The Orange demonstration in Aberdeen proved a complete failure. In
spite of all the exertions of the Synod of Aberdeen, collectively and as individuals, Mr. 'Munich O'Sullivan had the mortification of ad- dressing a very meagre audience; composed, too, principally of the clerical order, and its most tenacious adherents, the gentler sex. The real state of public opinion in Scotland has been triumphantly shown, and, thanks to the Reform Bill, will be truly represented in the House of Commons. In the mean time, it is the duty of the press to watch carefully the insidious progress of the enemies of improvement ; to dog the steps of the advorates of intolerance ; and to expose fearlessly the real tendency amid design of the hostile crusade, which has been begun by the clergy of the dominant Churches, against the doctrines and practice of a large and respectable body of their fellow Christians. —Aberdeen Herald.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Perth was held on the 16th, in the North United Secession Church, to express their opinion respecting the recent appearance of Mr. O'Sullivan in that town. About eight hundred were present. 11Ir. Greig,, writer, was in the chair ; and the meeting was addressed by the Reverend Messrs. Marshall and D. Young; who argued that, however erroneous Popery might be—and no one could condemn it more than tiny would—yet the maintaining of the Irish Church was was not to put down the superstition, but had rather contributed, by its exorbitant demands on the professors of a different faith, to rivet the belief of its truth in the minds of the people. Several rather piquant remarks were also made respecting the inconsistency of the ministers of time Scottish Church in leaguing themselves with the professors of Prelacy, a faith which their ances- tors had joined in a covenant to extirpate. Resolutions, in accordance with the speeches introducing them, were proposed and unanimously agreed to.
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