SCOTLAND.
The citizens of Glasgow are apprehensive lest their shipping, which is utterly defenceless, should, in the event of war, be burnt by a Russian cruiser. Aa a means of defence, there are only, it is said, "1000 old flint muskets in Dumbarton Castle" ; and it is asked, "what is there to prevent a Russian steamer, commanded by another Paul Jones and under a false flag, from entering the Clyde and firing the docks?" The attention of the Admiralty is called to the subject.
Funds have been placed at the command of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners in this country, sufficient to fit out and pay the whole expense of transport of three hundred women from the Shetland Islands to Van Diemen's Land ; and the Colonial Government offers ad- ditional funds if more people can be obtained.
It is worthy of remark that there are no cases for trial in the High Court of Justiciary during the Winter recess.
The Sheriff of Mid Lothian has decided that elder brothers are bound to sup- port their younger brothers and sisters who are unable to support themselves. The same decision also bore that children are legally bound to support their parents.—North British Daily Mail.
Elizabeth Paterson, domestic servant at the farm of Highgate, near Baths has been the victim of a murderous assault. She was missed at night ; a search was made, and she was found lying in a cottage connected with a threshing-mill, stretched on the floor, with her skull smashed in—alive, but insensible. The unknown assassin had struck her with an iron bar, then quitted the house, locked the door after him, and thrown away the key, which was found hard by. A Mrs. Cunningham, of Girvan, has been shot dead through a window, as she was working at her loom. Her husband has been arrested on sus- picion.
Part of an immense cotton-mill at Greenock has been burnt down : a wo- man employed at the place perished, though all hands had been ordered out of the mill as soon as the fire was discovered.
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