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The Tories are fond of asserting that the change in the Scottish Municipal system has thrown the government of the towns into the hands of men of comparatively small property. Lord Lyndhurst Mated this with respect to Glasgow, but he was proved to have been misinformed; and we find from the Scotsman, that the aggregate rents paid for shops by the members of the Old Town- Council of Edin- burgh within the police-bounds, was 10561., while that of the new is
1556/. So far as regards shop-rents ; now as to house-rents- .. Old Towneouncil,—Of (ho 33 members of the Unreformed Town.Conneil, in o'ifice from November nem to November 1833, there were 29 who lived %%Mint the leneads of Police; and the present aaaLeg,ao rents of the houses u Welt they then ucetted, ac. cording to the Police survey fur 1835, amount to 12101.; giving an average of 4 a 13s.PiL for each. Of these 29 members, there are 10 v hose house-rest . are 501. and upwards. and 19 whose rents are under 501.; or, to take the lowest puler in the scale, there are 16 whose rents are 30/. and upwards, and 3 whose tents ate under 30/. "New Toivr&Conncil.—Of the 33 membets in the preseut Council, 32 live within the bounds of Police ; and their aggregate house.rents amonut til li UI. giving an average o1451. 16s. 34. breach. Of these 32 members, there are 12 whose rents are fiaL turd up- wards, and 20 whose rents are under 501.; or. there are 22 w 'Luse rents are 30/. and up- wards, and 10 whose rents are under 301. We see, then, that whether we take shop rent or house.rent as the test, the sew Council decidedly surpasses the old in respta.tabilitg.b.:th as traders end prb.ate and the old Council of 1832 w as at least equal, at not supetit.e, to the :It erage of its lee- decessors."
The Registration Courts for Banffshire have closed with con- siderable advantage to the Reformers. The Aberdeen Herald says that every inch of ground has been fought on either side, and that if the success be followed up by prompt and energetic measures, Banffshire will at length be emancipated.
The foundation-stone of the marble monumeet, at Greenock, in memory of James Watt, was laid on Tuesday sennight, with much ceremony, by Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, assisted by the Provost and .Magistrates of Greenock, and a procession of the Masonic Lodges.
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