SCOTLAND.
The supporters of what is called the forty shilling movement in sea. land, !headed by Bailie Bletkadder, DI% Begg and.Mr.- Duncan M'Laren, waited on the Lord Advocate on Monday, and expounded to him their views. They complained that Scotland has a larger-import/on of eonley and a kisser proportion of burgh members than she otter% and assailed the burgh system as giving undue influence to the aristocracy. The /era Advocate promised to represent their views to the goVetnthetd, ,The proposal to create forty shilling freeholders will not af iiiigOod of on the mere technicalities of feudal law, but on general gromas, The Scottish Reformation Society presented a memorial to lad Malmesbury praying that the Government would exert its influence in behalf of thexestoration of the young Mortara. To this appeal- Led Malmesbury has replied through. Mr. Hammond. He has been It. quested by Lord Malmeshury to say that his lordship "apprehends that the interference of the Protestant Government of Great, Britain would be entirely unavailing after the earnest, effpfts of Catholic states have failed ' "J have further to state to you: says Mr. Hammond, "that his lordship does not share in the appte.hension of the memorialist* that children of British subjects may also be so treated. If Bach an outrage took place it could not be perpetrated with impunity."
- A marriage recently took place in Glasgow under verypeenliar circum- stances. Mr. Newcomen, of Turf Lodge, Kildare, a Protestant, fell hikes with Marianne Disney, a Roman Catholic. The Dieneys had other designs for the lady, and she, fearing that an unacceptable husband would be ferried upon her, agreed to elope with her lovers -They endeavoured-to be married at Dublin, but failed, and then tried Glasgow. Here it VAS found that twenty-one days must elapse-before the knot could-be tied by the justices of the peace. The couple waited that period, and then were united by do. elating their desire to be man and wife. The young people started at once for Ireland.
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