Carlisle Patriot Friday, July 26, 1844 Foreign and Colonial News-Scotland

Foreign and Colonial News-Scotland

Carlisle Patriot - Friday, July 26, 1844

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS - SCOTLAND.     ******       We hear from good authority, that an  application has been made to the Committee of Privileges in the House of Lords  to restore the dormant title of the Earldom of Levenax or Lennox. There are four  claimants:-   Lord NAPIER   NAPIER of Napier   LENNOX of Woodhead, and   HALKANE of Glenegles.   This is one of the most ancient titles in  Scotland.     ******   THE FIXED DUTY.       A meeting was held in Edinburgh on  Friday, for the avowed object of getting rid of Messrs. MACAULAY and  GIBSON-CRAIG, in the event of a general election. The requisition calling the  meeting was signed by six hundred electors, and resolutions were passed  condemnatory of all restrictions on trade, and hinting pretty broadly to the  present representatives of "Modern Athens" that they will not get into  Parliament on another occasion without opposition. In the event of these  "gentlemen" acting like acting like Sturgeites, Edinburgh might in the way of  representation be another Birmingham.     ******   BOWMORE, 17TH JULY.       Yesterday, a melancholy accident  happened which has caused great sensation here. Two of our most respectable  inhabitants, who were bargaining about a double barrelled pistol, made trial of  it against an old boat. After a shot was fired, a head was seen popping over the  gunwale. The horrified spectators rushed down to the boat, and found three  urchins who had been playing in the bottom, one of them, six years of age, lying  wounded, the ball having entered his head in a slanting direction from the ear.  No hopes are entertained that the little sufferer will survive.     ******   FEATHERED SCOTTISH, NOT SIAMESE TWINS.   Our respectable townsman, Mr. BENDALL, sends us the following  curious bit of information. About ten days ago, John CAMPBELL, of Rhonehouse, by   Castle-Douglas, discovered at Airieland a skylark's nest, containing several  young birds, obviously the product of a second hatching.   On examining the callow brood, he was astonished to find two  of them bound together by a ligature covered with feathers, centered in, and  extending from breast to breast. The said belt, pipe, or whatever it may be  called leaves scope for the action of the inner wing, so that the pair thus  singularly united, will be able to fly when fully grown, or mount aloft,  trilling their matins, if permitted to escape.   The Airieland wonder is in the possession of Mr. CAMPBELL, and  the twain it may be proper to add, are carefully tended, not by their natural  guardians, but a kind canary, which performs all the offices of maternity from  morn to dewy eve, utterly heedless of it;s own wants compared to theirs. -  Dumfries Courier.     ******

 

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