30 JANUARY 1841, Page 8

SCOTLAND.

The Kirkcaldy election terminated on Tuesday, in the return of Colonel Ferguson. The numbers at the close of the poll were—for Colonel Ferguson, 216 ; for Dr. Bowring, 133 ; being a majority of 83 against the Doctor. His friends allege that the estimates given in by his committee the night before the nomination showed a majority of 12 in Dr. Bowring's favour; and that the uncertainty of these estimates was partly the consequence of the burghs never having been contested since the Reform Act. To us the only marvel is, that a stranger, late in the field, polled more than half as many votes as a member of the popular house of Ferguson, next heir to the estate of Raith.

The Duke of Richmond has been elected President of the Highland and Agricultoral Society of Scotland; and the Duke of Roxburgh, Earl of Erroll, and Earl of Haddington, Vice-Presidents. Viscount Ken- more, Lord F. Fitzelarence, and Sir H. Dalrymple, are among the new members enrolled.