SCOTLAND.
Mr. Levi lately addressed a meeting of the Edinburgh Association for the Promotion of an International Code of Law, and made a statement respecting the Statistical Conference about to be held at Brussels. He suggested that they should send an address to the President of the Brus- sels Convention, requesting him to set apart a day for the consideration of this subject ; and that after the matter has been discussed, a con- ference of merchants, bankers, and lawyers, from all parts of the world, should be held at Paris in 1864, during the Universal Exhibition. This was agreed to by the meeting.
The coalmasters about Kilmarnock have agreed to advance the wages of their workmen from 48. to 48. 6d. per day.
The master masons and operative masons of Glasgow came to an ar- rangement, on Thursday sennight, satisfactory to both parties. The workmen are to be allowed 5d. an hour per week of 57 hours ; and six months' notice is to be given, by masters or operatives, if either wish to change this settlement. The men returned to their work on Friday.— Edinburgh Advertiser.
A portrait of Lord Aberdeen has just been hung up in the Town-ball of Aberdeen. The Premier, who subscribes to the Mechanics Institu- tion, is about to contribute handsomely towards the purchase of casts, dce., for the Aberdeen School of Practical Art A great commotion has been excited in the West of Scotland by the plying of a steam-boat with passengers, from Glasgow to lower parts of the Clyde, on Sundays. At Gareloeh Head, in Dumbartonshire, there is a pier, which Sir James Colquhoun claims as his private property ; a claim which is denied by some. Last Sunday, Sir James took strong measures to stop the landing of passengers at the pier : it was barricaded with barrels, boxes, and pieces of wood ; and this fortification was manned by gamekeepers, gillies, constables, and others. When the Emperor steamer arrived, the passengers landed, and attacked the barricade : after a fight in which hard blows from bludgeons were plentiful, the passengers carried the day, driving the enemy off, and pitching the materials of the barricade into the sea. Having gained their object, they set about enjoying themselves, and at the end of two hours returned to the steamer, which they were allowed to enter, through the pier, without molestation, and were soon on their way again to Glasgow.
An Aberdeen correspondent of the Times reports an "accident" on the Scottish Central Railway, at Motherwell. The mail-train ran into a station- ary coal-train, which was standing on the wrong line, while another train passed. The driver had discovered the obstruction time enough to prevent a fatal collision ; a number of coal-trucks were smashed to bits, but the pas- sengers in the mail-train seem to have escaped without serious hurts. "The driver of the coal-train, it seems, had shunted on to the down-line to allow the up-express, which was over-due, to pass. He accused us of being 'before our time ' ; which means that we were not an hour late, for I noticed that we had waited at the last station until time was up.' "
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