SCOTLAND.
A Royal Commission has been issued for inquiring into the existing state of Municipal Corporations in Scotland. Messrs. J. B. Green- shields, Thomas Thomson, Robert Bell, James Campbell, Robert Graham, Andrew Skene, John Cuninghame, Robert Jameson, James Ivory, Robert Hunter, Cosrno Innes, and Robert Handyside, advocates Whigs of course—are the Commissioners ; and Mr. Phineas Daniel, writer to the signet, Secretary.
The friends of Sir George Clerk seem to be very active and unscru- pulous in their exertions to secure his return for the county of Edin- burgh at the next election. We copy the following paragraph on the subject from the Caledonian Mercury.
"The number of new claims lodged by Mr. Scott Moncrieff, Chamberlain of the Duke of Buceleuch, with the parish sc400lmaster, is twenty. Of these, sixteen are founded on properties which, at the late election, were only capable of yielding three Totes, and which have been recently purchased and subdivided for the obvious plias of swamping the county. The list of joint proprietors, besides a long srlay of advo sates, bankers, and riters, includes a number of the domestic servants and dependents of Me Duke of Burdened. Four of these menials are quartered on one tenement."
The manifestations of "the Spirit" still continue in Edinburgh. Last Sunday and the Sunday preceding, Mr. Tait's church was again the scene of them. A new actor has appeared, in the person of a Mr. Anderson ; who exclaimed, just at the conclusion of Mr. Tait's dis- course on Sunday last—" I come not to send peace on earth, but a sword." Mr. Tait declared his belief that this was the Spirit of God. Most of the congregation walked out of the church.
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