Glasgow Courier. — 1846-10-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GRAND FETE AT SCONE PALACE.  The Earl of Mansfield gave a grand fete at Scone Palace on Monday evening. Ris Lordship, we understand, gave a general invitation to the party attending the Assembly on the last night of the Royal Caledonian Bunt and Perth Races; and although all could not make that convenient, their places were supplied by other guests—for the number in attendance amounted to that of the most numerous Assembly of the Race week. The spacious suite of apartments in the Palace were brilliantly lighted up, and the entertainments altogether were on a scale worthy the hospitality of that noble and ancient house. The company began to assemble between nine and ten o'clock, when dancing commenced to a fine band from Edinburgh, ably led by Mr. It. B. Stewart of that city. Supper was served about one o'clock, after which the dance was again resumed, and kept up with unabated spirit till nearly break of day. This was altogether the most brilliant affair of the kind held at any private mansion in this county for many years past. —Perth Paper.  There have been flights of Egyptian locusts in different parts of Scotland; one of these locusts has been preserved alive in the Edinburgh Zoological Gardens.  The poliee-constables who are charged with tgiving false evidence on the inquiry into the murder of the late constable Clarke, at Dadenham, are to be proceeded against under the direction of the law officers of the Crown for that offence. . . _  Anomalies of the Season.—A gentleman from Lancashire, on a visit to Ayr last week, mentioned that in his garden a pear tree was at present bearing a second crop of fruit, each of the pears being nearly the size of a hen egg. The past year has altogether been very peculiar. In the middle of last winter we had bouquets of flowers, and now, late in autumn, we hear of second crops of fruit, while the potato which has so signally failed in its usual crop, is sending out new stems, and, in 601110 olive, yielding fresh and good tubers,—Ayr Aqvertiren  Trades' House.—The annual election of Deacon-Convener of the Trades' House took place on Wednesday, when Mr. J. Stewart, cooper, and Mr. John M'Callum, hammerman, were put in nomination. On the votes of the House (which was a very full one) being taken, they were found to be equal, and Mr. M'Callum has been elected by the casting vote of the Chairman. A protest has, however, been tabled against the legality of the return, in consequence of one of Mr. M‘Callum's voters being out of occupancy, and resident furth of the kingdom of Scotland. Fortitude.--A lad of about eighteen years of age, employed on the Oxford and Rugby Railway, fell down, and a waggon passed over his arm and shattered it. On the night of the accident the arm was amputated near the shoulder. He walked quietly from the place to the inn, talked coolly while the amputation was going on, and requested the bone might be saved, so that he might have a tobacco-stopper made of it! The lad had travelled from Doreetshire to near Banbnq for work,  . -••-• •  DescriptiOn of Stocks.  Bank of Scot!Li-a-British Linen  Cratedrininf City of Glasgow . Clydesdale Commercial ............ • • •••••• Eastern Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... t Exchange Hank of Scotland National ........... •••••••• North British Bank North of Scotland Royal - Union  Western  110101