SCOTLAND.
The Commissioners of Supply for Haddingtonshire met on Tin-- day week ; the Marquis of Tweeddale in the chair. The only topic a discussion was the Land-tax Collection Act ; which Lord Haddine tea denounced for the same reasons that Sir George Clerk advanced btfiire the Edinburgh County Commissioners. Mr. Robert Steuart teak the trouble to convince Lord Haddington of his utter ignorance of the provisions and operation of the measure. In fact, his Lordship oely doggedly repeated the same tissue of errors arid misrepresentations of which Sir George Clerk had been convicted some time since. Ile completely baffled ; and it was finally agreed to adjourn the considera- tion of the subject till next January ; when, as Mr. Steuart and Mr. Robert Ferguson will both probably be absent, the Tories may perlaps succeed in carrying a vote of censure on the Ministers, in spite of all reason to the contrary. The Caledonian Mercury says that Lord Belhaven is busying himself in Lanarkshire in the same matter; and adds- " His Lordship has been too long spared. We are surprised Governif eat has not dismissed him long ago from the appointment he holds under then:. At all events, it ought not to be renewed at the next General Assembly. Lord Belhaven absented himself from all tire discussions in the Lords on the Mom- cipal Corporations Bill ; and after thus grossly neglecting his Parliamentary duties, he convenes the county of Lanark to stigmatize a Ministerial in itself highly laudable, and which has been passed in spite of him and his Tory compeers."
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