The election for the city of Edinburgh took place on
Thursday, at the Cross, in the presence of a large but orderly collection of spectators. Baillie Grieve, the senior Magistrate, proposed Mr. Mac- aulay; which was seconded by the Master of the Merchants Com- pany. Mr. Adam Black moved and Dr. Maclagan seconded Mr. William Gibson Craig. Dr. Glover, a Chartist, after a long speech, proposed Colonel Thompson and Mr. Robert Lowrey ; which motion was also seconded. Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Gibson Craig, and Mr. Lowrey, then addressed the electors. On a show of hands being taken, the Sheriff declared it to be in favour of Colonel Thomp- son and Mr. Lowrey. Dr. Glover, on the part of Colonel Thompson, who had been nominated without his consent, and Mr. Lowrey for himself, declined to go to the poll ; on which Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Gibson Craig were declared duly elected.
On Thursday also, Mr. Fox Maule was elected for Perth. Mr. Black, the Conservative candidate, had polled out at three o'clock ; when Mr. Maule had a majority of 106.
The nomination of the St. Andrew's Burghs has taken place. Mr. Edward Ellice the Whig Member, beat the Tory candidate Mr. Mak- gill, on the show of hands. Mr. Lowrey, the Chartist, was talked of as a candidate at one time; but he preferred the more important con- stituency of Edinburgh.
Letters from Dundee, received this morning, bring the sequel of the story of the election. Mr. Kinloch's retirement, it seems, was of no avail:. at one o'clock on Thursday, the numbers polled were—for Duncan, 546; for Smith, 424; and Mr. Duncan's majority was rather increasing as the day advanced : his election was considered certain. So Mr. Smith's Dundee friends have managed, after all, to procure him the defeat which was deemed so injurious to the cause.
[A. later account, received by the evening post since the above was in type, gives the close of the poll—Duncan, 577; Smith, 445.]
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