SCOTLAND.
The public will receive with very deep regret the announcement of the death of the Right Honourable David Boyle, late Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session; which took place at Shewalton, on Friday last His Lordship was the second son of the Honourable Patrick Boyle, of Shewalton, and grandson of John second Earl of Glasgow ; and was born at Irvine, on the 25th July 1772. Ile was celled to the bar towards the end of the year 1793. In 1807 he was appointed Solicitor-General under the Duke of Portland's Administration, and was chosen Member for the county of Ayr in the spring of the same year. He continued to sit in Parliament and to hold the office of Solid- tor-General for Scotland until February 1811, when he was appointed a Lord of Session and of Justiciary. He took the title of Lord Boyle, but was not long known by-that style ; for, at the end of seven months, in 'October 1'811, he was promoted to the office of lord Chief Justice-Clerk. He was made a. lirivy Councillor by George W. In 1820. As Lord Jus- tic&Clerk he filled the Chair of the Second Division of the Courtof Session, and presided in the High Court of Justiciary forrtyyears,; ar-. in Oc- tober 1847, the resignation of the distinguished judgethi [Charles live whom he had succeeded as Lord.Justice-Clerk, opened to him the still higher honours of Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session. In May last, although still gifted with a degree of health and strength very rare at the advanced age of fourscore, he re- signed his high functions, and withdrew from public life, to his paternal estate of Shewalton, which had descended to him on the death of his elder brother. It was not till after forty years of active duty as a judge that he thus sought retirement in the bosom of his family circle ; and as a mark of her Majesty's approbation of his long and faithful service, he was offered a' baronetcy ; which well-merited honour, however, he de- clined to accept With the death of this aged and venerable judge, another fine specimen of-the men of the last generation has passed away. There are few with regard to whose character and judicial career public opinion has been more unanimous. During the forty years he occupied the bench, it was universally acknowledged that he worthily sustained, if indeed he did not elevate, the high character of the courts over which he successively presided, He left the scene of his labours with the well- earned reputation of an eminent judge, and returned to private life accompanied by the attachment of the bar and the respect of all who had ever been brought within the sphere of his influence,—Edinburgh Adver- tiser.
A young farmer who was shooting, near a waterfall at Pitlochry, with a companion, attempted to descend a rocky precipice to arouse some birds from a lurking-place ; he lost his footing, and was precipitated a depth of forty feet,—a fall that proved fatal.
The magnificent mansion of Lechnell in Argyllshire has been entirely destroyed by fire. The fine broke out during the night, and the blazing pile presented a grand spectacle, lighting the surrounding woods and the adjacent lake.
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