SCOTLAND.
Colonel Lauderdale Mauls, the newly-appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, has issued an address to his constituents of the county of Forfar, announcing his appointment, and his intention to offer himself again to them when the new writ is moved for.
"I have accepted office under the Earl of Aberdeen," he says, "because he is an enlightened advocate of Free-trade principles ; because he has, in the development of the policy by which he is to be guided, afforded assurance of progressive reforms ; and because, by a cordial alliance with those who have long and faithfully laboured in the popular cause, he gives good se- curity for the due consideration and safe concession of the just demands of the people."
Traffic will be impeded for some time on the Scottish Central Railway, by the washing away of part of an embankment. The river Earn passes under the line by a culvert at Forteviot, a few miles from Perth. By the melting of snow on the adjacent mountains, the Earn was greatly swollen, and the culvert was insufficient to carry the water off; the flood accumu- lated against the embankment, and at length some forty yards of it was swept away.
A man has been killed at an engineering establishment at Dobbie's Town, Glasgow, by the explosion of a boiler. John IPICinnon, a watchman, was told to light the fire under a boiler at five o'clock in the morning, as the engineer intended to be at the works at half-past five. But a few minutes after five a tremendous explosion shook the neighbourhood, and it was found that a large building had been shattered to pieces by the explosion of the boiler. M‘Kinnon was taken out of the ruins dead. He must have lighted the fire some hours before the appointed time, and he had tampered with the safety-valve or heated the boiler to an excessive degree.
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