SCOTLAND.
The Duke of Sussex has been invited to a public dinner by the lead. ing Edinburgh Whigs.
It is stated that Mr. C. Ferguson is about to retire, owing to bad health, from the representation of the stewartry of Kirkcudbright ; and that Mr. Murray of Broughton, the late Liberal candidate for Wigtonshire, will, in this case, start as his successor.—Edinburgh Chronicle.
It is with regret we have heard it asserted, on authority which we are inclined to believe, that the Duke of Buecleuch has determined to break up his numerous magnificent establishments in this country, and retire with his family for some years to the Continent. The reason we have heard assigned for this sudden resolve is the delicate health of the eldest hope of Buccleuch, the Earl of Dalkeith. The prospect of this change has caused much lamentation in the town of Dalkeith, as we have no doubt it will also do in the vicinity of all the other princely residences of his Grace.—Caledonian Mercury of Thursday.
The Tweed salmon-fishings closed on Monday last, the 15th instant ; being the day fixed by the act for the commencement of the close time. On taking a retrospect of the season, we regret to say it is found, that in its results it forms no exception to the fact established by the expe- rience of former years, that in the Tweed, as in most of the rivers in Scotland, a gradual decrease has for many years past been observed in the produce of these tishings. Up to the middle of July last, the pros- pects of the fishing were more discouraging than perhaps has ever been experienced during any former season. The augmentation which usually takes place at that season in the number of grilses, however, gave an impulse to the fishings which has continued up to the close ; and the result is, that while in the number of grilses, the fishing has, during the season, been better than that of last year, it has been de- cidedly worse as respects salmon and trouts; and taking the aggregate of all these kinds of fish, the produce has been scarcely equal to that of last year. The same remark was applicable to the fishings of last year on comparing them with the year preceding; and infinitely more so to the fishings of the year before last, on comparing their result with that of 1835, to which year's fishing the produce of that of the present year is supposed to bear only the proportion of one-fourth ; and thus does the gradual decrease become apparent, as, by tracing it through a pe- riod of nearly thirty years, the diminution is the more marked the further back we go. In Scotland the produce of the fishings this year is supposed, upon the whole, not to exceed one-half of what it was a year or two ago—Berwick Paper.
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