SCOTLAND.
An official communication was received on Tuesday, stating that it was not the intention of her Majesty to accompany Prince Albert at the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the National Gallery on the Mound, on Friday the 30th instant. This will be a great disappointment to the citizens, though it is still expected that the Prince of Wales and: the other Royal children will be present at the ceremony. The Queen, as now determined, will, on her arrival on the Thursday afternoon, by the North British Railway from Berwick, alight at a temporary station which is to be erected at St. Margaret's, and, entering her private car-. riage, drive direct through Holyrood Park to the Palace.—Bcotsman.
An accident from a very strange cause has happened to the Shruidon steamer while on her voyage from the West end of the Crinan Canal to Oban- When navigating the narrow straits which separate Easdale from Seal Is- land, a lady's dress became entangled with the chain which moves the rud- der. From this trifling cause, which partially tore the lady's gown from her person, the steamer was driven out of her course, and before the engines could be reversed she struck upon a sunken rock. The vessel remained' hooked on the rock, rolling violently from side to side. Several boats were within hail, and a number of the passengers were taken out of the steamer. Thus lightened, the vessel was got off the rock, and it was found that she made little water ; so the people were taken on board again, and all safely landed: at Oban. Lord Gough was among the passengers, and felt himself called upon to censure certain "valiant-looking men, with a large breadth of moustache," who were by no means willing to allow women and children to have precedence in leaving the steamer in the boats.
Mr. Michael George Nasmyth, younger son of the late Sir James Nasmyth, has met with a bad accident at Perth, where he was pupil to Mr. Maker, a civil engineer. Mr. Nasmyth attempted to leap from a locomotive while in motion on the Scottish Central Railway ; his left leg became entangled: in the wheel, and was crushed, so that amputation was necessary.
A train from Greenock was so carelessly driven into the Glasgow terminus, that it came into collision with a number of empty trucks ; the shock cut and bruised several persons, and Mr. Wood, a Glasgow ironmonger' broke his. leg in attempting to escape from a carriage. It is said that the guard ne- glected to apply the break at the proper time.
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