SCOTLAND.
The election of sixteen peers to represent the peers of Scotland in the House of Lords in the ensuing Parliament took place on Tuesday, in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh. There were nineteen peers present, and two were represented by proxies. Twenty-three signed lists were given in, but one of them had become void by the death of the proposer, the Duke of Leeds (Viscount Dumblane). The following peers WOW chosen—
Marquis of Tweeddale, Earl of Morton, Earl of Caithness, Earl of Home, Earl of Strathmore, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Airlie, Earl of Leven and Melville, Earl of Selkirk, Earl of Orkney, Viscount Strathallan, Lord Sal- toun Lord Gray, Lord Blantyre, Lord Colville of Culross, Lord Polwarth. Thirteen of the above peers were reelected, and the Earle of Morton and Haddington and Lord Saltoun were chosen for the first time, in room of the Earl of Seafield and Lord Elphinstone, created British peers, and Lord Sinclair, resigned.
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