The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, Sasv. 17.
The farmers here are complaining greatly at the
want of rain. We have only had one pluvious day
for months, and the bad effects, now that the grain
crops are for the most part gathered in, are mani-
fested in a variety of ways. First, towns are short
of water, then beans, turnips, and other fields, as well
as garden crops, are being seriously injured, and if
they fail, especially the former, a moiety of animal
food will be cut off, which must be made up by
having recourse to grain, which will thus narrow the
supplies for the human subject. Again, as most
mul mills are driven by water, their machinery being
inert, the price of oatmeal is up, not so much on ac•
count of any scarcity of oats as of scarcity of motive
power for grinding.
Yesterday a meeting was held in the Edinburgh
high school, of the Scotch parochial schoolmasters, for
the purpose of considering the privy council minutes
on education. About 200 attended, and the meeting
was a private one, but the result of the deliberations
Was what tho readers of this 'l ane!' are quite prepared
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for, viz., that it would be infra dig. in the Incurs to
accept of grants on the conditions prescribed by the I
council. To-day they were to meet to receive the
report of their widows' fund, which we are glad to
say is in a flourishing condition ; and on Saturday they
are to meet in common with Scotch teachers of all
sects for the purpose of forming the proposed educa-
tional institute. Ae formerly stated, this body is to
endeavour to obtain a charter for the granting of
three orders of diplomas, junior and senior licentiates.,
and fellows. It is to be anti-central in its examining
operations, as these will take place not only at the
four university towns of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aber-
deen, and St. Andrew's, but also at Dumfries, Perth,
and Inverness.

Yesterday, too, there was a meeting of the Associa-
tion for protecting Roadway Rights. Cries of
tabooing are coming from all quarters, and, not to
mention other places, some attempts have been
making to prevent the Scottish soul from having
I its patriotism fired by the clay tenement traversing
the "field of Bannockburn." Should a thrust next
be made at lona, where shall we be ? Patriotism,
however, must give way to botany, and fields to glens,
as the association has appropriately resolved on break-
ing their first lance in behalf of Glen Tilt. The town
council and other bodies are to be appealed to for the
sinews of law, and there is every prospect of what
makes Scotch writers wink and rub their palms—" a
weel-gangin' plea."
The hot-bed dramatisation of the Surrey has ex-
tended to Glasgow ; the Adelphi of that city announces
" The Revolt at Sea, or the Crew of the James Camp-
bell." Last night Jenny Lind's concert was eminently
successful, so far as attendance and satisfaction were
concerned. In Glasgow she sings to-night, and to-
morrow in Perth, and on Monday she returns to
Edinburgh, and appears at a morning concert—prices
reduced.

The mildew of a cycle of criminal liberation has
fallen on Glasgow. Numerous robberies having of
late taken place, a muster of " suspicious characters"
was made. During their detention cause and effect
were beautifully exemplified, an burglaries almost
ceased for the time being. Of the twenty-one laid
bold of, all had previously been convicted, some three

or four, and one of them five times, and four were
returned convicts. They were disrniss3d with an in-
timation that the vagabond hwe would be enforced
against them.

GLASGOW REGISTRATION COURT.—The sittings of this
court have concluded, and although the results have not
been formally announced, it is supposed they will be as
under : Claims lodged for Dennistoun and Dixon, 2,100
sustained, 1,400. For !testae and Macgregor, 620; sustained,;
400. Independent, 772 ; sustained, 709.
Pnovosrs.—The chief magistrates of Edinburgh, Aber-
deen, and Perth retire in November, all tired of office,
THE LATE MELANCHOLY EVENT SEAR FORT WILLIAM.
—Mr. Sterricker, ten., arrived at Fort William, the Thurs-
day after his nephew's melancholy death from cold in Glen-
coe. The same evening Mr. Moore, of Esher, a friend of
Mr. Whitburn's, also arrived, to identify the body, and get
the remains conveyed to Surrey. These gentlemen had no
difficulty in recognising their respective relatives, on whose
features death had wrought little or no change. The remains
of Mr. Sterricker were on Friday interred in the burying-
ground attacked to the episcopal chapel, and were followed
to the grave by a considerable wimber of the more respecta-
ble inhabitants in deep mourning, and by some strangers
sojourning at the inns. The beautiful service of the Church of
England for the burialof the dead, was read by the Rev. Mr.
Maclennan, and all present seemed solemnised by the calking
dispensation of Providence which called them together.
Wnen the funeral rites were ended, Mr. Sterricker expressed
his a_lenowledgmeots for the kind sympathy manifested by
the gentlemen attending the funeral, and his obligations for
the attention bestowed on the bodies of the deceased, from
the moment of their discovery on the mountain, as well as
the perfect satisfaction which he and Mr. Moore felt with
the manner in which the investigations were conducted
under the direction of the sheriff, and for the prompt and
judicious means adopted for making the mournful intelli-
gence known, through the Lord Mar tr.—lncerness Courier.
Da. CHALMEIuer: POsTIMMOVS WORKS.—These volumes
are to be edited by the Rev. William Hanna, son-in-law of
1.. e venerated author, and successor to Sir David Brewster in
the editorship of " The North British Review." The works
will consist of, firstly, " Daily Scripture Readings," begin-
ning with Genesis and ending with the book of Jeremiah ;
secondly, " Sabbath Meditations on the Holy Scriptures,"
embracing a considerable portion of the Old and the whole
of the New Testament; thirdly, "Theological Institutes ;"
fourthly, "Lectures on Butler's Analogy ;" and fifthly,
" Discourses." These, it is expected, will extend to nine
large volumes. The "Life sad Correspondence" will occupy,
in all probability, four more volumes. The religious public
will be delighted to learn that " Dr. Chalmers Life" will be
an autobiography, having been fully prepared by himself.
Housza.—Dwellings for a hundred miners,
commenced at Craigniark, Ayrshire, a short time since, are
now nearly all finished. Their e xteinal appearance is remark-
ably neat, while within every attention has been paid to the
comfort of the inmates. A school-house, store-house,
are also to be erected. A quarter of a mile farther up the
hill arc rich mines of black-band iron ore, ready for work-
ing. Coal-pits are being sunk and supplied with goad work.
ing engines, there as well as at Burnfoot.