SCOTLAND.
The Scotch municipal elections have passed off with as little general in- terest as the English, except in the capital. Edinburgh rather inclines to the literary in its municipal favours, aad Mr. Robert Chambers was put forward by his friends on that score as candidate for the office of Lord Pro- vost. The proposal was met by a violent opposition. " A cry was got up," says the Scotsman, "or joined in, by certain of our loudest Liberals and Voluntaries, that Mr. Chambers should be excluded from the Provostahip, on the ground that they were not satisfied that all his theological opinions accorded with theirs; drawing their insinuations from the supposed ten- dency of a book [Vestiges of Creation] which they never read and he never wrote." The Free Church party put forward Mr. Johnston, and the canvassing contest became very bitter. The election of Town- Councillors, on the 1st instant, turned in a great measure on the ulterior election of Lord Provost; each side trying to strengthen its votes for that issue. Unexpectedly, on the 2d, appeared a letter from Mr. Chambers, announcing that he withdrew; as " lie had that day become satisfied that he was brought too late into the field to have any but a very narrow chance of success."
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