SCOTLAND.
The Earl of Dalkeith has put out an address to the electors of Mid Lothian. He says his "conduct in Parliament will be guided by those large and liberal principles of Conservative policy " which are at once in accordance with the constitution and conducive to the welfare'of the people.
The Edinburgh County Police have petitioned the Commissioners of Supply for an increase of pay; and the application has been favourably entertained. Upon the recommendation of Mr. List, a graduated scale has been adopted, increasing the wages of the highest class of officers 38., the next 2s. and the third ls. 6d: per week. The Police Board of Glas- gow have agreed to add 2s. to the weekly pay of the police-officers of that city.
At the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on Monday, Mr. David Robertson Williamson, of Lawers, Perthshire, formerly an officer in the Coldstream Guards, pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting the Reverend William Robertson, minister of Monzievaird and Strowan. Mr. Williamson got admittance to the clergyman's house during his absence, waited for him in the study, and when he entered violently beat him with a stick. The motive for the attack did not transpire. Sentence, nine months' imprison- ment. The culprit had been originally indicted for " hamesiiken "—seek- ing after a person in his own domicile with the intention of using violence towards him ; the extreme penalty for which ancient Scotch offence is death. The Solicitor-General withdrew this charge : the Court intimated that had Mr. Williamson been convicted of it, he would have been trans- ported.
An atrocious murder has been committed at Glasgow. Boyd and Law, ship-carpenters, were drinking together at night; two loose women enticed them into a den in the New Vennel ; there the men were plied with drugged drink until nearly insensible • then the women and a man who lived with- one of them began to strip the carpenters of their clothes. Boyd had suffi- cient consciousness to know what was going on, and he resisted; but the wretches succeeded in stripping him. He threatened to call the Police ; upon which they dragged him to the window—on the third story—and tossed him head-foremost into the street. He fell on the back of his head ; the skull was fractured, and he died on the instant. The murderers fled, leaving Law insensible from the drugged drink. But there had been wit- nesses of the crime : two destitute boys were lying under a bedstead in the room, doubtless forgotten by the murderers ; some women living in the house had also peeped through a chink in the door, and witnessed the scenes. The Police were quickly informed of the murder, and the wretches were ar- rested before they could escape from the city.
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