SCOTLAND.
The Edinhur NO; have lost a leader in the person of Sir Janice Gibson Craig ; a rthin-vilitsby.h.kpersonid qualities, exercised almost up to his death last week, it file'14,1;anCed age of eighty-five, a marked in- fitience: upon the politics of his party' in Scotland. He had been on terms of intimacy with Fox. Taking a keen interest in all the politics of the place and time, Sir James was a prominent mark to the satirical libel which led to the fatal duel between Sir Alexander Boswell and Mrs
Stuart of Duneam. He was of the legal profession ; passed as a writer to the signet in 1786, and became leading partner in the great law firm of Craig, Dalziel, and Brodie. He was created a Baronet by Earl Grey in 1831; and is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, now Sir William Gibson Craig, M.P. for Edinburgh.
William Campbell, a miner of Grasswater, near Cumnock, has been found dead in a barn, under circumstances that lead to a suspicion of murder. There were several cuts on the head, and there were marks of a severe struggle near the place where the body was found. The suspected murderer, now in custody?, is an Irish labourer, who was employed by the deceased. The Irishman had been drinking; he was quarrelsome ; and Campbell, when last seen, was endeavouring to get him home.
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