The writer of the following letter, received this morning from
Scotland, possesses extensive and trustworthy political information. It will be seen that he anticipates a gloomy Mnouement of the 4• Reform " drama; but nothing is gained by concealing the truth.
" You see what a drubbing the Whigs have got in Ayrshire. I am sorry to say., no section of the Reformers has any share of the credit. Craig, you see, only mustered 38 votes ; and our middle class Radicals and Anti-Corn-law men flocked to the poll ibr Campbell. The Whigs fell nearly as many short of their last poll as the Tories exceed on theirs. The change has been occasioned by the registrations; or by desertion from the Whig to the Tory camp; or, as I rather believe, by both. " The most marked changes in the relative positions of the parties are at the Stewarton and Galsten polls, and the Loudoun estates lie in these districts. I am told that the Loudoun family never before interfered with their tem:nits, votes ; but that on this occasion the factor went round requesting as a personal favour to the Marchioness, that if their consciences would not allow them to Tote for Kelburne, they would at least stay away from the poll. I have not this on any great authority, but it is certain that the story about Lady Flora told mightily with the rustic voters ; the Whig county organ (the Ayr Adver- tiser) was obliged to come out with a long article pathetically indignant at the trealmcnt received by that lady, quite «propos des buttes, and at the thir- teenth hour.
"The more I see, the more .1 feel convinced that you are justified in your dis- trust of any attempt to reorganize the Reform party at this moment. There are neither leaders enough to them a Cabinet, nor body to stick them upon. The public opinion is intinitessimally divided: all coherence isgone. Even in tlIt: ‘Na- Iional ConWitti011 'there are three or four parties, and another trying to squeeze As way into it. Other sections of opinion are equally rubbed down into loose sand. Besides, it is a misnomer to speak of the Reform party there never was any such party. It was the Reform Nation that rallied round the ' Whig party' to carry the bill; and it has been the general reluctance to discover that 6 Whigs' are not • Reformers ' that has generated and kept alive the pre- posterous notion of a 'Reform party.' There are no materials for organizing a part y ' that will and can reform better than the Whigs, whatever W*** and 'f******* may dream."
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