SCOTLAND.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1737, 4 July 1862, Page 5

SCOTLAND.

The Queen has presented the Rev. Djuald Macleod to the living of Linlitbgow. vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Bell,

We have to record the demise of James Saudlands, Baron of Torphicheu, in West Lothian, in the peerage of Scotland, who died recently at Torphicheu-horse, near Edinburgh. Progress is being made with the Scottish memorial to the late Prince Consort. A meeting of the local committee for the city of Edinburgh was held on the 10th of April, when it was announced that the subscriptions reported to the conjoined committees for the city of Edinburgh and county of Mid-Lothiau exceeded £3370. This is exclusive of the subscriptions at Leith, Musselburg, and Portobello, which are under the charge of separate committees, and is also exclusive of the sums collected by the numerous local committees in different parts of Scotland. Mr. James Lorimer, advocate, has been

appointed professor of public law in the University of E linburgh : and Mr. John Nic,:>l, B. A. of Baliol College, Oxford, to the new professorship of English language aud literature in the University < f Glasgow. Mr. Murray, of Toucl.-adara and Polmaise — oue of the largest landed proprietors in Stirlingshire — died suddenly a few days ago. He is succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, Lieutenant-Colonel John Murray, of the Greuadier Guauls. The ancient chapel of Roslin,near Edinburgh, which is visited by almost every Scottish toiuist, was opened ou t'.ie 22nd of April for tbeSurvice of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The chapel, which is one of the linest remains of Gothic architecture ir. Scotland, was founded iv 1446 by William Si. Clair, Earl of Caithness, and is the propei ty of liis representative, the Earl of Ross'yu. It as been restored with the utmost care by its proprietor. The res t-j ration, which was rather a cleaning and repair than a rebuilding (the edifice having escaped Reformation zeal, and suffered little spoliation but from the hand of time), has brought out many beautiful carvings long trusted with the dust of ages, and shown the enrichments of its interior in almost their origni'il freshness.

HoUKIBLE AND THRTLLING NaRKATITB, Tile St. John's Daily News, of December 6th, gives the following account of the sufferings of John F. Sullivan of Haclley Fall, Mass., and bis companions, deserters from the whale-ships Daniel Webster and Ansel Gibbs, of New Bedford, Cumberland Straits, on the 4th of August last. The narrative was written by Sullivan. The writer says that he had no reason for leaving the ship, only that he was not sufficiently provided against the cold Noithern climate, and was afraid of dying by scurry. The crew of the Ansel Gibbs complained of bad treatment. There, were John Giles, boat-steerer • John Maitin, Hiram J. Davis, Williard Haw* kins, Thomas Colwen, Joseph Fisher, and Samuel Fishei, who, with Sullivan and his shipmate Warren Dutton, constituted the deserting party. They stole a boat from the Ansel Gibbs, i» which they managed to place a very small quantity of provisions, two guns, and a little ammunition, and steered across the Straits. They left the vessel in latitude 65, about five miles fiom Penny's Harbour. On the fourth day they foil iv with the barque George Henry, Captain Cuddington, of New London, who offered to take all on board, but they decined. He gave them some provisions, which were augmeuted by a duck and the hind quaiteis of a white bear they managed to shoot before they reached Constitution Islaud, where their provisions became nearly exhausted. On the 20th August, at Cape Chidleigh, they had nothing but mushrooms and berries to live up.»n ; and here Hawgins and Davis ran away from the party, and carried away everythingthat was belonging to the boat. After an attempt to leave the place, which was prevented by stormy weathei, they landed again, and Dutton died of starvation, The narrative' of Sullivan says :— " The evening he died, Samuel Fisher proposed to eat him; he took his knife and cut a piece of the thigh, and held it over the tire till it ivas cooked. Then next morning each man followed his example ; after that the meat was taken off the bunes and each man took a share. We stopped here three days. We then made a start; but the wind beingahead we were compelled to put back. Here we stopped two more days. During that time the bones were broken up small and boiled in & pot or kettle that we had ; also the skull was broken open, the brains taken out and cooked. We then got a fair wind, but has we got round" a point we had the wind very fresh offshore • we could hardly manage the boat ; at last we' drove on to an island some way out to sea ; we got the boat under the lea of it; but the same night we bad a large hole stove into her. Being unable to haul her up, we stayed here eight days ; it was on this island they tried to murder me. The third day we stopped here, I was out as usual picking berries or anything I could find to eat. Coming in I chanced to pick up a mushroom. I brought it in with me, also an armful of wood to keep. While kneeling down to cook the mushroom, I received a heavy blow of a club from Joseph Fisher, and before I could get on my feet I leceived three more blows ; I then managed to get on my feet, when Samuel got hold of my right arm ; J. Fisher struck me three more blows on the arm. I some how got away from them, aud being half crasy, I did not know what to do. They made for me again ; I kept begging of them to spare my life; but they would not listen to my ories. They said they wanted some meat, and were' bound to kill me. I had nothing I could defend myself with but a small knife ; this I held in rry hand until they approached me; Samuel Fisher was the first to come towards me; he had a large dirk knife in his hand ; his cousin was coming from another direction with a club and a stone. Samnal came in and grasped me by the shoulder, and had his knife raised to stab me. I then raised ray knife and stabbed him iv the throat ; he immediately fell, and I then made a step for Joe, but he dropped his cub and went up to where the rest were. I then stooped duwu to see if Samuel was dead ; he was still alive; I began to cry; after a little while the rest told me to come up— they would see there was nothing more done to me. I had received four deep cuts in the head ; one of the fellows dressed them for me, aud washed the blood off sny face. Next day Samuel Fisher died ; his cousin was the first one to cut him up ; his body was used up the same asiny unfortunate shipmate's. After a while we managed to repair the boat and left the islaud. We ran in where we thought was mainland — it proved to be an island ; here we left the buat and proceeded on foot walking about one mile a day. At last wa reached the other side of the island in about four days ; then put buck again to the boat. It took us four days to get back. When we got there, we found the boat stove very bad since we left her. We tried to get ftiund this island in her, but she sunk when we got into her; we then left her, and went back again to the other side of the island, to remain there until we should die or be picked up. We ate our belts, boots, and sheathes, and a number of bear and sealskins, articles we had wilb. us. To add to our misery it commenced to rain and kept up for three days: it then, began to snow. In tUis miserable condition we were picked up by a boat's crew of Esquimeanx on the 20th Sep« teunber, aud brought to Okoke on the 3id of October. The missionaries did all that lay in their power to help us along, and provided us with food and clothing, then sent us ou to Nia 1 were we met 'the doctor' (Davis), who was picked up three days before we were. He reported that his company died, and told many false stories afler he was yicked up." The Boston Journal says the above thrilling narrative has the air of romance rather than reality, and some of the circumstances appear very improbable but as the Ansell Gibbs, which arrived at New Bedford oa the 11th of last November reported the desertion of seven of her crew, with a whaleboat in the Arctic legion, at the date above given, the main facts of this story are doubtless true.