24 JUNE 1837, Page 9

SCOTLAND.

We understand that in consequence of the expected changes in the Law Courts, and the immediate elevation of the Lord Advocate to a seat on the Bench, a numerous body of the electors in Leith are about to propose the Honourable James Erskine Murray of Aberdona, as Member for the district, in the event of a vacancy taking place. In the mean time, a requisition numerously signed, has been sent to Mm. Murray, requesting him to attend a public meeting of the electors, which is intended to take place next week, fur the purpose of explain- ing his sentiments on public affairs. Mr. Murray is already known to the public by his treatise on the Corn-laws, and his tour in the Pyre- nees.bEdinburyle Weekly Chronick. Mr. Murray. in a letter to the electors, replying to the requisition mentioned above, promises to take an early opportunity of explaining his political sentiments with the view of becoming a candidate on the Liberal interest ; but we find from the following paragraph in the Scots- man, that there is no immediate prospect of Mr. J. A. Murray being made a Lord of Session.

" We beg to say, that we have had ample opportunities of knowing the qua- lifications of Mr. Murray, and that we believe him in every way qualified satis- factorily to represent a Liberal constituency. We hope he will have an early opportunity of entering Parliament, where we have no doubt his ready business habits and sound information will make him a valuable member. At the same time, it is necessary to state that there is at present no immediate prospect of the Lord-Advocate being raised to the Bench, or of any immediate change taking place which will separate him from his constituents."

We also hope;shat Mr. Murray may find a seat in the next Parlia- ment; where, we fear, he would meet few men with as much vigour, industry, and courage, independent of theoretical Liberalism, as he is gifted with.

Mr. Oliphant means to resign Perth ; and the Liberal electors have called upon the Honourable Arthur Ki llll aird to succeed him. Mr.

Kinnaird, though a young man, showed in the Perthshire canvass against Sir George Murray, and at the Durham dinner in Glasgow, when he was two or three years younger than at present, more political talent and spirit than half the present Members of Scotland could muster by clubbing their whole stock in trade.

The Edinburgh Tories had a dinner on Saturday, to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Mr. Patrick Robertson, the

chairman, was, as usual, very facetious, and somewhat abusive of the Liberals. He seemed to think that the good old days of Dundee were about to return, and chuckled at the progress of Toryism in the Scot- tish counties since the Reform Bill was passed.

The subscriptions in Aberdeenshire for a monument to the memory of the late Duke of Gordon now amount to 2,3151. I6s.

The Glasgow papers give distressing accounts of the state of the operatives in the West of Scotland. Many thousands are in want of employment and of bread.