SCOTLAND.
The Lord Advocate, in a letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in which, of course, he declares that he cannot withdraw the Annuity-Tax Abolition Bill, nor can he gather from the report of the proceedings of the Town Council any intelligible reason which should induce him to do so. He says, with great force, "it seems unfortunate in this question that propositions should be supported only as long as they are imprac- ticable, and denounced whenever it becomes possible to carry them."
There was a grand celebration in the Vale of Yarrow last week, at the inauguration of the monument of the Ettrick Shepherd ; much speaking, and dining, and singing of good old songs.
The monument, which is a colossal statue 8 feet in height, on a square pedestal 9i feet high, both of Denholm sandstone, represents the Poet seated, with his plaid around him, on one of the relies of the forest—an oak root—over which falls two blades of bracken, an ivy stem twining around the base. By his side reposes his dog Hector his rzght.ha941 grasps a stout walking-stick, and in his left he holds a scro , upon wine IS carved dullest line of the "Queen's Wake"— " Rath taught the wand•ring winde to sing."
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