The correspondence between Lord Dalkeith and Mr. Ure, published in
the papers of Tuesday, does not redound to the credit of the Lord Advocate. It will be remembered that in a speech delivered at Glasgow on September 17th Mr. Ure spoke of the present Duke of Buccleuch as having received £150,000 for some vacant ground which he owned, and which was needed to complete the Thames Embankment. As a matter of fact, it was not the present Duke ; he had not sold his land, and he received not £150,000 but £5,000 compensation for the deterioration of his property. Mr. Ure admitted the accuracy of the report of his speech, and owned that, relying on inaccurate information, he had misrepre- sented the facts. He regretted the error into which he was unwittingly led, " not merely because it was an error, but also because the transaction, as it stands recorded in the Reports, illustrates the arguments I was advancing better than the transaction as I understood it and believed it to be."
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