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 four o'clock P. M., after climbing up his everlasting steps from the bottom of the falls, and was unable to obtain even a cracker or a glass of water, and this was the case at Brown's also."

was a fellow of the name of Thomas McDonald, a Glasgow thief, lately confined in the Jail of Ayr, accused of breaking into a shop in Beath, and carrying off a great quantity of silks.— It seems that this man is well acquainted with, and very much respected by, the GENTLEMEN of his own profession in this city, who, to shew their regard and sympathy for a brother in distress, two days ago forwarded to his address in Ayr a very large Scotch Haggis.—It is more than probable that the gaucy present would have been sent directly to its proper owner by the Jailer, had he not been warned in a very particular manner, by the criminal officers here, to be on his guard with respect to McDonald, as they were afraid of some trick being attempted by his friends to facilitate his escape. As a precautionary measure, therefore, the haggis was cut up, when all present were sufficiently astonished to find, that, besides the delicate mixture of which this long-approved dish of our countrymen is usually composed, it also contained a new spring saw!—It is needless to add, that the haggis, on being divested of this ingredient, was little relished by the prisoner, although a genuine Highlander.