SCOTLAND.
At a meeting of the United Presbyterian Presbytery at Glasgow, on 'Tuesday, -resolutions expressing a qualified approval of the Lord -Advo- cate's Bill..on Education, but expressing decided disapprobation of the 27th clause, -which requires school committees to set apart an hour for religious instruction, and of the 36th clause, for aiding denominational schools out of the funds raised by the general rate, were earried.by 16 toll
As the Edinburgh sacramental fast falls on the 27th, steps have been taken to alter the national fast-day so far as Scotland is concerned to the 27th. Should this not be accomplished, it is thought probable that the sacramental fast-day will be-altered to the 26th. In that case,.the Wed- nesday markets would be held on Tuesday.
Government has decided to propose a grant of 70001. for the purchase of a site for the Scottish Industrial Museum to be established at Edinburgh- The site fixed on is a piece of ground behind the College, at present occu- pied by a chapel and one of the hospitals. The College Museum will be ceded by the Town-Council to the new Museum, and the whole placed under the superintendence.of the Board of Trade. A "strike" of the D.umbarton joiners has been successful: instead of 24s. and 25s. a week, they will in future receive 26s. and 27s. The painters of Greenock have turned out for an advance of 2s. Bd. a week the masters declare that they will notgive it, as they now parthe'Clittygoir
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seizure-was effected on Tuesday, at Glasgow, on the premises.Of Messrs. Xapier, Of tore pairs of marine Steam-engines of :400 and 450 horse-power, adapted foracrew line-of-battle shims or heavy frigates, mantfactured under contract for the Russian- Government. It-appears that, as in the case of other recent seizures, some attempt has been 'made to set up a sub-contract for transferring those engines to a Hamburg house, -Merck and Co., in order to evade their confiscation as Russian property.
Mr. John-Macpherson, of Heath Cottage, near Inverness :has perished by an accident at Craggie Bridge. -He was returning in a phaeion from visiting parish-schools, 1.)r.-3facdonald accompanying him. When approaching the bridge and going down hill, the horse increased his pace, and dragged the phaeton against a stone at the corner of the bridge. The shock threw Dr. Macdonald out upon the road on one side, and Mr. Macpherson ever the para- pet of the bridge on the other. The place is frightfully-dangerous. The descent from the road is some forty feet, and jagged-rocks protrude on either side of the stream. Mr. Macpherson was got out on the other -side of the bridge from that on which he fell. Both legs and both arms had been frac- tured, and there was a serious contusion over one of the eyebrows. He sur- vived only a quarter of an hour. Dr. Macdonald escaped almost unhurt.
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