SCOTLAND.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 238, 31 January 1860, Page 3

SCOTLAND.

A great tianquet in honour of Lord Brougham was given by the citizens of Edinburgh on October 26. It was a highly ■ successful meeting. The General .Council of the University of Edinburgh met on Oct. 28 to elect a Chancellor of the University, The election lay between. Lord Brougham and the Duke of Buccleuch. The committees of the two candidates had an eager, struggle l and at one time the issue.was. doubtful. The votes were:—for Jjnd Brougham, 654; for the I).uke ,o£ Buccleuch, 419; majority for Brougham^ 235.

During ihe. last fortnight of October the North of Scotland was visited by sforms of snow, wind, and rain of such severity as is . bat rarely experienced at that period. Up to the 21st of October the weather had been comparatively fine. On the morning of that day, however, snow began to fall , very heavily, and by night it lay in many • places six or eight inches deep. This was : succeeded by r a keen frost and further Isnow, and the severity of the weather may in some measure be calculated from thel fact that two men in their prime, who had occassioh to be travelling in the night-time, perished in the storm—the one in Banffshire, the other in Aberdeenshire. On the ,26th the snow changed into a perfect hurricane' of rain and wind. A fatal accident occurred on the evening of that day near Aberdeen.; Two farmers and a cattledealer were driving home in a gig from a sale which had been held in their neighbourhood. They had. to ford thq. Ury,; which is usually a gentle stream someseven or eight yards wide, but which was now swollen to a perfect torrent. Owing to the darkness of the evening.they did not perceive their danger till they had advanced too far into the water. In a few moments they were swept down the current. One of theni managed to reach the bank; the two. others and the horse were drowned. At a meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council on Nov. 4, Mr. Francis Brown' Douglas was unanimously elected Lord. Provost.

Professor Forbes, who at present fills' the chair of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed principal of the United College of St. Salvador and St. Leonard, in the University of St. Andrews. At a meeting of the Brougham. Committee, held at Edinburgh on the sth of November, it was proposed, and unani-, mously carried, that the election of Lord Brougham as first Chancellor of the University' be permanently celebrated b^ the institution of a "Brougham Club."