SCOTLAND.
The sittings of the General Assembly and of the Free Church Assembly, at Edinburgh, closed on Tuesday se'nnight. In neither Assembly had the proceedings attracted any very prominent popular interest. The grants to Scotland by the Committee of Council on Education, since 1839, have amounted to 34,975L In 1847-48, the grants to schools connected with the Established Church amounted to 2,4621; to the Free Church, 5,3941.; to the Scotch Episcopal Church, 1361.; to general schools unconnected with any church, 4621.
The Free Church has purchased Regent Murray's house in the Canon- gate, for a normal schooL They also possess John Knox's house, and pur- pose converting it into a church.
A timber suspension bridge over the Forth, at Meiklewood, of 101 feet span, fell into the river last week, in consequence of dry rot having destroyed the prin- cipal timbers. No one was on it at the time, though a party sent to inspect it was approaching. The bridge was on the thrust and tension principle, like the tube bridge lately erected across the Conway.
Daring a long and violent storm on Saturday, a shepherd was killed by the lightning on Leadhills.
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