31 MARCH 1838, Page 9

SCOTLAND.

The Tories of East Lothian have :met at the requisition of Lord Bleb°, and resolved to put Sir F. B. Hepburn forward as their can- didate in place of Lord Ramsay, now Earl Dalhousie.

We learn that a number of the Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, eerchants, bankers, and other wealthy individuals in Glasgow, and through the counties of Lanark, Renfrew, Stirlimeo and Dumbarton, ste.about to apply to Government for the establishment of a police force in these counties; and that these gentlemen have issued circulars to the authorities in this county inviting them to join in the application. The season for this application is stated to be, the great increase of

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crimes of late years n the counties of Dumburton, Lanark, Renfrew, and Stirling. It is no doubt true that offences have become alarmingly numerous in these Counties; but in Ayrshire we are not so bad, as the Parliamentary returns will show.—Ayrshire Advertiser.

Dr. Weatberhead, a person of property living in Coldstream, shot a Sheriff's officer who came to arrest him, last week, for non-performance of some contract respecting the building of houses in the town ; and then blew out his own brains. It is doubtful whether the officer will recover. The Doctor must have been mad.

Two men were killed, last week, by an explosion at the Stubbs powder-mill, a few miles from Edinburgh.

The trade of Paisley is at present in rather a languid state. Work even for first-rate weavers can only be obtained with some difficulty; sod, in addition to this disadvantage, the employment given out since the late severe depression, has in general been of a very inferior de- stription, at which but low wages are made. T he state of our working population was never worse than at present, except when they were entirely idle—Culedunian Mercury.