SCOTLAND.
At a meeting of the Scottish bar on Saturday morning, Mr. James Moncrieff, Lord Advocate of Scotland under the Aberdeen and Palmer-
ion Governments, and Member for the Leith Boroughs, was unani- mously chosen Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, in room of Mr. Inglis, now ford justice Clerk. The nomination of Mr. Moncrieff was moved by Mr. Graham Bell, who bad withdrawn in his favour, and was se- conded by Mr. B. Macfarlane.
A painful incident has occurred at Paisley. Mr. Wylie, the son of a re- spectable family in Paisley, had been for some time under restraint as a lunatic. Liberated, he had behaved with much eccentricity, but no notice was taken thereof, lest he should be irritated. On Tuesday, he was knock- ing and ringing at the Infirmary, a freak he had practised before' when some persons passed. A piercing cry was heard ; the house-surgeon rushed out and found the body of a man at the door stabbed to the heart. Wylie hoe gone to the police-office, and had said he had " done for a fellow who would not again disturb the public peace." It appears that the lunatic mistook the passers-by for garrotters. His victim was an industrious weaver, who leaves behind him a wife and four children.
The Scotch journals promise good sport at grouse-shooting this season. i Partridges are plentiful and there is a good stock of hares. Pheasants are not so abundant.
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