SCOTLAND.
There has been a long trial in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, for wilful fire-raising. The accused were Dr. George Lillie Smith and Robert Campbell. Campbell VMS acquitted ; the Jury found Dr. Smith guilty, but pronounced him insane. The fire was in a large stack-yard be- longing to Mr. John Smith, a farmer near Brechin, with whom Dr. Smith had a quarrel; the property destroyed was worth more than 20001. The Court has ordered Smith to be kept in custody, at Forfar, till further orders. The lunatic parted with his friends "in a cheerful and merry manner."
A distressing affair has occurred at Leith. At a party in a gentleman's house, two young men amused themselves with a playful encounter with swords; by some unhappy chance one was wounded in the side, and the wound proved fatal. The deceased was the son of a merchant, and had him- self just entered on business.
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