28 JANUARY 1860, Page 7

SCOTLAND.

One Martin Escalante, a British subject, has been sentenced by a Spanish Court to nine years' penal servitude for the crime of distri- buting copies of the Bible in Spain. A meeting in Edinburgh, over which the Lord Provost presided, has adopted a memorial to the Govern- ment, praying that such steps may be taken as will procure the imme- diate and complete liberation of the prisoner.