SCOTLAND.

Earl Grey spent the greater part of the Tuesday and Wednesday following the great dinner, in visiting the public places in Edinburgh. On Wednesday evening, he attended a concert which was given in the Pavilion on Calton Hill, for the benefit of the public charities. The concert was also attended by Lord Durham, Mr. Abercromby, Sir John Campbell, Mr. Jeffrey, and M. J. A. Murray. On Thursday, Earl Grey visited Lord Rotieberry, at Daluaeny. He declined au in- vitation to Glasgow, where it had been resolved to present him with the freedom of the city in a gold box : the reason assigned by Earl Grey for not going to Glasgow, was, that it would be out of his power to go to Hamilton Palace, as had formerly been expected.

Lord Brougham left Edinburgh on Wednesday the 17th, on his journey to the South. On passing through Harwick, he was presented with a burgess-ticket at the Town-hall; where he shortly addressed the .assembled inhabitants. He reached Carlisle on Thursday evening, and proceeded to Brougham Hall. On Wednesday the 24th, he arrived in London.

Lord Brougham disappointed his admirers in Perth by proceeding South on Friday to Blair-Adam through Fife, in place of taking Perth in his way from Dundee. His Lordship had no addition to his civic honours to receive here, as he has been a burgess of Perth since 1800. That year, be attended the Circuit Court of Justiciary here as an advocate, in the suite of Sir Patrick Walker; and boasted long afterwards that one guinea was the amount of his fees on that occasion. Whether the Magistrates of the day had had a prescience of the future fortunes of the young pleader, or what services he then rendered or engaged to per- form for the community, we know not ; but the records of the city that bear, that Henry Brougham, advocate, was that year enrolled a burgess of the Fair City.—Perth Courier.

Lord Durham left Edinburgh on Thursday the 18th.

The Edinburgh Scotsman has furnished a fuller report of Sir John Campbell's speech at the grand dinner, than appeared in the London journals. Some passages in it, which refer to the necessity of further .Law Reforms, deserve to be extracted.

s I hold it to be of the last importance for the welfare and happiness of society, that the laws should be simple and certain, adapted to existing circumstances. and suited to the spirit of the age: that the administration of justice should not only he pure and Impartial, but that it should be expeditious and cheap. My ace, ssion to office has only stimulated my ardour for legal reform ; as I conceive that the best mode of enforcing obedience to the law is to amend it, and thereby to make it re, ruled and beloved. In England, from a horror of any change of the law, and arov,,eettiiin so of the maxim that Time is the greatest innovator, the law and legal establishments had beer VIC wholly unsuitable to the actual state of society. It may be thought by the inexperienced that legal reform is an easy task, and that you have only to show a better svatem in order to its being adopted as readily as the impelling of vessels through the water by steam, which has contributed to render this assembly so numerons, or lighting by gm, which has reudered this hall so brilliant. But they little know, who never irk.% what it is to encoulder the opposition of individuals, and of classes of mon, who have an interest in the perpetuation of abuses, or the honest prejudices of the ignorant and higotted."

Much had been done, notwithstanding the obstinate resistance of the interested and the ignorant.

" The criminal law, formerly the roost ferocious in Europe, has beeu made humane and discriminating. By the abolition of barbarous forms, the transfer of teal property hits .become more simple and economical. A debt may now lie sued for w ithout in- curring costs many times the amount of the sum in coutroversy; and instead of au equity suit enduring tor some generations. there are no longer any arrears ia the Court of Chancery. But unich remit-ills to be dune in every department of the law, anti in each great division of the empire. As England, Scotland, and Ireland, are now in- separably united, in niy humble judgment the grand object should be to assimilate as lunch as possible their laws and institutions. and to have one uniform code for the whole nation. With this view, each division should borrow from the others wl at has been feund most beneficial. You have adopted jury trial from England; and as you become mote familiar with it, as it is more skilfully managed, the mom you will approve of it. Before long, you may think it advisable to have coroners in every county, to investi- giiteeases of suspicious death; and you may find that the English law of entails suffi- ciently provides for the contionauce of great families. while It avoids the approaching evil of almost all the land In the kingdom being rendered inalienable. Scotland can amply repay what she may borrow. I hope that, when the country gentlemen of England visit this country, and find that by the experience of centuries and the una- nimous voice of the whele community the registration of deeds renders the title to land more simple and more ...cure, notwithstanding what their attornies niay tell them, there will soon be a general register-office in London as well as in Edinburgh. The advantages which Seethed derives from possessing in every county a permanent tribunal tor the admiuist ration of justice in ordinary causes, presided over by a learued, onlighted, and independent judge, ought soon to establish local courts in England.

Upon the scotch law of arrest for debt, hope with considerable improvements,) I have myself framed a bill which has been twice introduced into the [louse of Commons With applause, and which I doubt not before long will receive the sanction of the Legislature. I most bitterly regret the delay which has arisen in carrying through this measure ; for while I am aware of the evil of legislating hastily on subjects or perma- nent importance, I cannot sufficiently deplore the continuaneeof acknowledged abuses, such as the present law of arrest fur debt in England, which puts every luau's liberty in the power of the most unprincipled or the most vindictive of mankind.'

He also eulogized the Church and Universities of Scotland, and (by, implication) censured those of England.

" You have a Church Establishment in accordance with the belief and the feelings of the great majority of the inhabitants, which, while it affords religious instruction, not only to populous cities, but to the remotest districts of the country, wholly incapable of obtaining the comforts of religion by voluntary efforts. imposes no disability, and with a tew exceptions (which I trust still soon cease to exist) imposes no leirdens upon any of those who disseut front its doctrines. You have Cniveneines where literature and science flourish: where there are teachers the worthy successors of Buchanan and of Black; and where literary and scieutitie distinctions may equally be obtained by all without difference of religious (reed—without requiring any procane mockery, or any ...A:Alen erect iscieuce, to entitle young men maw study there to engage in the geuerika race of academical distinction."

Upwards of 170/. was received in sixpences from persons who visited the Pavilion. Last Monday, considerable progress hal been made in taking it down. Sic transit gloria mundi I The Morning Herald of yesterday furnishes the following letter from a Glasgow correspondent. The writer appears to be a sensible person; and we have reason to believe that he gives a correct representation of the state of public feeling in the West of Scotland.

" Here (in Glasgow) as in Edinburgh, the Grey Dinner forms almost the exclusive topic of conversation ; and among the independent portion of society —among that class which keeps aloof from being identified with any political sect or party, the general impression is, that the late dinner has not by any means tended to elevate the resent Ministry in public estimation. Except II a compliment to Earl Grey, it has been in every other respect a failure; and it is a fact, that Lord Brougham was never estimated of so little value as he has been at this Edinburgh festival. His commonplace harangue, now that tha people have time and opportunity to examine it, is pronounced almost by corn. won consent to be a production in every respect miserable. His flummery about the King, his master,' is laughed at outright ; and the circumstance of his speeches at the various places in Scotland being almost duplicates of each other, has given the people a very meagre idea of his mind and of its resources. " The absence of the Duke of Hamilton at the dinner, where he was to have presided, is a good deal talked of, and variously accounted for. It is believed to be all nonsense about the glare of gas-light; and it is broadly hinted that some intrigue or other was set on foot to keep the noble Duke away. It is re- marked that a certain Lord was at nonillion Palace a few days before the dinner : and no very favourable conclusion is drawn from that circumstance. " The manly and straightforward bearing of the Eul of Durham, which all men acknowledge, however they may be opposed to him in sentiment, has won Lint golden opinions; and a requisition has been presented to the Chief Magis- trate of this city to-day, most respectably signed, requesting that a public meet- ing should be convened to consider of the propriety of inviting Lord Durham to a public dinner in Glasgow. The requisition has been acceded to ; ant Bailie Gilmour, as senior Magistrate, has called a meeting of the citizens for the purpose above-named for Wednesday next. It is not expected that any opposi. tion will be offerer'. The meeting will no doubt be a very respectable one, and the example of Glasgow will possibly operate in such a matter very extensively. It is anticipated that the noble Earl will not refuse the invitation ; and it is re- solved, in the event of his acceptance, that the entertainment shall be on a scale of great magnitude. The largest mom in the city will not, it is supposed, hold half the applicants. The Trades Hall will accommodate about 800; and there is no doubt, if the noble Earl accepts the compliment, that the hall still at least be filled to overflowing. " The state of public feeling in this part of Scotland is decidedly opposed to the stand. still policy of the Lord Chancellor ; and there are several gr'eat ques- tions about which the Scotch threaten to try the pulse of the Parliament in the next session, and without much delay. There is a strong feeling in favour of Triennial Parliaments and vote by Ballot, and extension of the suffrage would also be a popular measure here. The opinion in favour of Triennial Parlia- ments especially is very general and decided."

Lord Cringletie's state of health has led to his resignation, and the Solicitor-General succeeds to his vacant gown. Although Mr. Cock. bunt's successor is not yet appointed, we believe that we run very little hazard of error if we name Mr. John Cunnitighame, advocate, as all but nominated to his office.—Scots Times.

The following particulars of the last illness of Mr. Blackwood, the celebrated publisher, are from the Edinburgh Evening Courant. "Mr. Blackwood had been confined almost entirely to bed for the last four months, from the progress of a tumour of a most malignant nature, and which proved beyond the reach of either medical or surgical skill. He was attended throughout his illness by his attached friend, Mr. I). M. Moir of Musselburgh, with the able assistance of Professors Thomson and Syme, and of Mr, Liston. Nothing could exceed the fortitude and composure which Mr. Blackwood exhibited throughout the progress

of his intractable malady ; and until nature became exhausted, within a few days of his death, his mind possessed all its wonted cheerfulness. As a man and a Christian, his character left little to be desired, and the memory of his many virtues will ever be cherished by all who enjoyed his private friendship. As the projector of the periodical which bears his name, Mr. Blackwood may well be considered as a distinguished public character, under whose auspices the fame of Scottish genius has been carried to the remotest corners of the earth."