".',Er. O'Sullivan, Captain Gordon, st ith a few of the
Scottish clergy., and a considerable number of the more bigoted people of ti:e town, held a " Pietesteutt " meeting at Paisley, on Tuesday inst. 'atholies
were eltalleiesed to attend, hut were not :Mowed to speak, unless they could ],reduce the authority of the Cutbolie Bishops, which O'Sullivan
and his creW knew perfectly well could nut be obtained. Of course the agitators had all the talk to themselves.
Aecortling to the Aberdeen Herald, thee mission of O'Sullivan into Scotland has been a failure. That paper says - " Messes O'Sullivan and have been trying what they could do to stir up the smouldering embers of fanaticism in the \Ve..t of Scotland ; but we are glad to learn that their 'mission' has been eminently to:successful. It is jest po-eible that they may think of attempting to advocate their pestilential docteires in this part of the country, and e warn them beforehand that they cannot suacecl. There 15 a spirit abroad in Scotland very touch adverse to the t2.retiMeal and intolerant notions which they desire to inculcate. 'fire incorpo- rated tiedee of Banff have chosen a Boman Catholic co:teener; ant the progress of lioerelay is shuw to not only in the choice, but in the fact that the trades- men feel justly proud of what they have done. We trust the day is not far datant when a circumstance of thie kind will not require to be noted for the rarity of its occurrence." We understand that the present destitute state of tine Scottish Epis. copal Church, in many parts of the country, will be brought under the notice of the recently-issued Church Commission. In the city of Glasgow alone there are, it is calculated, nearly 10,000 poor Episco- pelisns, chiefly employed in the fitetories, who, it may be said, are at piesent altogether destitute of the means of religious instruction and consolation. The Reverend David Aitchison. of Queen's College', Oxiiird, with a zeal which reflects upon him the highest credit, is at present devoting his gratuitous services in their behalf and, we learn, oely wants thee means to be enabled to establish a chapel, with adarge proportion of free sittings for the permanent administration to these poor people of the menus of grace in the communion of their "Mother Church. At present, with the sanction of his I hocesan, Bishop Walker, he is oil:riming in a hired room, which is altogether inade- quate to contain the Christian congregation which he has been the means of rescuing from the most distressing state of poverty and rein- eious destitution. This is a case whirb calls loudly fear leyislatire inquiry and supplier. In many parts of the Highlands, too, the opportunities afforded to the Gaelic Episcopalians of divine worship are lamentably deficient. We are informed that !ninny of the Episcopal clergy in the Ifighlands are doing the duty of two, and, in some instances, of three chapels, for a pittance of less than 101. annually.—Aberdeen Journal.
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