SCOTLAND.
The Caledonian Railway has made a sudden and sweeping reduction of its fares between Edinburgh and Glasgow, in competition with those charged by its rival the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company. The tariff of the latter company is, for first, second, and third classes, 8s., 6.v., and 3s. 10d. The Caledonian has come down to 48., Bs., and 2s. 6d. The greater length of the Caledonian route has been compensated by the running of special trains with no stoppages; so that the journey between the two cities is accomplished in two hours, somewhere about the average time taken by its older rival. In anticipation of an expensive oppo- sition, no dividend was paid by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company last half.- year.
The Post-office authorities have for the present pat a atop to the mail-packet between Danvegan, in. the Isle of Skye, and Lochmaddy, in North Uist; and have farther prohibited the postmasters at Dunvegan and Lochmaddy from transmit- ting the mails from one office to the other. Parties on the mainland who have correspondents in the islands of Harris, North Uist, South Uist, and Barra need not, therefore, be surprised at not hearing from them, as the usual meana id com- munication have been suspended.—Inverness Courier.
Two Irish labourers having quarrelled in a public-house near Tarbert, they went into a field and fought it out. One of the combatants killed the other, and then returned to the house and told what he had done. He is in custody.
A party of soldiers in Edinburgh Castle have committed a heartless theft on a simple baker of Glasgow named Miller. The man was on his way to London, intending to emigrate to Australia. In a visit to the Castle, he got into company with four or five soldiers at the canteen and became tipsy. The soldiers pre- tended to be very kind, and put him to bed in the barrack; but while he was asleep they rifled him of the savings that were to carry him to a new home—some thirty pounds. The thieves are in custody: one of them was seized with five sovereigns and a half-sovereign concealed in his mouth.
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