SCOTLAND.
Sir Thomas Hepburn was elected Member for East Lothian, en Saturday, without opposition. After the regular proceedings had been gone through, and Sir Thomas had delivered a speech of thanks, Sir David Baird addressed the assembly ; attributieg the easy election of the Tory candidate to undue balite:ice, by which the comity had been degraded to the condition of a Conservative borough. Sir David also expressed strong indignation at the apostacy of Sir Francis Bur- dett—" the last and rankest of renegades," !row become the " god of Tory idolatry—courted, flattered, and accounted the very prop of their party."
It is currently reported, and generally believed, that Mr. Campbell of Islay will be one of the new Peers to be created at the Coronation. A canvass has already commenced in Argyllshire for the representation of that county, in which the elevation above-mentioned will cause a vacancy.—Greenock Advertiser.
It is said Sir H. Parnell does not intend to trouble the electors el Dundee again ; ini lug enter,n1 into arrangements with the Ministry to have Sir G. Newport's situation at the Exchequer, the moment a va- cancy occurs.— Standard.
Very distressing reports have been in circulation for some time past connected with the state of the health of Lord Stormont, the Member for Perthshire. It is said that his Lordship, who is residing with Mr. Ellison, his father-helaw, is not only in very poor bodily health, but that since the death of Lady Stormont, last November, he has laboured under great depression of spirits.—Pcrths.hire Advertiser.
At a public meeting in Glasgow, on Monday, resolutions in favour of the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, and a petition to Parliament founded on them, were agreed to. The thanks of the meeting, couched in very warm terms, were voted to Lord Brougham, as well as to the Anti-Slavery Delegates in London.
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