SCOTLAND.
Lord Brougham is expected to dine with a party of Edinburgh Libe- rals in the course of the recess.
Lord William Bentinek will shortly visit his constituents at Glas- gow; when it is intended to give a public dinner to the Liberal Mem- bers of the West of Scotland.
The Tories have been circulating a report that Mr. Ferguson of Raith intends to retire from the representation of East Lothian at the next election ; but the Courier contradicts the statement from autho- rity. Mr. Ferguson has no intention of giving up the county—there is no such good luck in store for the Tories of East Lothian.
The sheriff of East Lothian, Mr. Horne, is a Tory ; and at the recent registration he not only admitted "fagot-votes," but went out of
his way to express his approbation of this mode of counteracting the democratic tendency of the Reform Act. This speech of Mr. home found its way into the newspapers ; and the Sheriff perceiving that it bore a very ugly and illegal appearance, endeavoured to explain it away. But he has not succeeded ; for Mr. Robert Ainslie, a writer to the signet, has nailed him down, and procured vouchers for the accu- racy of Mr. Home's reported speech.
In Caithness-shire, the Tory majority on the registration is thirteen ;
but still the Liberals can return their own candidate, with proper ex- ertion; and Mr. Traill, formerly of Orkney, will be the man. There is some doubt whether the Tory party, despising "the Caithness rat " Sir George Sinclair, will not bring forward a candidate of their own on whom they can depend. In that case, it is all over with Sinclair, who will not have a solitary Liberal vote.
The Tories of Stirlingshire have raised a fund of 13,000/. to be lent
out on property in Stirlingshire. This is to procure and increase votes in favour of Forbes, or such another of his class as may be subservient to Tory views. Printed bills, offering loans from the fund, have been widely distributed; and we understand that 3000/. has already been disposed of. How many votes this sum has already purchased, we have not heard computed. There is no question, however, but that the sum is broken down into such particles as will create the greatest possible number of votes at the least possible expense.—Glasgow _Liberator. The Glasgow Argus says that in this county the Tories have registered thirty-five votes more than the Liberals, but that the majority which the latter gained at the registration of last year had not been broken down.
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