SCOTLAND.
A petition from Glasgow, for a full measure of Municipal Reform for Ireland, received 23,000 signatures, ant)was transmitted for presen- tittion to the House of Commons, on Saturday.
A public meeting was to be held in Glasgow on Thursday to set on foot a subscription in aid of the O'Connell Testitnonial. Sir John Maxwell's name was at the head of the requisition to the Provost to call the meeting.
The Commission of the Assembly of the Church of Scotland com- menced its sittings at Edinburgh on the 31st May, and has decided a variety of eases referred to it. The most important, in a public point of view, is that of the Reverend Patrick Brewster, who was brought before the inferior Church Courts for censure, for the offence of attend- ing a dinner given to Mr. O'Connell in Paisley. After a great deal of discussion, the Commission approved of the sentence of the inferior Court, finding that Mr. Brewster was not guilty of an ecclesiastical offence in attending that dinner. Many of the members expressed their opinion that the charge ought never to; have .been brought forward against him.—Courier.
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