SCOTLAND.
The Town-Council of Edinburgh discussed the question of the Incometax on Tuesday. Mr. Mackinlay moved a resolution proposing that the Council should petition for the reduction of the poundage to 7d., and for the exemption of all incomes not exceeding 1501. Baillie Clark moved an amendment expressing in general terms that the tax ought to be reduced to the lowest possible rate that the requirements of the country will bear. Mr. Russell moved the "previous question." It would be better to continue the tax, with all its inequalities, than endanger free trade. On a division, both the amendment and the previous question were negatived by large majorities ; and Mr. Mackinlay's resolution, modified to the effect that the tax should be reduced to the amount fixed in 1853, was carried by 17 to 10. No fewer than three women have been found lying in the snow, dead from the inclemency of the weather, in various parts of Forfarshire. In one case the woman was drunk when she was last seen alive; the second perished while travelling from one farm to another; the third victim was unknown—probably a houseless wanderer.
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