SCOTLAND.
The nomination of candidates for representing the Stewartry of Kirkcud bright took place at the chief burgh on Friday; when Mr. Maitland of Dundreiman, Liberal, and Colonel M`Donall of Logan, Conservative, were proposed. They addressed the electors, but amid so much interruption that very little of what they said was heard. Mr. Maitland boldly avowed him- self a supporter of Mr. Maxwell, the Roman Catholic candidate who had retired, of Roman Catholic Emancipation, the Maynooth endowment, and the New Colleges BilL Colonel M`Donall said that he came forward on "Protestant principles," and on principles of protection for agriculture, especially upholding the present Corn-law. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Maitland, and a poll was demanded on behalf of his oppo- nent. It was taken on Monday and Tuesday; and at the close, the num- bers were—for Maitland, 486; IPDouall, 344; majority, 142.
The Morning Chronicle contrasts a letter from Mr. James Oswald, M.P. for Glasgow, to his tenantry of Anchincruive, telling that he should not interfere in their votes, with one from the Honourable Montgomery Stewart, urging his tenants of Cally to vote for Colonel M‘Douall.
Colonel and Major Burns, the sons of the poet, were entertained by a large party of gentlemen at Inverness, on the 13th instant; when the freedom of the burgh was presented to them. The building-trade is in a state of great activity in Glasgow at present; and though masons wages are 22s. per week, the masters state that they cannot ob- tain a sufficiency of workmen.—Glasgow Argus. A workman employed lately in one of the mining-shafts of the Scottish Central Railway narrowly avoided death by exhibiting the most courageous presence of mind. He had lighted the fusees connected with charges of powder for the pur- pose of blasting, and gave the signal to be drawn up: but the rope slipping, the poor fellow was suspended a few feet above where the explosion was to take place, with no other prospect before him but instant death. He called out to lower him; which was immediately done, and, advancing cautiously to the burning fusees, he extinguished them. On examination, they were found to be burned to within half-an-inch of the powder.
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