13 FEBRUARY 1858, Page 9

SCOTLAND.

A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on Monday to consider a mode of dealing with the Annuity-tax. By this plan, it is proposed to abolish the tax ; to hand over the 20001. per annum from the Leith re- venues to the clergy ; to transfer the patronage from the Town-Council to the congregations ; and to give them all the revenues derived from seat-rents and church-door collections belonging respectively to the Town- Council and parochial boards, from which to supplement the stipends of the clergy and pay other ecclesiastical expenses. The meeting, which was addressed by Mr. Black, Mr. Cowan, and Mr. Baxter the Member for Montrose, adopted the plan.