SCOTLAND.
The University of Edinburgh has chosen Mr. Gladstone to be its Lord Rector. At first many names were mentioned, but those on the list of candidates were finally reduced to two—Lord Neaves, a Scotch Judge, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The contest was carried on with great spirit and excited much general interest. The result of course was uncertain, and this added to the natural excitement. The numbers at the close of the poll were—Gladstone, 643, Neaves, 527; giving Mr. Gladstone a majority of 116.
The Tories, who put up Mr. Disraeli as a candidate for the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, have been defeated. The election took place on Tuesday, when Lord Elgin was chosen by a majority of all the nations ; the total numbers being—Elgin, 653; Disraeli, 411.
At a meeting held in Glasgow on Monday, Mr. Walter Buchanan, M.P., in the chair, the sum of 1501. was subscribed in aid of the Gari- baldi fund. Resolutions expressing strong sympathy for the Italians were adopted.
Sir David Brewster delivered the introductory address on the opening of the United College, St. Andrews, on the 10th. In concluding his re- marks, Sir David stated that that was the last occasion on which he should open the University. During the twenty-one years he had occu- pied the chair he had inducted all the existing professors, and had wit- nessed the satisfactory manner in which they had laboured for the good of those under their tuition. Although he was now about to leave them, he still felt much interested in the University. He had been induced to leave it—certainly not from any personal motives—in order to discharge the duties of the vacant chair of the metropolitan University, of which he had been sixty years a graduate. But he assured them he left be- hind him many friends and associates, of whom he would always enter- tain many happy recollections.
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