SCOTLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 407, 10 April 1863, Page 6

SCOTLAND.

A statue to the late Henry Cockburn, the eminent Scotch Judge, has just been placed in the Parliament House. Edinburgh.

A. shocking case of murder took place on January 7th. in Edinburgh A tradesman named Milne, wellknown as an artistic lnir j 'welle", had the misfortune Intely to become bankrupt. He ha' since been in an excited state and frequently intoxicated. The other day while in that condition lie maile a rush at one of his workmen named Paterson, and stabbed him in the breast, wl> eh produced almost instant death. Milne is now in custody.

An influential meeting was held in Glasgow, on the 13th January, on the invitation of the Lord Provost, to arrange for the proposed banquet to Lord Pidiner>tm. The attendance included members of every shi'e of political pirty. The proceedings were most ]iattnon:ou<, aid steps were taken t > provide for the banquet, in April next. It is understood it, will take place in iho i ity Hall, where 800 persons cm be accommodated at dinner in the area, while SOU ladirs can be admitted to the galleries to grace the ouKifion.

'I he famous Yelverton case presents some new features. The second wife. Mos Forbes Yelverton, writes to the Examine) to ray she had never heard of tlie ciaim of the first except as a na«t-(ilT mistress, and, indeed, could not, ::s she did not invent it till afterwards, mit of revenue. Thereupon V<rs Longivorth Yelverton's solicitors write to the Svit.smtm donyin^ the allegaii'.iu, and promising, in tho :ilis>. c« 'if their cliunt, that she will brinjr an action for libel for the l^t'cr. It is Bated by an Jjdiuburjih paper that notice of appeal to the House of Lords in the Yelverton c»se, hus bee i given by the ageu'.s of Mnjo'r Yelverton.

The High Court: of Justiciary of Edinburgh. }>ns given juilg nent in the case of tlie l\iv Mp ML uahlin, of QlasjsroWj who was smit to prism for a month for refusing to nive evidence in respect to wl at had been told to him as a pri°st, but not in the c >nft'ssiond. The Court held that he had been guilty of contempt of court, and that the sentence on'him was a proper one. Jn consideration, however, of sonia of ihe .circumstances of the case, the Cmit reduced ilie sentence to the tern of imprisonment which the rev. gentleman has alre dy suffered. He I; therefore, spared any further ill Vovisequer.css of his refusal to answer the questions put to him.