SCOTLAND.
Mr. William Ewart, Member for Dumfries, paid his constituents a visit last week, and addressed them on the past session; touching on the Scotch Education Bill, his own measure respecting public libraries, administra- tive reform, and the war. His opinions on the last subject are the more remarkable as he avowed that he was "a member of the Peace Society," and that he would have willingly avoided the war.
But when it was found that Russia was determined upon nothing short of the subjugation of the Ottoman empire, and, by her great accumulation of the munitions of war, seemed determined first to conquer and then control the East, he considered himself fully justified in supporting the war. He could not find any sincerity in the offers of Russia. He would have been glad if the negotiations had succeeded in opening up the Black Sea solely to ships of commerce ; the peace of the world might thus have been secured : but after the refusal of those terms by Russia, he could not withhold his consent to the prosecution of hostilities, and he thought they ought now to be carried on with vigour until they gained an honourable peace.
These views were highly approved by the good folks of Dumfries.
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