SCOTLAND.
The Financial Reformers of London made a commencement of their campaign in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. George Thompson were the spokesmen, to a meeting assembled by requi- sition and presided over by the Lord Provost, in the Music Hall: some of the other Magistrates and Town-Councillors were present; and though the weather was unfavourableāa drizzling rain all the eveningāthe large hall was "crowded to overflow." The meeting was in fact, says the Daily News, organ of the movement," equal to any ever held in Edinburgh," notwith- standing all the "insidious efforts" of the "learned Whigs of Modern Athens " to " burke the Financial Association in its infancy." The Daily NPws exults over the triumph as the climax of the revolt against Edinburgh Whiggery.
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