SCOTLAND.
The statement of the Duke of Argyll in Parliament, that the public feeling in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill "is as decided and una- nimous in Scotland as in England," has elicited from Mr. William Cham- bers a corrective letter to the Times. Mr. Chambers thus states the re- sult of his personal converse with large masses of his countrymen- " I am afraid that his Grace here allows his wish to be father to his thought ; for certainly no symptom of this being the case appears in general society in Scotland. I do not know how it may be with the statistics of public meetings and petitions; but this is of little consequence, as we all know that a certain number of public meetings and petitions can be got up re- garding any subject which is interesting to a particular party, although that party may not be a moiety of the community. What I take it on me to assert is, that the feeling on the subject of Papal aggression has been much more moderate in Scotland than in England. It has done little more than awaken the attention of that portion of the public who were accustomed to take an active part in controversial religious matters. These have assem- bled and made demonstrations of the old hatred to Popery; but the mass of the public of Scotland have certainly felt little beyond a curiosity and wonder at the fervour which the subject has excited in the sister country. Nor is this very surprising, when we remember that the feeling regarding the invasion of tIns Royal supremacy is necessarily wanting here, there being no religious body in Scotland which entertains that principle. Even the consideration of ecclesiastical titles is in a great measure foreign to the Scottish mind, nineteen-twentieths of the community repudiating them wholly. I am a good deal among people of most grades, and my conviction is, that were the unfortunate attempt at legislation on the Papal aggression to be abandoned tomorrow, the bulk of the Scottish public would hear of the fact without the slightest emotion."
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