Star.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.

ELECTION OF PEERS OF SCOTLAND.
Ebassunou, .loLir IS.
Tliursday being the day fixed for the election of the
`sixteen representative Peers of Scotland, an immense
assemblage collected hi the Picture Gallery, Holyrood
Ilouie.—At each end of the room a large temporary
gallery was meted. slide, along the sides, long benches,
covered with crimson cloth, were placed. By ten o'clock
the s; ectators began to assemble, and before twelve the
room was crowded, principally with elegantly dressed
Lv.dies. A: twelve o'clock, the Lord Provost and Ma-
gistrates arrived, and took their place at the lower end
-of the Peer's table; which was set out in the centre ef
'the rem. Immediately thereafter the Peers entered,
and arranged themselves on each side of the table.

Portwurv—Duke of Gordon ; Marquis of Queensberry ; Marquis
of Tweedsle; Earl of Erroll; Earl of Home; Earl of Kellie;
Earl of Lauderdale; Earl of Kinnoull ; Earl of Elgin and Kincar-
- •thric ; Earl of Leven and blelville ; Earl of Nortbesk ; Earl of
litosebery ; Earl of Glasgow ; Earl of Ilupetemn ; Viscoont Ar-
-bar hoot ; Viscount S:ratbalbn ; Lord Forbes; Lord Sinclair ; Lord

Colville of Culroas • Lord 'tray ; Lord Elibank : Lord Belhaven
and Stenton ; Lord Rollo; Lord Ruthven: Lord Nairn,. (25)
Tug oviLLowixo Nommen vieran Iv Piteous—Duke of Handl-

ton, by Lord Belhaven; Duke of Argyll, by Lord Belhaven ; Earl
of Airly, by Viscount Arbuthnot; I.ord Blantyre, by Fad of
Lauderdale; Lord l)uffus. by Viscouut Arbuthnot; Lmd; Kionsitd,
y Earl of Lauderdale. (I)
THE rou.owndo scam Smarts Issys—Duke of Atboll; Duke of;
Montrose ; Marquis of Lothian ' • Earl of Mar; Earl of Merton
1:..trl of Cautllis; Earl of Caithness; Earl of Moray; Earl of
-Strathmore; Earl of Haddington; Earl of Dumfries ; Earl Alf
Wemyss and March; Earl of If alcarres ; Earl of Kintore ; Earl of
.

• Breatialbane ; Earl ufAberdeen ; Earle( Dunmore; Earl of Stair

itari of Portmore ; Viscount Stormont ; Viscount Kenmore; Vis-
' qiitoont Dunhlane ; Lord Saltoun ,• Lord Gray ; Lord Sommervilk;
•)11ard Polyester; Lord Kirkcudbright.
/.1 When the title of :he Earl of Stirling was read,
Tire East of RO3EBERY said, that at the last election,
when the Viscount Stiathallan was elected in the room
bet the late Earl of Iltlcarres, a Gentleman apt eared at
the table, and I.iid claim to the title of Lill of Stirling ;
:rad, he believed, voted on that occasion. In what he
was about to say, he did not mean to insinuate that
she returning clerks had acted wrong is admitting that
vote, or that they had put an errone'us construction on
she resolutions or the House of Lords on this subject.
,He was rather inclined to think that their construction
was a c'.rrect one. He considered it due to them to
say that much ; but in justice to himself, as the humble
individual who brought torvrard those resolutions,
he must state, that should their construction be held
<arrest, the intention of those resolutions was not an-
swered, since, in that case, collateral descendants, on
assuming a tite, could come forward and vote, without
their claims having been brought before the proper
authorities. Should he be so fortunate as to be again
elected a Repieseatative Peir, he would feel it to be his
duty to bring forward an amendment to these resolu-
tions, whereby persons assuming to be the collateral
descendants f Peers shall not be entitled to vote till
their claims shall hare been decided ou in the proper
quarter.
_ _ _

_
The Totes having been counted, the following ci:•
teen Noblemen were declared duly elected, viz.:—
votes.
! sa
. 56
. SS
. 53
. SO
. 84
. 56
. 49
. 5$
. II
. 57
. 56
. 49
. 45
. 54
. 43

Chides, Marquis of Queensberry
Verne, Marquis of Tweed&le .
William, Earl of Erroll
Alexander, Earl of Home
Thomas, Earl of Kellie
Thomas. Earl of Elgin
AradbaW, Earl of ltotcbcry .
Jobe, Viscount Arbuthnot
lamas, Viscount Strathallan .
.himes, Lord Forbes
Alumlet, Lord Salton %
Francis, Lord Gray
Clewles, Lord Sinclair
Jab, Lord Colville of Cu!Toss .
Williams, Lord Napier
Robert, Lord Belhaven
Votes were also given for
'ffiMaas, Rad of Neediest

. 3?

Iltaheso,tord Blantyre, wheal eat a candidate 1
Irk, Lord Keay, . 17
John, Lord Redo .
The clerks having certified the return of the Noble
Lords to Chancery, in presence of their Lordships, the
Liuntess was closed with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Grant.
At the election in 1818, there were 58 'rulers, via
27 present, S proxies, and 28 signed lists. Yesterday
there were exactly the same number of voters, 58 ; 'of
whom 25 were present, 6 proxies, and 27 signed lists.
In the evening about one hundred of the Peers and
their friends timed in the Waterloo Tavern. The
Marquis of Qoeensberry acting as President, auppOrted
4)y the Lord Provost and Lord Rollo; and Lord Bel-
haven and Stenton officiating as Vice President.—
Amongst the distinguished personages present, not
Peers, were—
Lard Janice Clerk, Lent Robert Kerr, Hooonnble Car-
°else, liOnsorible Trots* the Dean of lanky, tb Solid-
)r General, the Jodie Admiral. Ilk A.lll. WKenale..Ele P. Vial"
4ser, Sir IL Jardine, Ile Di Wedderbrora, Sir John Delromple,
tdnural Millard, Oland Thisharay, Wind Thesnhill et WY
I luiurs, Capella ilwesseerays, Cowin Keirreng. al& kc•
I he diner and dessert were assold up in Gibbose bed style,
• , d were never, perhaps, surpassed laser asirthein immoral*
company wpwased at a late bor. 'twos* WSW/ trod"
cite arbasity el their &drew and croupier, &spud cheer
0. teen landlord, earl the mode 01 ler. J. Decries band.

The Duchess of 6 LOUCIISTIII entertained the Princess
t usurra sod a oleo pony so &neer yesterday, at Gloucester
louse. Park Lane.
A widow lady in Dewsbury, having been unduly im-
portuned by an enamoured swain in that neighbour-
hood, took the desperate resolution to meet warmth by
warmth ; with this view, she prepared herself with a
piantity of aquafortis, and, on her lover's attempt to
ce his way into her house, she actually discharged
the vessel filled with this liquid full in his face, and
o.unt out one of his eye" !—the inlets to his adasiration.

NEWS FROM CAPT. FRANKLIN.
The following ii co.:trifled in a letter to the Editor of
the Atroit tiaxoe, from a Gentletian at the Sault St.
Mask, dated April 19:
gronad is still covered Wit% noose than two feet et snow,,
and the bee fast held in the usnbramsp of winter. During the
winter the weather has been inenwilibly imam, though the euttnint
mid, as indicated by spirks of winseiwas babe degrees bekiwimen.
Frew a conga register of the depth of 'snow, taken ash fel, we
find an aggregate of seventeenand a of
and it is asermowing,
very ast.
" One of Copal *makes party, whois the bearer of
front the Adatiedly Oast piked ihkost on the Id of AEI'
whom we ham, through the aims the Haim Bay
that Captain, smehod the &wee of the Antis Swan the linthoi
without ensememeing any of the Bstielsisess k densedleg,
1114 min's River, they laving retired to their ghwial
Will anise the magnetic pok. After remaining two iit;rze:
coast the party returned to Bear Lake, where arrangements had
been made for their winter rmidence by the Hudson Bay Company,
at which place the bearer of the dispatches left them on the Sib of,
September. Dr. Richard had in the mean time been in smith of
the copper mental; alluded to in the printed JiseruaL
s It is to be hoped that the severity of the weather will not pre-
vent as early movement of the party this spring. We have reason
to believe that the rigour of their winter has been increased in ratio
corresponding to their-latitude, from the number of rein deer that
have been seen this quarter, which would have taken place only in
consequence of unusual thimbles in subsisting themselves in a
region still more inhospitable than this."