SCOTLAND.
The financial embarrassments of the city of Edinburgh, to which we alluded some time ago, have at last come to a crisis, winch scarcely ad- mitted of an alteiaative between downright bankruptcy and an appli- cation to Parliament. The latter course has been preferred. At an extraordinary meeting of the Town Council on Saturday last, it was unanimously resolved to apply immediately for the appointment of a Parliamentary Commission for the management of the finances and debts of the city. It is proposed that the future ordinary receipt and expenditure should be under the management of the Council. A preliminary Meeting took place at the Lord Provost's house, and was attended by Lord Melville, Sir James Gibson Craig, Sir John Dal- rymple, M. P. for the county, end other influential persons ; when this plan met with general approbation.
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