20 FEBRUARY 1847, Page 7

SCOTL AND.

The Destitution Committee of the Free Church has just issued a second report; from which it appears that the destitution is spreading. It is now calculated to embrace one third of the area of. Scotland, and about 200,000 people. The Committee expresses a doubt whether the public in general has been effectually roused to the sense of the calamity or the necessity of help.

By dint of abstaining from the shipment of grain, and of considerable exertion in raising subscriptions for the purchase of meal, quiet has been restored in the disturbed districts of the North.