INVERNESS BURGHS.—The contest now lies between Mr. Stewart' and Colonel
Baillie : the former, it is supposed, will have a large majority.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT BOROUGHS.—It is extremely amusing, in these days of universal liberality, to observe the grounds on which its professors stand. We noticed, last week from the Globe a Mr. M'Taggart, the Tory candidate for these burghs. On Thursday, our contemporary gave from a correspondent an indignant denial of Mr. 111‘Taggitit's Anti-Reform principles : his sentiments are "very liberal," it seemly and what are they?
"He is favourable to the ballot, to a modification of the Corn-laws propor- tionate to the reduction in the Assessed Taxes, to Poor-laws in Ireland, tor the reduction of the standing army, to banking as it is carried on in Scotlancr, to the clearing away of all undeserved pensions and sinecures, and to the abolishing of the law of entail." "Nor," adds the Globe's correspondent, "has his conversion to such principles been recent, nor has his experience bees
Wonderful!
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