SCOTLAND.
The Scotsman condoles with the Protectionist party on their "limited choice of "presentable men" to supply the vacant law-offices in Scotland under the new Administration.
"Most of the former Conservative legal ,r`Rcials are Peelites, and will
neither, it is said, accept nor be offered offiw' _ -g as the present men are in power. As matters stand, it is considered not unlikely that Sheriff Alison will be Lord Advocate, and Sheriff Sandford Solicitor-General ; and that opinion is strengthened to some extent by the circumstance that both these gentlemen happen, conveniently enough ‘3 be at present in London. The Mr. Wordy of Coningsby,' and the., Ater of that too lively book, have hitherto, it is understood, had no very great admiration for each other ; but they will, doubtless, do their best to fraternize as Lord Advocate and Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. . . . Whoever is appointed Lord Advocate will encounter his first difficulty in finding a Parliamentary seat, at least for any Scotch constituency, even at a general election, and still more at the present juncture. No Scotch burgh nor district of burghs will have anything to do with a Protectionist."
At the request of an influential portion of the Liberal electors of the Stirling Burghs, John Miller, Esq., civil engineer, has engaged to come forward as a candidate at next election.—Scoteman.
At a meeting of the students of Marischal College, Aberdeen, held on Saturday last, Viscount Palinerston was nominated to the Lord Rectorship of that 'University, along with the Earl of Eglinton, the present Rector. How the election will go is as yet uncertain.—Edinburgh Witness.
A superior Gaelic scholar has just died—Mr. Donald Gordon, a post-run- ner between Gnintown and Forres. He contributed in prose and verse of "classical" Gaelic to the Gaelic Messenger, and he has left a large mass of MSS. The reported discovery of gold in the island of Skye tuns out to be a mistake: the mineral is not gold.
A little boy has been killed at Brodick by an explosion of naphtha. A workman went at night to fill a bottle with the spirit from a jar ; the boy held a lighted candle, from which the vapour caught fire; the poor boy was burnt all over his body, and the house set in flames.
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