SCOTLAND.
The Court news is told in the fewest possible lir.es of the daily Court circular. The Queen and Prince Albert had a fishing expedition on Loch Manion on Thursday sennight; and slept for the night at "The Hut," a fishing-lodge in a solitary nook on the lake's wild shore. Lord Portman, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson of Invercatdd, and Sir Charles Lyall, have been the Queen's guests at Balmoral.
An accident of a very melancholy nature occurred on Thursday [week] to Dr. Adams, resident physician in the Clyde Street Hospital. It appears that, on the previous day, having occasion to make use of a quantity of chloroform, he took several doses himself to try its strength, but without any serious conse- quence: however, having yesterday afternoon [Thursday week] repeated this dangerous experiment, and incautiously increased the dose to a very large degree, he no sooner applied it to his lips than he immediately fell back and expired. Several physicians were in immediate attendance, who did everything which skill and experience could suggest, but without effect.—North British Mail.
Last week was one of almost unbroken fog, rendering our fishing so much a haphazard that when a crew did get a good shot of fish they did not knowwhere to go to the same place on the following evening. In several cases some of our boats were at sea for more than two nights, being unable to find land. For one Staxigo boat, rather inferiorly manned, fears were entertained, not so much from. the inefficiency of the boat, as from the insaillicient quantity of food they had on board. They turned up after a forty-eight hours' absence. Another crew lost their reckoning, after all available provisions had been devoured; and had it not been that they fell in with a vessel, from the crew of which they got some biscuits, the consequences might have been serious. When thus found, they were :porno- where in the Moray Firth. A small boat left Stroina on Wednesday afternoon, for Duncaneby, with five men and one woman on board. Losing their way, they continued sailing till Saturday morning ; when they were picked up by a vessel about fifteen miles off Lybster, and were landed at Wick. They had tasted no food for two-and-a-half days.—John o' Groat Journal.
Mr. Walter Black, a young gentleman who was private secretary to Lord Murray, has been drowned while bathing in the sea at Strachur. The body was taken from the sea lifeless; but the cause of the disaster is not clearly known.
Dugald Macleay, forester to the late Mr. Hay Mackenzie of Crornartie, has accidentally killed himself, in the forest of Rhidorach. Ile had brought down an eagle with one barrel of his gun, and it is supposed that he was despatching the bird with the butt-end when the other barrel exploded, lodging the charge in his body. WCallam, an athletic young fellow, on his way as a convict to Aberdeen, at- tempted to escape, and in the scuffle he was wounded in the head. In conse- quence of his wounds, it was deemed best to place him in an upper cell of the West Prison, under the roof. There is a skylight in the room, a cheval-de- frise round the parapet, and the building is five stories high; so the invalid was thought to be secure. During the night, however, M'Caamn got through the skylight, passed over the spikes by means of his bedclothes, and with tbeir aid swung himself down the wall till he reached an iron funnel, by which ha de- scended to the ground. He subsequently surmounted a high outer wall, and got clear off. [In many escapes from prison elevant-de-fusa, are very useful to the runaway as the means of fastening his rope.]
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