SCOTLAND.
The corpse of the Duke of Gordon, having been conveyed by sea from
London, was interred in the vault in Elgin Cathedral on the 10th. 'There were sixty carriages in the procession which fbllowed the hearse from Gordon Castle to Elgin. An immense crowd of spectators lined the road, and the rising ground from which a view of the proces. sion could be obtained ; and more than 8000 persons are said to have been in and about the Cathedral during the ceremony. The Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Loughborough, Lord Arthur Lennox, and Lord Ramsay, were among the mourners; and the Principal and Professors of Marischal College, Aberdeen, the Pres- bytery and Town-Council of Elgin, and the members of the Moray- shire Farmers' Club, formed part of the procession. The Dutchess of
Gordon was chief mourner. " Thus," says the Eh jin Courant, "the scene has closed on the Duke of Gordon. The last of the line has been gathered to his titthers ; and that proud title, which for ages has been familiar in our mouths like a household word, must henceforth I pass away from among us."
The following singular story is taken from an Edinburgh paper;
and the subject is exciting much interest in both capitals. We have heard the name of the party ; which the cautious Scotch journalist has Withheld, apparently because there seems to be a case of fraud some- where.
"Captain —, a gentleman of considerable property in the county of Edin- burgh, had become insolvent, executed a trust-deed for behoof of his creditors, left Edinburgh, and occasionally resided in France and England. In the month of August 18:34, having put up at a hotel at Herne Bay, he went out one morn- ing about seven o'clock to bathe, but never returned ; and his clothes having been found on the beach, it was naturally enough concluded that the Captain had been drowned. A proof of the circumstances under which he disappeared having been laid before the Sheriff of Edinburgh, the fact of his demise seemed no longer doubtful ; his son was duly served heir to the entailed estate of —, and has since exercised the functions of superior in granting new titles, &e. to feuars on the estate. Besides this, various insurances had been effected on the life of Captain —, both by his creditors, as a body, and by individual creditors for their separate interests; all of which have been paid ! It now, however, turns our, that all these doings have been premature! Captain — is, it seems, still in the boils; it being ascer- tained that he was in this city for several weeks in the month of November last, and it is rumoured that he was here much more recently, and sailed in a vessel from Leith to Van Diemen's Land. This piece of information !favours strongly of romance; but to the creditors and Insurance companies at as more than romance. One of the creditors in particular had effected an insurance to the extent of 4001., and had recovered the Motley ; the creditors, as a body, had effected and recovered ten times that sum, attd divided the amount; all of which will now of course have to be refunded td the respective insurance companies."—Edinburyh Advertiser.
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