SCOTLAND.
The Edinburgh Evening Courant says that Lord Jeffery was seized, on Saturday, in the Parliament House at Edinburgh, with a faintness which caused him to fall from his chair. Medical assistance was imme- diately procured, and when he had somewhat recovered he was taken home in the Lord President's carriage, attended by Lord Ivory and Dr. Pitcairn. The attack is attributed to a temporary derangement of the accomplished Judge's digestive functions.
Public meetings, to forward the Ministerial movement in financial reform, are recorded at Haddington, Greenlaw, Slateford, (where the Chartists intruded, but to no great purpose,) Sanquhar, Eaglesham, Keyhole, Inverness, Perth.
A public meeting was held in the Edinburgh Assembly-rooms, on Friday, to express approval of the Duke of Argyll's bill for the settle- ment of the Nonintrusion question. The Lord Provost took the chair ; Mr. Earle Monteith, Mr. Candlish, and Dr. Patrick M'Farlan, were the chief speakers. They added to the quantity of what has been uttered 'upon the subject, but not to the novelty. The meeting was very una- nimous. At the close of the proceedings the large room was about three parts full.
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