SCOTLAND.
From the Glasgow newspapers we learn, that the electors, anticipat. ing the transference (it can hardly be called elevation) of Lord Wil- liam Bentinck to the Peerage, are on the look-out for a successor to that important seat. Whether Lord William is to be made a Peer or not, we have no knowledge; but we take it for granted that he would not mislead his constituents even by his silence, or suffer them to be the last persons to be informed of his expectations. Be this as it may, it is this week our duty to chronicle the proceedings taken in the belief that a new election for Glasgow is at hand. It appears that, at a numerous meeting of delegates from the different districts of Glasgow, held on the 2d instant, a resolution was passed unanimously to send an invitation to Mr. Roebuck to become a candi- date. The invitation was forwarded under cover to Colonel Thompson in London, with an intimation, that if Mr. Roebuck would not come forward, the Colonel himself should he supported; and in the event of both declining, it was resolved to invite Mr. Sharman Crawford. Mr. Roebuck, however, accepted the invitation ; and a reply to that effect was forwarded from London on the 6th instant, and published in the Glasgow newspapers on the 9th. Both Colonel Thompson and Mr. Crawford, in very handsome terms, seconded Mr. Roebuck's claims to the support of the Glasgow Liberals. I 'p to the I I th instant, Mr. Roebuck was the only candidate in the Il ill; limit-i mg been in publicly on the 2d. But on the 11th, an advertisement was issued by Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart, offering himself to the electors—apparentiy of his own free will, without any invitation from any quarter. Mr. Stewart refers to his political prin. ci;des as giving Min it claim to the suffrages of the Glasgow electors. What those priori plea are, it is not so easy to discover ; Mr. Stewart having been rather a slippery politician. However, he is known to be the agent for the West India island of Tobago, and is closely connected with the opponents of Negro Etnancipation. He is also a director of the British American Land Company—an institution which exercises an evil influence on the Canadian questions, which have brought us so much trouble already, and may be prolific of more. When in Parliament, he voted for the Whig. Tory measures,—for the Irish Coercion Bill, and the Court. martial clauses, the iniquity of which Mr. Abercromby forcibly exposed ; against the Ballot ; egainst the Repeal of the Septen- nial Act ; and in favour of the Pension-list. We presume that the Tories will have their own candidate ; but if the Coalition that is talked of is to begin in Glasgow, Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart seems just the man for the occasion !
Of Mr. Roebuck's principles and votes it is unnecessary to speak His professions and his practice have been alike popular, and about him
there can be no mistake. It will be found that his mind has other and richer furnishing than party politics ; and we could wager, that before he has done with the Glasgow constituency, he will read some lessons both to the working classes and their employers, for which both may be the better. IVhat the electors will do, we have no means of even fairly guessing at. We are in the habit of referring to the Glasgow Argus for information on Glasgow polities ; being aware that the able and accomplished editor of that paper is accurately informed of all the political move- ments, and frequently performs a conspicuous part in them. But the Argus, though doubtless tot asleep, has given no sign of being awake
as yet; and therefore we conclude, that the worthy electors are some- what puzzled, as they have been heretofore under similar circum- stances.
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