SCOTLAND.
The numbers of destitute workmen in Glasgow are increasing con.
The pressure upon manufactures and commerce has at last reached Fileshire. Within a short time several extensive failures in the How of Fife, along the Leven, as well as in the towns upon the coast, have taken place. — Fifeshire Journal.
A subscriber to the Highland Destitute Fund has written a letter to the Times, to inquire how his money, and that of the other contri- butors, has been disposed of. The inquiry is reasonable and pertinent, and perhaps a satisfactory answer may be returned. We may here ob- serve, that the Aberdeen Herald adheres to its statement, for which the authority is said to be forthcoming, that the "starving" people of Kirkwall suffered a boat of seed and victuals to lie in the port for four days without any attempt to disturb the cargo.
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