SCOTLAND.
The death of Mr. William Lockhart having created a vacancy in the representation of Lanarkshire, several gentlemen are mentioned as candi- dates for the seat ; among them, Mr. Baillie Cochrane of Lamington, Mr. Buchanan of Drumfelr, and Mr. liozier of Newland? There has been no contest in the county for twenty years, and it is thought likely that whoever has the interest of the Duke of Kamilton will carry the election. At present this fortunate person is presumed to be Mr. Coch- rane, who has of late been a frequent visitor at Hamilton Palace.
We are happy to learn that a Treasury warrant has just been signed au- thorizing the grant of a pension of 30/. a year to Mr. Alexander Maclagan the poet. Mr. Maclagan is the author of Sketches from Nature," &c., and the "Ragged-School Rhymes," and has now been rather more than twenty years before the public as a writer of tender and pleasing verse ; and in that time he succeeded in securing the suffrages of such critics as Jefrey, Cockburn, Guthrie, and the Duke of Argyll.—Edinburgh Witness. [And the money-value of all this suffrage, by the Royal standard, is a pension of 30/.]
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