SCOTLAND.
The Town-Council of Edinburgh, at its meeting on Wednesday, dis- cussed and repudiated, in no measured terms, the notorious address to the King of Sardinia. Dr. Renton said, "he would leave the authors of the address there adopted to the operation of the very instructive ad- monition which the King of Sardinia had given to them; trusting that it would not be lost on a party the sectarian antipathies of which had led them arrogantly and erroneously to give forth their views as an em- bodiment of the public opinion of Edinburgh." The Lord Provost ex- plained, that although he presided at the meeting he did not carefully read the address. The occurrence would be a lesson to hint to exercise more caution in future.
At a local meeting, on Monday, Lord Weaves, one of the Judges of the Court of Session, referred to the King of Sardinia's answer, while speaking of the subject of toleration. He said that some of those who most needed it had lately received, from a quarter of their own selection, a lecture on this subject which he hoped would be of pretihilient service to them.
For some time a movement has been afoot in Aberdeen having for its object the reform of the University by the junction of the two Colleges. There are two parties. One will -not support any scheme of uniting King's and Marischal Colleges, "not based on a junction of all the Fa- culties including the Faculty of Arts" ; the other is prepared to favour any scheme of union which would bring the two Colleges under one jurisdiction, preserving to each its present rights, but recognizing the element of public control on the part of the Graduates in the manage- ment of the affairs of the University.
Messrs. G. and J. Burns, very extensive shipowners at Glasgow, en- tertained their numerous employes at a soiree in the Merchants' Hall, on Friday last week. After the, repass, a number of speeches were de- livered. The Ilevess=d hfr..Arnot remarked, that if Messrs. Burns's fleet were armed it would be more than a match for the forces of " half- a-dozen Continental kinglets."
Within twenty years the numbers of weavers in Paisley have de- creased by thousands. This autumn, a trade enumeration gave only 2400 weavers-500 less than the total six months before.
Mr. Kitchen, manager for a farmer at Ashfield, seems to have been drowned in Lochnacraig, in the hills, while attempting to cross the ice. He was missed ; when search was made, his staffand hat were seen on the ice in the centre of the loch ; but no one could venture thither, as the ice was too weak.
Mr. James Macdonald, a farmer of Mucomer, went out with a friend, and his own servant, Mackintyre, to shoat hares. As Mr. Macdonald raised his gun to fire at a hare his foot slipped on the frosty ground, the piece went off, and the charge entered the servant's body—he died in five minutes.
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