SCOTLAND.
The principal incident in the brief records of the Court reporter is the visit of Count and Countess de Pcrsigny to Balmoral. They arrived on the 7th and departed on the 11th October. During their stay the Count went out shooting with the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, and the Count of Flanders.
The Queen has driven and walked out during the week. Her Majesty will quit Balmoral on Monday. The Count of Flanders departed on the 11th. Lord Stanley has sue. ceeded General Peel as Secretary of State in attendance.
The shareholders of the Western Bank of Scotland held a meeting in Glasgow on Wednesday ; Mr. Blackadder, of Edinburgh, in the chair. The business transacted was important. The power to make Compro- mises, entrusted to the liquidators, was confirmed. Then the meeting became special, and the resolution was adopted- " Having heard read the following resolution, unanimously passed by the general committee of shareholders, at a meeting held at Glasgow on the 4th of October—viz., That taking into consideration the lamentable condition of the affairs of the Western Bank now disclosed, the Committee of Share- holders are of opinion that the united shareholders have a just claim on the deputy-governor and directors for reimbursement of calls made or to be made, as well as for the loss of the shares, and that this resolution shall be forth- with communicated by the secretary of the bank to the directors lathe man- agement at the period when they declared a dividend of nine per cent in June 18.57,' this meeting unanimously approves the said resolution, and di- rects the same to be communicated to the liquidators, who are hereby re- quested to proceed with all despatch in considering and advising with coin- se in regard to the claims of the whole body of the shareholders against all or any directors of the bank during recent years, and thereafter to take mea- sures for rendering such claims sufficient." One speaker says that the investigation of the affairs of the banks shows a system of gigantic falsehoods unparalleled in the history of banking.
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