rI'LAND.
When the Scotch Burgh Bill had passed all its stages in the Hoots
of Commons lag year, Lord Brougham was exceedingly averse from. proceeding with it in the Lords, and strongly advised its postpone- ment. In consequence of his quailing timidity and opposition to the further progress of the Bill in the Upper House of Parliament, a numerous meeting of the Scotch Members took place at Lord Grey's; at wh;eh meeting several of the principal Members, among others, Mr. Abereromby, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Bannerman, declared to Lord
Grey, that they considered the Government pledged to carry through
the measure ; that they had been the foremost supporters of the Mi- nistry through good and evil report ; and that they could not show their faces in Scotland unless the hill were passed, or at all events pressed to a decision in the Lords. Lord Brougham was present, out attempted to sleek and resist, and was roughly treated by severed Scolds Members. The Council terminated by the Er-Chancellor being cox- pelled to adopt and proceed with the bill. These circumstances are notorious.—Courier. [Besides this statement, the Courier has pub- lished a long letter from Edinburgh, full of details, which completely confirm what we asserted last week under this article of Lord Brougham's Defence of himself.]
Lord Stanley having received an address to the King from the Town-
Council of Hamilton, wrote to the Provost, that he had transmitted it, for presentation, to the Duke of Wellington as Home Secretary ; and added, that the address contained sentiments admirably expressed and entirely in accordance with his own. It appears that three addresses have been agreed to at Hamilton,—one expressing Tory, one Whig. and one Radical opinions. It was the Whig address that Lord Stanley received and approved of; but the Glasgow Courier, the Post, and the Stand,:rd, supposing that it was the one sent by the Tories, adduced his approval as evidence of his intended support of the Duke ! It turns out that Lord Stanley's reply will not admit of any such construction. The Town-Council of Glasgow has refused to confer on Lord Stanley the freedom of the city.—Scottish Guardian. The Glasgow Chronicle gives a list of seventy-two places in Scotiasa. from which Anti-Tory addresses bad been sent up to the King. The inhabitants of Caithness have resolved to petition the House of Peers to expel the Duke of Wellington from their body!
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