The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

DUNDEE.
Sir John Ogilvy has issued an address to the
electors, offering himself for re-election. He ex-
presses his intention to support any measure of
reform comprising the reduction of the franchise to
£lO in counties and £5 in burghs, the disfranchise-
ment of small English boroughs, and a distribution
of seats, including an additional number of repre-
sentatives to Scotland and vote by ballot. The
general impression is that there will not be a
contest.

EDINBURGH.
Mr. Monereiff has issued an address to the eke-
tors of Edinburgh, in whith, after'requesting their
suffrages, he adds :
" The principles of political government which I av
always held and on which I have endeavoured to act, are
those which have contributed so much to make Edinburgh
famous, and which Edinburgh had done so much, to pro- .„
mote. I 'can aspire to no higher honour than that of being
chosen to maintain those principles as -your representative
in Parliament."

ELGIN BURGHS., ),
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.
Mr. Grant Duff, the present member, is the only
candidate in the field.

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probability to walk the course.
There is no prospect, in the meantime, of any
opposition to Mr. Matheson, the member for the
Inverness burghs.

LEITH BURGHS.
A communication was received on Thursday from
Mr. Robertson Gladstone, delining the invitation
to stand for these burghs. The same day the
Liberal Conservatives held a meeting, at which a
letter was read from Mr. T, W. Henderson, of
London, who contested the burghs in 1852, signi-
fying his intention of amain becoming a candidate.
A meeting of Mr. Miller's supporters was held in
the evening.

LINLITHGOW (COUNTY OF).
As the Lord Advocate, Mi. Charles Baillie, who
was elected for this county only two months ago,
is to be elevated to the Scottish bench, to fill the
vacancy caused by-Lord Murray's 'death, the field
is left clear in this county. Captain Walter Munn-
ton has been spoken of as his probable successor,
and it is not likely that the county will be con-
tested with the ConservatiVes.

MONTROSE BURGHS.
Mr. Baxter has addressed his constituents, and
is visiting the burghs. He is not likely to bo
opposed.

PERM
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird has issued an address
offering himself for re-election.

BELFAST.

Sir H. M. Cairns, her Majesty's Solicitor-General,
has issued an address to the electors of Belfast, con-
taining an elaborate defence of the policy of Lord
Derby's Government. After reminding them that
it is somewhat more than a year since, on the occa-
sion of his taking office under the Crown, that they
renewed to him the high trust of representing them
in Parliament, he proceeds as follows :
" I may be allowed to glance back at the course of public
affairs during the interval which has since elapsed. Thero
has seldom been a period during which so many questions
affecting the peace of Europe and our own friendly relations•
with foreign Powers have presented themselves for solution.
In the solution of these questions the national honour has
been maintained • the inestimable blessing of peace has been
preserved ; and this country, by the firm and conciliatory
course adopted, occupies at this moment the place of 'me-
diator between those great European Powers where mis-
understanding has arisen. The Home Government of India
has been placed upon a new, and I hope a wise and perma-
nent basis. The great Indian rebellion has, under God's
blessing, been extinguished. Means have been taken to
promot the internal improvement of India, and to disen-
tangle and amend her intricate system of finance. The de-
fences of the country have been completed ; the efficiency
of our army and navy has been increased ; and yet, not
only has there been no sensible addition to public burdens,
but those reductions in taxation which the public were led
to expect have taken place. Measures of social improvement
and progress of the greatest importance, and affecting every
part of the kingdom, have been introduced and carried. Law
reforms, long desired and long neglected, have been pro-
posed, and have been accepted with approbation by men of
all parties. The testimony of the opponents of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers may be appealed to for the fact that the
various administrative departments of Government have
been conducted with an energy and with an advvnittrige to
the public service which will bear comparison
n measures
proposed firmness and impartiality; and the publichave
shown
former period. In Ireland the law has administereyd
proposed with regard to our native country
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for in the passage of the bill through the house. It was
open to the opponents of the Government either to propose
specific alterations in those details, or to urge the rejection
of the bill altogether. The course, however, which was
taken was, if not irregular, almost unprecedented. A small
combination of statesmen, avowing their desire to con-
demn both the bill and the Government, proposed and
carried a resolution framed in a manner so vague and
ingenious as to obtain the votes of many members
who—differing from the proposers of the resolution—desired
to promote the bill and to maintain the Government. I ven-
ture to think that the course thus taken was an unpatriotic
course—that it tends to bring Parliamentary warfare into
discredit—and that it will not be approved by the country.
The result, however, of this vote renders it impossible that
the Government of the country can be carried on without
an appeal to the constituencies, made by means of a disso-
lution of Parliament. The question on that appeal is no
narrow one, as to the particular provisions of a Reform Bill.

It is the Much greater question whether a Government,
earnestly and successfully endeavouring to conduct publie
affairs with advantage, is to be supported against the fac-
tious movements of those who are without that agreement
and union which would enable them to form another Go-

vernment in its place,"
The hon. and learned gentleman concludes bythank-
ing the electors of Belfast for the courtesy, they
have extended to him, and soliciting re-election at
their hands.