SCOTLAND.
The Scottish Guardian states, that, improbable as the fact may appear Glasgow University is about to be converted into a railway-station! The closing remark of our contemporary in the subjoined extract indisputable-
" The fact we have reason to believe to be, that the Glasgow Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway Company, in order to become possessed of the pro- perty belonging to the College, have offered to erect and complete suitable buildings, at an expense variously estimated at 70,0001. to 100,0001. The Company has, for this purpose, we believe, actually purchased Woodlands, con- sisting of 22 acres of land, delightfully situated on the crown of the height on which Woodside and Claremont Terraces are built, and extending thence down to the beautiful banks of the Kelvin. This property has cost nearly 29,0001., and is subject to a feu-duty of 1901. per annum. An architect has been instructed to prepare a plan for the proposed College, to be submitted to the University authorities for their approbation. Doubtless an offer so advantageous in every point of view will be accepted. The University is at present situated in one of the worst districts of the city; and the one to which it is proposed to be removed is certainly most choice both for situation and salubrity."
The .Dumfries Courier, in a paragraph which we shorten, describea picturesquely the season and state of agricultural produce in Scotland- " The well-known Lammas floods visited us this year nearer to Michaelmas; and but rarely within our recollection have they lingered so long or swept away in equal amount of crop. Repeatedly rain fell with great violence, and in one instance for twenty-four successive hours. The mountains shed abundant tears; tributaries in consequence became gorged, and poured so copiously from their respective angles into some lower and broader expanse, that with exceptions alike rare and unimportant, we may say the collective rivers of Scotland ran tumul- tuously wide and wild to the sea—submerging holm-land, clutching and carrying off debris, and in the Forth at least, if not in other streams, destroying human life itself. On the 4th current, the weather, however disagreeable while day-light served, became frightful beyond expression during the night; nor can our home readers have forgotten the sea. like appearance the Nith presented on Sundays and again on Monday, with little abatement. Numerous spectators stationed them- selves as near its banks as possible, to witness so heavy an autumn-spate, with the fearless wreckers busily engaged in fishing sheaves of grain and other articles, from the boiling, eddying, foaming flood. Shortly after this a brighter interval dawned. On Sunday, the sky remained clear and dry until dusk, and after that hour; but dawn told a tale so different in connexion with another spate, that no one could hesitate a single moment as to the immense quantity of rain that had fallen during the night. And but for this untoward circumstance a great deal of harvest-work would have been overtaken this day week, which from the circum- stance alluded to was unfortunately postponed. Fortunately, however, Tuesday the 14th produced quite a new sera, with its bright sunshine and stirring breezes, that found their way to the core of every sheaf; and from what we have seen and heard since, it would be sinful to assign limits to the good achieved by such as laboured diligently 'twixt the light and the dark of that blessed and noble day— uplands the most Bceotian not excepted. In Inverness-shire and Ross-shire, the higher hills have more than once been covered with snow; an unfaronrable symptom in the tenth month, particularly as regards standing corn. More than this, pretty sharp frost has been in the ascendant, night and morning; and hence the fears entertained by many, that oats uncut on outfield land would whiten immaturely, where the exposure is unfavourable and the climate cold. This evil, if it exist to any extent, will inflict serious loss upon individuals; but our hope is, that the danger is exaggerated, and that when results are tested a few weeks hence, a fair average sufficiency will be found in Scotland for man and for beast. The present season has been a remarkable one for epidemic in Scotland. Passing by partial failure in the potato-crop, not from the old but a new complaint, very little as yet understood, whether as regards its Cause or cure, a disease still lingers among the bullocks and milkers, which in extreme cases has proved fatal, although convalescence, after a period of suffering, is more frequently the general result. And what is curious, such cattle as escape while confined to their pastures, very often become affected when put upon the road for the markets of the South On Monday, a shark, measuring 7 feet 8 inches in length and 4 feet 1 inch in trth, was caught by John Robertson, and three other fishermen, on the shore at the Magdalene Fields. This is the fifth of these voracious fish which has been caught here within the last twelve mouths; and the fishermen say that they have seen several others in the bay.—Berwick Warder.
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