12 MAY 1860, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

The firm of John and Anthony Blaikie, of Aberdeen, land factors and ad- vocates, has failed for 300,000/. As usual, all dames, the wealthy as well as the poor, the young and the aged, are the sufferers. Mr. John Blaikie has disappeared, Mr. Anthony remains at his post. They possessed the un- bounded confidence of their countrymen, and the shock to public feeling is proportionately severe.

Sir John Melville, a distinguished citizen of Edinburgh, and Lord Pro- vost from 1854 to 1859, died on Saturday of fever, arising from a cold caught while in Oxford, whither he p roceeded to place his only son. He was on Lord Brougham's appointment, Chancellor of the University of Edin- burgh.