SCOTLAND.
The meeting announced some days since for the purpose of considering the question of the fictitious votes in Peeblesshire, was held at Peebles on the 17th; Mr. Grieve of Noble Hall in the chair. Resolutions were adopted condemning the system of " faggot votes," and pledging those pre- sent to afford every assistance to Mr. Gibson Carmichael in the prosecu- tion of his petition against the return of the sitting Member.
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway, extending from Burntisland to Cupar, was formally opened on the 17th. Two excursion-trains conveyed some six hundred persons to Cupar; where there was a dinner in a grand pavilion. The North British Mail speaks approvingly of the carriages on the line, "the most commodious and elegant perhaps yet put upon any line in Scotland." " The gorgeous luxuriance of the first-class gives ample excuse for the finely-cushioned condition of the second, which are glazed in an elegant and cheerful way. The third are upon the Government plan. Even the fourth, we observed, are surrounded with seats, with standing-room in the centre."
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