have produced many revolutions, but none more extraordinary than the
Earl Grey has accepted the invitation from Edinburgh ; and has change in the relative possessors of wealth in Ireland ; a truth which agreed to be in that city any day of the week beginning with the VAN will be most strikingly exemplified before the Conservatives have pro- of September, which the inhabitants may deem most convenient. Thee ceeded much further in their optative campaign.—Glebe Correspondent. dinner is to be given in the Parliament House, the only room int
at the dinner next month.
A meeting of the working classes was held at Edinburgh on the akIi instant, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Aytoun with a " testimo.. nial " of their regard for his political character, and gratitude for his public services. Resolutions were also passed declaratory of the insuf- ficiency of the Reform Act, and in favour of short Parliaments and secret voting. Several long speeches were made by Messrs. Aytoun, Alstown, Ache, and Davidson : they were all full of bitter denunciationa of the Whigs. We cannot ascertain, from a long report of the pro ceedings and a leading paragraph in reference to them in the Edinburgh Patriot, what the " testimonial " was ; but it must be something like a piece of plate, for there is a complimentary inscription on it.
We learn with sincere pleasure that Sir D. K. Sandford is at length. gradually recovering from his severe indisposition.— Glasgow Courier.
We have advisedly abstained from entering on the present state ancf prospects of the Border freeholders under the Reform Act, nor shall we do so until the lists of voters have this year been completed ; but if there be one thing inure than another in which the community ought to rejoice, it is thm. men of property, intelligence, and integrity, have patriotically stepped forward to take a place upon the rolls of the dif-
ferent counties, with tile view and in the confident expectation of effectually counteracting the influence of a set of persons who have been brought into political existence by the most dishonest means,—many of them without even a right to demand possession of the titles of the property on which they claimed to vote, and ready venally to sac ifice the independence of the county at the command of men yet more venal „ and corrupt. —Kelso Mail.
Some rather curious consequences of the existing demand for golf' are likely to develop themselves in regard to the Scotch banks, who are not protected by the new act, as the loyal English banks are,
against paying in specie. The call for it both in Glasgow and Edin- burgh, in return for their 1/ notes, has been so great, the circumstance being an unusual one in that part of the Lnmited kingdom, as to cause great surprise among the managers of those banks, who were not led by previous experience to take any precautions against such an event They begin to regret that they have not been secured equally smith the English banks against any such contingency ; but they seem to have forgot that the Legislature could not have afforded, at all events, any such protection to a small note circulation. They will be compelled its flume to keep a larger supply of gold than 11,a1..1 in their coffers.-. Times.
A dinner was given on Tuesday week, at Peebles, to the Ettrick: Shepherd ; Professor Wilson in the chair. Upwards of a hundrtd gentlemen, including Sir John and Colonel Hay, Air. Bertram. and the Reverend H. Paul, attended. A tier dinner, Professor Wilson proposed Hogg's health, in an eloquent speech. It elicited the follow.. jug reply from the Shepherd ; who collected his spirits a wee while a Mr. M•Leod at his request gave the company a song.
" I thank ye a' for what a hae s.i,d, hut whan I begin to speak myser. there's' flat say in' whale I may stop, and 1 canna speak about only ither thing the Weld. Mr. Wikon eau tell ye that I bac, fought very lianl for my literary fame, but 1 hoe got it at last. Naelsaly can say, after this nicht, that I hat' tut got ii--naeliody can say that I'm no a great ge • after this nicht. or they will differ in opiuion wr the best judges in the lair'. I gaed to 'annum an' was received there as never ither man was receivent in this warld. I was made a member o' seven learned societies. I got free tickets sent me for a' the theatres, exhibitions, and every ither thing—but was sae. loaded wit" honours that I was obliged to come awl' hame to our sin Northern Metropolis, whare was received in something if the same kind, but on a smaller scale. I'm a burgess if five royal towns, au' I dinna ken how molly clubs I'm a menthe' o'. I'm glad to sea sae mony juyru' (reins amine me. I ken ye a' wish ma weel, an' are sincere in your testimonies of admiration o' inc—they are inair than my simple head can contain. It has been stated that I was printinl lees, and that I was na born on the 25tli of .lainutry—noo na, Iliac printed tine lees. I lute my mither's word an' may father's halm writhe for it. [fire Shepherd then gave the story of his birth amidst storm. &c.] After sic an a comb? into the would as that, it mann be expected that 1 maim hae some unearthly dame, but it was the being born on the 25th o' January that made me a poet—au' my whole life has been like that o' Burns, an' my mind has aye been impressed an' affected the way his was, sae muckle sae that I expected to dee at my thirty-seventh year, OH the 21st o' August. I had mule up my mind to it, and was smelt would happen. About the very time I grew very ill. I was SIM, I was gnus to dee. The fblks about my bedside wadna believe me. but I tail them I would dee on the 21st of August ; but alter the clay passed au-a' I got quite creel again. and here *Mons still the pair mild Shepherd. m hue been blamed fin the eccentricity o' my, conduct, butt you canna bind wi' the ordinary rules the actions on a genius—sae I woulef jut sit dean, thankin' ye a kin thy," At Corgarff, on the Earl of Fife's moors, Lord Craven Molinewc, and the Honourable Mr. Villiers, were assailed, last week, by a large gang of desperate poachers, who not only shot the birds at which those noblemen's dogs were pointing, but had the audacity to plunder their bags of their day's sport. This is a fresh proof that there is something wrong in the Game-Laws, or the mountaineers are returning to the habits of their ancestors, only substituting "black game" for " black mail." A similar circumstance occurred last year on Lord Panmure's bills, with the exception that the game-bag was spared.
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