SCOTLAND.
Mr. George Joseph Bell, an eminent advocate at the Edinburgh bar, has been appointed a "clerk of session," in lieu of Mr. Hamilton, deceased. Has not this office been repeatedly denounced as a sinecure? The Town Council of Dysart, like other great councils, were divided on the question of Reform. Ten members of Council were staunch sticklers for things as they are; the remainder were desirous of putting
an end to the close system. At last Miehaelmas election, the ten -Anti- Reformers only appeared in the Town-hall, to go through the farce of
an election ; but as thirteen were necessary to constitute a meeting for election, Bailie Philip, and the reforming part of the ( cmuncil, presented a petition to the Court of Session to bare the election declared void, and the burgh disfranchised. The First Division of the Court has de- clared in terms of the petition, and the burgh of Dysart is disfranchised,
until restored by the favour of the ( gninting a poll election to the burgesses and inhabitants, to elect a new Magistracy and Council. —Caledonian Mercury.
The effect of the disfranehisement of Dysart, in a political point of view, is, that in the event of the present Member of Parliament t Mr. Ferguson of Badth) being raised to the Peerage, the burghs of Kirkaldy and Kinghorn, who are steady Reformers, vii1 be enabled to return a supporter of the preemit ( =ovemennent.—Ninak Briton.
The select of the I 'ommty of Berwick had a Meeting at Greenlawr lately, for the purpose of voting, down the Ministry and the Bill. Just as the business of the ( ameervetive WilS over, time Duchess of Bedford's carriage drove up to the ( It Ii: Inn. On her Grace's setting off again, she WUS heartily cheered by the people, with " Lord John Russell and Reform for ercr."
Harr AT BLIMEES.—On Monday afternoon, last week, a The- atre of Anatomy, lately erected in St. Andrew Street, Aberdeen, WilS burned to the ground by the mob. In consequence of a strouta stench at the baek of the premises, the people in time neighbourhood had suspected that the ground contained some corrupt substance, more especially as pGrthots y'sitillis, bones, end entrails, are lying about. Oft :Alum-lay some hoys observed a dog turning- up the earth. They gave the alann, and presently twenty or thirty people were on the spot, and a portion of the fragments of a hunmen body was dug up. The crowd raieed a shout of horror, and immediately ruelled to the door of the heatre, ‘vhich they opened and entered. Mr. Moir, the surgeon, c.:caped by leaping- from the wiedow. The crowd rapidly increased ; three dead bodies were soon discovered found lying on boards ; and a cry was reised of " Burn the house ! down with the Buck- ing shop !" Materials for setting it on fire vere soon obtained, and the Theittre was qt.:.dcly ill iluitia ; the crowd then commenced under- mining the lerge wall with plenks, and the whole place was at last razed. At about eight o'clock the work of deetruction was completed —not one stone was left upon another. [ We talk flunilnitsly of the prejudices of the vulgar ; we are equally, bound to notive the groseer and he s excusable improprieties of those who are above vulgar prejudiee. Nothing can it imagined more dis- gusting and abominable than mom establishment meeeeed as that of Mr.. _Vim& is stated to Lave hven; such a place wi:;:id more properly be desigmmated a shambita—and an extremely filthy ellamble,—than a school of aiiiitotny. Its dei4ruction was nn act of sound justice, however un- sound in law. It is too common for anatomists to outrage decency ill the way that Mr. Moir is said to have done, and by that means to foster the popular errors from Nrhich they and their art have so long suffered.1
The railway betwixt Dundee and Newtyle lots at length been opened.. On Friday, last week, carriages stetted, for the first time, for the con- veyance of goods and passengers. The distance to Newtyle, from the south side of the Law, the temporary place of starting, is nemudy elevea miles, and was gone over by the coach in about an hour and a quarter, conveying along with it forty passengers. The waggon loaded with goods, went over the same distance in an hour and twenty-five minutes.. A boat from: _Ayrshire, proceeding to Ardvare, on the Sutherland coast, some weeks ago, struck on a sunken reef near the small island of Handa. The C1TW threw the cargo overboard, and the boat floated and about midnight took the ground, in it sandy bey railed Tarbet.
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