The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, SEPT. 20.
The following resolutions were agreed to at a meet-
ing of the Glasgow Stock Exchange on the 1 ith
instant :
I. That while various muses are at present in operation te depress
the market, and to depredate the value of share property, it metre
to them that one came will be found in the continued drain at wow
which has been taking place for a conaiderable time, for this apse
of tootiting railway calls—that three have boon mete to ma en.
=Vic l with such rapidity, as to prem with gnat severity ea share-
gasman ;
and to meet which, a kph portion et holden
here been either to sell sleek at mien* low prliosow to
bear mar et exorbitant raise et Ingured. 2. 214 la the pre-
sent widths et railway holding, sett waft et sway. sub new
mil berm mere inemporMai, oil ter§ rrelher to • farther
deposeletlea el railway stout S. Mt the ssrtlewldit this con-
doled eerie ker op, rams et eelle rd her. Ore meg seri-
eery *herr rd lry ef theavary_ .by rtbilterrtee large
Ile INIIIIIIREIIE whelks= la=ne
kidgheard reeriet met by Sr arra
a Mr trissli=thessertleiereetteserame extent
as to amp errehr. 4. rat the sasetine
=sre. view with aria Ere by the eemeittee el the Li-
, veol Molt draft Ira the yarns neer eor
pear shawl& to
la rd eraltaxersty valet a Imaslng
the menet et relwerT S. That It farther appeals to
this melba dr rile le evident that railway cans esseet, with
ethers." le preerd au newsy works within a very sheet pitied
of Wog completed, ar Mr ea the re at being Itie their
=that it is eat,e serer of railway directors iift le re.
tle present eve, by sessrg—thr to eater re • r entreats
for new work, • rd. awed. et mike areerre err their mine.
tore, by which 'than at peon& la episodes ary le grad war •
Warr prod : —that the aid et sr il lIMIERIIIIIIIS WYE be, not
hay at ere to lower the pre et Mort sr Wm re met et or
liners. bet likewise ft errs, re mired term repay te a
Emirate, extent 01110 earl be der by re inumilearil "F
et or or kr& err . IL That the reser Invite re elleeliesaZ
regerriett et Miry illeselon, raliwgehateholders, and eke=le
osanny ter the yap= dbringing Mood these i
The lords of the tressui7 have declined
a commission to inquire into the state of the high•
lands and islands of Scotland. In his official letter,
Mr. Trevelyan says :
That their lordship. are of opinion that the state of the highlands
and inland' of Scotland she so well known, that the appointment of a
oommimion of inquiry would not be ;reductive of any advantage
which would counterbalance the objections to that course of pro.
ceeding.
The Duke of Atholl appears to be relenting. The
Aberdeen Herald has seen a written pass, of which
the following is a literal copy, leaving out a name,
the date, and the number :
&auk CURLY, Sept., 1647.
No.
Admit and friend through Cleo
Tilt, any day from the to the of September.
Arnett.
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The pass is partly printed, as above, and ;eels to
be cut out from some old check admission book, for
the year date is printed 183 .
Lord Abinger, or some of his friends, have been
publishing the minutes of a meeting of eight of his
lordship's tenants, held on the let inst., together with
the reply of his lordship to the chairman of the meet-
ing, all to the effect that the "commissioner" of the
North British Mail has been calumniating Lord
Abinger as a proprietor. The letter is dated 7th inst.,
and as the matter has for some time ceased to be dis-
cussed, it is only calculated to revive the controversy
to publish it at this distance of time. Besides, making
due allowance for the microscopic eye of a " gentleman

lof the press," the "principal tenants.' of our accused
landlord will not be regarded by the public as im-
partial exponents of a system supposed to press rathet
hardly on the minor tenants. Moreover, in these
days of ascent to " first principles" it may be quite
possible to conceive of many amiable and benevolent
landlords, who, with the best intentions in the world,
may seg. egate too large portions of ground for game pre-
serves, and so, to the detriment of the general interest,
narrow the food produce of the soil. It only requires
some dozen of English noblemen to purchase Scotch
estates, in order to turn the whole country into a
"hunting field," as the Queen says to Mucallumore,
in the " Heart of Mid-Lothian." Lord Abinger may
think it churlish, bat it is probably better for the
country at large, and for tenants in particular, when an
earnest land-improver,like Mr. Matheson, M.P., makes
a Highland purchase, than it is when a sporting lord
becomes owner of the soil. And it should be kept in
view, that it is qua agriculture, not sport, that the
real estimate of proprietorship should be formed.
As formerly mentioned, the Educational Institute
of Scotland dates its existence from Saturday last. The
office-bearers are as follow :—Prcsident, Dr. Schmitz,
Edinburgh ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Melville, Aberdeen,
Mr. Knox, St. Ninian's, Mr. Bryce and Mr. Cumming,
Glasgow, Mr. Reid, Edinburgh; Mr. Cooper,
Edinburgh, treasurer; Mr. Fergussen, secretary. As
a nucleus, eight gentlemen were named senior fellows,
and forty examiners were also appointed. There can
be no question that the formation of th:s institute
will give a great impulse to education—especially in
so far as it affords an opportunity of showing what
educators can personally do for education. In cor-
porate educational establishments many anomalies
exist, and wherever private enterprise competes with.
them it generally carries the victory. Take, for
example, the chair of Hebrew now vacant in the
metropolitan university. The salary is 115/., with
fees reduced since the disruption of the established
chunk to some sixty guineas. Who is to take such
an appointment? The patrons cannot ask where
is the best man, but where is the most passable man
who can afford to take it. Now look at the Free
Church College: there each professor is guaranteed a
given sum, and the fees are cast into a common fund.
The professor of Hebrew receives 400/. per annum
certain, and the effect on the fees might be anticipated—
last year they amounted to l $2l. The remedy for thisis
not easy. The chair in the old university is looked on as
belonging to the church—the church again not having
the patronage, feels less interest about it, and so the
Hebrew professorship is in the old position of being
between two stools. In King's College, Aberdeen,
something very like a job has been perpetrated. The
professor of Greek, after fifty years' labour, has for
some time felt himself incapacitated, and taking ad-
vantage of the indisposition of some professors, and
the absence of others, has, by the casting vote of the
principal, got his son (relationship being his chief re-
commendation) elected assistant, an office which with
the stereotype character of the seminary is reckoned
equivalent to ultimate appointment. The ethics pro-
fessor has entered a strong protest against the ap-
pointment ; but as the whole of the chairs in this uni-
versity are, with one exception, in the gift of the
senalus noulemicus, there is ouch facility for the
"gig-gill ' system, that if the whole of the bad ap-
pointments are to be protested against, the protestors
will have their hands pretty full.

COMMISSION BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or CAITHNESS-
SHIRE.—J. M. Junner, gent., to be lieut. of the :kith or
Roas.shire, dm, Royal Regt. of British Militia.
JENNY LiNn.—The demand for tickets to the Edinburgh
forenoon concert of Monday was greater than even for the
previous evening's entertainment. Three prices were in
many cases paid, and the concert itself went off with excel-
lent effect.
PEEBLES HEST/NOS.—The contractor who was indicted
for so inefficiently doing his work that it fell down has been
pronounced not guilty. The erection was composed of
spruce fir, and wanted a centre beam and port, but it was
duly inspected as the time, and the witnesses were contra-
dictory, and hence it is supposed the above result.