The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

DUMFRIES BURGHS.

Mr. W. Ewart (the sitting member) has issued
his address. He says :
"After 24 years passed in your service, and a much
longer time passed in the cause of Free Trade, of a cheap,
untaxed, and unfettered press, of the extension of educa-
tion, and in every cause which seemed to have for its ob-
ject the public good, I once more ask the favour of your
suffrages for the distinguished honour of representing you
in Parliament. While my . general principles have been
those of national progress and national improvement, I
hope and believe that your local and individual interests
have been duly attended to by me. I have supported such
an extension of the suffrage as I thought reasonable and
just, especially with a view to the admission in their fair
proportion of the working classes into our representative
system. I hold it to be highly expedient as well as con-
sonant with the spirit of the constitution that all classes
should be represented in the House of Commons without
undue preponderance being given to any. While de-
sirous of extending full liberty, civil and religious, to
all my fellow countrymen, I stand fast by what
appears to me to be too often forgotten in modern
times—the principles of the great Reformation. I
believe that my return is to be opposed by a gentleman of
whom I have the honour to be a relative (Col. Clork-Ken-
nedy), and whose professed principles do not widely differ
from my own. I will only say that had our situations been
reversed, were he in my position and I in his, no conside-
ration would have induced me to come forward to oppose
him."

Mr. Ewart concludes by expressing a belief that the
electors will not desert a long-tried representative
without due cause.

EDINBURGH.

The members for the city of Edinburgh met their
constituents on Wednesday. The Music-hall was
crowded to excess, partly by the supporters of the
candidates and partly by those who attended in obe-
dience to placards which complained of the violated
promises and arbitrary and despotic conduct of the
members, and especially called on them to confront
the apostate and traitor, Mr. Black—alluding to his
recent speech on the Reform question. The mal-
contents quite prevented the meeting hearing the
speech of Mr. Black, who had to address himself to
the reporters.
The LORD PROVOST introduced Mr. Black as one
who had devoted the greater part of a long life to the
service of the public, but was still hale and hearty,
and able and willing to serve the community. The
Lord Advocate, he said, had, apart from the posi-
tion he held at the bar, devoted much time and
done great service to the city and to Scotland.
Mr. ADAM BLACK said in soliciting, for the fourth
time, the suffrages of the constituency he could not
recollect any public act he had to apologise for,
or any expression he had to retract. With regard
to his opponent, Mr.
,Miller, he had never met
him except when he had to go up to Parlia-
ment to resist his efforts to injure the city by
railway operations. As for Mr. M'Laren, he ad-
mitted his great services to the city and his right
to stand as a candidate, but the grounds of his
hostility he could not divine. With regard to the
annuity tax, though himself a Voluntary and op-
posed to state support of religion, he had instead of
seeking popularity by opposing practicable measures