SCOTLAND.
A grand banquet, in honour of our triumphs in the Crimea, will be given at Glasgow next Friday-. Among those who are to take a leading part, are the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of Eglinton, and Lord Belhaven.
Burglary has so increased of late throughout Scotland that it has at- tracted the attention of the Edinburgh County Commissioners, among whom were Sir George Clerk and the Duke of Buceleuch. It seemed generally believed that the increase of crime is due to the swarms of ticket- of-leave men and London thieves constantly arriving in Scotland from England. The ticket-of-leave system met with general condemnation ; and a suggestion was made that a place for convicts should be provided in the Hebrides or Northern Islands.
• At the recent sittings of the Autumn Justiciary Court of Glasgow, there were two cases of homicide —one by stabbing, a practice becoming common in Glasgow ; the other by drowning ; and a third case of fratricide by pres- sure on the body. The sentences were twenty-one and fifteen years' trans- portation, respectively. A batch of returned convicts, who have lately in- fested Glasgow, were dealt with, and half a dozen of them retransported for fifteen years.
In the beginning of August, Lady Saltoun presented a pair of colours to the Aberdeenahire Militia. There was a ball and supper on the occasion, at the Royal Hotel, attended by the Lord Provost and many distinguished citizens of Aberdeen, and kept up until three or four next morning. A charge was brought against the proprietor under the Forbes Mackenzie Act, for keeping open his house after eleven at night ; and the Magistrates, over- ruling all objections, fined him II. &I.—giving one half to the complainant, and one half to the Reformatory School.
Severe and in two cases fatal injuries were inflicted on nine persons by the explosion of a boiler in the steam-works of the Portland Iron Company, near Hurtford, last week.
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