SZoTLA ND. At a meetin g of the Edinburgh Town-Council, on
Tuesday, the following reply from Louis Philippe to the address lately forwarded by the Council, was read. It is in English, in the handwriting of the King; and was trans- mitted through the French Embassy.
laTeuilly, May 16, 1846.
"My Lord Provost—I have to request your Lordship to express to the Magis- trates amid Town-Council of the city of Edinburgh the sincere gratification with which I have received the address which they have voted me on the occasion of the late attempt upon my life. It is meet satisfactory for me that my unceasing effbrts to uphold and promote the good understanding and friendly intercourse between France and Great Britain are so highly appreciated by the distinguished corpora- tion over which you preside. I hail with delight the increasing popularity of that pecific policy which, laying in oblivion the old feuds and animosities of nations, begets among them a general feeling of mutual benevolence, and ultimately that firm conviction, which every year there has elapsed before us has strengthened in my mind, that peace is, for all, the best policy, and thesurest way to increase the ' prosperity of nations and the welfare of mankind. The Queen has been also much affected by the sympathies you have manifested for the heartbreaking anxieties she has gone through daring the too often renewed occurrences where it has pleased God to cover us with his Divine protection. It is with the gracious con- currence of my august friend and ally, your beloved Sovereign, that I request your Lordship to express to the Magistrates and Town-Council of the city of Edinburgh the deep sense I entertain of this distinguished testimony of their sympathy and regard. "My Lord Provost, your affectionate
" Louis Puransms.
Some very serious rioting has occurred at Glasgow; the soldiers of the Seventy- sixth Regiment having repeatedly attacked, .beaten, and stoned the Police, a mob of blackguards aiding the military in their outrages. In the last encounter the Police got the best of it, and arrested nine of the soldiers. The Glasgow Argue declares that a number of the corps have behaved in a most disgraceful manner from their first arrival in the city.
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