SCOTLAND.
A great meeting took place in Edieburgli on Thursday last week, on the subject of the expedition to Hollund. The Tories 'mastered very strong; - the Edinburgh Journal says there were not fewer than-a thousand of them. Every precaution was used to render the meeting exclusive. The friends of the gentlemen that called it were admitted at a private door, and by letters, at twelve o'clock ; doors were not opened for the public until one o'clock, and every one that entered was charged a shilling of admission-money. Of course, the gentlemen had it all their own way. Such affairs possess no interest. Where there is victory, there is fame ; and even defeat may he ennobled by the skill and courage of the vanquished : but what claim have they to notice who keep the field for which no rival contends ? Mr. Trotter, formerly Provost of the city, filled the chair; the resolutions against the Mi- nistry were moved by Professor Graham, Mr. Patrick Robertson the Advocate, Mr. Kinnear the banker, Mr. Mowbray, a Leith merchant, (the only merchant, by the by, who spoke on the occasion), Mr. James Hope, Mr. William Dundas' substitute in the Signet Office, and Sir Patrick Walker. Mr. Robertson's speech was the most elaborate. The exactness of its facts (which the speaker took the precaution to guarantee by a protest that he was not quizzing the meeting) may be judged of by a single specimen. M. Talleyrand, he said, had leagued with protocol-loving Palmerston, and they had resolved that the Bel- gians should go to u-ar. We had thought that the resolution of M. Tid- leyrand and the protocol-lover was that the Belgians should not go to war: but the Edinburgh Illuminati have changed all that. When the resolutions had been passed, Mr. James Johnstone, the member for the Stirling Burghs, addressed the meeting, amidst great cheering, on the absence of all party feelings that it displayed, though composed, as he observed, of Tories and Conservatives. When Mr. Johnstone I
sat down, Mr. Adams, Chairman of the Trades Union, moved, as a test of the partiality that had kindled the ex-Liberal member's elo- quence, to confide the petition of the meeting, not to the Duke of Buccleugh, who is a leetle of a party man, but to the Lord Advocate. The motion was met with loud cries of " Turn hini out," and the Chairman did not even think it worth while to put it to the meeting. Mr. Johnstone did not second it.
On Friday semi& one of the houses at Stobbs's Powder-mills blew up with a tremendous explosion. The materials of the house were scattered in all directions, and the roof was carried to a considerable distance. One man was killed.
The, fine mansion at Avoch, Rosshire, belonging to the Dowager Lady Mackenzie, and occupied by Colonel Macleod, of the East India Company's Service, was almost wholly burned to the ground on the 2Ist November. The principal part of the furniture was, however, for- tunately saved. =Inverness Courier.
The body of Mr. James Carlaw, surgeon, Maryhill, was found, one morning last week, under his bed-room window, in a shockingly' angled state. It is supposed the deceased, Nrho was in the habit of rising during sleep, had got up, and, in the act of leaning over the window, fallen out.
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