SCOTLAND.
The Queen. is very quiet at Balmoral. Only once has ahe.chiven.out farther than the residence of her inether,at Abergehlie. On the 9th. she drovein an open carriage to Invercauld, with two of her attendant ladies.
Prince Albert has been "very successful in the forest"' "two fine stags and some roe deer' on 'Wednesday, aad -" three splendid stags" on Friday. "On every favourable day he and his:party are out betimes.on the'hilLs." -So says the Aberdeen Journal, which tells es ram than the almost.mute Court Circular.
On Sunday, the Royal Family heard a sermon from PrinciperMeefar. lane, inthe ehurch.at Crathie. ,LordaTtdm.Russellleft.Bahnoral on the 4th. for Minto Castle ;
ing-to go thence to 'Mickleton Hall, for a day with Sir- Charles 'Wood, ou his- way .to :London.
Prineipal,Macfadane aad Mr. Henry Hallam. hate.beenherMajesWe guests.
The Scottish Episcopal Church is rapidly increasing in numbers and influence. In 1855 it numbered about sixty congregations ; at present they are nearly double this. At Millport there is a college being erected, at great expense, under the patronage of the Honourable Mr. Boyle, the presumptive heir to the earldom of Glasgow ; so that this place is likely to become the seat of an educational institution in connexion with Epis- copacy, and probably the residence of the Bishop of the Isles, in whom diocese it is.—Christian Journal.
The monument at Leswalt to the memory of the late Sir Andrew Agnew is now i nearly completed. It is a column nearly sixty feet in height; and being placed n one of the highest spots of the parish of Leswalt, is con- spicuous from a great distance. It is understood that the present Sir Andrew Agnew is about to enclose and plant the ground round the monument.
The first case tried in Scotland under the Mercantile Marine Act came be- fore the Sheriff Court of Edinburgh on Tuesday. Sixteen men and a bey were charged with disobedience and neglect of duty. They had formed..part of the crew of the Herefordshire, which has brought home the Seventy- Muth Regiment from Quebec. On a preceding 'tome from Gibraltar to Barbados and thence to Quebec, they had made complaints about the pro- visions and the lime-juice supplied to them ; two men were disobedient, and one was sentenced, at Quebec to four months' imprisonment. The present prisonens complained of the dime-juice to the Magistrates there ; but the complaint was dismissed. Then they refused to work the ship; and Die master'had to take fourteen new hands on board. Ile put the mutineers -WI bread and water,-with meat twice a week, during the voyage, and did not ask them to work. The Sheriff now considered that the case against the prisoners was fully made out ; and sentenced the men to beinearcerated for eight weeks, and the bey far sie.
The Edinburgh Witness states that forged half-sovereigns are in circula- tion. The counterfeit isa good imitation of somewhat worn velar of the pre- sent reign, dated 1842; the lettering not very ,distinct. When sera* -with a knife, the gilding is easily removed, and the white coloured metal a which the coin is composed is seen. It is under half the standard weight.
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