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Lord Brougham, in reply to an invitation sent to him from the Ra- dicals of 411usgow to strew of a public dinner, has stated that he will fix upon the day after his return to Brougham Hall, after the session is finished. His Lordship proposes to take a tour through the North of Scotland this season.—Glasgow Chronicle.
Some correspondence has appeared in the London journals respect- ing the demands of the Shetlanders for additional relief from the Com- mittee who have the control of the funds raised last year in England to mitigate the distress of the inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. On the part of the London Committee, it is asserted. that a SUM sufficient to supply any reasonable demands has been ntreaey remitted to Shetland—namely, 3,0001. But Mr. Frederick Dundas„ M. P. for Orkney and Shetland, declares that the whole amount in the Lands of the Committee-12,000/. or 15,000/.—will be insufficient. The London Committee refuse to supply additional funds, express doubts as to the truth of the representation of the Shetland claims, and extreme unwillingness to relieve tl.e landowners of the islands from the performance of their own duties. It may be very true that the Shet- land lair& are desirous of pocketing, indirectly, English motley; but as yet we have seen no apology for the gross misapplication of the funds in the contemplated erection of a hospital at Strathpeffer. What- ever may be the final appropriation of the money, this is pretty certain, that to raise another subscription in England for the relief of starving Seotelimen will be rather difficult.
Mr. Hawkins has, owing to the interference of friends and relatives, abandoned his pretensions to the honour of representing Forfarshire; and will, we understand, be provided forthwith with a situation equally secure, and which will be comparatively a perfect sinecure to that so much coveted by him. This is all right.—Arbroath Journal.
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