SCOTLAND.
Some extensive holders of Scottish Railway Scrip are adopting measures to pat an end to about thirty of the schemes now brought before Parliament, and to have the affairs wound up.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company have compromised the action for damages at the instance of the children of the deceased Mr. Cooley, horse,- dealer in Glasgow, who was killed in a railway-carriage on that line in May last. The company have agreed to pay 2,000L, with all expenses.
The extensive premises of Messrs. Stevenson and Company, printers to the University, in Thistle Street, Edinburgh, were almost entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night. There was a great delay in obtaining water, and even when got a deficiency in quantity.
Among the foreign arrivals in Clyde last week, we notice the Gondola, of and from New York, Captain J. Rennie, with a general cargo, including a consignment of Indian corn to Messrs. J. Fyffe and Co., of Glasgow. This, we believe, is the first importation of Indian corn in any quantity that has been made into Clyde for many years, and is the first at the reduced duty. The importers have hit upon the exact time for giving success to the adventure, as the shilling duty came only into operation on Saturday last.—Glasgow Chronicle.
Bread baked from Indian corn is coming rapidly into vogue; and several bakers are driving a brisk business in it already. At the meeting of the Philosophical Society, on Wednesday night, Dr. R. D. Thomson read an able paper on the nutri- tive qualities of Indian corn, which he ranked very high; and at the same time exhibited various kinds of bread and biscuit which had been baked from it by Mr. Wilson, Gordon Street. Some of the specimens were mixtures pf maize and wheat, and maize and rice; in which state the loaves can be better fermented than when the maize is used alone. The bread and biscuits were very palatable and pleasant.—Glasgow Argus.
Mr. Tait has been in the North purchasing fat cattle and sheep in great num- bers, to fulfil a Government contract. Mr. Tait, we understand, sends about 200 carcases of sheep every week to England. He has bought nearly all the fat sheep in Ross-shire and Caithness, besides part of Inverness-shire. Excellent prices have been obtained for the sheep and cattle; in some eases, the former as high as 6d. per pound. In London, and indeed throughout the whole country, the price of all kinds of stock is unusually high at present; forming (for the farmers at least) an auspicious commencement of free trade.—Ross-shire Adver- tiser.
Four people, two men and two women, have been drowned by the striking on a sunken rock of a boat in which they, with five other persons, were returning from Arisaig to Knoydart. Those saved were rescued by a boat which put off from Arisaig.
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