SCOTLAND.
It is reported that Mr. Smollett, who represents Dumbartonshire, is about to retire from public life. Mr. Archibald Ewing, of Leven Bank, is mentioned as his probable successor. The Royal Commissioners appointed to fix the site of a harbour of re- fuge on the North-east coast of Scotland are now prosecuting their in- ealrY. They have visited Inverness, Cromarty, Wick, Peterhead, and other places. When this work is finished, an Inspection will be made of the north-east coast of England.
The foundation-stone of a monument was laid last week, to comme- morate the martyrdom of Margaret Wilson and Margaret M`Lauchlan in the tidal waters of Wigtown Bay, about one hundred and fifty years ago. The monument will stand on the Windyhill. The Highland and Agricultural Society have held their show this week at Aberdeen. The quantity of cattle, ,poultry and implements, greatly exceeded that exhibited last year.
The prison of Dingwall, a first-class one, was on Monday without a single Prisoner, civil or criminal, and the gates were thrown open. The gaols of Tain, Stornoway, and Cromarty are also said to be empty.—Aberdeen iferald.
As an express train was descending an incline on a Scotch railway the engine driver, to his horror, observed a little child about four years of age sitting in the middle of the rails along which he had to pass, picking up stones into a email pitcher. Unable ins time to arrest the progress of the baini he pushed on in intense agony till he reached the station, full of fear of the consequences. On inquiry, howeser, the infant had been found, neither harmed nor afraid, pursuing her work, by the mother, whose atten- tion and fears the passage of the train excited.
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