SCOTLAND.
The close of the Edinburgh election, by the declaration oft he poll on Saturday, was quite in character with the antecedents of that event. When the Sheriff declared that Mr. Black was duly elected by a majority of 643 votes-2429 to 1786—a hurricane of cheering greeted the an- nouncement. Mr. Black, in returning thanks, kept up the excitement by the animated strain in which he characterized his own success, as a vic- tory over that "extraordinary conglomeration of political, religious, and factious elements," which once combined to dismiss Mr. Macaulay. Mr. Brown Douglas made a mild speech, much interrupted. Lastly, amid a deafening storm of groans and hisses, Mr. James Aytoun, one of Mr. Douglas's prominent supporters, declared that "the electors had on that occasion been bought and sold—bought in London, and sold in Edin- -burgh ; and the parties who bought them were the Lord Advocate, Sir William Gibson Craig, and Mr. Black, who were fully informed in re- ference to Mr. Macaulay's resignation."
Sir Andrew Agnew was returned for Wigtonshire on Saturday, in the room of Lord Dalrymple. Here there was no opposition.
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