SCOTLAND.
Monday week, Lord Panmure formally made over to the new Mechanics Institution, Brechin, the handsome apartments which he bad erected for its use, together with the fine collection of paintings which decorate the hall. His Lordship at the same time banded to the President and Vice-President a check for 1,000!, to be vested in true* tees for behoof of the institution. Thus, by the enlightened liberality of this nobleman, the youth of Brechin have been provided with ele- gant schools and the mechanics with a splendid ball, and the means of obtaining instruction in useful knowledge and rational amusement in all time coming.—Aberdeen Herald.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was opened on Friday last, by the Directors and their friends, in a style of great splendour. In the afternoon a banquet took place in the passengers' shed at the Glasgow terminus, which formed a hall 230 feet in length and upwards of 80feet in width. It was calculated to hold 1,200 persons ; and the coup-d'ceil, as may be imagined, was very striking. The chair was occupied by John Leadbetter, Esq., Chairman of the Directors ; supported right and left by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Wyndham Anstruther, Bart., Alexander Memel', Esq., 'advocate, Sheriff Campbell of Dumbarton, Bailie Robertson of Glasgow, Colonel Fleming, &c. The proceedings altogether went off with great eclat, and formed an auspicious commencement to this great national work. The distance, forty-six miles, will be performed with ease in about two hours.—Scotsman.
The Scottish Guardian of Tuesday contains the following announce- ment— " The day on which this publication sees the light is, without controversy, one of the most momentous days that has dawned upon Scotland for centuries. * • * * With Mr. M'Cheyne, of Dundee, we have not one vestige of doubt • that Scotland is, at this moment, an object of intense interest both in heaven and in bell.' This is the battle-field in which the powers of light and of darkness are engaged in a desperate conflict." The sun has gone down upon the momentous day pictured by the Guardian—the conflict in which the powers of light and of darkness have been engaged has terminated ; in other words, the shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway have resolved [by 1,219 to 648 votes] that a morning and an evening train shall be started from each end of the line on the first day of the week, under such regulations as shall permit every servant of the Company an opportunity of attend- ing the religious services of the day. * * * After the close of the meeting, the defeated Agnewites adjourned to a neighbouring hotel, and appointed Committees to sit in Edinburgh and Glasgow, which are to "declare their meetings permanent," and to take " means to bring the law to bear on the parties desecrating the Sabbath."—Glasgow Argus, Feb. 24.
Sir Robert Peel has been burned in effigy at Hawick in Mintoshire.
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