SCOTLAND.
The following " Declaration " is published in the Glasgow papers. It is followed by a number of signatures, of men of all parties, which fill two columns of the Glasgow Argus, packed into close paragraphs- " 4th Juue 1841.
"We, the subscribers, inhabitants of Glasgow and neighbourhood, feel called upon thus publicly to declare our disapprobation of the recent proceedings of the majority of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, by Which they have attempted to depose seven Ministers of the Presbytery of Strath. bogie, on account of their having yielded obedience to the law of the land, as declared by the Supreme Civil Courts; to which all subjects are bound to sub- snit, both as Christians and members of society. And we have also to express our cordial sympathy with these ministers in the painful position in which they have been, as we conceive, cruelly and unjustly placed."
Mr. Charles Dickens—" Boz "—being in Scotland, in quest probably of professional objects as well as the pleasures of a picturesque tour, was lionized on Friday last by the "patrons of genius" in the Modern Athens, at a large dinner-party in the Waterloo Rooms. Professor Wilson did the honours of the chair, and poured out his raptures in the way so well known to all the world; and Mr. Patrick Robertson was the no less appropriate and characteristic croupier. Mr. Dickens
spoke very prettily, and played the Bulwer a bit--favouring the com- pany with a key to the better understanding of one of his fictitious characters.
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