8 AUGUST 1846, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

Mr. Dundanahe new Solicitor-General, was returned last week, without opposition, for Sutherlandshire.

The Perthshire Courier makes a report from the moors-

" The usual indications of the approach of the twelfth have been given for some days past in the transit of gamekeepers and dogs to the North, and the sports- men themselves are beginning to arrive. Our accounts of the prospects of the ensuing season do not confirm the statement of a local contemporary of lad week as to the few birds in the envies. This may be true to some extent on the very highest grounds, where the storm in the early part of May had been pre- judicial; but upon the lower moors the covies are numerous, and, generally speaking, with from eight to twelve in each. There is, however, great disparity in the size of the young birds; indicating that there had been a second incubation in some cases. On the moors in Atholl, Badenoch, and Lochaber, we believe we may state the sport will be an average as to numbers, but with a greater pro- portion of cheepers than for some years past. There are few of the lower Perth shire grounds to let; most of them having been taken for a term of years, and the rest picked up early in the season at the usual high rents."

Patrick Sweeny, an Irishman, murdered one of his children in a singular man- ner, at Glasgow, on Saturday evening. He took two children on to a bridge over the Clyde; lifted one, a little boy, upon the parapet, and, while pretending to be engaged in giving him part of a scone, pushed him over: the child fell upon some steps leading down to the river, and died in a few hours after. It is surmised that 'Sweeny thought the fall of the boy-might be considered as accidental; bat he was observed by passengers while pushing the child off. The man had always borne a bad character.

On Wednesday last an accident occurred on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail- way, from disgraceful carelessness, which might have been attended with fatal consequences. It seems that in starting the trains a spare engine is set to push the carriages from behind—a very dangerous and unwarrantable practice. J.Nnt always.) This engine on Wednesday came up so rapidly as to make a violent coneussion; throwing the passengers against each other, giving several of them black eyes, and cutting one lady's face open, so that it required to be sewed up on her arrival at Glasgow.—Edinburgh Guardian.