SCOTLAND.
The election of sixteen Peers to represent the Scottish nobles in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain took place, in the picture-gallery of Holyrood Palace at Edinburgh, on Thursday. The ceremony, as usual, drew together a large assemblage : altogether, however, it was a very tame affair. Galleries were erected at each end of the apartment, one of which was allotted to the relatives and friends of the Peers, and the other for spectators of a less noble lineage. The Peers themselves were ranged round a large table in the centre of the hail; and, occupy- ing a prominent place in one of the adjacent side-seats, were the Lord • Provost, Magistrates, and Town-Council of Edinburgh, in their scarlet robes of office.
The proceedings were commenced with prayer by Principal Lee, one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal. The list of Peers was then read over; when the following answered to their names—the Duke of Atholl, Duke of Mon- trose, Duke of Roxburglie, Marquis of Tweeddale, Earl of Home, Lord Strath- more, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Galloway, Earl of Lauderdale, Earl of Airlie, Earl of Leven and Melville, Earl of Selkirk, Earl of Kintore, Vis- count Strathallan, Lord Saltouu, Lord Cathcart, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Blantyre, Lord Colville of Culross. The oaths of allegiance and abjuration were then taken by the Peers. It was stated by the Earl of Selkirk that he held a proxy for Lord Reay. It was at the same time intimated by Mr. Walker, and kir. Cosmo banes, Principal Clerk of Session, that signed lists had been received from the following noblemen—the Duke of Queensberry, Duke of Lennox Earl of Crawford and Balearres, Earl of Morton Earl of Eglinton, Earl of Wemyss and March, Earl of &afield, Earl of liosebery, Lord Grey, Lord Sinclair, Lord Somerville, Lord Torphichen, Lord Cranstoun, Lord Forrester, Lord Polwarth.
The Peers were then respectively requested to write a list of sixteen of their number to represent them in the House of Lords. This having been done, the different lists were engrossed by the clerks, and the following were declared to be elected—the Marquis of Tweeddale, who had 34 votes ; the Earl of Montrose, 34 ; the Earl of Home, 35 • the Earl of Strathmore, 35; the Earl of Airlie, 35; the Earl of Leven and Mel- ville, 35; the Earl of Selkirk, 35; the Earl of Orkney, 34; the Earl of &a- field, 35; Lord Saltoun, 36; Lord Gray, 35; Lord Sinclair, 35; Lord Elphin- stone, 35; Lord Blantyre, 35; Lord Colville of Culross, 35; Lord Polwarth, 35. [The only alteration in the list of Representative Peers who served in last _[The is the substitution of the name of Lord Strathmore for that of Lord Rollo.]
The proceedings were then closed with prayer by Dr. Robert Lee, the second Dean of the Chapel Royal present.
Early on Wednesday morning, a violent thunderstorm swept across a large portion of the West of Scotland. Considerable damage was done by water at Glasgow, but Kilmarnock suffered most. There the river Marnock rose so suddenly that bridges were partially destroyed, and manufactories on the banks were greatly damaged—a dye-work was completely swept away. Five corpses were taken from the stream. It was surmised, from the suddenness of the flood, that a water-spout must have burst amid the hills.
Three young men have perished in the Tay at Dundee, by the swamping of a boat which was ill constructed to encounter the slight roughness of the waves caused by a breeze meeting a flood-tide, and raising " jabbles " over the sand-banks in the river. A party of five left Dundee for the Fifeshire coast. In the evening, one refused to return in the light and shallow beat; but a young gentleman volunteered to supply his place—he perished. The boat was swamped by two waves ; the five young men clung to it, but one soon trusted to the oars to support him. For some two hours no aid ap- proached. Then he who was clinging to the oars was picked up, and search was made for the boat ; one survivor only remained clinging to it. Those who perished were Mr. Alexander Kinmond, son of a merchant; Mr. Henry Bell, son of a deceased saihnaker ; and Mr. David Kay—the volunteer—son of Mr. Kay, formerly Provost of the town.
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