SCOTLAND.
The Chartists of Edinburgh assembled on the Calton Hill on Monde/ night; but the Edinburgh Observer says that the assembly was not nn, merous- o The object was to address her Majesty on the subject of the late me*, ings at Birmingham, and to take measures to raise a fund to defend such Chartists as may be taken into custody. Mr. Peddie, stay-maker, who was it the chair, gave a detail of the doings at Birmingham, embellished with a dam proportion of the phrases ' brutal,' murderous Police," base, bloody, cowardil Whigs,' &c. But, strange as it may seem, at the close of the very sentence is which the speaker had been traducing the Police, he called, in the blank tones, on the Police to remove some persons from the walls of the Observatory, lest he and others might be prosecuted for trespass. As a commentary on till speech of Mr. Peddie, Dr. Glover, who rose immediately after to propose the address to her Majesty, commenced by expressing his disapprobation of tilt more violent passages of the address of tire previous speaker. The ince% seemed one of the /dust enthusiastic of the kind that we ever attended."
Mr. Moir, member of Convention and tea-merchant, has returned to his tea shop, Gallowgate ; Ex-Bailie Craig is at work in his cloth-sheik Kilmarnock ; Mr. Ross, the treasurer of the Chartist Association, s labouring in his boot and shoe shop ; Mr. Purdie, a leading Chartist
here, has been some time ago at his pullicates ; and Mr. Gillespie, the secretary, whose effusions touching "sacred liberty," "great, grand,
and glorious demonstrations," &c. will not soon be forgotten, has betaken himself to a dram-shop, in the way of doing a little business on his can ac count.— Glasgow courier.
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