SCOTLAND.
Last week, an address to Sir Robert Peel, expressive of sympathy for the enany annoyances to which he has been subjected in his efforts to carry through his Free-trade nteasurei, was submitted for signature at the Glasgow Exchange, and in a few hours received the names of upwards of two hundred of the principal bankers and merchants. It was despatched the same evening; and Sir Robert Peel's acknowledgment appears in the Glasgow papers of this 'Week.
"Whitehall, June 20, 1846.
"Six—I have this day had the honour of receiving your letter, and the address from Glasgow which accompanied it. In the course of my public life I have had many proofs of the friendly feelings and personal good-will of the citizens of Glasgow; and the communication you have addressed to me revives the impressions in- all their original strength, which those proofs had made upon a grateibl mind.
"Dave the goodness to return my cordial thanks to those who are parties to the address ; and ensure them that I will persevere to the utmost, in the face of every ob- stacle, In insuring, as far as may depend upon me, the final adoption, In all their In- tegrity, of those commercial measures which have been proposed by me to Parliament.
"I have the honour to be, &c.
Dunfermline has beerr astonished by a gas explosion, of such violence that it is compared to "a little earthquake." A main-pipe leaked, and a large mien- fity of gas escaped into a sewer which ran under some houses: it penetrated the houses, and on a candle coming in contact with it, exploded. The roofs of three houses were blown off, windows destroyed, doors torn off the hinges, floors broken, and beds and their occupants violently lifted up. The gas in the drain also fired, and forced up the stones in the streets in two places. A woman had both her legs broken by the bursting of a hearth-stone, and two other persons were more slightly hurt.
ROBERT PEEL."
The communication by railway between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon- Tweed is now open. This is the longest continuous line that has been completed in Scotland: its length is fifty-eight miles, and the time occupied in constructing the works has been within two years. All that is required now for uninterrupted communication with London is the completion of the line between Berwick and Newcastle; which will be accomplished by next autumn.
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