SCOTLAND.
ne Glasgow Argus announces, that when the Caledonian Canal is re- opened, after the completion of the present great improvements on it, steam- tugs will ply regularly along the whole length, and make the voyage from eea to sea in twenty-four hours.
Among the new projects on the tapis in Scotland, is the plan of making a tun- nel under the Clyde. The proposal is said to have met with much favour.
Two fatal aeeidents have occurred on the Ayrshire Railway. A man has been crushed to death at the Kilwinning station, in attempting to attach two trucks to a luggage-train while the latter was in motion. At Irvine, a boy got upon a truck which the people were removing; but fell off, under the wheels, and was Hied. He had been removed once from his dangerous post, but climbed up again unperceived by the railway-men.
A begging letter impostor has received a severe sentence from the Sheriff in the Criminal Court at Edinburgh. The man was charged with obtaining money from two gentlemen by forged letters; he pleaded guilty, and was ordered to be im- prisoned for eighteen months.
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