SCOTLAND.
The Chartists have succeeded in defeating-the Corn-law Repeaters, at a meeting held in the Waterloo Rooms, Edinburgh, on Tuesday night. It had been arranged that admission should be by tickets at six- I pence each, admitting two persons. The Chartists made arrangements to buy up a majority of the tickets; and, headed by Mr. Fraser, of the Truc Scotsman, succeeded in driving the Lord Provost, Mr. Adam Black, and other persons who had intended to take the lead, from the platform, and in placing Mr. Gregor, a journeyman painter, in the
hair, instead of the Lord Protest. The Anti-Corn-law party retired, the Lord Provost having adjourned the meeting ; and then the Chart- ists passed their usual series of resolutions. On the same evening, at Leith, resolutions for a total repeal of the Corn-tax were carried without opposition.
The Anti-Corn-law petition, which lies for signature at the Exchange Rooms, and at the Tontine Cofeeroom, and at forty other places about the town, had received about 16,000 signatures by Saturday night.— Glasgow Chronicle.
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