Star.
London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

ELECTION OF SCOTTISH PEERS.

SATURDAY.
Thursday, the election of sixteen peers to represent the Scotti•.'
peerage in Parliament took place in the Picture Gallery of the Palace
of Holyrood House. As usual, the anxiety to be present was great,
and the number of ladies and gentlemen assembled numerous—the
gallery being thronged in every part.
The business of the day was opened with prayer by the Reverend Dr.
Chalmers, one of his Majesty's Chaplains. Thomas Thomson, Esq.
Deputy Clerk Register, and one of the Principal Clerks of Session, read
his Majesty's preclarnatian, charging the Peers to meet in llolyro
house, and elect sixteen of their number to represent them in Parii,
mem. Mr. Thornton then read a commission by the Lord Clerk ltt -
gister, appointing Adam Rolland, Esq. and himself, to act as his bard-
shlya deputies.
The Union roll was read over, when there appeared to he resew t'.e
Duke of Buccleuch Viscount S:rathallan
Earls of Home Lords Perk:,
Strathmore Saltoun
Lauderdale Gray
Leven and Melville Sinclair
Selkirk Elphinstone
Nortbesk Colville of Cuirass
Kintore Cranst.-un
Roseberry Napier
Hopetoun Kinnaird.
Viscount Arbuthnot

On the name of the Marquis of Annandale being called, a gentleman.
whom we understand was /11r. Goodinge Johnson, answered as pre.ent ;
but hia vote was protested against. On the Earl of Stirling being
called._

Lord Rosebcry rose, and stated that, as author of certain resolution,
which had been unanimously approved of by the House of Lords, he
thought he would not be doing his duty did he not record his irot,,t
against the gentleman claiming to be the Earl of Stirling vr ting at th.,
election; and his conduct, he was sure, would meet the sprro!•atio
only of the Noble Lords present, but of the whole peerage ot Scoria, .t.
As this gentleman had formerly voted, he would not objet to his ‘,-.e
being now counted ; but he thought it would have been more hecomin:
before assuming a title, that a claimant should go before the morer tri-
bunal and have his claim established. He was afraid that the gentian:to
claiming the title of Earl of Stirling, would have very little char.e of
having it ratified by the House of Lords.
The following Peers voted by Proxies:—
Duke of Arrg~yyll by
Duke of Atholl---by
Marquis of
Earl of Morton- - by
Earl of Breadalbane—.....—by--...
Lord
Lord Nairn by
Lord Rotebery asked in what relationship Lord Duffus stood to the
late lord P

of Rosebery
I Forbes
of Lsuderdale
a Ghat'
I Kinnair4l
1 of Lauderdale.
Smithsllan

Lord Forbes—His nephew.
Mr. Thomson then stated the pedigree of Lord Duffus ; upon which
Lord Rosebery said, it was impossible that his Lordship could vote. as
a Scottish Peer, till he had made good his claim at the bar of the Home
of Lords. Lord Forbes still expressed a wish to discharge the trim
which had been reposed in him; when the clerk said he might tend,'
the list and his protest along with it, and both would be entered on the
minutes.
Lord Arbuthnot stated that he was intimately acquainted with Lot.!
Duffus, and there could be no doubt of his right. Besides, be did not
see on what ground the noble Iced could object to the proxy of Lord
Mitres, and admit the list for the Earl of Stirling.
Lord ROSEBERT begged to be understood, that he bad not the small.
at doubt as to Lord Degrees claim, and that his Lordship would make
It good. The *haulms of the claimants were different. The Earldom
of Stirling was claimed as a dormant peerage, but the claim of L0,.1
Duffus was upon a collateral descent. The resolutions of the House of
Lords only covered the eases of collateral descent ; and did not embrace
dormant peerages.
After a few remarks from Lords Arbuthnot and Forbes, Mr.
Twosesow stated that the proxy of Lad Duffus could not be received.
Against this decision Lord Forbes protested. Protests were also
given in by Mr. Gooding, Johnston, because his vote had been re_
fused ; and by Lord Rosebery against the signed list of the Earl of
Stirling.
Signed lists were read from the
Dukes of Hamilton Earls of Aboyne
'Lennox Aber& en
Gordon Dunmore
Montrose Stair
Marquisses of Queensberry Glasgow
Lothian Viscounts Falkiand
Earls of Errol Stormont
Mar Kentnure
Cauilis Dunblane
Caithness Lords Cathcart
Moray Sempill
Kinnoul Sommeteille
Dumfries and Bute Torpiehen
Stirling Bkittyre
Elgin and Kincardine Reay
Wemyss and March Forrester
Airly Rollo
Baleares ituthven

After the peers present had voted for themselves, and such as held
Thomson ant
other Noble Lords, and the signed were read. Mr.
n announced that the following were elected by the under.ioncd

votes :

Marquis of Queensberry, 0:1 Viscount Smithsllan, 59
Marquis of Tweed&le, 61 Lord Forbes, 61
Earl of Errol, 60 Lord Saboun, 63
Earl of Morton, 58 Lord Gray, 80
Earl of Home, 56 Lord Sinclair, 41i
Earl of Elgin, 60 Lord Colville, 58
Earl M Northesk. 58 Lord Napier, GO
Viscount Arbuthnot, 60 Lord Belhaven, 61
The Earl of Caithness bad 21 votes, and Lord Kinnaird 31 : these
noble lords were candidates. AmonF the voting by signed lists, 7 voted
for the Earl of ILlntore ; 4 foe the Lael of Mar; 3 for Lord Ray ; 2
for the Earl of Buchan ; and I each for the Earls of Breadalbane,
ray, Dunmore. and Selkirk, and Viscount Retimure ; but none of these
noblemen were candidates. The number of peers present were 21 ;
proxies 7 ; and signed lista 38; making a total of 04 peers who voted.
The clerk then returned the 16 above noted u duly elected. As we an-
ticipated in our last, it will be seen that there was no change from those
formerly enjoying the dkitincdon, except the substitution of the Earl of
Northesk for the Earl of Rosebery, who is now a British peer. The
election was closed by prayer by the Rev. Dr. Let, one of his 3lajesty's
Chaplains. In the evening the Peers, along with a number of v,i.tsts,
dined in °Rib's Royal Hotel ; but their meeting there was strictly
private.--.lfereary.

CHARLES THE TENTH' ONE FRENCHMAN TOO MUCH.
—When this hapless being landed in France in 1814, he smartly ob.
served, "Je anis qu'un Froneais de plus." On this "mot" a
couplet hu been running the round of the Parisian circles, and the fol-
lowing lines are the burden of its chorus:—
" Eh bien! qu'il reparte aussitat !
" Ce teed rens Francois de trop."—Aihrisensse.
FRENCH BULL.—A French journal, in noticing the
method of making English ginter.beer, says—" As Fre►ch palates
are more delicate than those of their neighbours on the other side of the
water, perhaps it will be better to lave out the ginger r—Lilerory
Gazelle.

FA TA I. ACCIDENT.—This morning, about half-put eleven
o'clock, &dreadful accident occurred to a young boy, beempsn sewn and
eight years of age, opposite to the door of Ur. Evan's
Nevgate-street. The poor boy by some means or other =211811:::
pavement at the instant a cart, heavily laden with stones, was =;
one of the whorls of which went completely over his bead,
crushing the blabs out, which went mattered on the ground. Ilse an-
fortunate lad is not known in the neighbourhood of Newgate•street.

WINN

THE LEGACY OF THE ROSES.

Oh. Cant them above me, the soft, the brigbt,
The tottetud with the sunset's crimson light,
The warm with the earliest breath of Spring,
The sweet with the sweep of the west wind.. wing;
Let the great bough and the red leaf wave,—
Plant the glad rosestree upon my grave.

should the nionrnful willow weep,
trtr the quiet rest of a dreamless sleep?
W.ep for life with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its ill to beat;
Let tars and the signs of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead.

Plant not the cypress, nor yet the yew,
Too heavy their shadow, too gloomy their hue,
For one who is sleeping in faith and love,
With a hope that is treasured in Heaven above:
in a holy trust are my ashes laid—
last ye no darkness, throw ye no shade.

Plant the green sotl with the crimson rose,
Ltt my friends rejoice o'er my calm repose ;
Let my memory be like the odours they shed,
lir hip t like their promise of early red :
het ',mangers, too, share in their breath and b100m,....
Plan; ye the bright roses over my tomb. 1. E. L.

THE SPELL OF GENIUS.
They tell me, my love, that to choose thee is blindness,
And marvel what charm my affection endears,
Because thou has suffered from Fortune's unkindness,
And thy steps have declined to the valley of years.
Ah, little they know with what ardour my bosom,'
Hu long the bright phantom of genius enshrined,
And turned with disdain from youth's beautiful bosom,
To sigh for the exquisite fruits of the mind.
Ah ! little they reek of that bean's quiet feeling,
Which riches and grandeur could never controul t
Whose dearest enjoyment is Fancy's revealing,
Whose proudest ambition—the wealth of the soul.

The nightingale pours to the tome her soft measures,
And sweetly and constantly warbles her lay,
Though gaudier buds may expand their gay treasures,
And the leaves and the bloom of bet idol decay.
Oh, such is the spell that my heart has invaded,
I languished the bright flower of Genius to see ;
I have found it, alas ! with Its early bloom Laded,
But I deem my lot bleat to have found it in thee.

The following BPIIIITZD effusion of the " LYRICAL Muse of Dept.
lord" has been sung about the streets, in honour of the Sallor-King tm-

KING WILLIAM THE TAR.
Air—" I've kissed and I've prattled with fifty fair maids."
One William was Norman, another was red,
And the third was a Dutchman, you see ;
But this William's an Englishman born and bred—
King William the Tar for me !
Queen Anne let the State heave so much to the Church,
We had nigh ship'd a terrible sea ;
But a Steersman like this never makes such a lurch...
King William the Tar for me !
In our squares them are Georges, In brass and in stone,
On high horses, as Germans will be;
But our King shall be English—a deck be his throne—
King William the Tar for me !
George the Third was for lavishing trouble and pelf,
To prevent other folks being free;
This King would the world were as free as himself—.
King William the Tar for me !
The last was shut up in a ginger-bread house,
With old women of high degree :
For his Navy he cared not three skips of a —,
Such a shore-going lubber was he !
But this is another guess sort of a man,
On duty as brisk a 4 a bee ;
And he'll help an old messmate whenever he can—
King William the Tar for me.
When the cream-colour'd horses his Majesty drew,
'Twould have done your old heart good to see 3
His trousers were white, and his jacket was blue,
And he look'd as if saying—" Lads, how do you do
" King William the tar—that's me."