EDINBURGH TO WIT.
MINISTERS must have great confidence in the tameness of the Edinburgh constituency. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S address to the electors for their suffrages, and his elevation to the Peerage, occurred in the same week. The applications made to Lord PLUNKET to resign the Irish Chancellorship were known to be such as be could not resist ; and yet the farce of parading Sir JOHN CAMPBELL as candidate for Edinburgh was kept up till the last moment. What the motives were that induced the Whig leaders to treat thus cavalierly the constituency of the capital of Scotland, they know best themselves. From the fact that some independent electors had manifested a desire to have a representative free from official trammels, but had at the same time intimated their design not to oppose Sir JOHN CAMPBELL should he persist in again offering himself, it looks as if he had been kept in the field till the constituency, too much pressed for time to agree upon a candidate of their own selection, should be forced to accept of any person offered by their Whig managers. No Town-Council in the palmy days of the DUNDAS was ever treated with such nonchalance as the Reformed constituency of Edinburgh has been treated by its Parliament House leaders on this occasion. Govern- ment, it is clear, regard Auld Reekie in the light of a pocket bo- rough, which will elect any person they send to it at a moment's notice.
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