SCOTLAND.
The election movement is scarcely perceptible in Scotland. Two facts arc mentioned: Mr. Wilson of Dundyvan is to oppose the present Con- servative Member for the Falkirk district of boroughs; and Mr. Dunlop is to contest Greenock with the sitting Member, in the Free Church interest.
Selkirkshire is vacant; Mr. Pringle having resigned the representation, on being appointed keeper of the Register of Sasines. Mr. Ellett Lockhart, of Borthwiekbrae, has offered himself to the electors, merely mentioning that he is "a Conservative."
Aberdeen has had a Free-trade meeting; and the Protectionists of the Border have had a gathering at Kelso; but Scotland, at present, is not so fertile in this agitation and counter-agitation as the Southern Kingdom.
Arrangements are in progress for erecting at Dundee a monument to the memory of Mr. Kinloch, the first Member for the borough under the Re- - form Act of 1332.
The body of Macliesh, the man who died by the falling of the upper part of a well at Forfar, after undergoing the agonies of entombmentalive for five clays, was not extricated till Friday last. Lord Panmure, the tutelary Beneficence of those parts, has relieved the necessities of the families dependent on Maeliesh and his less unfortunate companion Brown, and has undertaken to maintain Brown till he shall be able to resume labour.
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