SCOTLAND.
The election of Lord Rector of Glasgow University took place on Wed- nesday ; the retiring Rector being the Earl of Eglinton. Three can- didates were proposed,—Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, by the Conservatives ; Mr. Thomas Carlyle, by the Liberals; and the Duke of Argyll, by the Presbyterian section of both parties. The contest was conducted with the usual keenness, the turmoil being confined to the boys and lads in the College. Mr. Carlyle was withdrawn at a late hour, and the students went to the vote on the two other candidates. The result was, that the Duke of Argyll was elected by a majority in all the "Nations,"—Argyll 269, Disraeli 147. A protest was taken against the validity of the Duke's election, on the ground that his Grace is Chancellor of the University of St. Andrew's, and that it is illegal to hold office in two Colleges.
The two Divisions of the Supreme Court, at Edinburgh, resumed their sittings for the winter session on Tuesday. The whole of the Judges.
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Mr. John Melville, writer to the signet, has been elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in the room of Mr. M`Laren, whose term has expired.
General Hunter, a distinguished Indian officer, who saw service in the Scinde and Affghan wars, and who only retired three years ago, died at the Bridge of Allan on the 11th, in his sixty-ninth year.
Francis Forbes, the young man accused of murdering Ann Harvey, with whom he had been intimate, at Cults in Aberdeenshire, has been tried be- fore the High Court of Justiciary. The female was found dead on the road, apparently killed with a knife. Witnesses were called to prove an alibi. The Jury returned a verdict of " Not proven."
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