SCOTLAND.
Mr. Hawthorn of Castlewig, having, on the Ultra-Tory interest, com- menced an active canvass of the electors of Wigtonshire, in the hope of the last election being declared void, Captain Dalrymple, the sitting Member, has issued an address ridiculing the procedure, and express- ing his determination to persevere to the utmost in the support of those Liberal principles which secured him his election. It is said that, in case of a vacancy, Sir Andrew Agnew will also offer himself as a can- didate.
A decision in the First Division of the Court of Session, ihe 10th, has created a good deal of interest in Scotland. The Reverend Wil- liam Middletou, on the part of the Presbytery of Garioch and the patron, Sir John Forbes, had applied to the Court for suspension of certain illegal proceedings adopted at the instance of Alexander Anderson, under the authority of the Commission of the General Assembly ; the Presbytery having refused to give effect to the Veto Act by rejecting Mr. Middleton, in accordance with the dissent of the "male heads of families." Lord Ivory refused the application ; and the applicants now came before the Court to appeal against that refusal. The Court reversed the judgment of Lord Ivory, interdicted the pro- ceedings of the Commission as illegal, and reserved for further consi- deration the question raised as to whether the Commission is legally to be considered a Court of the Church.
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