SCOTLAND.
At the Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, on Tuesday week, a large and respectable assemblage entertained Dr. Hunter, late Professor of Anatomy in the Andersonian University, on the occasion of his depar- ture for London to fill the chair of Anatomy in Westminster Hospital Medical School. Dr. Buchanan, Professor of the Theory of Medicine in Glasgow University, presided. In proposhig the toast of the evening, he spoke of the guest in terms of the warmest eutogium. Dr. Hunter- is no novice in medical instruction : he has been engaged in teaching anatomy for twenty years, and daring that lime he has sent into the world upwards of two thousand pupils. "His pupils (said Dr. Buchanan} were scattered everywhere over the world, and were to be heard of in every place where the English language is spoken ; so that travel where he might, Dr. Hunter was sure to meet a pupil and a friend." As it should be with all good instructors, Dr. Hunter was obliging to his disciples; his advice, and the use of the museum which he collected.- at his own expense, were ever at their service. The Solway, a large Irish steamer, voyaging between Belfast and Port Carlisle in Scotland, ran ashore on Wednesday week, in making the Solway Frith before the buoys could be plainly seen at early dawn. She had sailed from Belfast on the Tuesday afternoon with twenty cabin-passengers, including Colonel Napier (a brother of Sir Charles) and part of his family, upwards of two hundred steerage-passengers, and about three hundred and ten head of cattle or horses on board. The Solway struck on the Barnhourie Sand-bank, seemingly before it was known that she was near the shore. The whole of the cattle were thrown overboard to lighten her; and she rose off the bank and was steered further towards the land, to render escape the more easy. The water at last came into her so fast that her engine-fires were put out, and she grounded again about three miles at sea. The wind now rose 'high, the rain became drenching ; and the passengers being at last soaked to the skin, it was proposed that the boats should take them towards the shore till they could wade the rest of the distance. Numbers were thus carried out to where the tallest could begin to walk : here parties of dozens linked together, and, helping each other out of hollows and through mud-holes, they gradually, in ludicrous though piteous plight, reached the land in safety. Before all had been thus landed, however, the tide had left the steamer high on the beach, and thus many escaped with comparative comfort. No life or limb has been lost. Out of three hundred and four beasts thrown overboard, only forty-seven were saved ; the ten horses on board, however, all swam to land. The lost cattle were the property of a Mr. Jackson of Belfast, who was a passen- ger on board. The Solway still lay on the strand on Monday, -in spite 'of great efforts which had been made to float her.
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