SCOTLAND.
Sir William Rae, when he superseded Mr. Murray as Lord Advo- cate, appeared merely in the Exchequer and Justiciary Courts, and took the oaths of office, &c. But it was also necessary to present his commission to a pro re nata meeting of the whole Judges of the Court of Session, and get it engrossed in their sederunt-book and take oaths. This he never did, and it cannot now be done till the Court meets. As there was truly no Lord Advocate then in our Supreme Civil Court, what becomes of all those proceedings in reductions, improba- tions, &c. where his concurrence is necessary in civil causes?Are they valid ? If not, to how many questions may they not give rise to pettifogging agents and their clients ?—Scotsman.
The Reformers in Ilawick, who, previously to the late general elec- tion, had established a fuad, by subscriptions among themselves, for upholdivg the Liberal interest in this county, and who so stoutly sup- ported the Honourable Captuin Elliot as the Representative of the Independent interest, have defrayed all the expenses incident to the election, connected with the [limit k district, out of their own fonds. It is gratifying to learn, that the sum total of that expense amounts only to 146/. sterling ; and that they have a reversion in store fully adequate to meet all the legitimate expenses of another contest for the indepen- dence of Roxburghshire, whenever that shall be necessary. We men- tion these facts with pride and with pleasure, as an example worthy of imitation in every constituency who estimate at its true value the im- portance of the elective franchise ; and we may add, as a circumstance creditable alike to the good morals and to the correct political prin- ciples of our friends at Hawick, that not one shilling of their patriotic fund was squandered in the demoralizing practices of tippling.—Kelso Chronicle.
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