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Among other proposals. fur enlarging. the. Parliamentary franelike Lit Scotland, one which has found favour with. Mr..liume,andothers„istliat of taking the poorseato assthe basis of qtudifiention. The Seotemate,shows *tibia basis.wonld, hminapplicable,, from its complexity, and ita,ineore- pleteness. There are, in. Scotland 880, parishes,. "combinations." of parishes : of these bodies, nearly 600 raise their funds in,four definite and -differing modes, which would give four different general classes of quail- lleatious.;. 50. (them raise their funds. " according to_ established usage," that is.to say, in as many indefinite and differing;inedesd. and 235 raise their' funds by voluntary contrillutiens, therefore have no poor-rate at all, and consequently can, yield no valuation-basis for anymutlificatie.n.
The Glasgow' journals deka Min James Parker; one of the new Vice- einneellors, as st. native or their town. Ile is.statedi to he the emend son of a deceased member of a late West. Indian firm.; was• born in Glasgow,, and. educated: at the. nigh School. and. University_ there. Tina- GlassewHerald states that the late judicial appeintmentwars not only unaolieitecl by the Conservative barrister, but wee " pressed on kris, ac- -costume," Mr. Alin Crawford,. writer,. of Paisley, has been tried. for assaulting the Reverend Patrick Brewster. The ease excited great interest " in the whole. W.mt.cif Scotland," Mr. Crawford was charged with " wickedly and felo- niously"- striking Mr, Brewater : he, denied the wickedand felonious intent,. but. admitted that he struck Mr. Brewster, excited' thereto by the abusive. language of the reverend gentleman. The fracas took place in the house of • Aiunes Murray, S. " eliarch officer" ; there seems to have been some serious misunderstanding about church matters, previously to which Mr. Brewster and Mr. Crawford. were on the most friendly terms. At Murray:a, Mr. Craw, ford:took up a "memorial"' from stable,, put it under his arm, and refused. to give it up to the clergyman ; the latter declared: that Mr. Crawford should not leave the.r.00ns, and' made some imitating:remarks., then Mr. Crawford seem to have assailed, him with his fists pretty vigorou,sly. The Su de-
iterated; for a, quarter elan hour, and then a, maienty. acquitted Mr. - tot There was a loud burst of applause,, and one or two hisses, when the findingas announced.
Archibald Hare, a young Mari wile was convicted of murdering Bonald- 14.`Gregor„. in the main. street of Blantyre,, wee, hanged at Glasgow, on Friday Rats Rao stabbedhis victim, u apparently from drunken phreinsy or-bra- vados" No cleat existed, on, the, nialif of any one that. Hare. was a homi- cide but he persisted to the. last in asserting hielenersence—perhaps lie be- lieved it, if be. really strusk the blow dosing " dream ellreesy."" He was, cur-Agee:4a and self-Pease, sed during hie imprisonments Q. the scaffold, he Made a short,, apeeeb to the crewels masa' risme his innocence, but warning hia.hearera to, beware of dram-drinking and bait company. His. last words wane—". Put rex confidence in the Lind foe He will never leave you, He, has givers megragethie day,, mid, I care no. more- for death than any person, gong- to. his he'd tWs. night fee 1.have feund fayern with. Christ Jeans our Lord"
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