SCOTLAND.
At Selkirk, on Saturday evening, it was resolved, at a public meeting of the working-classes, to petition Parliament in favour of the Reform Bill for Scotland. The meeting recommended the adoption of the forty- shilling freehold, and additional members for Scotland.
In an article on the "Geological Survey of Canada," the Scotsman, after noticing the futile attempts that had been made from time to time in Scotland to discover mineral wealth, unassisted by scientific charts, calls attention to the invaluable labours of Canadian geologists, regret- ting that the finances of the Provincial Government are in such a state as to render it necessary to suspend the geological survey for a year. "Some mark of appreciation, it seems to us, should be awarded to men who, amid many hardships and privations, are toiling quietly and =osten- tatiously in the backwoods of Canada, and helping to lay there the founda- tions of mighty empire. . . . . Imagine a man with neither guide nor map placed in a country withotth roads or civilization, or even inhabitants, but covered with trackless forests, his bed a sack, into which he creeps at nightfall, his only companions, perhaps, a couple of Indian attendants, and all this for weeks and months together, and you have some idea of the life of a Canadian geologist. He has not merely to geologize, he has actually to map the country ; theodolite and hammer go band in hand as *netts of these =trodden. wilds."
The Council of the Royal Scottish Academy have admitted into their ex- hibition, free of charge, the 78th Highlanders, the 13th Light Dragoons and the Artillery stationed at Leith Fort. The soldiers were presented with. copies of the catalogue. A new application of the screw mode 0/propulsion has been successfully exhibited in a yacht launched by Mears. William Smith and Co., Cartdyke. It is an invention of Mr. David Andrews. The screw, which is three-bladed, is fitted at the bow, and the vessel is dragged forward instead of being pro- pelled from abaft as in the ordinary mode.
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