SCOTLAND.
Mr. Hone has declined the invitation to a public dinner in Edin- burgh ; assigning as the reasons for his refusal, personal convenience, the lateness of the season, and the near approach of Parliamentary duty.
Lord Haddo, eldest son of Lord Aberdeen, havingattained his majority on Thursday last, a grand entertainment was given on the estate to nearly one thousand individuals. Ord Hill, a gentle elevation situated about the middle of the estate, was the scene of the festivity ; and certainly a more appropriate site could not have been selected. According to pre- vious arrangement, a tent, to feet long by 34 feet broad, was ordered from London, and erected on tile swofnit of the hail, to accommodate the dinner-party. This tent was covered with a sort of bleached can- Vac, and beautifully lighted up with twelve oil lamps in brass chande- liers. About five hundred of the tenantry formed themselves into a procession at Methlie, and proceeded by Bidder House to the hill, ac- companied by the Old Meldrum band in full uniform. On the an- nouncement of Lord Aberdeen, a piece of ordnance, stationed on the north-west brow of the bill, was fired ; and on his arrival he was re- ceived by the assembled multitude with the wannest eutitusiasm. His Lordship ascended the bill in an open barouche, accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Earl and Countess of Morton, Lord C. Hamilton, Captain and Lady H. Hamilton, Lady F. Douglas, and the Honourable Captain Gordon, M. P. for the county. At half past. three the party sat down to dinner; Lord Aberdeen in the chair. At eight o'clock, the majority of the party adjourned to the east brow of the hill, where a splendid display of fireworks was given. Besides the fireworks, a balloon about ten or twelve feet in circumfer- ence, was sent up.—Aberdeen Herald. (So there was no meeting of leading Tory politicians, after all.]
At Glasgow, on Monday, the foundation-stone of a monument to Sir Walter Scott was laid, in St. George's Square. The Lord Provost laid the stone ; and the Magistrates and Clergy of the city, with the members of Masonic Lodges and a detachment of the Ninth Regiment of Lancers, witnessed the ceremony.
The gentleman who carried off an old and curious iron candlestick, belonging to the collection in the Hall at Abbotsford, is hereby in- formed that it is only a model of that said to have been used by Robert the Bruce. He is at liberty to retain it, as there is another in the col- lection ; and he may exhibit it as a memento of his visit to Abbotsford and ungentlemanlike conduct. —Kelso Mail.
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