SCOTLAND.
The'following is the result of the Sheriff's judgments in the Registra- tion Court for the county of Edinburgh—
The total claimants admitted are
(If these there are in the Liberal interest 146
lu the Tory interest 79 Major ity of Liberals 67 Claimants unknown or undeclared 3
At the last election, which was carried on under unfavourable cir ctunstances for the Liberals, Sir George Clerk polled 565, and Mr. Gibson (7raig .7):)4 votes—majority for Sir I :eurge only :11. The new Liberal voters registered will turn the scale, and give Mr. Craig, or the Reform candidate, a inikitnity of Si; at the next election.
In East Lothian, tile Tories have manufaetured votes on an exten- sive scale. The balance of new claims is said to be against the Whig interest. The Sheriff, Mr. Horne, has admitted Tory claimants more readily, as it is alleged, than Whig chtimants. In consequence, Me. Reid, counsel for Mr. Ferguson, has appealed almost all his cases, and will have the same battles to fight a second time in the Appeal Court.
It would appear that the bigots who patronized that red-hot Tory and Churchman, Captain Gordon, have invited the Reverend Mortimer O'Sullivan to Glasgow, to support what they call the cause of Protest- antism. This reverend gentleman is the person who lately presided at the extravagant Iligh Church meeting in London. The pretence that these meetings are got up to support the Protestant faith, is seen through by every one. We are as much friends to that faith as any one can be ; but the wodd have learned to distinguish between Protestant- ism and Orangeism—between a zeal for religion, and a determination to keep alive all the corruptions and oppressions of an Estublished Church. The whole zeal of these mountebanks arises from a desire to retain the tithes and livings wrung from the blood of a murdered pea- santry. And yet they come to tell the People of Scotland that they are urged by a wish to spread the true religion. Take away the livings, and the whole race of these hypocritical itinerants would lose their holy zeal. Let the People of Scotland recollect, that it was to put down episcopacy, when it trampled on their religious and civil rights, that their forefathers bled and died; and will they support a system when applied to Ireland, which they nobly resisted when attempted to be ap- plied to themselves ? The bigots, afraid, it seems, of an open meeting, have resolved to issue tickets, to be given only to those who have already made up their minds that they are doing God service in mur- dering the widow's son at Rathcormac for refusing to pay tithes. And they will, no doubt, commence their proceedings by praying a blessing upon such a system : some of our Presbyterian clergy, perhaps, wishing success to a cause which John Knox and his successors did everything in their power to uproot.—Glasgow Chronicle.
William Ramsay, one of the Duke of Gordon's Orange friends, was sentenced by Lord Aleadowbank at Glasgow on the 11th instant, to fourteen years' transportation, for riotous conduct and attacks on the Catholics of Airdrie on the night of the 19th of July. The Magis- trates of Airdrie appear to have acted infamously on the night in ques- tion. The Judge in passing sentence said, "A Catholic chapel had been destroyed, and that in a country where, although the Catholic religion was not established by law, yet those professing it were entitled to the same protection as any other religion. A mob amounting to upwards of two thousand persons had assembled in Airdrie for the purpose of committing some outrage on the Catholic inhabitants of' that place, and instead of the latter receiving that protection from the authorities to which they, as peaceable subjects, were entitled, they were left to themselves, and not only so, lint the rioters seemed to hem received A; countenance of the civil authorities. In one case at least,
where the mob attacked the house of a Protestant by mistake, the heml of the police establishment at Airdrie, instead of endeavouring to di.spersc them as rioters, simply told them that thc house was that tf a Protestant, thus leaving them to believe that they might with impunity attack the houses of Catholics. In one case a respectable gentlemen rn the heighbour- hood, who was endeavouring to quell the riot, said he saw one of the Magistrates in the midst of the crowd, yet not making the least effort to put down the disturbance. Indeed, after the evidence that had been adduced, if any man, whatever might be his religions opinions, Pro- testant or Catholic, Nfahornetan or Jew, should say that the conduct of the Magistrates of Airdrie did not reflect disgmee upon themselves, he would be much surprised. It was now a question of some impor- tance how fur the consequence of this affair ought not to be visited 011 these authorities."
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