SCOTLAND.
Mr. Murray, of Broughton, was elected Member for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on Monday last, without opposition. Ile was escorted into Kirkcudbright by about three hundred electors on horseback, and from five to six thousand persons were assembled before the hustings. Mr. Murray avowed himself a " Constitutional Whig "-
lie had always openly avowed his political principles : they were those that placed the house of *Brunswick on the throne. He professed himself a Constitutional Whig—a Reformer of' the school of Lord Grey', the most elo- quent ant accomplished statesman of our times. These principles, he said, would lead him to support the present Liberal Government of our most gracious Queen, in all safe and salutary measures of Reform ; hut, at the same time, he was determined never to become the tool of any 31inistry ; that having neither place nor pension, and nothing to ask for, he went into Parliament a free and independent Member, ready at all times to do all in his power to I ro- mote the cause of civil and religious liberty, but resolved to withstand all rash, violent, and revolutionary projects. While he avowed his determination to assist in reforming all abuses, he would study to preserve the purity and bite- gray of the constitution, believing that the stability of the throne was essen- tial to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people." 'this spirit-stirring addreis was received with "deafening cheers ; " which were doubtless renewed with at least equal ardour during " co- pious libations of punch at the market-cross," with which the multi- tude were treated ; whilst their betters had a " collation in the Court- house." Taking these stimulants to joviality and patriotism into the reckoning, we can understand the Courier, when, at the close of an ac- count of the proceedings, he says that the "day will low* be remembered as the mist gratifying of it S kind in the annals of Kirkcudbright!"
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