A correspondent who signs "An Elector of Edinburgh," and gives
us liberty to add, if we like, "a Free kirk Elder," but who withholds the guarantee of his name, has written to oomplain dour paragraph on the Edin- burgh election, which has been copied into the Edinburgh papers, and the spirit of which is, as he reads it, " absolute condemnation of the constituents " of Edinburgh at last election. Our correspondent utterly denies that the electors wished Mr. Macaulay to be deferential and submissive ; asserts that they were justly proud of him; and suggests that Mr. Macau- lay at the time when he gave offence by his local vote, had perhaps been writing those pages in his History which tell of that blessed King who said to the citizens of London, Who are you, that are but brutes and foolish persons, that presume to address ns ? " He affirms that Mr. Macaulay. at this moment "stands far higher than when he was the mere nominee of that vile Parliament House clique which the citizens of Edinburgh thoroughly detest" ; and that, as he now stands " on his own high and undoubted qualifications to represent the capital of Scotland," our correspondent will reverse the vote he gave against him last election, and, with many more who did the same then, vote for him now. Our correspondent overlooks, in the explanation of his laudable change of resolution, the fact that Mr. Macaulay is at this time the candidate of the same party as when he was, we think unworthily, rejected at the last elee- tion. We receive with pleasure the information that the chances are two to one in favour of Mr. Macaulay's return.
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