SCOTLAND.
There was a strong muster of Slottish Whigs, with a mixture of Liberals, and followers of the noble house of Breadalbane, on Friday last week, at Perth, to celebrate, by a public dinner, the return of Lord Ormelie for the county. Mr. Graham of Redgorton was in the chair : among the company were Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. Halyburton, Admiral Adams. Mr. J. A. Murray, Mr. Fox Maule, Colonel Abercomby, Mr. W. C. Aytoun, and Major Ferguson. Lord Ormelie, on his health being drunk, in a speech of some length defended the measures of Ministers, and his own conduct in supporting them generally, though on sonic questions he had felt it to be his duty to vote against them. Mr. Fox Maule gave the health of Earl Grey ; and the Chairman, in very com- plimentary terms, and amidst very loud cheering, proposed that of the Lord Advocate. Mr. Jeffrey, in his acknowledgment of this honour, made the affecting admission of his having entered into public life at too late a period. In reference to the strong ground which the Tories formerly held in Perthshire, he considered the return of Lord Ormelie the most signal triumph of Reform which had been gained in the whole kingdom.
Mr. T. F. Kennedy has resigned his post as a Lord of the Treasury, and his seat in Parliament as Member for Ayr, in consequence of bad health. Lord Patrick James Stuart, Mr. J. Campbell junior, of Craigie, Sir D. Baird, and Mr. C. Fereusim junior, of Kilkerran, are all talked of as likely to become candidates for the vacant seat in the House of Commons.
The election for Berwickshire is fixed for Monday next.
While the British landowings are asleep, the Americans are pouring. their wheat into Canada to be ground there, and then sent on this country as Coloni:d flour. Last year, the importation into the Clyde of what is called Canadian (haw, was equal to about in sixth pan t of all the flour baked in tine electoral district of Glasgow. It will relecily in- crease, and ill a few years it will effect a reductis in in the price of corn
mealy as great as if' the true'.: were free. The magnet: va in:. floor
in the corwexporting districts of the United Stews, is about ; freight to Liverpool, .Ss. ; totul cost in Liverpool. 2 ; present price of wheat imported from Cheada, Z32.s. Profit by the transit through Canada, !b.—Glasgow Chronicle.
The new Factory Act having come into operation, the burrs of the spinners, &c. are now considerably shortened, being from six to ball. past six. The manufacturing population arc at present fully employed, and, bating the poor weaver, they have not, taking into account Ca' low price of provisions, been better paid a long while.—Montrose Rccirw.
The damage done to plantations from the late violent gales exceeds any thing during the last twenty years. Every landed proprietor com- plains of serious loss from this cause; and it seems net improbable that home timber will fall in price, from the extraordinary quantity of it thrown on the market. At Castle Kennedy, near Stranraer, the resi- dence at one time of the great Lord Stair, and where the trees were planted in sections,squadrons, and lines, after the order of some of his battles, the wind has demolished what the axe-man had been long taught to spare; and this is merely a specimen of what has taken place at least over the whole South of Scotland.—Dunfries Courier.
On the 28th ult., at the early hour of six o'clock in the evening, William Ritchie, a labourer, returning from his work near Elgin to his house at the village of Longbride, about two miles from that town, was barbarously murdered on the high road from Elgin to Fochabers. This is the second instance within a week of savage assaults on the highway in that district ; a poor traveller on a road between Fort George and Nairn having been nearly murdered in the beginning of the same week. —Caledonian Mercury.
A poor ill-clad little boy was placed at the Police bar last week, on a charge of stealing a mat from a door in St. Andrew's Square. To the question," How many times did you steal the mat?" he replied, " Four times." He had stolen it from one person and sold it to another; stolen it from the person to whom be sold it, and disposed of it to ano- ther; stolen it from the second purchaser, and sold it to a third; and stolen it again, and detected. Baillie Muir ordered him to be sent to his parents. This is doing a good deal of business with a very small stock.— Glasgow Journal.
deep regret that we announce the death of this distinguished divine vice Butler, who resigns the Adjutaucv ognisy:. - • and ornament of the Scottish Church, who expired at his house in tiospitat st dr—T. B. Jameson, M.D. to be Assist:Surg. to the Forces, vice Dyce, George Square, on Thursday forenoon last, at twelve o'clock. He 1 It th.e !al rnoz. oniscAlt;intoiutItile.latromn. mEinte,,,India employed. had been indisposed for some months before with a disorder in his ohskill'all—,tioACit:e stomach ; but no serious apprehensions were entertained ; and on Memoranda —It was Major iota Winkler, upc)M half-p-Willati.a‘clied, who was al- Sunday fortnight, consulting the dictates of duty rather than of lowed to retire (torn the service on the 31st ult ult., and not Captain John Winkler, tscesntateftedoceinutlehd: (411...-metttfito.fultlrtiudsattueu.LTiulicelulsiaivIte:patteof er.undermentionaed Officer:dila)! prudence, he rose from his bed and preached in the afternoon against the advice of his friends, who, in their anxiety to relieve him, 'had pros Ion once fur their commissions:—Licit. I. M•ee, 1111.1f p.. having liTarrisoneuriZtuttalion ; cured an assistant to officiate in his place. The loss of such a character Lieut. P. Legit. half pay Unattached; Lieut. T. W. Edwards, half-pay Royal West as Dr. Inglis would have been a severe privation at any time ; but it India Rangers; Ensign D. M. Higgins. half.pay Unattached ; Ensign F. Frudenthal, p y 4th Line Battalion King's German Legion ; Lieut. C. Norman. half-pay 8th will be peculiarly felt at present, not only by the circle of his Pielsr-i India Regiment; Lieut. F. W. Craven, hairpay Unattached. friends, to whom he was much endeared by his social qualities and his agreeable and unpretending manners, but by all those who take an interest in the welfare of the Scottish Establishment, of which he was one of the great supports.— Edinburgh Courant.
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