It appears that we have to acknowledge to the Scotsman
having made a blunder as to the date of the Caithness vacancy in 1869. It took place before and not after the vacancy for the united Uni- versities of Glasgow and Aberdeen. The error, however, does not in the least vitiate our statement that the contested elections for Dumfries, and for the united Universities of Glasgow and Aber- deen, were tile first which tested the feeling of Scotland in the year 1869,—i.e., after the general election of 1868. The Caithness contest was a contest between two Liberals, Sir J. G. Tollemache- Sinclair (the present sitting Member), and Mr. J. C. Traill, and was not, therefore, a contest of the kind referred to in our article. The only hole successfully picked by the Scotsman has been a very insignificant one indeed.
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