SCOTLAND.
By the death of Sir John Hope, a vacancy is created in the representa- tion of Mid Lothian. The Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch, has been named ; and a requisition numerously signed has been forwarded to him. The young Earl is only just of age.
Mr. James Oswald, of Auchencruive, a distinguished Scotch Liberal, well known to many of our readers both in Scotland and England, died on the 3d instant, at Edinburgh. Mr. Oswald was born in 1778. On the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 he was chosen one of the two repre- sentatives which that act bestowed on Glasgow. He was reelected in 1835 ; accepted the Chiltern Hundreds in 1837 ; but becoming again a candidate in 1839 he was returned without opposition. He was returned to Parliament for the last time in 1841 ; and in 1847 he retired into pri- vate life.
The Queen has sent a donation of 50/. to Mr. Wilson of Aberdeen, as a contribution towards the extension of his Ragged Kirk Mission.
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