his course of Chemistry this evening, with an interesting lecture on Galvanism, in the course of which he explained the nature and use of the protectors now attached to the copper sheathing of ships, to prevent their corrosion. After the lecture was finished, Mr John Dunn, optician, Thistle-Street, in name of the students, presented Dr Fyfe with an elegant and costly timepiece in Or-moulu, in the form of a Doric portico, resting on a va riegated marble base, and bearing the following inscription:-" To Andrew Fyfe, M.D., F. R. S. E., &c., from the Stu dents of the Edinburgh School of Arts, in testimony of their esteem for him as their instructor in Chemical Philosophy, and of their gratitude for his disinterested zeal in behalf of the Institution.-Presented at the close of the session of 1825-6." Mr Dunn alluded to the flourishing state of the Institution, which he attributed in no small degree to the ability and zeal of the lecturers, and of Dr Fife in particular, who had been connected with the Institution from its origin. Dr Fyfe made an appropriate reply, expressing his gratitude for this mark of regard from his pupils, his confidence in the success of the establishment, his anxiety to continue his labours among them, and his sanguine hopes as to the benefits such Institutions were destined to confer on mankind. The meeting was very interesting, and the number of persons present, including strangers, was probably from five to six hundred. Next night, Mr Lees concluded his course of Mechanical Philosophy with a lecture on the steam-engine. This closes the session; but a short course on architecture is to be given by Mr Smith during the summer. Disturbances in Lancashire.--The storm which has so long devastated and blasted the upper regions of commerce, is now visiting the lower in all its fury. This is only a natural and necessary gradation. The manufacturing districts in Lanca shire, which have for many months been suffering under constantly increasing pri. vations, are now labouring under what comes little short of famine. The consequences are dreadful. The starving wretches, finding that all their lawful ex ertions failed to bring them relief, have resorted to measures prompted purely by desperation, and equally at variance with law, utility, and common sense. Throughout Blackburn and its vicinity, in Clith ero, Haslington, &c., the greater number of the power-looms have been destroyed, and outrages of various other descriptions have been madly resorted to. The frenzy has now reached to Manchester, threaten ing a repetition of the formidable scenes of the year 1816; but with this difference, that in the present crisis, political causes appear to have no influence in the riots, further than as a mere clamour about the Corn Bill mingles with the shouts and roarings of famine, but without, probably, any distinct idea being at tached to their language by those who use it. These disturbances have been going on for the last ten days, during which the military have been called out, and several individuals have been killed. The latest accounts from Manchester came down so late as the afternoon of Sunday the 30th instant, when we regret to say, that the rioters continued unquelled, and in great force. We understand that the military have, upon all the occasions in which they have come into collision with the rioters, acted with the utmost forbearance; indeed, with almost more than was compatible with the duty incumbent upon them, to resist and put a stop to their illegal outrages. We rejoice to hear this; for although the first thing that must be done is to put down outrage, even for the sake of the frenzied populace themselves, yet we remember no preceding instance where sympathy was so loudly called for in behalf of those whom stern duty must resist and punish. These people are not rioting as our western weavers and colliers did, to accomplish illegal and mischievous objects, to interfere with the rights of others, and to advance dishonest pretensions by wicked means. They are rioting, because famine is remorseless and reckless; because their wives and children are perishing in their sight for lack of food; because it is impossible for human beings to sit with arms folded and witness this, even when reason tells them that rushing abroad, to plunder and destroy, can only deepen and extend the prevailing misery. But famine cannot listen to reason, and the ravings of despair are proof to argument. "Go home, and be quiet," said, very properly, one of the public functionaries to a band of these miserable men. "What to do there ?" was the appalling answer. "We have nothing to eat there. Our families are starving." The number of power-looms destroyed is estimated at about 1000, and the damage done at £.30,000. No correct statement of the lives lost has been pub. lished, but the probability is, that the number of persons killed does not exceed a dozen, and perhaps twice or thrice as many may have been wounded. What a strange spectacle does Britain exhibit at this moment ! While her wealth has been growing from year to year with gigantic strides, the labourers by whose toil it has been created have been sink. ing deeper and deeper in misery; and at the very time when her riches have become the wonder and envy of the world, the whole frame of her social system is convulsed by the struggles of the famishing multitudes, whose numbers and wretchedness have kept pace with her augmenting grandeur ! At this moment, she realizes Goldsmith's picture-she “blooms at once a garden and a grave." A subscription has been entered into in London for the relief of the distressed districts. At the head or the list of subscribers is his Majesty, £.2000, besides several sums which he had already given, amounting in all to above £.8000. The subscription has been extremely liberal, being nearly £.70,000. In consequence of this, and the efficient and prompt measures adopted by Ministers, peace has been for the present restored. The distress in Glasgow, Paisley, and the west of Scotland, is equally great, though there the weavers have displayed the most exemplary good conduct. Subscriptions have also been entered into for their relief, to which his Majesty, through Mr Secretary Peel, has sent £1000 to Glasgow, and £.500 to Paisley; thus evincing, by this additional instance of Royal benevolence, the interest which his Majesty takes in the privations of his subjects, as well as in their happiness and prosperity. Natural History-In July or August 1820, Mr James Bogie, having procured three gulls of the black-cap or pewit species, cut their wings and endeavoured to domesticate them in the pretty little pond at Terraughtie garden. But their curtailed pinions soon began to shoot again, and while one of them flew away and never returned, a second was unfortunately found frozen to death one cold December morning. The third pewit was thus left quite solitary, but as he had plenty to eat, he seemed to like his quarters passing well, and gradually became more and more tame, until his natural instincts, and the example of those wild gulls which are seen flying about in spring, induced him to resort to the marshy grounds, where the species are known to breed and rear their young, previous to their return to the sea-coast in winter. Mr Bogie, of course, soon forgot his truant gulls, but the last of them, so far from forgetting him, re-appeared in April 1822, and after screaming repeatedly to announce his approach, was seen swimming in the pond, and hopping about the garden with the familiar air of an old ac quaintance. From this time forward the bird became a great pet, and for five years in succession has not only come with the cuckoo and gone away with the swallow, but has varied so little in point of time, that the gardener can almost tell the day of the month from the exit or re-appearance of his favourite gull. But though the bird boards at Terraughtie in spring and summer, he prefers roosting with his own species; and as he uniformly flies away in the same direction, it is be lieved that he bivouacks among some of the marshes beyond the estate of Castlehill. Though his first approach is always announced by the loudest screaming, he becomes perfectly quiet afterwards, and is positively so tame that the gardener can call him down on the public road, or at any other spot where he may happen to see him flying over-head. In 1824, this sagacious bird actually brought his wife and family with him, and used every art to introduce them to the comforts of civilization; but from want of proper training in their youth, they were afraid to alight and partake of his food; and whether he took this rebuff too much to heart, or has remained a widower ever since, the fact is certain, that he never tried the experiment again. The family at Terraughtie naturally take a great interest in a bird whose habits seem to hover betwixt the wild and domestic state,-nay, even the house-maids anxiously look out for his re-appearance, and improving upon the augury system of the Romans have a saying among themselves, that she who first sees the gull will be first married. Steam-boat Voyage to India.-The Enterprise steam-vessel has at last reached Bengal. She sailed from Falmouth on the 16th August, reached the Cape on the 13th of October, and arrived at the mouth of the river Hoogly on the 9th December, after a passage of 47 days from the Cape, having expended all her coals. If our readers will turn to the Scotsman of 28th December, they will find, that calculating from the time consumed on the voyage from Falmouth to the Cape, we stated that she ought to reach Calcutta on the 9th of December, the very day on which she arrived at Saugur roads, which is within 50 miles of that capital. The whole time spent in the voyage has been 16 weeks and 3 days, which is very nearly the average length of the voyage in sailing vessels. As we anticipated, therefore, nothing has been gained by the use of steam; but were depots of coals estab lished at the Canary isles, St. Helena, the Mauritius, and Ceylon, the steamvoyage might probably be made in one month less time. Captain Johnston, by 628 Register.-Appointments, Promotions. &c. carrying the Enterprise to India, has, Restored Scottish Peerages, &c.-The 1. An act for the restoration of Major General Robert Alexander Dalzele, to the dignity and title of Earl of Carnwath. 2. An act to restore David Ogilvy, Esq. and others, from the effects of the Attainder of James, eldest son of David, Earl of Airlie, and of David Ogilvie, taking upon himself the title of Lord Ogilvie. 3. An act for the restoration of James Sutherland, Esq. to the dignity and title of Baron Duffas. 4. An act to restore Francis, Baron Wemyss, and others, from the effects of the Attainder of David Wemyss, commonly called Lord Elcho. 5. An act for the restoration of Patrick [May Murray Triepland, of Fingask, to the dignity of a Baronet. introduced, were signed by his Majesty. These several Bills, previously to being lately raised before the Sheriff of AberBaptism Register.-An action was deenshire at the instance of the keeper of and of the kirk-beadles for the ordinary a parish register for births and baptisms, sons who refused to register their childues of registration, against certain per dren's names. The pursuers maintained that this claim was authorised by a decree of the Court of Session, in the case James Bayne and others, 26th June 1765. of the session-clerk of Dunfermline against tended, that the dues in question could The defenders, on the other hand, cononly be demanded as a recompence for trouble, and that as they did not choose parish register, and had not employed the to register their children's names in the pursuers in any way, the action was untenable. The Sheriff decerned against the defenders, and found them liable in costs of suit. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL OR JUDICIAL. April 1. David Cathcart (Lord Alloway) to be a Lord of Justiciary in Scotland, in room of George Ferguson, (Lord Hermand) resigned. 10. Augustus Granville Stapleton to be one of the Clerks of his Majesty's Signet. 18. The Right Hon. James Ochoncar, Lord Forbes, to be his Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. March 21. The Rev. David Wilson admitted minister of the United Associate Congregation, Clerk's Lane, Kilmarnock. 28. The Associate Burgher Congregation of Helensburgh called the Rev. George Legate Kilkinamurray, Ireland, to be their pastor. 30. Mr John Murray ordained Minister of the Parish of Abbotshall. Brevet III. MILITARY. Capt. Burke, of 66 F. Major in the 1 Life Gds. Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Hon. H. T. 2 27 Feb. Cornet Griffiths, Adj. vice Collins, res. 8 April 16 Feb. Adj. only Cornet and Adj. Griffiths, rank of Lieut. Cornet Shewell, Lieut. J. T. G. Taubman, Cornet do. 3 Lieut. Burnaby, Capt. by purch. vice -The United Associate Congregation of Kinkell called Mr Forrester to be their Minister. April 1. The Rev. Alexander Davidson presented by the King to the Church and Parish of Slammannan, or St. Lawrence. Abercromby, prom. 8 April do. do. 4 3. The Right Rev. Dr Van Mildert, Bishop of Llandaff, to the Bishopric of Durham. 8. The Rev. C. J. Bayne presented by the Hon. Mrs Hay Mackenzie to the Parish of Fodderty. The United Associate Congregation of Old Meldrum called Mr James Macrie to be their Minister. 12. The Rev. George Johnston ordained Minister at Ecclefechan by the Associate Presbytery of Annan. -The Rev. James Denham elected Presbyterian Minister of the Congregation of Brigh, Ire land. 18. The Rev. Thomas Cannan presented by the King to the Church and Parish of Carsphairn. The Rev. Andrew Tawse presented by the King to the United Church and Parish of Logie Coldstone. Cornet Dayrell, Lieut. by purch. vice H. J. Collingwood, Cornet Surg. Micklam, from 50 F. $ Dr. Gds. Capt. Crichton, Maj. by purch. vice Walker, ret. Lieut. Gardiner, Capt. Cornet Martin, Lieut. S. M'Call, Cornet do. do. do. do. Cornet Sir W. H. St. L. Clarke, Bt. 8 April do. T. M. Goodlake, Cornet Cornet and Riding Mast. Phillips, rank 16 Feb. 8 April Cornet Bolton, Lieut. by purch. vice J. Cronyn, Cornet by purch. vice Os 6 7 - Mr James Forsyth ordained Minister of the second Associate Congregation, Cupar, Fife. 20. The Rev. William Menzies ordained Minister of the East Parish Church of Greenock. 1 Dr. J. Yates, Cornet Mr W. Paterson ordained Minister of the United Associate Congregation of Banff: born, prom. Cornet Hibbert, Lieut. by purch. vice Eccles, prom. 9 March 8 April do. Dundas, prom. do. G. P. Bushe, Cornet do. J. C. Baird, Cornet by purch. vice Ber guer, prom. 22 do. 16 8 do. do. 17 Cornet Guest, Lieut. by purch. vice Armstrong, prom. B. N. Everard, Cornet Assist. Surg. Mouat, from 13 F. Assist. Surg. vice Malloch, 46 F. 13 March Lieut. Douglass, from 81 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Smyth, prom. 22 April Lieut. Fisk, Capt. by purch. vice Johnston, prom. Cornet Elton, Lieut. Cornet Barron, do. vice Loftus, prom. 5 8 do. do. 6 P. de Blaquiere, Ensign by purch. 8 April Lieut. Ridd, from h. p. 60 F. Lieut. vice Wheatstone, 53 F. 13 do. Capt. Scott, from 1 Vet. Bn. Capt. 8 April 1825 Ensign Campbell, from 1 F. Ensign vice Clarke, prom. 28 March 1826 Lieut. Gray, from 2 Vet. Bn. Lieut. vice Galbraith, prom. 8 April 1825 Lieut. J. Spence, from 2 W. I. R. Lieut. vice Derinzy, h. p. York Lieut. Inf. Vol. 23 Feb. 1826 Ensign Phibbs, from 1 Vet. Bn. 7 April 1825 Lieut. Duke, Capt. vice Cox, dead 28 Aug. Ensign Warrington, from 67 F. Lieut. do. Ensign Hon. S. Hay, from 71 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Moorsom, prom. 2 March 1826 Hon. A. Hope, Lieut. vice Blaney 8 April Ensign Senhouse, from 3 Vet. Bn. En. sign 7 April 1825 do. 11 6 do. 8 April 1826 Lieut. Bland, Capt. 2 March 8 April 1825 Deuchar 6 April Ensign Butt, Lieut. 2 March 8 April 1826 Ensign and Adj. Muller, rank of Lieut. Ensign Dolphin, Lieut. do. 3 do. Ensign Cook, Ensign do. Ensign Tedlie, from h. p. Ensign vice 9 do. Russell, 89 F. Ensign Ormsby, Lieut. vice Wilson, dead 13 22 do. 27 March Lieut. Hon. F. Howard, from h. p. Lieut, vice Wilson, 52 F. 30 do. 13 F. 15 16 Serj. Maj. Hutchins, Adj. and Ensign vice Fenton, prom. 13 Sept. 1825 Hosp. Assist. John Robertson, Assist. Surg. vice Mouat, 16 Dr. 15 March 1826 2d Lieut. C. White, from Ceylon R. Ensign vice Pearson, dead 13 April Ensign Budd, Lieut. by purch. vice White, 52 F. 16 March Lieut. Moir, from h. p. 37 F. Lieut. vice Cain, 3 F. 27 do. Lieut. Dewson, from 3 Vet. Bn. Lieut. vice Humphry, prom. 9 April 1825 Ensign Elliott, from 1 do. Ensign 7 do. J. Hay, Adj. and Ensign vice Bannister, prom. 16 Feb. 1826 Ensign Rudyerd, Lieut. by purch. vice Barton, proin. C. W. Hird, Ensign 22 April do. 2d Lieut. Kellett, from h. p. 24 F. Ensign vice Prettejohn, 53 F. 31 March T. Douglass, Ensign by purch. vice Kellett, prom. 22 April Ensign Hudson, from 2 Vet. Bn. En7 do. purch. vice 17 sign 18 Ensign Dunne, Lieut. by Moore, 98 F. 19 20 21 22 31 F. 32 33 34 35 Ensign Wetenhall, Lieut. by purch. vice Ruxton, prom. 16 March 1826 J. C. Stock, Ensign vice Minchin, 38 F. 23 do. Lieut. Hon. A. Harley, from 87 F. Lieut. vice Bowles, 26 F. 8 April W. S. Norton, Ensign by purch. vice Talbot, 43 F. do. Lieut. Weyland, from 1 Vet. Bn. Lieut. 8 April 1825 S. R. Streatfield, Ensign by purch. vice Hughes, prom. 8 April 1826 W. W. Abney, Ensign by purch, vice Streatfield, 52 F. 22 do. Cornet Hall, from h. p. 21 Dr. Ensign, pay. diff. vice Walsh, 3 F. 30 March T. Faris, do. by purch. vice Hall, prom. 8 April Lieut. Buchanan, from h. p. York Ran. Lieut. 6 do. 2 March 16 do. Vet. Bn. 25 do. 38 9 March 22 April J. P. Taylor, Ensign Lieut. Shenley, Adj. viee Roberts, res. Adj. only Ensign Hay, from 82 F. Ensign vice Wake, prom. Licut. Law, Capt. vice Birch, dead 9 Sept. 1825 Ensign Minehin, from 31 F. Lieut. do. Ensign Lowth, Lieut. vice Torrens, dead 11 do. T. Jenkins, Ensign vice Maclean, cancelled 2 March 1826 A. Whittle, Ensign vice Lowth 23 do. Ensign Loraine, Lieut. by purch. vice Hall, 7 F. Ensign Douglas, from 3 sign Gent. Cadet C. B. Lloyd, Coll. Ensign 8 April Vet. Bn. En 7 April 1825 40 Hosp. Assist. Mackenzie, Assist. Surg. 41 do. 12 do. Capt. Corfield, from 77 F. Capt, vice Borrowes, dead 23 March 2d Lieut. Hay, from 60 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Versturme, prom. 8 April Ensign Inglis, from 54 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Gray, ret. Capt. Brander, Maj. by purch. vice Lieut. Vignoles, Capt. by purch. vice Farquharson, prom. Ensign Michel, Lieut. Ensign Elliott, from 2 Vet. Bn. Ensign 7 April 1825 39 S. R. Delme, Ensign by purch. 8 April 1826 Ensign McDermott, Lieut. vice Moore, 15 F. 23 Feb. F. H. Stephens, Ensign by purch. do. 2d Lieut. Pentland, 1st Lieut. by purch. vice Bigge, prom. 8 April Hon. J. Sinclair, 2d Lieut. do. Capt. Hon. G. Cathcart, from 7 Dr. Maj. by purch. vice Clayton, prom. Ensign Boileau, from 2 Vet. Bn. Ensign Lieut. Sloone, Capt. by purch. vice St. George, ret. 22 do. Cowell, ret. 8 do. Lieut. Campbell, Capt. do. Ensign Hill, Lieut. do. C. Campbell, Ensign do. Hosp. Assist. M'Gregor, Assist. Surg. 30 March 12 do. purch. vice 43 8 April purch. vice 16 March 44 30 do. Capt. by 8 Apríl 26 Lieut. Bowles, from 32 F. Capt. by do. J. D. Young, Ensign 8 do. Ensign Talbot, from 33 F. Ensign do. Ensign Mathias, Lieut. vice Gledstanes, dead 16 Aug. 1825 Ensign Clarke, from 4 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Langmead, prom. Ensign Browne, from 13 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Hawkins, 89 F, 15 April 1826 Ensign Du Vernot, Lieut. by purch. vice Geddes, prom. 8 do. G. H. Clarke, Ensign by purch. do. A. M. Tulloch, Ensign by purch. vice Lewis, 89 F. 9 do. Capt. Martin, from 3 Vet. Bn. Capt. 8 April 1825 Lieut. Bruce, from 1 Vet. Bn. Lieut. vice Gleeson, 90 F. Lieut. Antrobus, from h. p. 13 F. Lieut. vice Ashhurst, 3 F C. W. St. J. Wall, Ensign by purch vice Legh, prom. Major Taylor, Lieut. Col. vice Erskine, Ensign Freer, Lieut. by purch. vice Gosselin, prom. 4 March 1826 16 Aug. 1825 do. |