SCOTLAND.
Many county meetings, on the subject of the Lord Advocate's Educa- tion Bill, took place in Scotland during the past week ; all of which, ex- cept that of Forfarshire, where Lord Panmure presided, condemned the bill. The country gentry treat it as "a flagrant attempt to undermine the Established Church," while it is alleged that "nine-tenths of them belong to the Episcopal Church."
Something like a year since, the French Government sent a commis- sion into Scotland to inquire into the state of its agriculture. M. Eu- gene Tisserand, the Commissioner to whom the district of Aberdeenshire
was allotted, has been entertained at dinner, on taking leave, by about fifty farmers and proprietors at Alford. Mr. M'Combie of Tillyfour spoke very highly of M. Tisserand ; who, he said, had devoted himself ex- clusively to the object of his mission, and who is now well-acquainted with the Scotch manner of rearing, grazing, and feeding cattle, and with the different operations of the farm, all of which he has personally per- formed. On the health of the Emperor of the French being given, M. Tisserand enlarged upon the felicitous alliance between England and France. The Emperor has said that the age of conquests is past : that is true, but there still remain the beautiful conquests which result from the superiority of intelligence, of wisdom, of laws, of institutions ; and M. Tisseraud was happy to be a soldier of its young and peaceful army. At the end of his speech, he exclaimed, " How happy I shall be to speak to my relations, to my friends, to my countrymen, about your kindness, and your noble and generous feeling towards France !"
Ann Harvey, a young woman of Peterculter, about eight miles from Aberdeen, has been found murdered behind a stone dike mid-way between the places. She left Petereulter on Saturday evening, to buy articles at Aberdeen ; she expected to meet Francis Forbes, her sweetheart; and she was murdered on her return, the goods she had purchased being found lying near her. Forbes was soon arrested. There were spots of blood on his clothes : he said his nose had bled.
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