We are told that in. Scotland the offer of votes
to the labourers has been received with delight by the farmers, as fatal to the system of manufacturing votes now so common, and as likely to strengthen them against the landlords. There will therefore be little change in the representation of Scotland, where all sections of the party have united, and where even the publicans and the Alliance people seem to subordinate their own interests to those of the country. The Dissenting bodies have not for- gotten the Disestablishment of the Irish Church, and though Sir Maxwell Stirling, of Keir, may oust Mr. Parker, and a seat be lost in Glasgow, still Morayshire, Peebles-shire, and probably Dumfriesshire will be won. Indeed Wigtownshire might be won, too, if an able candidate could be brought to believe it, and if the House of. Stair, always Whig, could be induced to give him the support it now apparently refuses. At all events, there will be no loss in Scotland, unless it should be a loss that Mr. Bouverie may be replaced by a less capable man, but more reliable supporter.
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