SCOTLAND.
Success attended the great annual Show of the Highland Agricultural Society at Edinburgh on Wednesday. The weather was not propitious, but the attendance of visitors was large ; the Prince of Wales being one. The beasts were excellent in form and substance • the horses were above the average • the sheep good, but in this class the Duke of Richmond's Sussex stock bore off the bell. At the dinner in the evening the Duke of Atholl, wearing the Highland garb, presided; and in his after-dinner speech he described the meeting as "first-rate."
Alleged lunatics have gained some successes of late against those benevo- lent gentlemen irreverently termed " mad doctors ; " in some cases evi- dently with justice. It would be unfortunate, however, considering the impressionable character of juries, were many of these cases to go before them. In the Jury Court of Edinburgh, a some-time lunatic who has for- tunately recovered his senses—Mr. Angus Macintosh, Highland proprietor-, sought to recover 10,0001, damages from a lawyer, a surgeon, and a medical man, on the ground that they had wrongful's' caused him to be imprisoned in a lunatic asylum for a week in 1852. There could be no doubt in this case that Mr. Macintosh was deranged at the time, and incapable of taking care of himself, and the Jury found that he was so, and that he was justi- fiably sent to an asylum. The Dunbar herring fishery has been unsuccessful, and in consequence of the scanty supply prices have ranged from 6s. 6d. to 8s. 3d. per 100. Dutch herring-boats are lying off', from the crowded state of the harbour ; the Irish boats have not yet made their appearance.
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