Sir Charles Pearson, Solicitor-General for Scotland, who• has not had
a seat in Parliament since he was appointed to. that office last year, was elected by the Universities of Edin- burgh and St. Andrews on Wednesday without opposition. Even in Scotland it appears that the professional classes are opposed to Home-rule, or the electors of the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews would at least have been asked by some Gladstonian candidate to give him their support in con- testing the seat. Perhaps it is one of the misfortunes of the Unionists that all the classes especially distinguished for culture and prudence are so nearly unanimous on their side ; for the average elector is probably quite as much influenced by his jealousy of those who seem to him to be fastidious in their tastes, as by his eagerness to support those who are not. fastidious.
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