SCOTLAND. The Chartists and Irish Confederates in Edinburgh have been
uniting and organizing in armed clubs for some weeks past; and the latter espe- cially have nightly resorted to houses of rendezvous to hear read copies of the Nation and Irish Felon, which came regularly from Dublin. On Mon- day, there was a great meeting on the Calton Hill, in sympathy with the insurrectional projects of the Confederates in Ireland. The speaking was very violent, but the meeting separated without disturbance. On Wed- nesday, Mr. H. Rankine, Mr. A. Walker, and J. Cumming, were arrested, and committed for trial on charges of attending illegal meetings, and making illegal speeches. Several other persons arrested at the same time were let out on bail.
Thompson, an auctioneer, has attempted to assassinate Mr. Gray, the Town- Clerk of Greenock; in revenge, it is thought, for the refusal of a licence. While Mr. Gray was passing along the street, Thompson fired at him; the ball lodged in Mr. Gray's chest, and it was feared that the wound would be fatal. Thompson made no attempt to escape. John Snodgrass, the steward of a ship, and a young man the son of Mr. Cowan, the accountant to the Glasgow Union Bank, incautiously put to sea at Helens
burgh in a little sailing-boat, during a fresh breeze. On their return from sailing up Gareloeh, the boat gave a heavy lurch, capsized, and sank ; Snodgrass imme- diately went down, but Mr. Cowan swain for a little time; some boats put off, but when they reached the spot he had disappeared.
Margaret Scott, a young lady, daughter of a clergyman at Inverness, has perished in the river Ness. She was in the habit of making little collections in botany and geology; one morning she went to the river to collect plants and flowers; in attempting to wade across, apparently to obtain some flowers which grew on the opposite bank, the current carried her away, and she was drowned in a.deep pool a few hundred yards further down. When the body was recovered, a number of wild rose leaves and specimens of grasses were found in the bosom of the dress. The poor girl was of a happy temperament, and left home in the highest spirits.
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