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A meeting was held at the Alansionhouse on Saturday, to set on foot a public subscription for the la lief of the ten:tufty of the landowners itt the North of Scotland. The Lord Mayor presided; and on the plat- form were Lord Teiginnotith, (who seems to have a hankering after the bastard kind of popularity trebe obtained by holding forth at metro- politan meetings of this descriptium) Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Chisholm, Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, Captain Gordon, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Deputy Peacock, and, as the reporter adds, "several emi- nent London nierchanta," Dr. Macleod delivered a long speech ;Ira the course of which he proved that great distress existed in the High- lands of Scott:red, and did not prove that any efforts to relieve it had been made by time gmi-at absentee proprietors—tie lorde of the soil. The subscriptions :two aineed wet e very Ii imemi, A mong them were .50/. front the Dutelless of Kent rani the Princess Victoria, from Sir Robert Peel 34, and Sir Charles Forbes 1 amq. A person in the body of the meet- ing attoopted to !wow that the most effectual anode of relieving the distress of the Ila:Illaielers would be to make bread cheap by repealing the Corn-laws ; but the mectiug would not listen to hisfooliA theories. It answered the purpose of those vim managed the meeting to get money out of the pockets of the British public, %elide at the same time they renacred charitable aid necessary by supporting a system which inevitably generated suffering and scam city.
There was a great agricultural meeting at the Crown and Anchor on Tuesday ; at which Lord Wyrtfurd played first fiddle. The pith of the proceedings of the agriculturists may be tints stated—the Govern- ment is determined to destroy "the interest ;" farmers are going to rack and ruin ; but at present it is advisable to do nothing, since the repeal of " Peel's Bill" is past praying for.
About 600 Tories dined together at the octagon room in the Col- losseurn, on Thursday, to celebrate the second amniversary of the .Marylebone Conservative Association. Mr. "Almickintion, M. P., took the chair ; Lord Teignmouth, Lord Kenyon, Lord Sandon, Sir F. Pollock, Lord Bandon, Mr. Henry Hope, and Lord ilotham, were the other grent men of the party. It appears to have been a stupid, noisy, vulgar, ill. managed affair. The Chronicle says that the dinner amid wines were of the meanest description, and the arrangements ow.. crable. There was a row in the ante-room: all the tickets were tom off the huts and coats, which were thrown in a heap on the door for every body to trample upon as they went out.
Yesterday, the parishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark, postponed indefinitely the granting of a Churciorate, by a vote of 300 to 199.
A meeting was held 011 Thursday, at the Duke of Clarence, Munster Street, Regent's Park, for the purpose of introducing Mr. Hall to a portion of the electors of Murylebone. It was resolved by a large majority, that it was inexpedient and contrary to their interests, to have a stranger to the borough as their representative.
The Poor Law Commissioners have directed that ninety-eight parishes "within the wails" of the City shall be formed into one union, to be governed by 101 Guardians. There is some grumbling on the part of the jobbers under the old system ; but we suppose that they will submit, and let the "law take its course."
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