Saturday 12 Dec 1818 (p. 3, col. 4-5) SCOTCH NEWS-DEC. 11. In addition to the numerous instances of the mildness of the present season, there is growing in a garden, in the neighbourhood of Dumfries, a red raspberry bush, loaded with berries, from the flower, progressively, to its most perfect state of richness. On Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, the Academy at Clarencefield was broken into, and a number of articles stolen therefrom. Early on the morning of the 20th ult. a most atrocious attempt was made on the life of a gentleman in the parish of Old Monkland by firing a pistol loaded with ball at his bedroom window, at the time he was in bed. Fortunately, the attempt was not fatal; for the ball lodged in the shutter. A wood-pigeon was shot at Hoddam Castle, on Tuesday, in whose stomach were found thirty-seven acorns, six beech-nut kernels, two wild cherry-stones, and two of the caps or sockets of the acorns. Three of the acorns were upwards of an inch both in length and circumference, and twenty-three of them nearly that size. Alexander M'MILLAN, weaver in Glasgow, having been prosecuted before the sitting Magistrate, at the instance of the Manufacturers' Protecting Society, for obtaining a web from a manufacturing house in town upon a forged certificate of character, was last week sentenced to sixty days imprisonment at hard labour in Bridewell. BURNS's Monument.-We are happy to understand, that M. TURNERELLI has at length completely finished the sculpture intended for the interior of BURNS's Mausoleum, although the period of its being despatched from London is still postponed to the beginning of spring. This additional delay is occasioned by the lateness of the season, and the anticipation of those severe frosts that may be expected to follow the present uncommon weather, and which render it extremely hazardous to transport, and still more so to erect, any thing requiring so much nicety as marble ornaments. Prolific Swine.-A sow the property of John FERGUSSON, Priestside, Dumfriesshire, has, during the last four years, had six litters, and at each litter, no less than 23 pigs on an average. The following are the actual number:-1st litter, 27 pigs; 2nd, 24; 3rd, 24; 4th, 24; 5th, 23; 6th, 20; in all, 142.