The Edinburgh, Courant the other day taunted Mr. Gladstone with
having claimed to be a " fagot " voter a greet an any years ago for the county of R088, and with his claim having been rejected, on the ground that he was not a bond fide life-renter, not in legal possession, and not in occupation. Mr. Gladstone, inter- rogated upon this attack, has replied that, as far as he can recol- lect what happened so long ago, his father did divide a small estate in Ross amongst his four sons, did give them bond fide legal rights to the property, and that their electoral claims were admitted and duly registered in virtue of this property. He never objected, he says, to the Duke. of Buccleugh, or any other man, parting with his own property in order to invest those to whom he parted with it with an electoral right in virtue of such property, and does not now object to it. But if there were any- thing blameworthy in his father's act, the blame attached to Toryism, and not to the Liberal party. The Edinburgh, Courant, we take it, has probably not, after this, returned to the charge.
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