SCOTLAND.
Mr. Macaulay is still persecuted by petty election-piques about his be- haviour and tone of correspondence. Some persons have taken offence at
the tone of his letter to Mr. Lyon, published last week. Mr. Macaulay wrote to Mr. Adam Black, chairman of his Committee, saying, "I despair of being able to use words which will not be distorted " ; and correcting the wilful misapprehensions to which he is exposed. "I say that such a distinction is so rare that I lately thought it unattain- able, and that even now, I hardly venture to expect that I shall attain it ;—
and I am told that I hold it cheap I My language, naturally construed,
was respectful—nay, humble My feeling towards the people of Edinburgh is the very opposite of unkind or contemptuous I give the best proof of my regard for them, by consenting to return to public life at their invitation, after repeatedly refusing to do so when invited on most honourable and liberal terms by others ; nor shall I cease to wish well to your fellow-citizens, or to think highly of their general character, even though they should be again estranged from me by misrepresentation such as you describe."
The two Scanlans, who were convicted of murdering a woman whose cot- tage they entered to effect a robbery, have been executed at Cupar. Rain, a baker's lad at Dumfries, was at a wedding with a servant-girl to whom he was attached; the girl excited his jealousy by her behaviour ; next morning he went to the house where she was employed, upbraided her, and with a razor shockingly gashed her throat. Thinking he had killed her, he cut his own throat, and died almost immediately. The girl may recover. The disgraceful practice of "body-lifting" has been resumed in Annan : two young men have been detected in the act of raising the body of a child in the churchyard, which had been interred only the day before. They have been committed to prison.—Kelso Chronicle.
A frightful accident has occurred at Tennent's chemical works, St. Rollos, Glasgow. By an explosion of a vessel, one of the workmen was blown into a quantity of hot vitriol ; he was drawn out of the acid as soon as possible, and plunged into a canal for his temporary relief ; but his perfect recovery was doubtful. Another workman sustained a leg-fracture.
A young farm-labourer has been killed by lightning at Balvraid, near Golspie. The clothes were torn off the body, and the shoes were sunk some inches into the ground ; two small holes under the heel were the only marks 011 the body. A dog and a cow were also found dead in the field, probably killed by the same flash.
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