SCOTLAND.
A deputation from the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Lord-Advocate, at his chambers in Parliament Square, yesterday week, to present a memorial urging upon his attention reforms in the laws affecting the transfer of land in Scotland. The Lord-Advocate ap- peared to incline a favourable ear to the prayer of the memorial, and pro- raised to introduce a bill that would simplify titles to landed property, and make the transfer more economical. But on one point he differed from the memorialists. They wish to abolish the system of "superior and vassal." The Lord-Advocate says, that lies at the foundation of the whole Scotch system of tenure. He is willing to simplify it, but he is not willing to destroy its peculiar character.
The Convention of Royal Burghs met in Edinburgh on Tuesday. They resolved to renew their petition for a Scotch Secretary of State. But they refused by 21 to 18 to divide on a resolution proposing that Parlia- ment should be petitioned to assimilate the law of Scotland to that of England as regards the right of forty-shilling freeholders to vote in the election of representatives for shires in Parliament. So the Convention refrained from expressing its opinion on the subject.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has agreed to petition in sup- port of Mr. Adam Black's bill abolishing the Annuity-tax.
A spacious and elegant new palm-house has just been opened in the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh. It has cost 64001., provided from the public purse. It is a hundred feet long, seventy wide, and seventy-two high ; the trees were often cut in the old house to save the roof front destruction, but in the new one they will have room to grow upwards.
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