S C OTLAND.
The following statement of mills working and stopped, &e. may be relied on as correct. In the power-loom weaving department, only four mills are working full time, thirty-six are working from four to eight hours per day, and sixteen are entirely closed; 2,200 power-loom weavers, and 200 dres- sers and tenters, are at present on the unemployed list. In the cotton- spinning department, two mills are stopped, four are on full time; while all the others (a very large number in Glasgow and neighbourhood; and em- ploying numerous hands) are working short time.—Glasgow Argus.
Sir George Grey has intimated that the Paisley petition for relief to the able-bodied poor " has been referred in the first instance to the Board of Supervision."
The first detachment of the Free Church settlement of Otago has left the Clyde for New Zealand.
" On Saturday last," says the Witness, " while the Philip Laing was lying in the harbour of Greenock, the emigrants engaged in a religious service, conducted by several of the Free Church ministers of that town. The emigrants, who number about 250 persons, of various ages and conditions in life, assembled on board, together with a number of friends, amongst whom were the Reverend Dr. Warhol, Reverend Mr. Smith, Reverend Mr. Boner, Reverend Mr. Stark, and Reverend Mr. Burns, formerly of Monkton, (and son of the late Gilbert Burns, the well-known brother of the poet,) who goes out as the minister of the colony."
The Glasgow Argus published its last number yesterday, after a career of about fourteen years. The break-up at the late election of the party who esta- blished it was the proximate cause of its discontinuance.--Scottish Guardian.
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