SCOTLAND.
There was a great run upon the banks at Perth for cash, last week, particularly in the way of change for pound notes, and payment in specie for small deposit receipts. One man from the Highlands demanded cash at the Perth Bank for a deposit receipt to the amount of one hundred pounds and upwards. Silver coin to that extent was laid down before him, and no less than ninety pounds of it was in sixpences. The man set to work to count off his money ; but being one of those who like to " look at both sides of a shilling," he took some time to satisfy himself that each piece was genuine. He laboured during bank hours on Friday, and resumed on Saturday, till he got quite tired and con- fused, and begged to have a new deposit receipt for what he had not counted off.-Perth Courier. [ The run was probably a foolish run, but the conduct of the banker in meeting it ought to be described as it de- serves. To offer 100/. of a currency, which is a legal tender to the amount of 40s. only, was a most impudent piece of trickery, and would have been properly met by a protest of his promissory note and a docket.] The inhabitants of Culross take. a lively interest in all that concerns that very gallant and popular nobleman the Earl of Dundonald, whose birth-place, Culross Abbey, and the princely domains of his ancestors, are in the vicinity of the town ; and on the 15th May, a great many of the respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood dined toge- gether at the Red Lion Inn, to celebrate the auspicious occasion of his Lordship's restoration to his honours, and to his rank in the Royal Navy. In the evening, a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, and attended by the Magistrates and Town Council, the Ministers of the parish, several Naval Officers, and, in short, by almost every person in the neighbourhood. The chairman, the Reverend Mr. Balfour, after passing a splendid eulogium on the public services and professional character of the Earl of Dundonald, read to the meeting a congratula- tory address to his Lordship; which was with the greatest acclamations.. approved of.
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