SCOTLAND.
Mr. Fox Meek was returned for the Elgin district of Burghs, without opposition, on Tuesday week. In his speech from the hust- ings, Mr. Mettle stickled for Lord John Russell's reputation as a Re-
former; and declared that he must himself vote for the Ballot, if Mti- midation could be put down by no other means.
Mr. Tait of Edinburgh has had his goods again seized for the Annuity-tax.
The Edinburgh correspondent of the Courier says, that a notion prevails in the Scottish capital that the united opposition of Whigs and
Tories to the Ballot is preliminary to the formation of a Coalition Ministry- " The Take Pe delighted at the prospect of such an occurrence; sad I regret to acknowledge, that there are to be found, especially among the arida. craey, some Whigs who look on it with favour. 1 believe that I speak the sentiments of every true Reformer who undertmds the real interest of the Wit4- party, when I say, that any attention of, or approach to such a measure, would for ever ruin every Whig who should be concerned in it. If a large body of Whigs joined such a coalition, the whole Whig party would be ipso facto ex- tinguished ; the country would regard the whole coalition as a compacted phalanx of Tories ; the Radicals would rise into instant importance ; they would receive a vast accession of moral strength; and a new war of opinion would commence, which would never end till this eoalition party was bunted from power, and the most effectual measures adopted for preventing the pow. talky of its ever returning to it. These are not mere declamatory phrases. They may be justified by reasons the cogency of which it will not be difficult to comprehend."
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