SCOTLAND.
Apparently goaded by the insinuations of which we gave a specimen in our last paper, Mr. Macaulay has resolved to visit Edinburgh immedi- ately. In a letter to his friends there, he says- " I am so much better, that I think I may, with sonic management, ven- ture to make my appearance at Edinburgh before Parliament meets. I think
that Monday the 1st or Tuesday the 2d November would be the best day. I would start for the North on Friday the 29th, and divide the journey into two days, reaching Edinburgh on Saturday, stopping over the Monday and Tuesday, and leaving on Wednesday, so as to be in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon. My kind friends must not expect from me more than one address ; and that, I hope, I shall be able to get through pretty well. I am better certainly than in August I expected ever again to be."
The people at the Oakley iron-works in Dunfermline have received a second increase of wages, with the promise of a third in a short time. The damask-weavers are also to receive an extra allowance of a penny per spindle.
In the North British Advertiser of last Saturday there are advertise- ments for nearly eighty situations vacant, whilst only seven persons ad- vertise for situations ! This is the reverse of the rule which has held good for many years, where the candidates for situations far exceeded the vacancies advertised.—North British Daily Mail.
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