- SCOTLAND.
The General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland met at Edinburgh on the 20th instant; and was constituted with the usual for- malities. Lord Belhaven, the Queen's Lord High Commissioner held his first levee on Thursday morning, in Holyrood Palace: it was attended by nearly 350 of the nobility, gentry, ministers, and elders. After the levee, the Commissioner went in state procession to St. Giles's Church; where a sermon was preached by Dr. James Paull, the late Moderator. The pre- vious Commissioner was the Marquis of Bute; whom the present Ministry offered to continue in office, but he declined; but to testify his good-will, he rode to church in the same carriage with his successor.
The new Moderator is Dr. John Paull, of St. Cuthbert's.
On the same day, the General Assembly of the Free Protesting Church was opened. Dr. Sievewright, of Markinch, was chosen Moderator.
Mr. Walter Babe does not intend to stand again for the representation of Greenock.
Fever is rife in Edinburgh. At a meeting of the City Parochial Board, last week, Dr. Alison applied, on behalf of the Medical Relief Committee, for enlarged powers to meet the spread of disease. There were 600 CaSOB of fever in the Infirmary, and 30 fever cases had been removed from one close in the Grassmarket. He recommended the employment of tents and the establishment of lazarettos. Dr. Alison's application was granted; not however, without a reservation as to expense.
The Montrose Standard says that the same disease which prevailed many years since among grouse has made its reappearance this season. Largo quantities of these birds are to be found dead on the "margin of the rive= and by the side of the rifle." Furthermore, the Inverness Courier reports that a number of sportsmen in Sutherlandshire have been served with no- tices of assessment for poor-rates upon the moors over which they shot. The gentlemen, however, have resolved to resist the assessment, and to club together for that purpose.
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