28 APRIL 1855, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

Colonel Mure, for reasons of a private and domestic nature, is about to retire from the representation of 'Renfrewshire. Sir Michael Stewart of Ardgowan, a Conservative, is spoken of as likely to be Colonel Mure's successor.

Several meetings have recently been held in Scotland to consider the Lord Advocate's Bill on Education. In its favour there were the Town- Oouncil and the inhabitants of Edinburgh in public meeting, and the Con- vention of Royal Burghs ; against it, the parish-school teachers of Edin- burgh, the Established Presbytery of Edinburgh, and the Commiaeion of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.