SCOTLAND.
The Tories made a prodigious fuss about the rioting of the Reform party at the Pertliskre election, and some men were tried last week at Edinburgh, reneged with creating a disturbance at Crieff in Perth- shire ; but at twithst aiding the utmost efforts to obtain a verdict of Guilty, the defendants were all acquitted. It appears that the offence actually committed was of the most trifling kind; yet the Judges (Justice Clerk Boyle, and Meadowbank or Maconochie)efter the verdict of " Not proven," g .ye it as their opinion that the defendants were guilty. In ease ef conviction, the punishment would have been at lea-t seven years' t anspertation. The insolence of these Scotch Judges should be checked : tha case ought to be mentioned in Parlia- ment.
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