SCOTLAND.
The Edinburgh Witness states that the Lord Advocate has promised to bring in a bill on the subject of the University tests, similar to that in- troduced by his predecessor, Lord Rutherfurd.
Application is to be made to Government for a supply of convict labour for the erection of a breakwater in the Bay of Wick, as a harbour of re- fuge to shipping on that coast.—Glasgow liizu The College Committee of the Town-Council of Edinburgh have under their consideration a proposition for the establishment of a National Mu- seum in Scotland.
A correspondent of the Scotsman, under the nom de plume of "Colo- nist," has made the handsome offer of a subscription of 1000/. towards the organization of a scheme for the relief of the destitute classes in Edin- burgh by means of emigration, under condition that other 5000/. shall be raised so as to place the scheme on a substantial basis.
The serious indisposition of Lord Panmure is again announced by the Scotch papers. The latest accounts state that he had slightly rallied.
In Glasgow, the deaths in November amounted to 906, exclusive of 78 still-born ; the number in November 1850 was only 704, including still- born ; the increase in the burials, this year, is 281.
The steam-cooperage of Messrs. Robertson and Co. in Glasgow was ravaged by fire on Saturday night. So intense was the heat, that large four-inch iron shafts were bent and twisted as if they had been the softest lead. Nearly the entire portion of the building devoted to the patent manufacture of bar- rels has been destroyed. At the same time that the mechanism has suffered, the stock of wood, &c., has very much escaped.
In the storm of Sunday and Monday sennight, upwards of 1000 trees, some of them very large and of great age, were blown down in the Duke of Ar- gyll's policies at Inverary.
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