A BERDEEN.—There has been no lukewarmness in registering claims in

this stirring town. It was expected that on Monday evening, when the books closed, the number of claims would amount to about 2,000. Out of this number, the friends of 31r. Bannerman, the Liberal candi- date, calculate on about 1,500 votes; the remainder being for Provost Redden, or doubtful.

EDINBITRGII.—The Caledonian Mercury observes, that a great mis- take seems to prevail respecting the persons qualified to vote. " The number of voters in Edinburgh is genciallY spoken of as amounting to at least between 10,000 and 11,000: but this is going upon the datum of the Police assessment, which we shall presently show must be an erroneous one. Ills quite true that the Police rout-roll exhibits above 11.000 houses and shops rated at and above 101.; but, in the first place, we may calculate that of the houses so rated, probably 1.000 are occu- pied by females, who have no vote. Then, there arc many individuals who occupy-and pay rates upon two or three, or more places, rented above 101, who have yet only one vote. We could name one individual who occupies six places of this description. This mustreduce the supposed number by at least 1.000 more, if not 9,000. Again. there are many who are rated in the Police-books above 10/., but who are not so rated for Assessed Taxes ; and, although these might qualify.upon the Police rate, t is ceareeir to be expected that they will do so at the risk of attracting the attention:and insuring the visits of the Government surveyor in all time coming. In short, when we consider that all shops must be cut off from the number whose proprietors occupy houses cf the valued rent required, and that all female housekeepers are excluded, we do not believe that the real number of electors in Edinburgh can bemuch above 7,00."

Of this number of 7,000,—which may have been further diminished by accidental circumstances, such as personal or family sickness, or -distress of any other kind,—there have been 6,664 enrolled on the list of registry ; a most formidable augmentation of the select number of

• 33 who voted at the last election ! The Scotsman mentions that a number of the Tories have been entering their sons as voters, under the joint occupancy clause. Under that clause, we think, all who occupy part of a house and contribute to the payment of the rem: of it have a right to vote, if registered ; and they may be registered, in England at least, up to the 25th of next month ; but we doubt if sons, or any one not paying rent, have such a right, unless by an evasion of the law, and taking, if calledon, an oath, which under the circumstances no person of honesty could take. Lord Advocate Jeffrey having returned to the city of which he has for the last five-and-twenty years been one of the chiefest ornaments, has had an opportunity—the first—of meeting' his fellow-townsinen under their new character of free emancipated subjects. The meeting took place on Wednesday, at the Waterloo Rooms; and we need hardly say—for mere curiosity was sufficient to secure that point—it was a most crowded one. Sir Thomas Lauder Dick was in the chair. Mr. Jeffrey has been so misrepresented, and when not misrepresented, so completely cushioned, by the English reporters, that it is only com- mon justice to give a short extract front his speech, now that he has again got among his countrymen and friends, who know how to appre- ciate him. We make our extracts from the Weekly Journal of Wednes- day, where the report is most creditably given, though probubly not with all the verbal felicity of the orator. The following is part of the

exordium— •

" I am sure you will give me credit when I say, that the tirst emotion I am compRed to express, is that of themost Immble and deep gratitude for the kindness with which ray name Ims been proposed, and the singular, the overwhelniing kindness with which it has been received. It would be vaia for me to dissemble, use that is accompanied by the transient feeling of gratitude, pride, and exultation ; bat, gentlemen. I am guilty of no hypocrisy or affectation, when I sav, that VVe;1 this feeling is Very soon supplanted by the more permanent and more jnsi. feeling of deep humility. and a con- sciousness of my ot 0 unworthiness to be the object ef those emotions. At this moment,

the permanent t■..elingin my mind is that of deep regret and mortification, under t

n ile coviction of there being but a small prospect of my ever being able,• by my own ends. to do you, or. the cause m which you are engaged, any material service. It is some consolation, however, for me to be able, with the most pe..feet sieeerity, to deelare, that a desire to be of service—that a desire to promote the happiness, aial to do every thing that may conduce to the extension of the rights of (Well' urrii IlOW hearing me—is amongst the foremost and most permanent of ray feeliegs; fi,teling dis- poSition for the permanency of which I ain able to answer, not only from it sense of the duty which I mast owe to those {rho may send me to that place to which I aspire, but from the long-cherished feelings and habitnal associations which have always bound me to this place and people., anti still more by an unextinguishable desire to do something, however inadequate, to make SOilltr return for the great kindness I have always received at your 1ian41s, and which I corny here to put to the test this day, by claiming from you the highest honour which vett eau be-tow. My next impalse is to congratulate you upon the restoration, or I should rather say, the creation, in your days, of political freedom and constitutional aml popular rights in this city, and in this kingdom of Scotland, and upon the mighty and glorious change that has been operated in the condition of you all. since I last bad the happiness or finding myself among you. I left you then with thirty-three electois tbr this city; and I :WI now addressing a fractional, but no inconsiderable amount of six thousandsix hundred and odd electors. I left you in the hands of a constituency almost entirely divided from the popular opinion and popular wishes; and I now find you, on my return, so far united and so far satisfied. I find also, that I have only missed by a few days a mag- nificent procession of fifty or sixty thousand men, of whom not a tenth part will be electors, but who still, by their brilliant procession, and other joyous displays, testified their complete satisfaction with the Reform now achieved. I left you the rejected can- didate of the Town-Council; and meet you again the hopeful, the humble. but confident aspirant to represent the intelligence, the wealth,and the great body of t he population of the city of Ediuburgh. I left you rejected in behalf of an individual little known, no way connected with this city, but only recommended to the distinction which he was fortunate enough to obtain, I believe.principally by his hostility to that Reform which now invests you with the right and power of superseding his electors, and having your • own voice heard; anal, instead of that competitor, I have the great and additional satis- faction of being associated in your trust, and likely to be united with a colleague, for whose zealous and indefatigable services to the cause of Parliamentary Reform, and in particular to the creation of an independent constituency in Edinburgh, that city, and the cause generally, has perhaps more than to any other individual been indebted."

He afterwards spoke of the Conformers, and what was to be ex- pected from them, with that felicity of illustration and argument which • almost always distinguish his harangues- "

It is painful in me to question the sincerity of any man. I believe that the Tory candidates for your votes will give the Bill legal fair play,—that is to say. they will nut cheat or evade the law ; but will they give it practical fair play ? They may now wish well to it ;. but have they not wished ill to it so long as thew wishes could do it any harm? Can we therefore think that they will not still attempt to harm and obstruct the consequences to flow from it? Would they not be wanting in sincerity or courage If they dirt not act so ? Is it consistent with common sense that those who get the elective power should intrust it into the hands of those who have predicted only ' troubles and mischiefs to arise from that power.—to those who have declared that it is pregnant with evil and destruction, and that it must bring disgrace on its advocates— is it consistent with sanity, or with common sense, to give your votes to persons who have an interest to verify these their own predictions ? who must glory in beholding the • consummation of their own all-fbreseeing sagacity, and who must try, ifiby any manage- ment in the working of it, they can make it a disgrace to those who have triumphed in . obtaining it? Suppose that when the great improver of the steam-engine, after suffi- cient demonstration, and long laborious investigation, had persuaded the public of the utility of his improvement, and a host of rival mechanics at the same time had clubbed together, and said—' It is the most dangerous thing in the would—no doubt its power is a hundred to one greater than the former engine, but the former engine was safe and slow in its operations, while this is the most untidy, unchancy thing that could be in- -vented—it will play havoc even among the people engaged in its construction; but if once completed and set a-going, wo to the unlucky workmen when it bursts, as it inevi- tably will, and not only involve them in destruction, but convert the scene around into one of ruin and devastation e—now, when in the face of these gloomy predictions, the Royal seal was put to his patent, would Watt have proposed this engine to be put in to the hands of those rival mechanics, who bad predicted so many, even impossible dangers to be brought about by it ?—would he have intrusted the working of it to those men? If he had, do you really imagine that they would not deliberately have contrived its destruc- tion—thre the management of the fires would not have been occasionally ioterrupted- that the safety-valves would be well watched—that the sides of the boilerWould be carefully kept in mind—in short, that some mischance would not soon arrite, to prevent the superseding of their own clumsy, ungainly, old machine, by this much-admired -one, which, in their ideas, was so fraught with hidden danger ?" When Mr. Jeffrey had finished, a Mr. Clarke put to him some questions touching. matters of local policy, which we need not enter into. 'There Was one question, however, , put by Mr. Clarke, which was more ex- tended in its nature, and which marked the school from which he came -:-the Union &herd, -who, like the- hare in the fable, always contrive to lose the race of common sense, by bounding away from mortal vision when no cause calls for extraordinary speed, and then going to sleep, in happy unconsciousness of their steady rival's progress, until it is over late to get up with her. Mr. Clarke asked, we.s it his Lordship's opi- nion that the Established Church of Edinburgh should be maintained by 1)issenters ? Mr. Jeffrey was not to be entrapped by so shallow a questioner. lie said- " I Most, al any hazard, a cline answering that question eate4oti.•:ally. lint it is M vadat to tali, a 41iIIi II I al WeVIJ file t of Edinburgh and that of the Nation. The puhlie Esto blishinent implies an establish:malt slipported at the pablie - expenst, ; and II ll..s,aat from the disdrines or that Church Ni cr., to be a ground of im- Inaluil!, from eotit..iMit leg to its support. it nel,,t produee a radical change in the system ail over the kingdom. The cute:diem of It 1.11,.-ion. Establishinent=, I :Omit, has been, - one ou which the omit learned persons have diff•cts1 ; but if a bill were btontllit into Parliament firing it the timudation of ri IgI 1 st,eldisinnents, it must be applicable to - all parts or the empile. I further say. thal if the ,ioestion h,.r I am to tire against

the Church Es!alaishment denetiel.si a me, in enter to en: ide myself to the suf-

frages of the eleeturs of Edinburgh. I huml,ly think it is WV'ti hint cannot be reason- ably insisted on. If the oliestioa be raised iv others, it will, of course, like any other questkm brought before Parliament, receive iny impartial deliberation and anxious con- •

sideration." •

Resolutions in favour of Mr.. Jeffrey and Mr. Abercromby, as fit, representa ives for the city, were agreed to by acclamation. The North Briton says, of the voters registered for E'alinbargh, between 4,000 and 5,01)1) %yin adhere to this resolution. We don't believe there will be anys poll, unless the friends of Mr. Aytoun, in their anxiety to make them- selves notorious, insist upon it.

Gs.ssuow.—The entire voters in Glasgow was calculated at about I0,000,—subject, of course, to the same deductions as in Edinburgh.. - The claims for registration, on Saturday night, amounted to 4,756.

Llirru.—At the termination of the registration of claims on Monday itip-cht for the town of Leith, there appeared to be 1,9$-)8 lodged ; and of _ tl:is number there are nearly 900 who give their votes to Mr. Murray- This alone will decide the election, notwithstanding all the vaunting of • Mr. Aitchison's influential Conservative supporters. In Portobello,— there are, we believe, about 929 claims lodged, and at Musselburgh —making it total constituency of l,7A'S electors. .At Portobello, Mr - Murray will poll about three to one ; he will have almost every vote in Newhaven ; and even at Musselburgh a small majority.—Nurth Briton.

Praernstinos...— Sir George Murray has been spouting to the electors. in the village of .Metliven. He says- " sh■mid. he be favoured with their sufil.nges, he should go to Parliament neither as a Whig nor as a Tory. but to express his sentiment., fr.adv anti itilopendently. He- m, mild never go thrive ;IA t in` told 0: 11,1)elld011t Dr any party. but to support every mea- sere, be whomsoever hit roamed, that Inc should conceive beneficial to the country a. . but if lie beliesed it to 1., detriment:LI, it should have ins decided opposition."

What are the measures which the Commissary-General will oppose in • . his free and independent career ?— " if Ministers should attempt to attach the destinies of Great Britt:ins to those ofrevo..- Int ionary France, and drag us into a war with (Inc old and respell able neighbours the Dotch; if they should continue to irritate :mil 'excite Ireland, and :d tempt to strengthen' • the hands of ilie law by inereasing the army ; if they should miopt measure's which.

u mad deluge in blood and consign te desolation our colooh s ; it' they should persevere - in diminishing the revenue of the eouniry withour reducing the exit...tie:hue; if they should continue to interfere in the affairs of Portugal (an in;,adierence hitherto unmanly re-sport that it was nut open) ; he shoalal nut ...ease tu deprecate and condemn their policy."

Tina is, he will oppose the whole policy of Ministers and of the Reformers, and support the whole policy of the Duke of Wellington - and the Anti-Reformers : but he will be neither Whig nor Tory—not . he—but a free and independent member. What a parcel of humbug-- mongers these disciples of the Candid school are !

STIltLING.—Admiral Fleming, in addressing the electors on Friday week, gave the following ludicrous and characteristic sketch of the con- duct of the canny five-and-forty in 1806, when the Whigs came intes power— "If a man has done every thing in his power to prevent the Bill passing. and now tells von that be will endeavour to make it work well because it is the law of the land, don't believe him—if it be now law, no thanks to trim; anal as for his oluadience to the law— why, he must obey it. There will now be no scarcity of such cranc.necked Reformers; and if you tare so silly as to support them, and to vote for men who have been till now avowed Anti-Reformers, you will very probably find yourselves situated with such weathercocks as I was in 1806. At that time there were only three Scottish Opposition members in the Ilouse—Lord Archibald lIamilton, Mr. Maude, of Pannture, and my- self. But when the Whig Ministry came in shortly afterwards, no less than forty-two Scotch members came over to our side of the Ilouse. We were astonished at the change,. and very much incommoded by this accession of Scottish Ministerialism ; then came the Whig retreat front office, and off went the forty-two Scottish members again in a body, anti left Lord Archibald Hamilton, Mr. Mettle, and myself, the elbow room we had before."