SCOTLAND.
A "National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights" held a preliminary business meeting in Glasgow last week. The great meet- ing, over which Lord Eglinton has proinised to preside, will be held on the 2d November.
The hand-loom weavers of Kirkaldy have obtained a small advance of wages, after many meetings and much altercation between them and the manufacturers.
At the annual gymnastic games at Belville Park, Edinburgh, a military officer in plain clothes struck a boy with a cane, to the effusion of blood, for heedlessly running against him. The Police arrested him. Many soldiers of his regiment were on the ground, and they attempted to rescue their officer—not, apparently, with his consent. For a few minutes there was a. fierce fight between the soldiers and the peace-constables, and some of the hater were badly hurt. Several soldiers have been arrested and committed- for trial.
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