SCOTLAND.
Meetings continue to be held throughout Scotland on the subject of the threatened changes in the currency. At all of them the same una- nimity is expressed, and resolutions have been in every case adopted declaring the most unqualified hostility to the measures understood to he in contemplation.—Edinburgh Weekly Journal. At Glasgow, there is a serious dispute between the hand-loom factory weavers and their employers. The weavers generally demanded a rise of wages. Two work-manufacturers made the required advance ; but one, a Mr. King, refused it ; on which his men struck work. Some other manufacturers gave notice that they would tarn out their work- people, unless Mr. King's hands returned to work. At a meeting of operatives it was resolved, that as Mr. King's men had left off work without the advice or request of the general body, " they left them at liberty to return to their employment as soon as they pleased." This resolution was not satisfactory to the masters, and five firms turned out all their weavers, to the number of 700. The weavers held another meeting ; and one of them gave vent to some very dangerous language, alluding to " what desperate men might be led to do"— He could not hide from himself that there were such things as accidents in consequence of which factories were sometimes destroyed by fire; and it would not surprise him if such accidents became more numerous than at present, be- cause he was satisfied that the men who could starve their fellow-creatures by refusing them work, could also be guilty of depriving them of life. Be hoped, therefore, the insurance-offices would look well to their policies.
The Glasgow Argus, from which we derive this account, states that as yet it has only heard the weavers' side of the question. Two strangers, who had been staying at Irvine and Kilmarnock for some days—a man and a woman, both about sixty years of age— drowned themselves in the Irvine river, about three miles from Kilmar- nock, last week. When the bodies were taken out of the water, they were found to be attached to each other by two handkerchiefs knotted together and tied round the arms of each. The names of the suicides are unknown : inside the gentleman's hat was this address—" H. J. At- kinson, Esq., King Street, Cheapside " ; but Mr. Atkinson of 19 King Street is declared to be alive at Brighton. They lived in Scotland as man and wife. They have not left much property at the inn at Kil- marnock; and only a shilling or two was found on their persons, with a number of trinkets.
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