SCOTLAND.
OBJECTION To VOTERS.—The Tories in various quarters have ob- jected to the Reform voters. Where the objection is a known and valid one, of course they only exercise their legal right. In Scotland, however,—where the party has hitherto had its- full swing,—and where it is likely soon to have its last swing,—it is not one or two objections that satisfy, but, in order to catch the voter in one mesh or another, every objection of the Act is put down. The following, which is in the form of a printed circular, is a specimen— e TAKE NOTICE.
"The following is a copy of the objections lodged to your claim to be enrolled a voter in the town of Leith- " TOWN OF LEITII.—DTSTRICT OF LEITH. " SC11011110 IL(Part First). " We, :tames Grindley Cowan and John Ainslie, merchants in Leith, claimants, ob- ject to the claim of James Brown. haberdasher. Kirkgate. Leith, to be admitted as a voter for the town of Leith, on the following grounds—That the claim is informal, and is not duly subscribed or lodged in terms of 2 and 3 William IV., c. 65; that the subjects claimed on are inaccurately described, and cannot be identified; that he.is not, anti has not been for the period required by the Act, in the occupancy of the pre- mises claimed on, as proprietor, tenant, or life renter; that he is merely a lodger or boarder, and has not held the occupano y or joint occupancy of the premises, as owner, tenant, or life renter, in terms of the Statute; that lie is not, and has nut been for the period required by the Act, the true owner nor the true joint owner of the premises, nor the husband of such owner or joint owner, nor has he been in right of the premises by the courtesy of Scotland; that the subjects are not of the description to which a right of voting is attached by the Statute; that the whole or a part of them are not within the boundaries of the burgh as established by the Act; that the subjects are occupied under different landlords ; that they are not of the value required by the Act; that the claim- ant has not had a share and Interest in the premises claimed on. as joint occupant of the - yearly value of 101.; that the assessed taxes for the premises have not been paid, as re- quired by the Act; that the claimant has not had the residence in or adjacent to the burgh required by the Statute; that he is personally disqualified by dependence on Government. minority, alienage, or other legal incapacity. And we crave to be heard on the said objections before the Sheriit
"JAMES G. COWAN.
" Leith, September 8." .Joar; Anomie." .
We have not the slightest hesitation in saying, that the Sheriff who does his duty, will throw all such objections over the table. It is not
competent to any man to object to his neighbour's registry, that there may be an objection to it—he is bound to state what the objection is : the introduction of the diversative particle or is fatal; for it shows, that, at the period of lodging the document, the objector was not conscious of any specific ground for doing so. Now the Act is clear on this—it does not say " if any claimant to registry suppose, or fancy, or suspect," but " if any claimant know of any objection," he shall state it in such a way.
We are informed that there are at present drawn' up and ready to be presented to the Reformed Parliament, 350 petitions for the abolition of the Church of Scotland,—that is, for throwing the support of this Church exelusively on its own members. It would go far to neutralize the hostility of Dissenters and Seceders to this venerable establishment, the purest of the kind ever yet exhibited in the world, were patronage instantly and totally abolished. Nothing but this can avert or even protract its overthrow under the searching eye and the liberal mind of a Reformed Parliament and an enlightened people.—Christian Advocate.
The Annan Presbytery lately transmitted to the Rev. Edward Irving a list of queries regarding certain doctrinal points of Scripture, requiring within a certain specified time distinct and categorical an- swers. Mr. Irving has, it seems, within the last few days, written to the Presbytery, praying for a delay of his case for two months longer, and promising at the end of that time a respectful and minute answer to the questions of the Presbytery. It is believed that he will reply to the queries of the Presbytery in propria persona.
The Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Company, at a meeting on Wednesday, unanimously resolved to enqbdoy steam-vessels in their carrying trade between Dundee and London. Earl Camperdown, Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Guthrie of Guthrie, Mr. Chalmers of Auldbar, and other landed proprietors, from a conviction of the importance of the undertaking to the agricultural part of the ecnanul:ity, and many ex- tensive merchants and manufacturers int,..,siod in el,- Lade with London, not previously connected with the Conqamy, have, by way of giving encouregement to the proposal, become partuvrs.—Dmice Advertiser.
The people of Edinburgh seem to have zone quite as far in their ad- miration of' Charles Dix as gentlemen could do. Prcvious to his de- parture, it Mr. Learmontb, the Lord Provost as he is called, presented an address in his own name, and in the name of his fellow-citizens, in rIiiehm he expressed a hope, " that in the all-wise Providence of God, his Majesty and family may yet be spared to see 'brighter days." The old gentleman, in whom Providence is thus made to take a peel !liar interest, is the same who only two years ago made the streets of Paris run red with the blood of four or five thousand people, for the purpose of averting one of those popular clouds which so mightily bedim the brightness of kingly days ; and here are the free and religious people of Edinburgh, through their corporate head; praying '3 God that he may in his goodness give the royal stranger a speedy opportunity of playing the same game over airain A grand dinner was given to Mr. Sheridan Knowles at Glasgow, on Friday, at which Professor Sandford presided. The company con- sisted of about one hundred and forty gentlemen.
On the Stir instant, a child about three years of age fell from a win- dom at the Townhead of Glasgow, three stories high. he wind having inflated its frock, the child was buoyed up like a balloon, and descended gradually to the earth with a rotatory motion, experiencing no other damage by the fall than a slight scratch on the head. The mo- ther of the child ran to the street, expecting to find it killed outright, but the trembling little twchin looked up in her face, with an eye be- seeching forgiveness for a great fault, and exclaimed, " Mammy, I'll never do it again !"—Scotsnian. [This is a niece trifle to what hap- pened in George Street, St. Giles's, last year, when a child of one of the natives of an iligant attic, which it had rather unceremoniously abandoned, was not only wafted "with a rotatory- motion" in safety to the ground, by a puff of wind that crossed it while passing the second story, but had no sooner reached the street, than a second puff again in- flated its petticoat, and raised it once more with a rotatory motion to the arms of its despairing mother • who was at the moment consider- ing bow she might most speedily follow her darling. The first words
of the "urchin" in this case also were, " newt do it again :" and it has hitherto kept its word.] • • A most singular occurrence took place at the farm steading of White- bill, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, on the afternoon of Thursday last, during the prevalence of the appalling thunder-storm which passed over the district. A sow, with eight pigs, the latter five weeks old, was burrowing and feeding in the farm-yard; when suddenly, to the mm- speakable astonishment of the servants who witnessed the phenomenon, two of the pigs were whirled into the air, and deposited on the roof of the neighbouring bani ! The building being slated, and slippery from the rain, the affrighted grumphies, who assuredly never contemplated
rising so high in the world, slid a considerable way down the roof; and
the labourers ran to catch them in their descent, and save them from in- jury,—the servant lasses holding out their aprons for the purpose; but the little animals recovered their feet before reaching the ledge, slid along to the end of the -barn, from thence descended to the roof of a shed somewhat lower, and finally dropped into the soft garden behind, without sustaining the slightest injury. Lest this .narmtive may be
thought to smack somewhat of the hatchet,, we can only say that we had the particulars from an individual in town, to whom 'Mr. Robert- son, the tenant of Whitehill, personally communicated the circum- stance.- --,aDumfries- Journal. On Tuesday last week, a pleasure party of eight were; with the exception of one man, drowned in Lochlomond, by the upsetting of the boat in which they were, from a sudden gust of wind.
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