SCOTLAND.
A number of persons residing in Inverness and its neighbourhood visited the field of Culloden on the 16th instant,—the centenary of the battle which put an end to the last mad rebellion in Scotland. The object of most general interest was "..the stone where Duke William made his hasty meal previous to the contest." It is described as "one of those great erratic blocks, or boulders of conglomerate stone, some sixty feet in circumference, about five feet in height, and round on the top. Had it been of more pliant materials, on this occasion it must have undergone a striking reduction, as the boys continued throughout the day to hammer it, like so many masons, in order to obtain fragments as memorials of the battle." Towards even- ing all retreated home, and about six o'clock a number of gentlemen sat doirn to dinner in the Caledonian Hotel; Mackintosh of Mackintosh in the chair, and Mr. Carruthers, of the Inverness Courier, croupier. Daring din- ner the Mackintosh's piper played the lament of the clan in the lobby. After the cloth was removed, several anecdotes of the rebellion were told. A subscription was commenced for the erection of a monument to mark the locality of the national contest We have seen a copy of what we believe to be the smallest newspaper in the country. It is named the Pitteisweem Register, and consists of a single slip about thirteen inches long, and the breadth of a newspaper column, containing ten small paragraphs connected with the locality in which it is printed. The object of the publication is to furnish the inhabitants of Pittenweem and its vicinity with a brief account of the various incidents that occur in the district, for the purpose of transmitting these to friends or natives of the town who may be residing at a distance, without the labour of writing them in detail in a letter. It is published weekly, and has now been in existence for more than a year.--Scotsman.
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