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THE building of two new rooms for the Lords Ordinary in the Court of Session has commenced, to the south of the outer-house. A set of elegant plans, for improving the Cathedral Church of St Giles, in this city, were laid lately before the Magistrates and Council, drawn by Mr Arch. Elliot, architect. One plan is to have only two churches, viz. the present High Church, and a similar one to the west of it, where the present New North Church stands, taking away that church, the Tolbooth Church, and part of the Old Church; by another, to have three churches the High Church, the Old Church, and a new erection in place of the New North and Tolbooth Churches, with accommodation for the General Assembly, Presbytery, &c. The designs are much admired, and, when carried into execution, will be highly ornamental to the city.

The Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, the Royal College and Incorporation of Surgeons, and the Hammermen, of Edinburgh,

and the Guildry Incorporation of Dundee, have determined to oppose the bill now pending in Parliament, relative to the revenues and expenditure of the royal burghs.

The Earl of Hopetoun has subscribed fifty guineas to the Astronomical Institution.

Curious Attachment.-There is at Barclay's Hotel, Adams' Square, in this city, a hen which has been sitting the usual time, but being deprived of her little family by the severity of the weather, she has attached herself to a small pig that has been taken from his natural protector, and she clucks round him, and shelters him under her wings, with paternal solicitude and tenderness. The little pig, grateful for this peculiar favour conferred upon him, is equally attached to his adopted parent.

The Freeholders and Commissioners of Supply of the county of Perth, have agreed to place a portrait of his Grace the Duke of Atholl in the new county-hall, as a testimony of respect and esteem for his character, and for the eminent services he has rendered to the county of Perth, and are to request his Grace to sit for that purpose.

4.-On Saturday, between three and four o'clock, the foundation stone of the new Observatory, for the Astronomical Institution on the Calton Hall, was laid with the usual ceremonies. A list of the directors, contributors, or members of the society, engraved on a plate of platina, also the gold,

silver, and copper coins of the kingdom, were deposited within the stone. The Lord Provost and Magistrates, and a number of the Members of the Institution, were present. The site of the new erection is on the east of the old observatory; it will be a neat and elegant building.

7.-Banff-Yesterday, a head-court of this town had been called by the Magistrates, for the special purpose of submitting to the consideration of the inhabitants, certain plans for the improvement and enlargement of the harbour, which had been prepared by Mr Telford, under the direction of the Parliamentary Commissioners for Highland roads, &c. which were unanimously approved of, and the Magistrates were authorised by the Court to contract with the Parliamentary Commissioners for the execution of the work, and to borrow, upon the credit of the community, the sum necessary to enable them to fulfil their engagement.

10.-A new sort of potato, called the bread fruit potato, from its uncommon productiveness, is getting rapidly into estimation. Mr Inman of Spaxton, near Bridgewater, planted last year, in the common way, in a heavy soil, without manure, or any extra attention, two potatoes of that variety, weighing four ounces; the produce was 264 ounces, being an increase per acre (allowing six sacks to be the proper quantity to seed an acre) of 396 sacks. Heligoland beans may be cultivated with the bread fruit potato with success, by dropping about half a bushel per acre in the channels with the potatoes when planted, as they grow and ripen at the same time, without deteriorating the crop of potatoes.

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New Plough.-A farmer at Ringway, in Lancashire, has completed a running plough, on which are a pair of rollers. one operation it ploughs two furrows, laying one to the right and the other to the left, and rolls two half-butts, leaving the surface smooth even for the scythe.

12.-On Friday night, in the House of Commons, the Scots Burgh Regulation Bill, with due regard to the universal voice against it, was ordered to be read a second time that day six months.

13-On Wednesday the following distressing accident happened at Coats, near Airdrie A number of men, employed in taking down the gable of an old house, stationed James Leggat to give the alarm; which he did, but not coming away time

ously himself, he was buried among the ruins and killed. The rest got out unhurt. The deceased was a young man lately married.

Guildry of Edinburgh.-At an adjourned meeting held in Freemasons' Hall on Tuesday last, the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved of. The code of bye-laws was again taken into consideration, and, after some discussion, it was agreed, that, with the exception of those relating to fines, they should be adopted, and be in force till next quarterly meeting in August. The clerk then produced and read a summons of declarator against the Magistrates and Town Council, which was approved of, and ordered to be executed.

A bill has at length been introduced, and is now in progress, for abolishing the sinecure office of Lord Justice-General of the Court of Justiciary in Scotland, at present held by the Duke of Montrose, who, however, will continue to receive the salary, which is £2000 a-year, during his life.

Aberdeen. We understand that a very extensive contract with Government, for the supply of granite to the public works at Sheerness, has been taken by some gentlemen in this place. The quantity required is about 700,000 cubic feet, which will give work to quarriers, labourers, &c. as well as afford employment to shipping for some time to come.

The Lords of the Treasury have extended the privileges of the bonding system generally to the port of Dundee.

The body of one of the unfortunate sufferers by the shipwreck of the Forth Packet of Aberdeen, was found on the beach at Montrose last Monday, and decently interred. From the remains of his dress, it was ascertained that he had been in the service of the artillery. Various fragments of human bodies, and some articles of dress, &c. have been picked up since the melancholy accident, which leaves little doubt that most of the bodies were buried in the Annet, under the deck and some tons of stones. We think it very likely that the present easterly storm, which has raised a tremendous surf, will shift the sand bank, and discover more bodies.-Montrose Paper.

13.-Court of Session. This day the Court of Session met for the despatch of business for the summer session. The whole of the Judges were present except Lord

Succoth.

The second division of the Court took in

to consideration a petition for the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, reclaiming against a former interlocutor sustaining the title of Deacon Laurie and certain other persons, complaining of the last election of Magistrates for this city, which was ordered to be answered. A petition for Deacon Laurie, reclaiming against an interlocutor of the Court, finding him liable in £160 of expenses to the Magistrates of

Edinburgh, the City Clerks, and the Keeper of the City Records, was refused: their Lordships adhering to their former interlocutor.

18.-Air.-On Tuesday, the 5th instant, while the servant girl at New Dailly Mill was in the act of removing a quantity of dust from the lower floor of the mill, a heavy bag full of wheat fell from the upper floor upon her, broke the bone of one of her thighs, dislocated the bone of the other, and bruised her otherways so dreadfully, that her life is in imminent danger. There are many circumstances attending this misfortune, tending to create a suspicion that the falling of the wheat on the woman was not accidental.

19.-On Saturday se'ennight, at ten o'clock, a Committee of the Privy Council assembled at the Cockpit, Whitehall, to take into consideration the petition to the King in Council of the late Magistrates of Aberdeen, praying for the restoration of their ancient elective franchise; and also of the petition of the Burgesses of Guild, and a very numerous and respectable body of the inhabitants, praying for a new Set (constitution) of the burgh, for regulating the future elections of their Magistrates and Town Council. The members of the Committee who attended were more than usually numerous; they consisted of the following persons :-The Earl of Harrowby (President), the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Melville, Sir W. Grant, Sir W. Scott, the Vice Chancellor, the Solicitor General, Mr Bragge Bathurst, and the Lord Advocate of Scotland. Council having been ordered to attend on both petitions, Mr Warren and Mr Serjeant Copley were heard on behalf of the Magistrates, and Sir Samuel Romilly and Mr Moncrieff for the Burgesses. In the course of his speech Sir Samuel Romilly said, that perhaps he could not express himself more strongly in support of the petition of the Burgesses, and of the necessity of a radical change in the constitution of the burgh, than by reading the declaration or manifesto which the Magistrates themselves, previous to their retirement from office in September last, had, after muture deliberation, printed and published in that paper; these very gentlemen, who now appeared as petitioners for the restoration of the former mode of election, stat

ed, as their decided opinion, "that the present mode of election of the Town Council, and management of the town's affairs, are radically defective and improvident, tending to give to any individual or party an excessive and unnatural preponderance, and to foster and encourage a system of concealment; that some change ought to be effected in the manner of electing the Council, and an effectual control given to the citizens over the expenditure of the public funds; and that to the absence of such checks in the constitution of the burgh, they ascribe

the heavy calamity which has befallen it." Mr Warren being heard in reply, the Court was cleared, but the result of their Lordships' deliberation on the petitions will not be declared till it has been communicated to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. The decision will be important, as it will no doubt form a precedent in the future determination of all petitions to his Majesty in Council respecting the elections of the Magistrates of the Royal Burghs of Scotland.

20.-Air.-On Monday se'ennight, about two o'clock in the morning, the farm-house of Teabarn, in the parish of Fenwick, possessed by John Lindsay, was discovered to be on fire. Scarcely had the family time to escape, when the whole steading was in a general conflagration. The whole furniture was destroyed, and the cattle, consisting of fifteen cows, some horses, calves, &c. were burnt to death. A precognition was taken on Tuesday by the Justices of that district, in consequence of a strong suspicion that the fire did not arise from accident.

20. Early on Monday morning, an Irishman of the name of Bernard Loverty alias M'Quid, of the county of Donegall, stole from the house of a countryman of his own, in the parish of Campsie, a silver watch, and various articles of wearing apparel, to the value of about £20. He was apprehended in Glasgow on Tuesday, and carried to the police-office. The watch was got in his possession, and a shirt which he had on was taken off him, being one of those he had stolen. On Thursday he gave information, that if an officer would go along with him, about three miles out of town, he would shew him where the remainder of the stolen articles were; he, accompanied by a police officer, went accordingly, and proceeded as far as Cadder, and went into a house occupied by a numerous Irish family. He had not been long there when he found means to run off. The police officer immediately pursued him; and, on the fellow's seeing that the officer was nearing him, he threw off his shoes, and ran into the river Kelvin; he swam a considerable way with his face downwards, then he threw himself on his back and rested himself; some time after he sunk, but soon came up; he again sunk, and rose no more. The officer then went to the house from which he had run, and told the landlady what had happened, on which she exclaimed, "Oh, the d-1 help him, he had nothing ado to go into the water."

The Magistrates have received a remission to Patrick Main and George Aitchison, respited prisoners in the tolbooth of this city, on condition of transportation; the said Patrick Main for life, and George Aitchison for fourteen years.

A melancholy accident happened at the South Queensferry, on the 4th inst. by the oversetting of a small boat in the harbour, whereby David Miller, private of the 42d regiment, was unfortunately drowned.

There were other two young lads in the boat, who escaped by swimming; but Miller, unable to keep himself until assistance was procured, sunk, and remained under water fully a quarter of an hour before he was dragged up, and notwithstanding every thing was done that could be devised by the medical people of the place to restore animation, no symptoms of it could be produced. Miller was an uncommon stout goodlooking man, aged 25, and was of the grenadier company. He has left a disconsolate young widow, far advanced in pregnancy, to deplore his loss.

On the morning of Saturday, 2d inst. the workmen in one of the coal pits belonging to Mr Houston of Johnston, at Quarleton, had unfortunately taken out the coal too near an old pit filled with water, when the water broke in and inundated the work, by which seven men, it was feared, had lost their lives. Though a powerful steam engine was instantly set to work, and continued to do so night and day, it was observ. ed by the following Monday, that such was the vast accumulation of water, that little progress had been made, and there was no prospect of speedily getting at the men who might be above the level of the water by this means; it was therefore resolved to drive a mine from the pit to the place where it was probable the men might be. Accordingly, on Tuesday morning, the 5th inst. the mine was begun, and completed on the morning of the 12th inst.; this mine was about four feet by three, and only two persons could work at a time. From the plans kept of the workings of this coal-work, it was known for some days, that by Monday or Tuesday the mine would be driven through, and the public anxiety was excited in no common degree to learn the result. The opening of the mine into the work was considered to be attended with danger from the foul air, and it was arranged that Robert Hodgert, and his brother William, should encounter this danger. When they broke through, the foul air instantly extinguished their lights, and the feelings of the parties may be more easily conceived than described, when the words, "Is that you, uncle ?" saluted the ears of Robert Hodgert. These words were uttered by his nephew, William Hodgert, who, along with his brother James, had heard the sound of the mining for, as they conjecture, two days, and were waiting for deliverance from one of the most awful possible situations. They immediately entered the mine, and got out, and fortunate it was that they were able to do so, for their father and uncle declared, that such was the effect of the bad air on them, that they would not have entered to render them assistance. Their only sustenance for ten days and ten nights, in total darkness, amidst bad air, was the impure water of the pit and three pieces of oat cake, which, by groping round the work, they found in the pockets of the clothes left by some of the 2 Y