SCOTLAND.
The Earl of Malmesbury having used language in his place in Parlia- ment, not supposed to be complimentary to Scotland, a son of the thistle wrote to him, and received the following wonderful specimen of the English a Foreign Secretary can write when he tries.
" London, May 5. " Sir—I have received your letter containing the strange charge of having stated in the House of Lords that the Queen had obtained Scotland by conquest. I call it strange, because you found your interpreta- tion on a perfectly correct report of my speech, which you quote as fol- lows I know of no other title by which her Gracious Majesty holds the kingdom of Scotland, her empire of India, and some of the colonial depen- dencies of the British Crown, than these three—right of inheritance, of con- quest, and of treaty.' You must be ignorant of the construction of our language if you do not see in this sentence a successive application of the words inheritance' to Scotland, conquest' to India, and treaty' to Malta and other dependencies. "I am, &c. MALMFAINTRY." The city of Perth has been the first to welcome Sir John Lawrence with an address from its municipality.
Four cardsharpers, says the Glaigow Herald, two of whom belonged to Edinburgh, were sentenced last week, at the Aberdeen Circuit Court, to six year's penal servitude, and one to seven years, for fraud at a game of cards in a railway carriage, and for theft of a watch.
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