SCOTLAND.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh was held on Monday to pro- mote subscriptions to the Patriotic Fund. The notables of the Scotch capital mustered in great strength ; the Dean of Faculty moved the first resolution, and Lord Dunfermline the second ; and the feeling to re- - spond "heartily and liberally " to her Majesty's appeal was unanimous. The Lord Provost stated that he had received 6004 without solicitation.
The Dundee Chamber of Commerce met on Tuesday, to consider what steps, if any, ought to be taken by the British Government with re- spect to the imports of Russian produce through Prussia. Some of the speakers thought that the matter should be left to the Government; but the upshot was that the following resolution was unanimously adopted- " That this Chamber, viewing with alarm the reports which are so dili- gently circulated of the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to alter their policy in regard to Russian produce, is of opinion that any alteration where- by the importation of flax goods would be considerably interfered with, would be highly prejudicial to the linen trade of this country, inasmuch as it would inevitably tend to transfer that trade to foreign countries, and be productive of great distress to the working population employed in that branch of trade." At a meeting of the Edinburgh Presbytery, last week, Mr. Malcolm complained of injustice done to the Established Church of Scotland in the Census-returns. It is said, however, that the ministers withheld inform. ation, and thus compelled those who furnished returns to have recourse to averages. Mr. Malcolm did not impugn the principle on which the averages had been taken, but picked out special details and showed their inaccuracy.
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