The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, Jvirs 29.
Model lodging houses for the poor have been opened
in Glasgow. The Herald thug describes the first
series &these useful institutions:

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dell; awl ail may ham klelduterr mive et pude. see butter-
oak et sad almer. eta kith iiitambe a bread,
Chet he Rio am It le blerine at op bot Ws Is • vacant space
bid be hiding, ili all bey me aa the alarm of Id. per bead.
U shapaNly ampzrted, tie belltuttem 11:011 become tell-
TLa parliamentary return on the Scotch
Ordnance Survey stated, that from April 1, 1846, to
March 31, 1847, 60,677 acres had been surveyed,
which, to the uninitiated, looks like progress, but as
Scotland contains 19,000,000 acres, the amosnt
surveyed is only about a three-thousandth part of the
whole. The survey was begun in 1811, and, at the
above rate, it will not be finished within a period
which it were ludicrous to quote.
Mr. Steel is still going on with his equestrian
statue of the Duke of Wellington, which is intended to
be placed in front of the Register Office. It is a noble
work, and will at least have the benefit of a solid
pedestal. How the site will suit otherwise, experience
will show.

SCOTCH LITIGATION.— in moving for an increase of salary
to the sheriff substitutes of the lower ward of Lanarkshire,
the writers in Glasgow have given the statistics of litigation
in that part of the county. In ordinary actions the number
of judgments pronounced excluding those on a verbal hear-
ing, has been : in 1813, 1,361 ; in 1846, 2,207. In summary
actions, in 1843, 1,638; In 1846, 2,099. In the Small Debt
Court, in 1843, 10,301 new actions, in 11346, 1.5,617. In the I
criminal trials by jury a proportionate increase is apparent.
SCOTCH Ygommear.—ln 1846 the cost of 889 officers and
13,818 men amounted to 87,9481,' An these gentlemen arc
fond of amateur soldiership, it strikes us that all this expense ,
might be saved to the country. Rather than give up their
accoutrements and prancinp, the yeomanry would probably
bear the expense out of their own pockets.
SERIOUS RAILWAY OFPENCIL-081 the evening of Fri-
day last, says the Ayr Advertiser, an attempt was made to
throw the last train, from Glasgow to Ayr, off the rails. It
was made in the neighbourhood of Dairy, or rather near to,
Swinlees, where twenty stones about the size of a man's fist
were laid upon the rail, it is supposed in the expectation et
the iron rod in front of the engine wheel passing over them.
Fortunately this was not tested, as a surfacemen travelling
along part of the line discovered and removed the obstruc-
dons. A short time afterwards, one of the contractors
coming past the same spot, saw a piece of an iron railway
chair firmly fixed on the same rail, which leads to the sus-
picion that the wretch who placed the stones must have been
lying in the neighbourhood watching the result of his murder-'.
ous attempt • and, on seeing the removal of the stones, had,
the hardihood to come upon the line again and fasten the
grooved iron on the rail. Alluding to en alleged attempt at,
concealing this misdeamenour, the Advertiser goes on to re •
mark " Surely the public have a right to know, through
the press, both that such an attempt has been made, and
whether they are likely to be protected from such danger in
future by the aoprehensioe and punishment of so reckless an
offender. So far as we can learn, he is yet at large."