SCOTLAND.
The registration of voters for Members of Parliament in the city of Edinburgh for 1834 was completed on Friday last, the Court Of Appeal having then concluded their sittings. There have been in all 1549 new claims lodged. Of these, a great number are renewals, most of the claim lots having been formerly registered, but disqualified by
removal from the subjects on which they were registered. A number of gentlemen lodged claims on property in different districts of the city, that they may have it in their power, when the election of Town- councillors take place, to vote in any of the wards in which their pro- perty lies. There were 198 claims rejected, leaving of new claimants admitted 1351 ; of which the proportions of the different parties may be estimated nearly as follows—Conservatives, 500; Whigs, 600; Radicals, 100; Politics not known, 151. —Edinburgh Advertiser.
The Appeal Sheriffs in Edinburgh, after full argument and delibera- tion, have decided that the non-payment of Assessed Taxes forms no
valid objection to a registered vote being continued on _the roll. This judgment, we understand, has been anticipated by the legal profession. The question was raised in the Leith district ; for in the city, parties were so satisfied upon the point, that no such objection was taken in any case.—Edinburgh Observer.
A number of gentlemen of Perthshire have invited Sir George Murray to a public dinner in the County Hall of Perth, which is to take place on Friday the 17th instant.
Mr. Gillon has been rendering an account of his stewardship to the constituency of the Falkirk Burghs ; to whom his independent con. duct in Parliament seems to have afforded great satisfaction.
The first general meeting of the Eskdale and Liddesdale Agricul- tural Society, was held on the 26th of September. After the business of the day was over, upwards of three hundred farmers sat down to dinner, the Duke of Buccleugh in the chair. When his Grace's health was drunk, he delivered a good landlord's speech, professing his readi- ness to allow his tenantry a fair return fur their labour, instead of grasping all he could wring from them for himself. He enlarged also upon the agricultural improvements of the district, and upon the useful tendency of agricultural societies. They were, he said, doing for par- ticular parts of the country, what their parent, the Highland Society, had done for Scotland generally ; and he hoped they would be encou- raged and promoted in all quarters.
The Earl of Kinnoul has presented Mr. Young, preacher, and nephew of his factor, to the church and parish of Attchterarder. The parishioners are displeased, and allege they won't accept the gift. They protest they shall have a veto,—the boon of the General Assembly. The affair, it is said, goes to the Court of Session, and then to the Lord Chancellor. A few weeks ago. the same noble patron presented a favourite to the parish of Trinity Gask, and which presentation, too, is unacceptable. This spirit of insubordination must be put down. We are alarmed for the institutions of the country. The wisdom of our forefathers is slighted, and innovation progresses on all bands. Who then, or what then, is safe ?—Dundee Advertiser.
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