3 APRIL 1841, Page 9

SCOTLAND.

The objects of a "demonstration" against the Corn-laws, which is to be made in Glasgow, have been enlarged. The Glasgow Evening Post says— "We learn that it has been resolved that the demonstration announced to lake place in this city during the Easter recess, will not be confined, as was originally intended, to the consideration of the Corn-laws alone, but will em- brace the broad general question of the duties on every description of goods and produce imported into the United Kingdom, including, of course, the duties levied upon corn and provisions. We believe that this change will afford very general satisfaction, by giving an interest to the meeting which would have been wanting had it been restricted to the Corn-law question. The attendance of Members of Parliament will also, in consequence of the alteration, be largely increased; and we may expect to hear the entire subject of the commercial policy of the country developed by many of the ablest Members of the Legislature, and by deputations from several of the leaditig commercial and manufacturing towns. We understand that the Riding-school, in Cambridge Street, has been fixed upon as the place where the demonstration is to be held. It forms the largest covered space within the city, and is capable 'of being fitted up to hold comfortably somewhere about fifteen hundred in- dividuals. The precise day for the festival has nut been named, but we believe it will shortly be announced."

The Aberdeen Herald of Saturday last publishes a new sort of article of faith, to which a Mr. Edderton, the minister of Edderton in Ross- shire, requires subscription before granting the usual annual certificate to a student of divinity from his parish- " I hereby freely and conscientiously state it as my principles, derived from the measure of my understanding of the Word of God, that the Church of Christ is bound, whether it be established or otherwise, to use means for ex- tending the knowledge and kingdom of Christ by scriptural Schools and Gospel missionaries, as exhibited generally in the five schemes of our Church ; that, whether established or otherwise,.tbe Church and its individual members are bound to obey, in all spiritual matters, the laws of Christ, the alone King and Head of his Church ; that the pastoral relation ought not to be formed with- out the consent of the minister and that of the members of the church in that congregation or parish ; and that the use of the civil power to coerce in spiri- tual matters, in doctrine, discipline, or worship, is unlawful and antichristian."

The Glasgow and Greenock Railway was opened on Tuesday. At the two towns, and in each place on the line, the day was made a holyday.