SCOTLAND.
At Renfrew, on Wednesday, Colonel Mure was elected Member for the Shire, in the room of the late Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart. The Colonel had formerly been an unsuccessful candidate: he was now unopposed; and he attributed the absence of opposition to the ceasing of party virulence in the county-
" The result has been the fusion of the views of the moderate of both parties, and a determination to set aside party virulence, and do all in their power for the good of the country. The consequence is that a general disposition has been manifested, that a respectable gentleman, Possessed of a stake in the county, in the habit of residing among them, and who has adopted or advocated no extreme views on any side, and who, they are willing to believe, is prepared to give an in- dependent and conscientious vote on any question which may coins before hip., should be their Representative. They are willing to allow such a gentleman, and such I profess myself to be, to pass into the position in which I find myself placed today, without undergoing the ordeal of a severe contest: that, I believe, is the fundamental fact why you are not met as contending parties, but as a unanimous constituency."
Sir Andrew Leith Hay has announced his intention -of standing again for the Elgin Burghs. He was to have been opposed by Captain Loch; but that gentleman having received a foreign appointment, Sir Andrew's opponent will be Mr. George Skene Duff; the second son of Sir Alexander Duff, and nephew of the Earl of Fife.
Sir Edward Coffin has concluded his investigations in Orkney as to the extent of destitution, and has returned South.—Edinburgh Witness. '
The accounts from the Western Isles are very distressing. In South Uist, cholera and inflammation of the intestines had become endentic produced principally by eating small fish called" cuddles," to which the poor people were forced to resort as food.
Destitution is spreading rapidly in Paisley, and a state of things rival- ling the year 1842 is anticipated.,
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