SCOTLAND.
The expenditure of the City of Edinburgh parochial board in out-deor relief has, in consequence of the present greater demand for labour and the cheapness of food, been fully 8001. less during the last three months than it was during the corresponding period of last year. In the course. of a year, a quarterly saving to this amount would come to upwards of 3,2001., being a reduction of more than 30 per cent.—Scotsman..
At Glasgow Justiciary Court, last week, Margaret Lennox was tried fee theft, forgery, and murder, at Strathaven. Jean Hamilton, the sister-in- law of the accused, died from arsenic administered to her when suffering from illness ; a bank-deposit receipt for 201. belonging to deceased was stolen - the money was obtained by the woman who presented the receipt at the bank signing "Jean Hamilton.' It was clearly made out that the prisoner pur- chased and administered the poison, and that she forged the signature. The Jury found her guilty of these, but not of the theft ; and, by a majority, re- commended her to mercy. She was sentenced to be hanged on the 31st instant.
Mr. James Shanks, a railway-contractor, has been found dead under cir- cumstances that had to a supposition of murder. He left Aberdeen in his gig for his residence at Kirkhl of Nigg : in the course of the night his horse arrived at its stable, stripped of harness ; the gig was found upset in a ditch by the side of the road ; Mr. Shanks's hat and whip, and the
were lying near. His body was subsequently found in the river Dee. By a fire on a farm at Craffiehall, near Inverness, twelve stacks of grain, and buildings containing eleven milch-cows and a bull, were destroyed
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