SCOTLAND.
The nomination of candidates for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright was fixed to take place yesterday, the 15th instant; and the poll will probably be taken on Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Maxwell, of Terreglas, a Roman Catholic, has found the popular prejudices against his faith too strong, and he retires; Mr. Thomas Maitland, of Dundrennan, a late Solicitor-General, replacing him as candidate in the Liberal interest. The Conservative can- didate is Lieutenant-Colonel James M'Douall of Logan.
The appointment of Mr. Charles Hope to be Governor of Man having occasioned a vacancy in the representation of Linlithgowshire, Mr. William Baillie, of Polkemmet, has offered himself to the electors: he is a Conser- vative, and an advocate of agricultural protection.
At a full meeting of the cotton-spinners of Glasgow and vicinity, along with the tenter& of self-acting machines, held in the Institution Hall, in Great Hamilton Street, on Wednesday last, it was unanimously agreed, that, under present circumstances, it is advisable for the trade to demand from their employers an increase upon their present rate of wages. It was left, however, to a delegate meeting, representing the cotton-spinners of Renfrewshire and Glasgow, to be held in Paisley, to arrange the amount to be asked, and the manner in which it should be demanded.—Glasgoto National.
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