SCOTLAND.
Glasgow is almost riotous anent the Forbes Mackenzie Act. At a meeting of the Town-Council, on Thursday week, a motion was made for a committee of inquiry into the working of the act ; but it was met by the "previous question," on the ground that the act has not been sufficiently tried. The previous question was carried by 23 to 7. On Tuesday, a public meeting was held to consider the late acts for regulating the habits, morals, and recreations of Scotland. It was scan- dalously uproarious; neither party would listen to the other ; and no inference on the subject at issue can be drawn from the meeting, except that both sides displayed the greatest intemperance of conduct.
Sir James Carnegie, of Southeak, having successfully claimed the Southesk Peerage, becomes the sixth Earl. His father began the pro- ceedings, but died ere he could complete them ; his son has been more fortunate.
It appears that an attempt is to be made to bring Inverness within the circle of railway communication. The railway, it is said, will be called "The Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway," and will be supported by the largest landed proprietors of the North of Scotland.
There has been a serious collision at the Cove station of the Aberdeen Railway ; not so disastrous, however, as might have been expected. An ex- cursion-train from Montrose to Aberdeen, containing 600 persona, was stop- ping, late at night, at Cove, for the collection of the tickets; there is a curve here. A train from the South was over-due, as usual. This train approached Cove; the driver of it did not see the danger-signal till too late to stop his train ; and it ran into the excursion-train, frushing the rearmost carriages. Fortunately, the train had been heard approaching, and several persons left the last carriage of the stationary train, and thus escaped death or mutila- tion. Two of the occupants of another carriage were Lie,utenants Dobie and Smith, of the Seventy-ninth Regiment: the former had one of his legs frac- tured, and his companion was badly bruised. The other passengers escaped without dangerous hurts.
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