SCOTLAND.
Lord Eglinton was installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, on Tuesday, in the Common Hall of the College. Among the distinguished gentlemen around the Lord Rector were, the Principal and the Professors of the University, Sir Archibald Alison, and Sir Michael Shaw Stewart.
Lord Eglinton delivered the customary address to his constituents. It was marked by a cordial appreciation of the great merits of his predecessors, and the worth of his distinguished opponent the Duke of Argyll who, he said, is worthy of the encomium which Thomson bestowed on his greatest ancestor-
" From thy rich tongue Persuasion flows, and wins the high debate;
While mixed in thee combine the charms of youth, The force of manhood, and the depth of age"
Referring to the unanimous vote of the Irish students in his farm; he took it as a proof of their good opinion of his conduct as Lord-Lieutenant. "There is_no_ country," he said, "in which education should not be a primary object; but on the full carrying out of education depend the whole
hopes of Ireland's future prosperity What is in Scotland a matter of reditation and history, is in Ireland a matter of hope and futurity. The prosperity of Scotland is the best auguy for Ireland's future. Three hun- dred years ago, Scotland was more cOlaed with delt and religions digests-
alone than Ireland is at this day ; but our Monarchs gave us Universities, our Parliaments Parochial Schools, England gave us our Union, and we see the gratifying proofs around us."" A rapid account of the rise and progress, blended with warm praise of Glasgow—" the emblem of Scottish enterprise, the mother of Scottish com- merce and trade" —and some sound advice to the young students, terminated the oration.
• There was a fierce gale on the East coast of Scotland hat week. Many wrecks occurred, in some cases with a sad loss of life. Two colliers went ashore at Aberdeen, and broke up. In one instance, five men and the master perished ; one man was rescued by means of a life-boat, on its eighth at- tempt to render aid. Only one pilot volunteered to man this boat ; and a number of carpenters gallantly served as a crew. The master of the other vessel was washed ashore alive on a piece of the wreck, but dreadfully. ex- hausted; the crew of six men were drowned. It is stated as a complaint that these vessels were unfit for winter service ; one was twenty-seven years old, the other sixty-four : the owners are coal-merchants, and employed these vessels, which would never have been chartered by third parties if new- er vessels were in the market. A brig was seen to founder off Catterline. From the Tay to Kinnaird Head the shore is strewed with wrecks. A schooner was wrecked at Montrose ; the life-boat gained the vessel, and took off a boy —the rest of the hands had been swept overboard during the night.
Some time since, a vessel got aground off Granton harbour ; it was neces- sary to unload her to get her afloat again ; and a number of men were em- ployed in the task. One evening some of these drank deeply while on beard; seven of them got into a small boat to row to shore ; the load was excessive, and some of the drunken men having got on their legs, the boat was upset. Two swam to land, but the other five perished.
John Maeintyre, a boatman of Kingussie, has been eaten alive by pigs! While attempting to enter the upper part of a water-mill where some oats belonging to him were to be ground, he slipped from a plank into a dirty den in which two monster pigs were confined ; he seems to have been stunned by the fall ; the accident was not perceived at the moment, and when it was discovered the pigs were devouring the man. His mangled body was quickly got out of the sty, but life was extinct.
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