SCOTLAND,
The Scotch papers furnish some particulars of the claims for the elective franchise in different counties and cities.
In Stirlingshire, the Tories have been very busy in creating " fagot" votes; but we are assured by the Glasgow Argus, that the Liberals have also been active, and will maintain their majority. In Paisley, 207 claims have been lodged, almost all by Liberals.
In Greenock, the claims amount to 121. In Edinburgh, the Liberals have lodged 522, and the Tories 338 claims ; but the Liberal removals and deaths exceed those of the Tories during the past year by 332; so that the Liberals have not increased their strength. In Cupar, St. Andrew's, and the Coast Burghs, the Tory claims exceed those of the Liberals by 7—the numbers being 46 and 39; but it is said that many of the former cannot be sustained.
We understand that Mr. Prendergast, the Radical candidate for the representation of these burghs, is very strongly supported. His party is at least as numerous as that of Mr. Ellice ; whose connexion with the Church-loving Whigs will now be 89 injurious as serviceable to him. The Reformers, we understand, will propose that the candidate who has the largest number of votes in the Whig-Radical party, be he Mr. Ellice or Mr. Prendergast, shall receive the united support of that party, in order to keep out a Tory. This would be a fair and the only safe method of arranging existing differences ; for the Radicals will not allow a Whig minority to palm a candidate upon them.
Mr Macleod of Cadboll, the present independent Member for Sutherlandshire, has offered himself to the constituency of the Inver- ness Burghs, for the next election ; the elector of Stitherlandshire, the Dutchess-Countess, having declared against him for his Liberalism.
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