SCOTLAND. • A great destruction of property has been caused
at the Caledonian Railway station in Edinburgh, by a fire which broke out early on Wednesday morning and was not subdued till noon. Two of the new sheds connected with the permanent -station have been destroyed, also two brick buildings, and several carriages, to-
gether with a quantity of goods. The damage done is estimated by the Railway officials at 7,0001. The origin of the fire is unknown. No interruption to the traffic will be necessary.
A cellar running under the High Street of Edinburgh, at Blackfriars Wynd, was torn up by an explosion on Saturday evening; the masonry of the vault and the street pavement being scattered about, and a large hollow formed in the road. Only a woman and a boy were hurt, and that but slightly; though many persons were passing at the moment. The cellar had been walled up from the house in consequence of a foul smell; but an iron grating opened into the street: it is sup-
posed a lighted piece of paper must havefallen through the grating and set re to the foul air in the cellar.
One day last week, as one of the superintendents at the general terminus of Perth was crossing the Scottish Midland line, an engine at great speed came up and struck him down. Strange to say, he was laid so flat between the rails, that the engine passed over him without any of the wheels or underworks of the loco- motive touching him. With the exception of his being severely cut in the face, and rendered for some time insensible from the shock, he sustained no other in- jury, and was able to go about his occupation the next day.—Edisiburgh Adver- tiser.
The Earl of Aberdeen has given orders for a first-rate barometer, to be placed in a solid block of granite, and fixed in a conspicuous and accessible spot on the coast near Aberdeen, for the sole use and advantage of the fishermen of that neighbourhood.—Globe.
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