One of the first results of the municipal reform in
the Corporation of Edinburgh, has been, that the Lord Provost's salary is fixed at 500/. for expenses : if they exceed that amount, he is to pay the excess him- self.
The election of the Lord Rector for the University of Glasgow took place on Friday last ; the candidates being Mr. II. Cockburn, Solicitor-General, and Sir D. K. Sandford, Professor of Greek. The votes being taken, there appeared to be 150 for each candidate. It was supposed that in consequence of this equality of votes, Mr. Cock- burn, who is the present Lord Rector, would have had the rather puzzling duty to perform of giving the casting vote either for or against himself. But it appears that an old fundamental law has been dis- covered, by which all persons connected with the University are dis- qualified from holding the office of Lord Rector. This, we suppose, settles the matter in favour of Mr. Cockburn.
The condition of the grain farmers appears to be nearly as deplorable in Scotland as in England. A rich landed proprietor in the East country has eighteen farms inlet. A farm of fine hind in Mid Lothian, from which the tenant was lately "sold up" for a rent of about 31. per acre, has been let at 30s.—Glasgoic Chronicle.
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