SCOTLAND.
The Mid Lothian Tories are much chagrined by an unexpected de- cision in the Registration Appeal Court, on Monday last, by which, they say, that nearly two hundred fictitious Whig votes will be placed on the register. The case on which the appeal was made was Mr. Gallaway's ; whose vote was rejected by Sheriff Urquhart, on the ground that he had no bond fide and beneficial interest in the property on which he claimed the suffrage. According to the Fifeshire Journal, the Conservatives have gained, in the registrations now closed, 49 in the county of Fife, 31 in the St. Andrew's district of burghs, and 41 in the Kirkaldy district. Sir John Dunlop denies that he has any intention of retiring from the representation of Ayrshire, and says that he is now in better health than any time during the last two years. Lord Francis Egerton was installed Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen, on Monday. The ancient hall of the University, it is said, was never to numerously and 'respectably filled. An address was delivered to Lord Francis by Dr. Taylor, the Librarian' in behalf of 250 graduates and scholars assembled in the public school. The reply of the Lord Rector was rather poetical and hazy, like his Parliamen- tary speeches. He referred, of course, to Sir James Mackintosh, the Reich, Gregories, and other honoured names connected with the Uni- versity; but especially to the benefit religion received from the nume- rous ministers whom she annually sent forth to preach the gospel in the Northern parts of the country, where Lord Francis had himself witnessed their praiseworthy 'exertions. Some allusions to his own ancestors, and their regard for civil and religious liberty, the cave of Sulfa, and the wonders of nature, made up the remainder of the learned Lord Rector's harangue. He afterwards received the freedom
of the city, and partook of a" sumptuous refection" at Professor Tulloch's ; and then proceeded on his journey southward.
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