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SCOTLAND.

Enrstntnon. Jur.v 9.
Wednesday, at the ordinary meeting of the Town Council, it was
resolved, that the foundation atone of the New High School, to be
erected on the grovnd to the east of the Miller's Know, on the
Cflton-hill, should be laid by the Lord Provost and Illagistrates,
with masonic honours, on Tuesday, the 19th curt.
The Court of Session rises on Saturday for the autumn vacation.
The box days are the tith September and Pith October.
We are glad to find that the Lord Provost and lilagistrates have
Issued a Proclamation, prohibiting the keeping of dogs in any
of the public markets, rider a penalty of ten shillings for each
' dog so kept.
Wednesday, the 29th June, being the Duke of Gordon's birth.
day.' the 3larchioness of Huntly ordered all the tradespeople and
workmen employed at present at Huntly Lodge, to be entertained
there in honour of the occasion. About a hundred sat down to roast
beef and plum pudding; and whiskey punch and porter were dis-
tributed with unsparing liberality.
We understand that the factors on Lord Gwydyr's estates in Scot-
land were instruciee, when lately receiving the rents, to make, not-
withstanding the present favourable change in the price of auricul.
tural produce. the very liberal deduction of from 11l to l7i per
cent, to his Lordship's tenants.—Cakdonion Mercury.
On Wednesday, Wallace's sword was brought here in a box,
from Dumbarton Castle, on its way to the Tower of London. The
removal has occasioned, not without reason, a good deal of dissatis.
(amino in this part of the country, where the name of the immortal
hero of Scotland is cherished with a peculiar regard.—Glue ore''
Journal.
Considerable amusement has been excited in the western district
of the parish of Lesmaltaguw, by the disappointment of an amorous
swain who has already, within the space of three years, twice en-
tered the Temple of Hymen. Ile was about to enter the same ve-
nerable structure for the third time, and this day was the one fixed
for the sacred ceremony, when about the end of the last week, a
young bochinvar, in the shape of an old man scarce able to wiJk
about, ran off with the There is a rumour floating about
that the venerable hero has since died from the fatigue to which his
extraordinary exertions put him ; but, like some of the Greek news
of late, it wants confirmation. A number of ludicriius adverise.
clients have been posted upon the smithy doors of the neighbourhood
offering a reward for the apprehension of the run-awks bride, un-
der the description of' a very nimble-footed quadruped, between the
Scotch name of which and her own, there is a resemilance. The
disappointed bridegroom, it is said, has procured another bride to
console him.—Glasgore Journal.
At no former period has an inclination for building opsrations
been so apparent. In every quarter of the town houses of large di-
mensions are in the course of erection, and the demand for masons
Is great. Wages (ram 24%. to 25t.—Montrosc Chronick.
A beautiful trout, weighing lbs. Dutch, was caught in the
Clyde above Lanark, the end of last week, by James Frazer, of
that burgh. It is the largest ever seen in that quarter.
On Thursday several peals of distant thunder were heard to the
southward of this city, and some heavy rain fell.
On Monday, the 211th ultimo, the district of Strathearn was
visited with ore of the sererest thunder sumps that has been mix-
, rleneed for many years. The hail and rain succeeded each other in
torrerta, yet luckily no harm was done.
On Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, an old man, rather
decently dressed, was observed walking in a hurried manner near
the canal basin, and in a very short time afterwards his body was
seen floating in the canal. Medical assistance was immediately
procured, but life was totally extinct.
I On Monday morning a young man, a mason, was discovered sus.
peeled by his own handkerchief to a tree near Duddingston. The
vital spark has fled. Disappointment in love is said to have led to
the fatal let.

A few years ago an English sailor at Smyrna went into
an open mosque at the time of prayer: seeing the Turks
kneeling and bowing, he flung down his hat, and knelt
too. After prayers they seized on him, and took him be-
fore the Cadi as a convert to Mahomedanistn. As he could
not be made to understand their questions, the dragoman
of the English Consul was sent for, through whom he was
asked it' it was his wish to become a Turk. "No !" he
said, "he would see them d—d first." " Why then did
you go into the mosque?" " Why, I saw a church door
open, and I thought any body might go into a church.
I have not been in one for three years before, and d—me if
I ever go into one again, if I can't do ea without turning
Turk." It was not without great difficulty that the Turks
were dissuaded from putting a turban on him by force.
On Tuesday, one of those fatal and lamentable accidents
which so frequently arise from the reprehensible practice of jesting
with fire arms, took place at Gniseley, under the following eircum-
limners :—Mr. John Craven, a farmer at Guisetey, had, during the
day, been assisting his brother in the husbandry business, and in
the eveuing retired to sup with him : during the time they were at
supper, his nephew, a youth about sixteen years of age, took up a
gun. which had not been used for a considerable time, and present-
ing it at his uncle, said. " Uncle, I will shoot you ;" when, to his
consternation and horror, the piece went off, and oho' his wows.
peeting relative dead on the spot. The shot passed through his
cheek and part of the head, and so instantaneous was his death that
he expired before he could complete the instinctive movement of
ailing his hand to his bead.—Leeds Mercury.

LAW INVELLITJF:NCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, 1110):DAY, Jett H.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
Mr. Ilt•ets said, he was instructed to mention the circumstancrs
of a motion in• the paper a considerable way down, with a view to
show, from the pressing nature of the case, that that motion ought
to be advanced. The circumstances were these : a gentleman con-
tracted a vast number of debts in England, in purchasing goods.,
and afterwards 'went abroad ; subsequently lie MU a considerable
quantity of money to a correspcsident here, as was alleged for the
purpose of being divided among his creditors; as soon as Annie of
the creditors got to know of this money being in the herds of the
correspondent. they commenced nocecelings against him in the
Lord Mayor's Court, fur the purpose of getting possession of it,
and had proceeded to be in a situation of being capable to take out
execution, in the expectation that, in consequence of their priority
(by having taken those proceedings) they would he able to get paid
the amount of their claims. Other creditors, who had not been par-
ties to those proceedings, tiled a bill in this Court, alleging that the
funds ought to be brought here, and rateably distributed among
all the creditors. Upon hearing the case, his Honour the Vice
Chancellor considered it doubtful whether or not there was a trust :
and if the money had been sent on trust for the benefit of all the cre-
ditors, a question would be. whether the correspondent had accepted
of the trust ; but. until this could be cleared up, his ilutiour
granted an injunction to restrain further proceedings, and ordered
the money to be paid into Court. His Honour was of opinion al•o,
that after this was done, the cause might be treated like as if a bill
Isf interplemler had been filed. It was then suggested, that, if the
debtor returned to this country, and 'n ct n.inission of tat I.rupt
were to be taken out against him, the proceedings in the Lord
I Mayor's Court would all have to go for nothing. and those credi- '
tors would lose their money. His Honour did not think his return
probable, end therefore directed pleadings to be filed. The plain-
affsin this Court had written to the debtor soliciting him to return ;
it is expected he will soon return, be made a bankrupt. and thereby
defeat the ebjeet of the putties who proceeded in the Lord Alayoe's
I Court. The present motion, therefore, was, to have the injunction
I dissolved before such a circumstance could happen. If the present
i•proceedings were suffered to go on, with the aspect they wore, from
the immense length of pleadings, and great number of creditors that
I there were, the money, which is at present very large, instead of
paying any of the creditors, will form a fund, but very inadequate,
to the payment of such proceedings.
Ilia Lo•DsitiP asked, if Mr. Heald had mentioned this to his
Honour?

Mr. HEALD said no.
His boatisurr did not then consider it eery courteous to him,
because as his Honour had granted the injunction upon a notion
that the debtor would not return, the present statement ought to
have been made to him, and the time of this part of the Court
ought not to have been occupied with it.
Mr. HEALD could only ray it wag the desire of his clients that
it should be mentioned to his Lordship.
His Loansu re desired it to be mentioned again on Thursday,
and then it would be seen how the Counsel who are to oppose it are
prepared.