an active, undaunted, and untiring Liberal, and to this day his zeal burns as warmly and steadily as in those days when it was as much a reproach as it is now a boast to bear that name. He has given the cause much labour and done it great service; and though, beyond doubt, he has come forward at this time very much more seeking benefit to the cause than honour to him- self, the Liberal electors of Ayrshire would do credit to themselves and gratify their brethren throughout Scotland, by crowning his career so fitly as by choosing their old champion their parliamentary represents- tive.—Scotsman.
The Ayr Advertiser states that the Ayrshire Tories have requested Sir James Ferguson to contest the county,
The Town Council of Edinburgh has elected Sir David :Brewster Principal of the University of Edinburgh. No other candidate was pro- posed. This appointment creates a vacancy in the Principalship of St. Andrews. Professor Craik, the well-known author of many learned and popular works, is a candidate for the vacant seat. •
The Scotch journals relate the following incident which is said to have occurred in the churel of Crathie on Sunday week at the conclusion of the service :—" On the announcement from the pulpit of a collection then to be made by the assembled congregation in behalf of the Jewish Mission, the elders proceeded in the usual manner to uplift the contributions for that ob- ject, armed with the ladles, or wooden boxes, to which are attached handles of seven or eight feet long. The ladle was in due course passed along the Royal pew, and, the official striving to reach its farther end and leaning on the door, the sneck, suddenly yielding to his weight, gave way, and cap- sized him head-foremost among the Royal party. This mishap was observed and heard by the majority of the congregation, who had difficulty in re- straining their merriment at the circumstance and the confusion of face manifested by the luckless office-bearer, the feeling being evidently par- ticipated in by the august lady herself who witnessed the occurrence."
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