SCOTLAND.
The Edinburgh journals publish a correspondence between the Scottish Reformation Society and Mr. Macaulay. The Society requested to be in- formed whether Mr. Macaulay would vote for a repeal of the grant to Maynooth, and against any further grant. Mr. Macaulay sent the follow- ing answer.
"2b the Secretary of the Scottish leformation Society.
" Albany, London, June 23.
"Sir-I must beg to be excused from answering the questions which you have put to me. I have a great respect for the gentlemen in whose name you write, but I have nothing to ask of them ; I am not a candidate for their suffrages I have no desire to sit again in Parliament ; and I certainly shall. never again sit there, except in an event which I did not till very improbable: con- template as possible, and which even now seems to me highly If, indeed, the electors of such a city as Edinburgh should, without requiring from me any explanation or any guarantee, think fit to confide their interests to my care, I should not feel myself justified in refusing to accept a public trust offered to me in a manner so honourable and so peculiar. I have not, I am sensible, the smallest right to expect that I shall, on such terms, be chosen to represent a great constituent body. But I have a right to say that on no other terms can I be induced to leave that quiet and happy retirement in which I have passed the last four years. . "I have the honour to be, &e. T. B. MeoLITLLY.'• All the accounts from the Hills concur in representing the prospects of the sportsmen for the ensuing shooting-season as the best of the last few years. The birds on the low grounds were early hatched, and rain fell on the hills in time to carry them over the trying period of the first three weeks. They are already met with in considerable covies of from ten to fourteen in each.—.Perth Courier.
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