7 MARCH 1840, page 7

The George Street Assembly-room In Edinburgh Was Crowded...

last, by a meeting collected to address the Government on the coulliet of the Civil and Ecclesiastical authorities, and Site the immediate settlement of' the question respecting......

Ireland.

Lord Lorton has been again defeated in an attempt to set aside a lease by which an old widow named Murphy keeps possession of a cottage and plot of' potato- ground on his......

It Was Stated In Our Last Postscript, That Mr. Home

Drummond's ad- dress to the electors of Perthshire was more favourable to the Non- Intrusionists than Mr. George Stewart's. The relative position of the two candidates on this......

On Tin' 28th February, A Meeting Of Entlemon And Inhabitants

of East Lothian, desirous of uphohlin;s . 11)0 Clutrelt as by law established, was held at the County-rooms, Haddingt on. 31.11v:is of Tweed- dale was in the chair, supported by......

Scotland.

The nomination of candidates for the Inverness Burghs took place at Inverness on Friday the 28th. Mr. Fraser of Cromarty House, was proposed by Provost Cumming, and seconded by......