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EDINBURGH.
TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
The Council met on Tuesday—the Lord Prc-
Yost in the Chair.

On the minutes being read,
Treasurer DnysnALE objected to that part of
rem containing the resolution to petition Parlia-
Lent in favour of the proposed modification of
re Corn-laws and Import duties.
Mr. LOTHIAN reminded the Treasurer that the

minute had been executed, and the petition
dispatched; and asked what was the use of dis-
approving of a thing which had already been
done?

The TREASURER, however persevered, and read
numerous extracts from speeches and letters of
the late Mr. Huskisson, whom he greatly eulo-
gised as an authority on this subject, against
the abolition of the Corn-laws; and from
the evidence of various corn-dealers before
a Parliamentary Committee, against a fixed
duty, and in favour of a sliding scale. He de-
clared that Mr. Deacon Hume and Mr.
M'Gregor, whose evidence before the Import
Duties Committee has been so much referred to,
knew nothing at all of the matter. After draw-
ing a fearful picture of the effects likely to be
produced by the Ministerial' measure fbr tl:c
modification of the Corn-laws, he concluded by
moving the disapproval of that part of the*
minutes to which he had referred.
Sir JOrIN DALYELL seconded the motion.

Mr. BLACK briefly replied to the various asser-
tions of the Treasurer; and remarked, that while
he believed Mr. Huskissoa had himself a
thorough knowledge of the Core-law question,
vet knowing that he was addreSsing babes, he
had given them milk such as they could bear.
—(Laughter.) But if opinion was to regulate the
matter, he could refer Mr. Drysdale to
the opinions of Ricardo, Malthus, M'Cul.
loch, Merrivale (of Oxford University),
and others who stood high in the
ranks of political economists, and who were as
great authorities on this question as Mr. Huskis-
son. Mr. Black concluded by declaring his ob-
jections to all monopolies whatever, and asserting
that, with a free trade, this country had nothing
to fear from competition from any quarter.
On the motion of Mr. LOTHIAN, the debate was
adjourned until the other business was finished.
A letter was read from Mr. Macaulay, stating
that it was not the intention of Government to in-
terfere with the system of Scottish banking at
present.

- Some other business having been gone througl
the Council adjourned for want of a quorum.

A direful act of malignity has been recently
committed at Colmar, in the Haut Ellin. A judgment
of separation
,between a M. H. and liii wife was pro-
nounced, and in the partition of their respective pro 7
perties, the house in whiCh they had lived togetheF, was
awarded to Mme. 11. The husband, enraged at this de-
privation, resolved that she. should not long have the
enjoyment of her allotment. Waiting till the insuranc.
which he had effected on the house had expired, he, in
the night of the 13th instant, stole furtively to the pre-
mises, and set them on fire. Before sufficient assistance
could arrive the whole were entirely consumed ; but
some neighbouring buildings, which had been caught by
the flames, were saved. The vindictive man, seeing that
his revenge was complete, and determined to. deprive
his wife of the gratification of seeing him punished for
his crime, plunged a knife into his heart, and expired.
By this last act of desperation he saved himself from
the vexation of knowing that all he had done was in
vain, for the agent of Mme. H. aware of the expiry
ion
of the policy, had taken the precaut of renewing it
p
in her name.

THE REV. JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE,--Died,
on Thursday, May 20th, at Greenbank, at the house of
William Rathbone, Esq., in the 67th year of his age,
the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, the author of Doblado's
Letters, &c. The character and writings of Mr. White
will belong to the history of religion,' and of its, litera-
ture in this country. His life was one of nearly con-
stant suffering, and, for the last four'Yekr, of most pain-
ful and distressing confinement.—Licerpool _Mercury.
Loss OF THE WILLIAM BROWN.—HAVRE,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19.—Lost in the William Brown :
William Ladens, wife, and ten children ; Nicholas Corr,
wife, and five children ; Mrs. Anderson. and-three chil-
dren ; Martin Morris, wife, and child ; John Dwelin,
Jane Anderson, Mary Bradley, Mary Connelly, Mary
Jane Neill—thirty-one. Thrown from the boat into the
sea :—James Todd, Owen Reilly, John Nitgent, George
Duffy, Francis Erskine, Mary Erskine, Ellen Erskine,
John Welsh, Hugh Keyhon, Martin M'lvor, James
M`lvor, Thomas Nugent, John Wilson, James Smith,
Robert Hunter, Charles Conlon. In the small boat with
Captain Harris :—Eliza Lafferty.
A correspondent has supplied u% with an im-
portant supplement to the account of the Repeal meeting at
the Crown and Anchor, on the evening of Friday last. At
the previous • meeting, in Exeter Hall, Mr. O'Connell had
promised a Chartist, of the name of Martin, that be should
obtain a patient hearing at the Repeal meeting; and Martin
made his appearance at this last meeting. and, in the course of
his harangue, stated that he was a paid agent,
sn'ljn a
Convention in London, for the purpose of obtaining the release
coofmthmeon causeChartis withtsno thwine
Tories
prison—that
the late attthlaeCehlarentrns h? abd
ecamnadsee
thesethey
Chartists
mwioseuldfrumbe released.themtliatT,
oshaoulgduteh,
teiyanbefi4poaAverr.,
O'Connell—who of the Tories had made such a promise
a voice from the meeting called out, "Do net answer
Chronicle.
answer that
question," and no answer was returned Mo rmn
A TORY HINT TO PILOTS.—By 52 Geo. 111. ,
c. 39, the Duke of Wellington, ar Lard Wardenof the Cinque
c
Ports, and his Lieutenant, have the power to grantand Roches-
ter-bride, and from the buoy o
licenses
a
to pilots, "from Dungeness up to London-bridgeth
the west end
of the Owers." They have also power to suspend or dismiss
el 3
rok
assigning to
ing cause for
pilots to whom licences have been
granted, and to withhold
them at pleasure from applicants, without
their refusal.
A wonderful specimen of the Green Brocoli
is now growing in Mr. Tilly's garden at Grittleton, which is
now in bloom. and mnsures eight feet round and ten feet
high ! Wilts Independent,