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Glasgow has sustained a disappointment. Lord John Russell had agreed to receive the freedom of the corporation at a great gathering in the City Hall, on Friday; the ceremony to be followed by a Whig dinner in the Union Club. Lord Minto, Lord Dunfermline, and other high Whigs, were to grace the board. No ordinary occurrence could have disturbed the arrangement. But on Tuesday morning arrived in Edinburgh, by special messenger, a summons for Lord John, addressed to him by the Queen, and Commanding his immediate presence at Osborne House. Lord John obeyed, and set out in a few hours; leaving Glasgow and its freedom to some future obcasion.
At a special meeting of the Edinburgh Town-Council, on Thursday
week, the freedom of the corporation was presented, by the hands of the Lord Provost, to Sir Charles Napier, in token of admiration of his naval achievements. In returning thanks, Sir Charles alluded to his early ex- periences of the Scottish capital— "it is true that I was not born in Edinburgh; but I received my education in the High School, in the adjoining class to your Lordship. And I perfectly wall remember the battles fought between the two classes; and if we were not victo- rious at that time, your Lordship will allow that we were the junior enemy. Bat, nevertheless, I believe those combats which used to take place gave a bent to the young mind towards war on a much larger scale. The rubs which we used to get then, made us much more capable of exerting ourselves to co;nbat against superior forces than we should have been had we not had to contend with you ont these occasions. I went to sea at a very early age, after having left the High School; and Iliad an opportunity of returning to Edinburgh nine years after- wards, having served as a Midshipman and l'ost Captain; when I had the privi- lege of attending your College, and studying under Playfair, Hope, and Dugald Stewart. I can always look back to that time with great satisfaction; and I can assure you that the lessons I got in those days assisted Inc much in my progress through life."
At a Free-trade meeting held in Dundee, last week, inquiry was made by Mr. Christie as to the absence of Lord Hallyburton, the Member for the County ; and on being told that he was on the Continent, the interrogator stated that he would not again support him, as in Parliament he had op- posed Corn-law repeal. gr. Christie further suggested the organization of the Liberal electors with the view of attending to the county registration; and Mr. Wighton advised the gentlemen on the platform to follow the ex- ample of the League in England, and endeavour to create votes in Forfar- shire and other counties.
Free-trade meetings have also been held at Greenock and other places. Mr. John Hall Maxwell junior of Dunom-vel has been appointed Secre- tary to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
Henry Paterson, stationer, Auchtermuehty, pursued the Reverend Thomas Martin, Strathmiglo, for the value of the Penny Cyclopedia from July 1841 to December 1843, amounting to 21.5s. The Sheriff-Substitute assoilzied the defender f decided against the plaintiff]; the publishers haying pledged themselves, in the first volume, to complete the work in twenty volumes, whereas it extended to twenty-seven volumes. The Sheriff held that the publishers were bound to com- plete the work, and that subscribers and purchasers were not bound to pay for more than twenty volumes, in terms of the publishers' pledge.—I'/ e Herald.
The Western Bank at Glasgow experienced "a run" for an entire day last week; but as the panic was confined to the holders of notes to trifling amount, the emergency was easily met by the specie in the coffers of the establishment. The amount called for did not exceed 9,000/. The cause of the mischief is not clearly known; but suspicion attaches to a person slim had been refused "accom- modation": by way of revenge, it is presumed, he feigned alarm, and began to sell the bank's one-pound notes at a discount of 3s. In the suburbs a thriving traffic was carried on by the buyers of the depreciated notes; and a grocer wile placed a notice in his window offering to give full value for the piper, in goods, had an excellent "run" of business during the day. The stability of the bank was not for a moment suspected by those who possessed the means of judging of its resources.
It is a strange and anomalous fact, that a letter from Paris reaches Galashiele sooner than one from Glasgow; the latter usually lying twenty-four hours at Glasgow.—Border Wakh.
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