SCOTLAND.
The Lord High Commissioner, Lord Mansfield, held a reception at 3Iolyrood, on the 27th. The old Palace was splendidly fitted up and adorned, and lighted with extreme brilliancy. Some 1500 persons were presented on the occasion. The two assemblies broke up, one on Monday the other on Tuesday; fixing the period of meeting in 1860 for the 17th May.
' The Town Council have been vehemently implored by certain of its members, scandalized by the iniquity of horse-racing—Messrs. Grieve, Blackadder, Brown Douglas, John Hope—not to send in the annual request for the money annually voted for the Queen's Plate. A smart discussion ensued, all in good humour, and the band of Holy Willies ewe defeated in argument, and frustrated by the "previous question."
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