SCOTLAND.
In consequence of some alleged rbstraction of money from letters passing through the Glasgow Post-office, an inquiry was instituted, and the result is, that on Wednesday evening six of the clerks and stompers employed at night have been suspended. It is impossible for us to state with certainty what sums may have been abstracted, lint the case is considered of a very serious nature. The alleged cause for suspect- ing pilfering in the Glasgow office arose from a bill not easily nego- tiated being taken out of one letter, and, by mistake of course, put into another; and the guilty party has not been discovered; but as the abstraction occurred at night, all on duty at the time are suspended.... Glasgow Chronicle.
A growing wood has within these few days disappeared from the western extremity of Benarty Hill, Kinross-shire. About seven acres of growing plantation, of ten or fifteen years of age, has slipped down from the brow of the hill, and now covers to the depth of from six to thirty feet a field of four acres which had been prepared for sowing. Scarcely a vestige of the wood is to be seen. The wood had been planted in a thin soil, resting on a species of rotten rock ; and is under- stood to have been loosened by the late sudden thaw.—Dumfries Times.
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