SCOTLAND.
The Edinburgh Liberals assembled on the 9th instant, in the Water- loo Rooms, to the number of about fifteen hundred, and passed the following resolutions.
1. That this meeting are deeply impressed with the justice and wisdom of the reso- lution lately passed by the House of Commons for appropriating the surplus revenue of the Melt Church to the educationof the people of Ireland; and as his Majesty's con. sent is understood to be necessary to the introduction of a legislative measure to that effect, that a humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying him not only to give his gracious *auction to the proposition, but to call to his Council, such men BB are honestly disposed to carry that and other liberal measures into effect.
"2. That this meeting, believing that the late resolution of the house of Commons will, if fairly acted upon, tend to promote the interests of true religion in Ireland, coal thereby to secure the peace and prosperity of that distracted country, sod of the empire at large, resolve, that a petition be presented to the house of Commons. praying them to adopt measures, without delay, calculated to carry their resolution intololl effect."
The proceedings at this meeting are a proof, if any were wanting, that tile vast majority of the inhabitants of the Scottish capital are still stanch to their Reform principles, notwithstanding the " hole-and.cor- ner" attempts of the Tories to pass off their opinions as those of their fellow citizens.
The loyal Church and King, alias Tory petition in support of the defunct Ministry, was the other day placed for signature in the High Street (Edinburgh), and every possible means were immediately used to obtain subscriptions of any kind, but up to three o'clock of the day it had attached to it the extraordinary number of eight! It was then reluctantly withdrawn as a hopeless affair. When the Liberal address to his Majesty in support of Lord John Russell's motion was placed for signature in a shop in the same street, it obtained during the day 1300 signatures.—Scotsman.
An address from Glasgow to the King, praying him to dismiss the late Ministers, was despatched on Sunday morning, having received fifteen thousand signatures.
The conduct of Mr. Andrew Johnstone in declining to vote for Lord John Russell's motion for a reform of the Irish Church, has ex- cited a strong feeling of disapprobation on the part of his constituency. We hear that steps are taking to request him to resign his seat, in ac- cordance with the pledges given by him before his election.—Fife Herald. Mr. Johnstone, M.P., has applied to the Town-Council of Pitten- weem to send him to the Assembly as the elder for that burgh. His constituents entirely dis upprove of ils neglecting Parliamentary duties to serve his own whim. —Fife Herald.
The inhabitants of Greenock have held a public meeting, and re- solved to petition strongly against Sir James Graham's bill for legali- zing impressment.
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