THE REEL OF TuLLoamortum.
DR. CHALMERS not long ago surprised the grave decency of his clerical brethren by an allusion to "the reel of Bogie:" a part of the proceedings at a dinner given to the Marquis of BREADALBANE
in Glasgow, by a number of Non-Intrusionists collected from all parts of Scotland, may have suggested to it memory so stored with scraps of Scottish song another reel not less fatnous. For the in- formation of our Southron readers we may premise, that the burden
of the " reel of Tullochgorunt" is " Whig and Tory an* agree"; and that, as if typical of the new party of' " Queen's friends," the exhortation to "lay disputes aside" and to " dance this night,
and sing with me, the reel o"fullochgorum," is made to proceed from "the Lady." How completely the injunction is likely to be
obeyed in the present instance, may in some sort be conjectured
from the fact, that at the dinner in question the toast of' " The Honourable Fox Manic, the Right Honourable the Lord Advocate, and those other Members of the House of Commons who adhere
to and are prepared to vindicate the great principles for which the Church of Scotland is now contending," was proposed by no less important a person than Mn'. ROBERT MONTEITH, the Con- servative candidate for Glasgow, the young and fervid Ali of the modern Mahomet, Mr. URQUHART.
A little piece of by-play at this same dinner is not altogether unworthy of notice. The Marquis of llituanai.naNE, in proposing "the Church of Scotland," called the Presbyterians of Scotland " the only true representatives of that religion." Presbyterianism, by the way, is a form of church-government, not " a religion,"—a piece of criticism which might have been omitted but for the pur- pose of indicating the theological attainments of the choseu leader of' the Scottish Non-Intrusionists. What the Marquis meant when he pronounced this summary excommunication of the English and.
American Presbyterians and of the Church of Geneva, is, that the Church of Scotland is the only Presbyterian church which adheres
to the dogmas of CALVIN in their unmitigated severity. It must have been rather edifying, at a later part of the evening, to witness Mr. GEORGE Wimnsat Woof), the acknowledged leader of the Unitarians of Lancashire, who had been thus unceremoniously put under the ban of the Kirk, returning thanks in the character of one of the Parliamentary chainpions of Non-Intrusion. The 'Vo- luntaries of Scotland, who are daily taunted by the High Church- men as allies of' "Socinians," will relish the joke.
Amateurs of Scotch dancing are aware, that in a reel the measure is varied from time to time. We suppose it was upon this principle
that the Reverend Dr. Coonu of Belfitst took occasion, at the dinner given to the Marquis of Ilananamtexu for his championhip of the Non-intrusion cause, to remark " that Non-Intrusion and the Veto were Scottish metaphysical subtleties, which were per- fectly unintelligible to the people either of England or Ireland."
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