SCOTLAND.
We understand that a private meeting has been held in town, pre- vious to the calling of an open meeting of the trades, in order to adopt measures to get the exclusive privileges of incorporations done away, or greatly modified.—Scotsman.
It is a remarkable coincidence, and worthy of observation, that in Sir Walter Scott's prospectus to the last edition of the Waverley Novels he stated that " the work will be comprised in forty volumes, commenc- ing with Waverley and closing with Woodstock." The fortieth volume, which contains the conclusion of Woodstock, was published this month. This month the great novelist died !—Scotsman.
On Friday, at the Arthurlie Mill, Barrhead, as a man who was clean- ing one of the windows of the mill outside, standing upon the sill, was speaking to some persons inside over the top of the window, having thrust his head too far in, his neckcloth came in contact with one of the revolving shafts of the machinery, close to the window ; and he was drawn inwards with so much rapidity, that his head was in a moment torn from the body, and rolled into the interior of the mill, while the trunk fell outwards upon the ground—Glasgow Courier.
A fortnight since, an elopement was "committed" from Scoria:leen. The parties were a clumsy-shaped dull-looking fellow, a mason by trade, with scores of huge tackets in his shoes ; and a eery sprightly, but rather antiquated married woman. It appears that the husband (an aged toll-keeper) considered his better half's elopement as any thing but a calamity, and would willingly have let her take her swing; but in quitting, she had taken every valuable-portable article in the house, as well as all the cash, amounting to' 2001. To recover these, and not the person of his faithless wife, he prOcured a warrant from the Sheriff of Kincardineshire. The warrant reached Elgin by Tuesday's mail. The chest containing the injured husband's articles and cash wasseized, as were the persons of the amorous parties ; and next day they were despatched, per the Defiance coach, under the guardianship of two mes- eengers-at-arms, to Stonehaven. The swain looked amazingly sheepish at the awkward issue of his adventure ; but his inamorata kept up won- derfully, protesting in the hearing of scores of people, who assembled to witness their departure, that the sole blame in the matter attached to her.—Elgin Courier.
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