SCOTLAND.
Our paper last week contained notifications of Professor Bell being appointed one of the Clerks of Session, and Mr. Charles Ross Clerk to the Admission of Notaries. Now, we do not know either of these gentlemen even by sight, but we have beard they are very worthy per- sons. That however is not the question. It is, why should Professor Bell, who enjoys a handsome income from his Scots Law Class,—up- wards of 1,0001. per annum,—be appointed to another office, or demi- sinecure, and at all events a plurality, yielding another thousand? And why has Mr. Charles Ross, who enjoys the out-and-out sinecure of Commissary, worth 600/. a year, to be flavoured with another out-and-out sinecure, worth more, we are told, than his other sinecure ?—Edin- burgh Observer. [This is not merely jobbing, but stupid jobbing ; every plurality costs the Ministry as many friends, minus 1, as it combines offices.]
The Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary met on Monday, but only to adjourn for three weeks ; the Court deeming it advisable not to summon jurors from the places now infected with cholera, and on the representation of counsel that any selection would be contrary to the fairness of construction in juries.
Saturday two additional pieces of cannon arrived at our cavalry bar- racks here, under a military escort.—Glasgow Chronicle. The trade or Paisley still continues to improve gradually, though slowly ; and the number of those on the supply fund are diminishing every night, and very few expert tradesmen now remain on the list.
The late fire in Glasgow has been very severe on the insurance of- fices, but yet considerably more so on the proprietors. The losses, we have heard, amount in all to .54,8001.—Caledonian Mercury.
Up to Saturday, 3,000 cart-loads of extra manure had been obtained, and upwards of 5,000 pigs been either confiscated or banished the city of Edinburgh. On Saturday morning, in one of the closes off the High Street, a huge sow, with thirteen pigs, were found in the bed- chamber of their master, four stories high. Pat protested against their being made prisoners, and promised to send them to board and lodging in the country. " Och (said he), did you ever see thirteen finer jewels ? Och, how proud my poor mad mother would be to see her Paddy have such a stock ! By St. Patrick, she never reared so fine a family in Tipperary in her life." Pat was as good as his word. The house is to undergo a thorough washing.—Culedonian Mercury.
On Sunday morning about six o'clock, the watchman at the Union Canal, Edinburgh, observed a man and a woman walking arm in arm on the bank, and asked them where they were going? when they answered they were not going far. He looked after them for a few minutes ; and when about two hundred yards distant, he saw them shake hands, and immediately thereafter they both leaped into the water. He instantly ran to the spot, but could not reach them. He gave an alarm, and procured assistance, but before they were got out life was extinct. They were subsequently ascertained to be brother and sister, and resided in Home Street. Their landlord, it is said, had been very urgent for rent on Sa- turday, which they were unable to pay, and threatened to turn them out of the house if it was not paid.
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