Edinburgh, July 11.
Edinburgh has no_ lack of public-spirited citizens. Last week it was announced in this letter that one of them—Mr. Alexander Grant, of the firm of M'Vitic and Price—had presented £100,000 for the purpose of taking over and endowing the Advocates' Library as a National Library. To-day it is intimated that another native of Edinburgh, Mr. W. IL. Askew, has purchased our famous Duddingston Loch on the eastern side of the King's Park, Holyrood. Lying under. the shadow of Arthur's Seat, it is the gem of the Park, and is now safe for all time from the attacks of vandalism, although it must be said that all the proprietors have been careful trustees of its beauty.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.