SC OTLAND.
There has been a meeting of unemployed operatives at Pai , dt the speakers indulged in rather inflammatory language. Resolu passed condemning the Relief Committee and the religious miNtite, for the partial manner in which they dispensed aid to the suffering people, and declaring the necessity of memorializing the Government for a poor-law similar to that of England and Ireland. The Reverend P. Brewster spoke in favour of the abstract right of the able-bodied unemployed to relief, and insisted that by the law of Scotland they were so entitled.
A fatal accident occurred last week on the Forth and Clyde Canal Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Blythswood, and their son, aged about six, were returning in a carriage from a visit near Milgavie: while they were crossing the canal at Temple Lock, near Garseube, the horses shied, driving the carriage against the side- rails of the bridge: the rails gave way, and the horses with the carriage were pre- cipitated into the lock. In some way which is unexplained, Mr. and Mrs. Camp- bell got out of the carriage, either through the door or window. Aid was speedily on the spot, and ropes were thrown down, by which Mr. Campbell sustained his wife until the water could he let out of a higher lock, so as to float them within reach of help. The little boy, who remained in the carriage, sank with it, and was drowned. The coachman and footman escaped; but the horses were killed.
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