SCOTLAND.
Lord Clyde has consented to become an honorary member of the 8th Company Artillery Volunteers in Edinburgh.
On Wednesday, morning, one of the water-pipes which conveys the water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow burst in the village of Maryhill, a few miles from Glasgow. The water rushed- violently clown a steep bank into the river Kelvin, tusking ravines and rugged channels in the streets, and carrying off the kerbstones and causeway indiscriminately before it. In several places the water collected into large ponds, and a number of pigs narrowly escaped drowning. Considerable damage was done to gardens, avenues, and houses. A number of workmen are busily engaged repairing the pipe.
The projected Inverness and Ross-shire railway, which is to traverse the district of country between the towns of Inverness and Dingwall— the farthest distance to which the iron line has yet reached in Scotland, and the inauguration of which, by the cutting of the first turf, took place on the 19th of September last—is now in active progress.
Great excitement has k en occasioned in Berwickshire by an unlooked-for revelation which may lead to the clearing up of the murder in the Queen's Park, Edinburgh, in August last. At the risk of any inaccuracy in the first edition of the story circulating from mouth to mouth, we subjoin the fol- lowing particulars :—Some time ago a dissipated Yorkshire tailor, who had been working in the village, left for Edinburgh, in order to witness the Rifle Volunteer Review. He took to drinking there, remaining till his means were exhausted. Circumstances led hint into the company of the girl on the night of the murder, and for the sake of the small sum of 3s. 6d. in her possession he perpetrated the atrocious ad. A companion had been either with him or been privy to the murder, and be told it as a profound se- cret to the man who now makes the confession, and who, from the upbraid- ings of conscience, had been unable to conceal the matter longer. the au- thorities in Dunse immediately made inquiry into the case. Woolthorpe, the name of the alleged murderer, left, as the deponent affirms, for York- shire, where he is probably still. The authorities there have been tele- graphed. It happened that a photograph had been taken of Woolthorpe during his residence in Berwickshire, and copies have been taken of it by a Dunse artist, and forwarded to the South ; they may assist, along with other information, in tracing out the locality of Woolthorpc.—Nortla Bri- tish Daily Mail.
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