SCOTLAND.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at Blythswood House, the seat of Mr. A. Campbell, on i‘lonelny ; having spent a part of Saturday avid' Sir 'James Grnhain, at Netherhy, and the whole of Sunday with .Mr. Henry Monteith, at Carstairs. Mr. ItIonteith was to preside at the grand banquet yesterday. By the amusing " Peel Papers" in the Glasgow Argus, we are reminded that this same gentleman was one of the pi o. jecters of the Glasgow Street Lottery, which Sir Robert Peel, in the House of Commons in February 114:34, denounced as fraudulent ; de- claritig that he hoped the speculation would be a losing one, as a punishment to the projectors " for the fraud they had practised."
The over-Pted Baronet " had the refusal " of a public breakfitst at Lanark, but receive-el with complaisance the freedom of the borough, which was presented to him in the Assembly-rooms. Here Sir Robert delivered his first speech on Scottish groutid-
" However accustomed I may be to address public assemblies, I can with sincerity ..assure you that this demonstration of your respect and good opinion is so unexpected, that I am disabled altogether front adequately expiessing the
feelings to which it has given rise. I k • not whether the compliment you have paid me with so much enthusiasm implies an entire concurience in the polit:ral pt inciples hich I hold, alai by which I inean to adhere, or whether
it *only on the part of Mall) of 11111, claiming the tight, which I claim, of forming your own judgment of public matters, an aeholiwledgment of the naitive, by a hit.11 I have In e.1 ;imitated in maintaining opinions to which i y 1111 110I stib,crilic. In eitber it is very grAtify Mg to cut ; and I return you for it toy W,1 1111,t a •hotai I, thmleot The deep obligations whirli I owe to that branch it the maantautin es ot thi, caiibiitiy ahich toi ins the chief r.tininhi• to the industry of this place and the tieighlittorlitast—an uhli_ation altich I ain prond to achtaie ledge at ali times and tomer all Micuni,tatives_woold ;dom. Lave t.,tablish,:l some kind of contlexion aid, I. imit I:, and mititied me to kel an interest in it, piospelity. The municip ii hody it thi, Illogic lias suhcicicect all beail by the tr• clam eelik, , eat 01, me ride, (by, ( ea,/ cohl;hite,i Chte ) ym, have drunk my health as the yiaisigest ntember of the Um potation. I trust that time will improve our good fellow- ship, and that when heat we meet in Lan oh I shall have done nothing in my ta..tet ci ce,,e to make you repent ni the act of this day." Act adaress from the .11.0 it, f Loon h Was then presented. mesons touch the oppoitunity act oatitiehog Sir Rubel t of the des- titute cooditioil of the people in regaid to the incubus of religious in- striae:mu, atal act requesting his as•istantie ill pownring for them some money : but the cautious Barot it t steeled clear in his reply of any pro. ',Ilse or ildimation of the kind the clergy nished to exttact from hitu. Ile said.— cc .%ily assui.ince of respect and confidence on the pat of ministers of the Church of :■cotland is at all time, peculiarly gratify ing to me. It has been my lot to he plaved in positions in public lite which all:wiled mile opportimitics of frequent and extensive intercourse with the ministers tel the National E.tablish- wont in Scotland ; auil having exeicistd he several years that part of the patronage of the Church vested in the Crown, I have buil the mean. of duly estimating the high respectability of the ministers ot the Church, and the pule motives by withal they are actuated iu the peiformance of their professional duties I trust the mese I have uniformly taken in protecting the rights of the (Auld& of Scotland will be a better guarantee than soy declarations I can now make of firm attachment to her intetests and an anxious desire to pro- mote her welfare, considering het to be the great bulwark of civil and religious libel ty, and the most effective safeguard against the spirit of infidelity and int- morality ."
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