7 MAY 1927, Page 3

It is a pleasure to record that Mr. John Buchan

was turned last Saturday by a huge majority as the It is a pleasure to record that Mr. John Buchan was turned last Saturday by a huge majority as the Unionist Member at the Scottish Universities by-election. His Labour opponent; • Mr. Hugh Guthrie,• forfeited deposit. Mr. Buchan was intimately connected years ago with the Spectator, and we shall have particular reason to rejoice when he exercises in Parliament his fertile brain and brings to bear the influence of his progressive Unionism.