SCOTLAND.
The Honourable Arthur Gordon, it is stated, will contest, in the Liberal interest, the county of Aberdeenshire. The Tories are very strong in that quarter, but Mr. Gordon is peculiarly qualified to rally a party to beat them.
Mr. James Syme, of Edinburgh, has drawn public attention to the treatment of our soldiers in barracks—much improved now to what it was ten years ago. In the Castle of Edinburgh, he says, the married men are "stowed away" in low, narrow, ill-ventilated rooms, on a ground floor. The walls are six feet high, the area of each room twenty square feet. One small window lights each room. "Each of these sin- gular apartments" contains "three married couples with from six to ten children." The single men are "packed into storehouses, with crazy skylights and stone floors ; " the beds at night covering the whole floor and overlapping each other. The regiment thus treated is the 78th Highlanders, who did such good service in India. It is a shameful fact that this old castle is the only infantry barrack in Edinburgh.
Patrick Lunnay, was executed at Glasgow on the 18th, for the murder of Joseph Cassidy. The murder was a brutal one. Lunnay used a knife, and inflicted fourteen wounds on his friend. But a jury, as juries will, recom- mended Lunnay to mercy, why, none can tell, and the sentence of death, suspended for two months, has at last been executed.
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