SCOTLAND.
The great Free Trade dinner at Glasgow, which has been for some weeks the subject of preparatory announcements in the news- papers throughout the country, took place on Tuesday, in the Trades HalL The purpose of the dinner was to make a "demonstration" in favour of revision of the Tariff, including the corn and provision duties. The meeting was attended by Mr. James Oswald, Member for the city, who was the chairman ; his colleague, Mr. John Dennistoun ; the Member for Greenock, Mr. Wallace; Mr. Hattie, the Member for Paisley; and the leading men of the place, with a sprinkling of the clergy and of the Professors of the University. The Chairman began the business of the evening by declaring that the meeting was "no party meeting, but one at which men of every shade of political sentiment might meet"; and immediately afterwards, we find Mr. Walter Buchanan, who introduced the subject of the day in a very painstaking and judicious speech, speaking of the presence of his " Conservative friends." Notwithstanding the chairman's disclaimer of politics, however, the irrepressible feeling on the political side of the question burst forth, in the declaration of Mr. Speirs, that "the House of Commons did not fairly represent the commercial interests." Mr. Speirs's little breach of discipline does not teens to have been ill- received.
On Wednesday evening, a dinner was given by Mr. Hastie, M.P., in the Exchange Rooms, Paisley, to a large party of the constituency who bold official stations, including the Sheriff, Provost, and Magistrates, the Commissioners of Supply and Justices of the Peace resident within the Parliamentary boundaries, the Membersaf Council, the Dean and Council of Faculty, the Medical Society, the principal office-bearers of the various Trades Societies and Incorporated Societies in town, with many others. The guests invited ranged from 160 to 200 in number.— Glasgow Argus. [Another symptom of the return to ante and anti Reform practice.]
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