The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINDUROE, Ocr. 16.
A vacancy has occurred in the Latin chair of
Eing's College, Aberdeen, by the death of Dr. Forbes,
professor for the last thirty years. In referring to
the impropriety of attempting to deprive 111r.1
*Douai, the new Hebrew professor, of his chair in
Edinburgh University, the Scotsman has fallen into a
mistake regarding King's Coll ggee. He says " Mr.
Bentley, Professor of Oriental in King's
College, Aberdeen (the chair corresponding to that
obtained by Mr. NPDonall), is an avowed free church-
man ; but the presbytery' never think of disturbing
him.”--In the first place, Mr. Bentley has been dead
for about twelve months ; and, in the second, efforts
were made by some of the Aberdeen church courts
to disturb him, and probably would have been con-
tinued until they excited prominent attention, had
the venerable professor lived longer ; these efforts
being all the more ungenerous that the old man had
been nearly half a century in the university, and could
not, in the course of nature, have been long a stum-
bling-block in the way of any party. The subscrip-
tion for the status of Dr. Chalmers, in the new col-
lege, Edinburgh, onlj amounts as yet to about 1001.,
the estimated cost being 1,5001.
A prize of 501. is offered by a non-medical gentle-

man in Edinburgh for the best way on hydrophobia,
as it affect, the human subject. The judges are to be
three of the medical professors of Edinburgh Univer-
sity, with the secretary. of which the essays are re-
quire to be lodged previous to May 1 next year.
Having given currency to the charge of premature
piling in Ballantrae, it is but fair to give the follow-
ing defence, leaving its worth to be estimated by those
capable of judging in ash a question. It appears
in the form of as aaaaraoss letter to the Wigton
Press:

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Reference was lately asade to the carom duties of
district surgeons in Obsegoir, and to the smallness of
their emoluments. They have now a chance of be-
coming "passing rich," as at last meeting a member
of the parochial board gave notice of a motion to
raise their salaries to " forty pounds a year."
In Glasgow thirteen publicans were the other day
fined in sums varying from 255. to 80s., for keeping
their houses open at untimely hours. In connexion
with these subjects, a oommittee of Aberdeenshire
commissioners or supply ask :

To it not expedient to seam the poetrate of Home for the
=de of wine, so as to imeam. be rather des that of
ardent spirits? It at do, It le vety espellest give
power tojastkes. 'bite dry gem It Melnik to mat erlillietes
for lienso le been, Mt dr els modem, eve el tbe met, but le be
entirely oiled es Ot mere Vie vela retie te be minted
out with mob ellemell_e W Wee Wel eelleettlet; bat it is well
worthy of antelemiletetim ; ee eat esy. very fewer are re-
quired for the pones el peels memmeisdas lbas to other dap,
bemuse timing ralWesmabr, Males. er outs le motion ; and
by eteeette Ile le lay Imes@ now proposed, of ems, et I Yermr
rats, mnedt Inliempitnnse well le gmeneted. nevem Yee tee-
Meetly to oomplis at by Sunday elaidne ; and It
is not easy to moist the pellese, if be beep his customers
concealed on him prembee. %bleb N Es Ids Interest to do.

Tice GLASGOW ATHINAMIL—Dr. J. W. Hudson, of
Lleds, has been elected secretary to the Glasgow Athos.
imam. The number of applicants for this office were very
great, and all of them highly respectable. Many can boast
of no mean name in the 1 terary world. Seeing the minimum
salary (12514 is so small, it in somewhat wonderful to think
so many applicants came forward ; but the Glasgow Athe-
neum is a promising institution : it opened on Wednesday
last with 1,300 members, and every succeeding day has
added a large number of new subscribers, so that the office
of secretary may prove more lucrative ere long. One thing
seems certain, if Dr. Hudson works the Glasgow Atheneum
as he has done other institutions he has been connected with,
the means of the institution will speedily increase sufficiently
to admit of the appointment being made more lucrative
to him.

Fax RAILSD AGAIN.—The case of this man, who was
liberated on bail during his wife's illness, and re-apprehended
since her death, having attracted much interest, we (Glaze-
gate Herald) have been induced to make a little inquiry into
the matter. The case is, no doubt, one of great atrocity, still
it wan not, we are informed, in the power of the magistrate
to refuse bail—the charge upon which the accused was
apprehended, being that of "cruel, barbarous, and felonious
maltreatment of his wife." Fay was examined upon that
charge, and committed to prison until he should find suffi-
cient caution, under a penalty of 300 merke Scots
(161. 13e. 44.), that he would appear and answer to that
charge whenever required; and this we learn is the usual
amount demanded from persons in the station of the accused
in bailable eases. Fay found bail accordingly, and was libe-
rated. On the death, however, of Mrs. Fay, the case assumed
, a different aspect, and Fay was again apprehended. He
' was now charged with the crime of culpable homicide—a
medical inspection was ordered—the accused examined upon
that charge, and warrant granted for his imprisonment until
he found bail, under • penalty of 261. sterling, that he would
appear and answer to that charge—it being by law still one of
a bailable nature, and the amount such as is demanded from
persons of Fay's station. It may be the opinion of many that'
bail should not be accepted in such a ease ; but, in the mean-
time, the law says differently. The case will be reported in
ordinary coarse to the Lord Advocate.
RURAL Sturcterrv.—A sporting gentleman, attended by
his servant, lately entered a western hostelrie, for the pur-
pose of refreshing the inner man. They were met by the
landlady, who welcomed her vioiton, but next moment she
gave a look of alarm at the guns, and reminiscences of
" melancholy and fatal accidents," duly chronicled in a
thousand and one different newspapers, crowded on her sen-
sitive memory. " Oh, airs," she exclaimed, " are thee guns
loaded ? " " Yee," was the reply. " Dear me, but I canna
allow loaded guns in my house; I couldna bide the thoct o't
—rase ane kens what dreadhe mischanter might happen."
" 0 ! bring me a cork ; make it all right," laid Mr. —.
The keeper in a moment caught his master's cue, and with
hostess's help got the article. Mr. and his man then
pared the halved cork nicely down to the proper size, and
corked up each barrel ! The ruse succeeded ; the landlady's
terror was apposed, and no accident happened with the
gnus !