SCOTLAND.
The General Assembly of the Established Church concluded its session on Monday evening, and separated till the 19th of May 1853.
The General Assembly of the Free Church concluded its session on Tuesday evening.
Large vessels are weekly leaving the Bromielaw, filled with passen- gers; and by the end of the season, there is little doubt that a larger num- ber of emigrants will have left the Clyde than in any previous year. The number of emigrants who have sailed from the various ports on the river, up to the present date, is 6050. The destination of these persons, with the exception of from two to three hundred, is North Americ.a.—North British Mad.
Lewis, a Jew receiver of stolen watches and jewellery, was arrested at Glasgow : the police discovered a large collection of valuables at his house. When. taken to prison, Lewis, as is customary, was placed in a bath ; he wore a large plaster on his breast, on account of a severe illness, he said; but the water causing the plaster to come away, six gold watches were revealed to the gaolers.
The "garotte" robbers of Glasgow have taken advantage of the existence of common stairs in Scotch houses to introduce a new variety in their mode of plunder. A fellow went at night to the residence of Mr. Alexander, a surgeon-dentist living in Union Street, and ascertained that he had not yet come home. Three men hung about the stairs ; and when Mr. Alexander, who is an elderly person, was ascending, one man threw his arm round his neck, while the others carried off his watch and money. Some minutes elapsed before Mr. Alexander had sufficiently recovered to raise an alarm. Two men are in custody, one of whom is a most notorious offender.
Mr. Arndt, collector of customs at Grangemouth, with two of his sons and Mr. Adamson, ship-builder, went out in a boat to fish. On their return the boat was capsized. One of the lads swain ashore at once ; the others re- mained clinging to the boat. They were all good swimmers, and the shore not four hundred yards distance, but between the edge of the water and the high ground was a large tract of mud. After waiting an hour, they tried their fate, and one of them, Mr. Arnett, lost his life by suffocation in the mud.
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