SCOTLAND. The weather having sensibly improved, her Majesty: is able
to visit he noble scenery of her Highland home. Ac6ompanied by the Prince Consort, she has driven to the Moss of Monaltrie, where the Prince shot grouse; to the top of Minch Dale and Loch Avon, and to Alt na Grua- Bach, where she stayed one night, returning to Balmoral by Loch Cal- later. The Prince Consort has been deer-stalking, and Prince Arthur has been fishing. The Princesses Alice, Helena, andlouise,.and Prince Leopold, have shared in these excursions of her Majesty.
The Queen held a Privy Council at Balmoral on Monday. The Prince Consort, Lord John Rupell, and Mr. Sidney Herbert attended the Coun- cil. Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, was in attendance. The Prince of Leiningen, Lord John RumP11, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Mr. Helps have been guests of the Queen.
The Prince Consort's birthday falling on Sunday, it was privately celebrated. On that day, Dr. Barclay, Principal of the University of Glasgow, preached before the Queen in the parish church of Crathie.
Tanner, the dragoon arrested on suspicion of having been an accomplice in the murder of the girl in the Queen's Park, has been liberated. There is not evidence sufficient to detain him.
A man, now supposed to be insane, has whiled away a little child in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, and has drowned it in the Clyde for the sake of its clothes. The murderer, carrying the clothes, was met by the mother! The scoundrel, M'Fayden by name, stripped the boy, and notwithstanding his piteous cries and struggles pitched him into the Clyde, and held him under water with a stick until he was dead. We repeat, it is now said, that the miscreant was insane.
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