The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-01 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

HDWBCIen, OCT. 29.
As public opinion regarding the banking relaxa-
tion receives time for expression, the discontent at
the partial remedy of the government becomes more
manifest in this quarter, and the general feeling is,
that, in conformity with the views of the Glasgow
deputation, the Scotch banks should have been allowed ,
to hold Exchequer Bills instead of gold, by which '
means those establishments could have gone to the
rescue of the Bank of England with some half million
of sovereigns.
The pear is ripening for the legislative abolition of
Scotch university tests. The act by which the new
Edinburgh Hebrew professor is sought to be excluded
rune " that no professors, principals, regents, masters,
or others bearing office in any university, college, or
school within this kingdom, be capable to be admitted,
or allowed to continue in the exelcise of their
functions," unless they subscribe to the faith of
the established church and conform themselves
thereto. The statute is clear as any law
against witchcraft—no member of the scholastic
profession can by possibility escape its operation, if
any adherent of constitutional order chooses to enforce
it. For instance, the Rev. C. Wordsworth, warden of
the Trinity Episcopal College, Perthshire, is liable at
any time to be called on to doff his surplice and don
the Geneva gown of a Presbyterian preceptor. When
the free church opens its new college, a messenger-
at-arms may step in and serve them with an interdict.
The Roman catholic college at Blain; may be shut up,
and the doors locked—Dr. Schmitz may be dragged
from the rostrum of the Edinburgh High School—and
Dr. Hanna from the chief seat in its new academy ;
and as for Mr. Kaye Shuttleworth's negotistions with
fractious parish schoolmasters, or equally obstinate
voluntary divines, about the privileges of dissenting
schools, all was and is naught, for there can be no
such thing as a dissenting school in Scotland.
The wisdom of our ancestors has settled that ;
and on the principle of Mrs. Glass's recipe
for hare soup, the education committee of the'
privy council should first settle whether Scot-
land can legally have noncomformist schools, be-
fore troubling itself about salaries to monitors and as-
sistant teachers. The local elections about to take
place in the Scotch towns afford an opportunity for
the subject being discussed, which will not likely be
allowed to pass by unimproved.
Allusion was formerly made to the sanitary agita-
tion of a Stirling writer. He this week returns to the
charge, and, amongst other things, refers to a small
apartment, 15 feet by 9, situated in a confined locality,
and having enly one small window ; here were twelve
persons under fever, their only bed the earthen floor.
This den was separated from the second flat by a thin
boarding without plaster. He adds—
On Monday last Iwo cenversing with a nisdkal gentleman who
mid: .During a pretty extensive manage the poorer threes
le Edinburgh, I had occasion to cMk 0.111111 =Melgt efeliimi ha-
basilicas in the Commte, Cannonpb. Old car of the *aim et po-
sem. I have since, in vislting maw the huts of the velhnee L.
houren exit degrees of wretelegmes, salatc7, 61,M, sail_
..doe,
which, unless seen, could sot he believe& But, ' he oda* never
LAB 1 ?sited the Castle-hill of sorting did I really know what Winn
was. In that spot I as. what I oould mareely believe, even what I
saw it.. I @Med him to what he referred 1 To the overalWirded
lodging-houses of Marling.

" THE Borrzz" IN Foist Arousres —ln March last a
detachment of the 27th Regiment, consisting of a sergeant, a
lance corporal, and fire or six privates, were marched from
Fort George to Fort Augustus. In September the party
were recalled from the fort to the main body at Fort George.
Capt. Spalding, the governor, has his cellar in one of the
magazines, and a few days after the departure of the soldiery,
the captain went into the cellar to select some fine old wine
for a friend. The first row of bottles in the bin wall all right
—the second tau empty; and all the others together con-
tained not a drop. A hogshead of ale was then tried in
some alarm—it, too, was empty. In abort, no lees than thir-
teen or fourteen dozen of port, seven and a half dozen of
sherry, four dozen of whisky—some fifteen or sixteen years
old—and thirty-two gallons of strong ale were found to have
been stolen ! Circumstances fastened suspicion upon the
soldiers, whose lodgings were above the cellar, and two pri-
vates were apprehended and lodged in gaol. The case will
probably come before the next Circuit Court. It is supposed
that false keys had served as the " open sesame." The ser-
geant reports himself to be a teetotaller.