SCOTLAND.
The Town-Council of Edinburgh agreed, on Monday, to address the King on the subject of the recent Ministerial changes. The address concludes in these words-
" We beg leave to express our confident hope, that your Majesty, with that paternal solicitude for the welfare of your people which has distinguished your Majesty above the most illustrious of your predecessors, will call to your councils,
men whose knowledge and tried liberalitg a.'d will i.-3rre to the
country the full beneps expec*,•(! 1)./ your Mr jc..'y add your peoide 1,.ont the urea: measure of Po. i;amea'arg Rei0. a ." The Glasgow illgrs of Mooday It tit contains some very spirited er- tides, calling upon the electors io be un Red doirg, as the erne fo- ex- et tion might be nett-e:. than they deemeo likely. Tee net ess'•y of le- g tering votes is insisted upon for the %mot:re-! acces.,ion of the Tories to power was not considered impossible at toe me the cuticles in the Glasgow puller were wsit. en. Our No. ihern eon, empoqiv calls the retirement of E.' C..ey the close of the tb'rd act of the great eltama of British Re3ereration- wf he first commeneided the make-sbitt- ".oat the death of Lord Londonderry to that of Mr. Caonio•r,-the pe-iod of tquishilg the &tempt to coerce men; and endeavothi."; 10 still Lem io.o quie, JCS by eahib:Cois of oratory, dazzliig and casubmantiel as the coreseatioas of the Nuithero lif;hts. The second was the Aeeeniais;..etioo of the Dche of Well ;ton. when te ,a:a useful ione-s- s'ols we e made-the abolit'on of the is on P•o esta It Dissenters, the restoration of the ritt:s of c'. setshin to C. then; but when the people were exocet-d to wait pat:eitly for weat Lb( i•• rulers plc., ea to give, mad wee forbit.den io tahe an active pa, t i i the requb.:i.:on of their lights. The third was the Athr.lisl,atiot of Earl Gee. whet the nowec of making the laws aid cbei.itin tile po'icy of the r•alm th eiksh the :r IleoreseLuta.:ve.. was co ::erred Thaa the people- appa.enily wi;tx the c. per.:.•G•oa Chet they would lest si Lis"; .0 wish the possess'on of the powce, add not seek to e!..ocise it."
The fom.th and fifth acts are to come. The nature of the perform- ances will depend upon the manner in which the suffttge is used by the ten-pound voters.
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