SCOTLAND.
The seclusion of the Royal Family at Balmoral has been unbroken this week. The news of the death of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg Gotha was not received at Balmoral before Saturday. Soon after the in- telligence arrived, the Queen and Prince Albert went to the Duchess. of Kent, at Abergeldie, and spent the remainder of the day in private there. The deceased Prince was the Duchess of Kent's brother.
Prince Albert drove to the Balloch Bhuie on Tuesday, taking his son Prince Alfred with him.
Prince Albert went out deer-stalking on Thursday. The Queen and her eldest daughter accompanied him to the forest.
There have been no additions to the dinner-circle. Mrs. Farquharson of Invercauld called at the castle on Monday morning. Lord John Russell has gone off to Dunmoor, near Dunkeld, on a short visit to Mr. Fox Maule. It is again " inferred " by some of the news-caterers, that the Queen will hold a levee in Edinburgh on her return from Balmoral. "Estimates have been ordered from the Queen's tradesmen for fitting-up in a su- perior style the evening drawingroom in llolyrood Palace."
The Lord Bishop of Exeter attended Divine service at the College of the Holy Spirit, Millport, Island of Cumbrae ; previous to which, the Provost, Reverend J. C. White, and the Canons, Reverend Archdeacon Wilson and J. F. Freeth, received his Lordship's blessing.—Grcenock Advertiser.
A Parliamentay return, moved for by Mr. Hume, contains an account of the Bibles and Testaments printed by the Queen's Printer in Scotland from the let January 1848 to the 31st December 1850. It appears that the total number in 1848 was 138,385 Bibles, 172,700 Testaments ; the drawback on the paper used amounted to 864/. ar. In 1849, the number printed was 47,670 Bibles, 86,549 Testaments ; drawback, 440/. 2s. 44. The number printed in 1850 was 113,250 Bibles, 149,800 Testaments ; drawback, 693/. 44.
A most remarkable accident has occurred on the Forth and Clyde Canal. A heavily-laden scow, proceeding from Glasgow down the canal, came in collision with a schooner, and was capsized. The men on board got to land, but in the cabin were a woman and child ; the boat had been turned com- pletely over, and the water did not enter the cabin ; for half an hour the woman's screams were heard. The men hastened to cut a hole in the bottom of the boat ; but their well-meant zeal was fatal : no sooner was a hole made than the air escaped from the cabin, and the water rushing in from below to supply its place, both mother and child perished.
At Strontian, eight persons, who had been attending the Gaelic service in the Free Kirk, attempted to cross a ferry in a small punt ; it sank, twenty- five yards from the further shore, and four women and a man were drowned. The three other passengers were rescued by a boat which put off to their aid.
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