SCOTLAND.
The vacant seat in the Court of Session has been bestowed on Mr. Handyside, Solicitor-General for Scotland ; and the Solicitorship has fallen to Mr. James Crawford, Sheriff-Depute of Perthshire.
Government has sanctioned the appointment of a second Assistant As- tronomer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh; and has given a small grant of money towards some necessary improvements on the existing astronomical instruments. There is a scheme for supplying Glasgow with water from Loch Ka- n*, at a cost of 1,200,000/. The foundation-stone of a monument to the memory of Dr. Moir, the "Delta" of Blackwood, has been laid at Musselburgh.
The American barque Victoria has been burnt in the Clyde, after she had left Glasgow on the voyage to New York. The master was to have joined
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her at Greenock. Two steamers were tugging the ship down the river, when the hold in the after part was discovered to be on fire. Attempts were in vain made to extinguish the flames; and eventually the ship was run ashore, where she burnt down. Suspicion fell on two Negroes, the cook of the Victoria, and the former steward, who had been left in Glasgow : they were arrested, but were subsequently liberated. By whatever means caused, the contents, of the hold must have been on fire before the vessel left Glasgow. Notwithstanding the very advanced period of the year, we regret that it is not yet in our power to say that harvest operations have been completed in the Edinburgh district. In several parts of the county, particularly to the Westward where it joins Lanarkshire, many fields are yet uncut; and in more numerous instances the grain, where reaped, has not been gathered, and still remains exposed to the elements. The greater portion of the grain thus un- housed can never, we fear, be brought to market.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
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