Dundee.—The town of Dundee is at present the theatre of

a struggle involving principles which are not without interest to the nation at large; and we smoke no apology, therefore, for bestowing upon it a space and consideration that, were it a mere local contest, it would have no claim to. The candidates for the suffrages of the new electors are, or rather were, three—a Tory, a professing Reformer, a Reformer tried and true. Of the Tory we need say little. His farewell address lies before us : it is a political curiosity. Colonel Chalmers withdraws from the contest for various and weighty reasons,—lst, the electors of Dundee are too Radical for his Conservative notions ; 2d, he dislikes public meetings ; 3d, the electors (his own Committee, he says) have refused to vote for him. The best reason comes last, like the post-

script of a lady's letter. Enough of Colonel Chalmers. The professing Reformer is Mr. D. C. Guthrie, a merchant of Lon-

don; a wealthy and respectable person. The Reformer is Mr. Kinloch of Kinloch. It is between these two that the contest of principle lies. Mr. Guthrie is the descendant of an old Tory family, bred a Tory himself, and at one time of his life (we understand) an advocate of Toryism. How lone- his sentiments have changed, we do not know. At present, no man can promise fairer. He will oppose monopoly of every kind, and the monopolies of the East India Company and Bank of England especially ; he will equally oppose the Corn-law monopoly. This is all good. On the subject of certain other contemplated re- forms, Mr. Guthrie does not speak quite so decidedly. He says- " Without impairing the necessary efficiency of our national establishments, great re- trenchments may be made in their amount and Capon bttirO, anti consequently great re. ductions may take place in the fiscal burdens of the people ; and, without diverting from religious purposes the existing revenues of the Church, great imptovements may iririth; ii -their mode ot'(ttckUtk)fl ifl means.hy which they are levied. so as

in the former case to reward: on:y e1 neiviCe, tand in the latter to prevent a collision baweett the pastor and his flock."

We need not remark on the conventional phraseology of his ancient

friends, into which, perhaps unwittingly, the honourable gentleman here deviates ; nor is it. necessary to obey] ve, for his informution, that the real objection to tithes is the weight of the hilliest, as well as the mode of its distribution. The last part of Mr. Guthrie's address, like the last

reason of Colonel Chalmers's farewill, is the most significant-

" I need searcely WM, thut, in pronattirg the general w 1 fare of the nation, and sup- porting the just rit_thts mat constitutional liberties or U.., people, tlut loeul interests of your thriving port and borough call never w it it me be a smtlary consideration. They will indeed claim my liest—ray mint anxious care ; netl, if I appeal to the manlier in which I have served those hum to future hope tu call my constituents, since I last had the honour of meeting Avith yea in my CallVitSS, it is with no design or desire to display my own meribt; tw to demand your selfras through your gratitude but merely to show that I am capable,1w my social poition and my commoicial knowledge, of effectually serving ytta in the post of your future representative. I leave to the mer- chants connected wit i yeur borough, to tell how far I have been instrumental in re- lieving your port front quarantine restriethms, and in procuring the repeal of the Hemp-duties, so prejudicial to your manuht:t ming industry." In respect of the Hemp-duties, Mr. Guthrie is inclined to ape the part of the gentleman finned for swallowing loathes. These duties were removed by the public, not by the private representation of their injustice. In attributing their removal to private interference,* and not to public principle, he is guilty of a gross, though, we dare say, unin- tentional libel on the Ministry, whose admirer he professes to be. The sum then, of Mr. Guthrie's peculiar recommendations to tbc people of Dundee is, that he is always on the spot, and ready to manage those Customhouse jobs from which some of the merchants of Dundee, like other men, seek to derive advantage to themselves rather than to the people either of Dundee or of the empire. Now for Mr. Kinloch. We said he is a Reformer " tried and true." He was a Reformer when the Tories were lords of the ascend- ant, and a sore sufferer for the principles which now figure in every man's speeches and every man's addresses. For the share which he took in a public meeting, in 1819, held on the seine spot where the Dundee Reformers held their triumphant meeting during the late Inter- regnum.—in which, by the by, far more of the elements of excitement, in numbers, language, and emblems, were mingled than in the meeting of 1819,—Mr. Kin/och was compelled, by an in ilenous and tyrannical faction, to bide himself for years in a foreign land. During his exile, his estate suffered much from the absence of its master ; and his large and fair family was thinned prematurely, by the effects of a fatal epi- demic to which they were exposed during their residence in Paris. These things are well known in Scotland ; but the young are heedless, and the old are dull, and even there it is good to bring them afresh to men's remembrance. Now, what does Mr. Kinloch promise to Dun- dee and to Scotlited ? Nothing—but all that Arr. Guthrie promises to either, .21b. Kinluch will do. He is a proved man. With respect to pro- muses to the merchants of Dundee, we fear Mr. Kinloch will be found wanting. But let even them console themselves with the consideration, that the day for private jobbing is gone. They need not own to obliga- tion where no favour is conferred. 'When Mr. Guthrie speaks of sup- porting local interests by any means except fair and honest and open advocacy, he only betrays the school from which he is not yet eman- cipated. He is thinking of the old Tory ways. of doing business. Now, fair and honest and open advocacy, the town of Dundee will always have from Mr. Kinloch; and rendered with that single- ness of purpose and honesty of zeal which have always distinguished his character, and which in a Reformed Parliament, we venture to affirm, will be found the only qualities by which success is to be at- tained.

Mr. Guthrie speaks of the advantages of his "social position :" the phrase we do not exactly understand, but we suppose he means that he lives in London, and dines with great people there, and gives them dinners. We admit these advantages ; but we take the liberty of assuming, notwithstanding Mr. Outline's assertion, that they will be used in the first place to forward Mr. Guthrie's own interests, and not the interests even of the Dundee merchants. We have, indeed, no doubt, that Mr. Guthrie would look down with very great contempt on any one who supposed him inclined to neglect his private business for Dundee or any thing else. The question, then, is to be put this way— Whether the attention of a person engaged in extensive business, be- stowed, as his leisure may serve, for twelve months, or the attention of a person not engaged in any business, but wholly and exclusively devoted to his Parliamentary duties, bestowed continuously for eight months, be most worth).- of acceptance ? We think that, putting the question on this simple issue, there can only he one answer. We say nothing of the gratitude which is due by Scotland, by the Empire, by the World—for our Reform concerns both the Old and the New—to such men as Mr.Kinloch, who, by their noble daring, opened up that no longer narrow way in which Reform is now so proudly marching : we rest not his claims to present support on his past deeds —we speak of these but as an earnest of future exertions: we say not " trust him because of what he was," but " trust him because of what he will be"—a steady, active, intelligent, and above all thiegs, for it is above all, an honest supporter of every liberal measure, whether imme- diately affecting the interests of a single town, or the interests of the nation of which it forms a part.

East Lothian.—Mr. Balfour's friends give out that he has secured the seat. This is a mere ruse, and might to be contradicted. Mr. Balfour addressed the electors the other day, excusing himself, because of sickness in his family, for not waitirK, upon them, and calling on them not to promise their votes till he had leisure to do so. This is an amusing piece of Scotch confidence. It would be kind if Mr. Bal- four, or any friend of his, would inform the electors and the public for what particular act of his political life he lays claim to such courtesy.

Edinburgh.—Among the three candidates for Edinburgh, each, of course, has his advocates. Mr. Aytoun is described, we believe truly, as a man of sound principles and aback-and-bone Reformer, of the modern and the boldest school. Mr. Abercromby was noted in the House for high powers of reasoning, a comprehensive intellect, perfect honesty, 10 If any individual is entitled to claim credit for the abolition of the Hemp-duties, it is I. H. Ross. the Member for Montrose,- who pressed the point so perseveringly and

firmly, by his motions and notices of motions, that the Ministry at last yielded what they found to be untenable.

great moderation, and great firmness. We hardly recollect a man who, without being an orator in the strict sense' of the word, spoke with more effect or was listened to with greater deference. Of the Lord Advocate, why need we speak ? That be is a person of singular powers of oratory (notwithstanding their late temporary abeyance) has never, with any man who has heard one of his speeches been the sub- ject of a moment's doubt ; that his fancy is brilliant, his wit at once sparkling and argumentative, his principles sound, his polities enlight- ened and liberal, his honesty above all inipeachinent, none but the very shallowest of his countrymen has ever ventured to deny. Still, had the contest between him and his two opponents—for they are both held up as opponents—been waged in a different arena, we should not have been much surprised at the view which sonic of the admirers of the ex- Chief Baron and of Mr. Aytoun seem to take of it. But we confess, that we were not prepared to find in Edinburgh any one of note or name, who would venture to speak lightly of the claims of Francis Jeffrey, as contrasted with those—we will not say of Mr. Abercromby, who is well known, or of Mr. Aytoun, who is little known, but of any man in Scotland. For can it be forgotten in the Athens of the North,. a city which prides itself on its literary reputation, and with great jus- tice, for it has nothing else whereon to pride itself,—can it be forgotten for a moment, to whom a large portion of that reputation is due ? What is the book to which the recollections of an Englishman or an Irishman or a foreigner instantly and naturally revert, when the intellectual character of Scotland is the subject of discussion ? Is it not the Edinburgh Review ?—a work which was admired by hundreds of thou- sands years before the novels of Scott were written, and which,. even in its present state of comparative decadence, is read and reverenced in quarters to whose remote inquirers the most able of its rivals has not yet penetrated. Mr. Jeffrey's politics when he planned that great work—to which, with all its see-sawing, liberal opinions have bcca more indebted for their propagation than to any that has been planned in our times—were, we can easily believe, like those of his friend Brougham, moderate enough ; but it is his praise (and it is a high one), that he has ever kept pace with the progress of events. He is no logger behind in the general march of mind. On the contrary, in his advocacy of the English and Scotch Bills, he has all along been dis- tinguished by the boldness as well as soundness of his argument, by his confident appeals to general principles, and disdain of the plea front precedent, on which even the stoutest of the English Reformers dwelt so often and so earnestly. On the subject of Reform, therefore, there is nothing of indecision, nothing of lukewarmness, to be charged against the Lord- Advocate. There is, indeed, not one good point in the Scotch Bill, which he may not fairly: claim as his own, either by sug- gestion or by honest and hearty adoption. It is, however, not so much from Reformers generally, as from the Reformers of Edinburgh, that Mr. Jeffrey has a right to look Tor all the support that they can give— and shame to them if it be not accorded! We could understand why a manufacturing town should lightly esteem such a man; we could under- stand how a Tory borough should pass him by; it is wholly beyond our comprehension how the classical metropois of the North should hesitate for a moment whether it should give fitting honours to the first wit, orator, and gentleman of Scotland. We say nothing of the race between Mr. Abercromby and Mr. Aytoun : let them run and God speed the worthier ; but if Mr. Jeffrey do not come in first of the three, the town of Edinburgh will 'suffer disgrace in the eyes of England and of all Europe.

File. —Had Mr. Ferguson of Raith not been pledged to support Captain Wcmyss, be would almost have walked the course. The Kirkaldy people are very anxious for Mr. Ferguson still to stand,—his pledge, they say, was not given against hinisey, but against Colonel Lindsay; and numerous requisitions have been signed, calling on hint to do so. Why does not Captain Wemyss retire, and make way for the best man?

Inverness-shim—Mr. M‘Leod, who contests the county with Mr. Grant, is a decided Anti. The influence which the landed proprietors

of Scotland are everywhere exercising over their tenants, may possibly run Mr. Grant hard, though he is not believed to be in anygreat danger. Had property within borough in Scotland been treated as in England,

there would have been a compensation to the power of the landlords. The Ballot, however, will do the business more effectually; and to this end the landlords are steadily and rapidly progressing. Kirlicudbrild.—Mr. C. Fergusson will be returned for another Parliament without opposition. Mr. Fergusson is no great Reformer; but he is a clever man, and for the present the county has no choice. Lanarhshire.—Mr. Maxwell younger, of Pollock, will carry the county, notwithstanding the Douglas opposition. Colonel Douglas re- tires from ill health.

Lcith.—A most unequal contest is going on in this district between Mr. John Archibald Murray, one of the most distinguished men in

Scotland, and Mr. Aiteheson, a person who talks a great deal of his

claims on the electors, though nobody can divine what these claims are. Ile probably thinks they.consist in a tolerably heavy purse ; but the days of this species of claim are gone by. Since there is a contest, we could have wished Mr. Murray to have the opportunity of beating a

nobler adversary. He has, however, had the opportunity of making it

appear bow highly he is appreciated every class of the constituency.. Mr. Murray had intended to forbear from canvassing till the Scotch

Bill had passed into a law; but, finding that Mr. Aitcheson, availing

himself of this forbearance, had been privately canvassing for some days,—and that, too, not in the most delicate manner,—he determined to strike a decisive blow. Accordingly, on Thursday week, he made a

progress through Leith, Newhaven, Musselburgh, and Portobello ; and bestowed a few broadsides upon his unhappy foe, that appear to have

fairly blown him out of the water. Mr. Murray was accompanied by a number of the leading Edinburgh Reformers ; and his different addresses—characterized by manly eloquence and felicitous sarcasm— were received with acclamations by crowded audiences ; be seems to have won all hearts, including those even on whom his opponent had relied. On Tuesday last, dr. Murray, in consequence of an invitation from the Trades of Leith, paid them a public visit ; and was received with ardent enthusiasm at a greaf meeting assembled to welcome him. Poor Mr. Aitcheson's game is up in that quarter. - Stirling.—Mr. Johnstone, of Straitton, is, we believe, secure ; most deservedly so—he is a most worthy member.