SCOTLAND.
Mr. M. C. Maxwell, of Terreglas, has come forward as the Liberal candidate for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in the room of Mr. Murray, deceased.
A public meeting was held at the Waterloo Rooms in Edinburgh, on Monday, to aid in promoting Christianity and Labour-schools among the Indians of Canada. The Lord Provost took the chair; and the principal speaker was Mr. Jones, a half-caste, whose Indian name is Kalikewaquonaby, and who made a very fair English speech. His father was a Welshman, his mother an Indian woman. He reported that the Indians have subscribed 800/. out of their annuity, with 2501. a year: he thought they should raise 1,000/. in Canada, and 1,0001. in England; which would suffice. A committee was appointed to receive subscriptions and donations.
We learn that in consequence of a memorial presented by the journeymen reed- makers of Glasgow, their masters have readily agreed to an abridgment of labour to the extent of one hour per day; the working hours being now from seven a.m. till seven r.31.—Glasgow Argus.
At a public entertainment which the Earl of Galloway recently gave to his te- nantry, he said he was determined in future to allow every tenant to course or net hares or rabbits at pleasure, either for his own family use or to be sold in the market like any other farm-produce; and that an allowance would also be made of the flying game, should any of his tenants wish it on any particular occasion.
The Marquis of Salisbury has purchased the Island of Rum' for the sum of 24,0001,, to form a shooting-grotuad or deer-forest. In former times, Ram was one vast forest; and it is still designated in the Gaelic language, "the kingdom of the wild forest," This island LS about eight miles long and seven broad. In consequence of two great emigrations of the people in 1826 and 1828; the popu- lation was reduced from 400 to 100 or 130.—Inversess Cotnier.
In the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, last week, Henry, a labourer on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, was convicted of culpable homicide in having carelessly pushed a box down the shaft of a tunnel without securing it to a rope, whereby a man at the bottom of the shaft was killed. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
A porter on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway has been killed at the Glas- gow terminus, by being jammed between two carriages while they were being moved. Ile was warned of his danger; but he did not get out of the way, having, it is said, been somewhat intoxicated at the time.
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