1 APRIL 1854, Page 7

SCOTLAND. A meeting of the standing committee of the Scottish

Episcopal Church Society was held in the Hopetoun Rooms on Tuesday last,—the Bishop of Edinburgh in the chair,—to confider the position in which the schools of that Church and the children of its poorer members would be placed by the Lord Advocate's Bill, if passed in its present form. It was unani- mously agreed that some portions of the measure would operate unfairly and injuriously on these schools and children ; and that a deputation should proceed to London to communicate with members of the Govern- ment upon the subject.