SCOTLAND.
The citizens of Glasgow, obedient to a call from the Lord Provost, met on Tuesday in the Merchants' Hall to express their sympathy for the condition of many of the states of Italy. The resolutions they adopted are significant of a widely-spread feeling on the subject. "1. That the armed interference of foreign Powers with the internal policy of independent States does not tend to secure the happiness or advance the prosperity of such states, but has been, on the contrary, a fertile source of revolutions and general wars ; and that the existing condition of Italy, as affected by the continuation of such interference, is the cause of serious alarm to Europe. 2. That as the British state and nation has, through its wide and intimate relations with other states, the profoundest interest in the preservation of peace, it behoves it, with every earnestness and energy, to endeavour by its moral influence, through its diplomacy, or by whatever means may seem just and expedient, and which promise to be efficient on the occasion, to obtain the cessation of existing interferences, and to prevent all future aggressions of this description."
It was determined to send petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying them to sanction "the principle that the law of nonintervention, thus understood, ought to be accepted and respected by every Power in Europe." Among those who took a prominent part in the proceedings were the Members for Glasgow, Mr._Buchanan and Mr..Dalglish, and Mr. Craufurd, Member for Ayr.
Lord Loughborough was feted at Cupar on Tuesday by a large number of his defeated but not discouraged supporters. The lights of the Conservative party in Fife mustered strongly on the occasion.
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