Such is the nature of the Reform Bill which, in our humble opinion, ought to have been introduced for Scotland, supposing that any change in the existing system was really advisable. It would be a very perilous experiment indeed to lower the franchise here, especially in the burghs. Our constituencies, we are glad to say, have hitherto, with scarcely any exception, maintained their character for purity, a circumstance which we attribute very much to the non-existence among them of a class corresponding to the freemen and potwallopers. But to descend lower in the scale would be to invite the very evil from which Lord John Russell professes to recoil in horror. We need not, however, again enforce that division of our argument. If there is to be any reform at all, it should be a substantial, not a theoretical one; and in dealing with the Scottish measure we have attempted to point out the real improvements which ought to be made on the existing arrangements, without departing in any way from the spirit or principles of the Reform Act of 1832. Let us shortly recapitulate our views with regard to Scottish Reform. We would give to ten counties, the constituency of each of which is at present above 2000, an additional member each. We would give to three burghs, with the same amount of constituency, an additional member each. We would erect a new group of burghs, with the privilege of returning one member. We would give the Scottish universities the right of returning two members. This would imply an addition of sixteen members to Scotland; but there are three counties which, from their proximity to others, and the smallness of their constituencies, might well be amalgamated, just as Ross is at present with Cromarty, Clackmannan with Kinross, and Elgin with Nairn. The numbers of the amalgamated constituencies would stand as follows:-- Dumbarton and Bute, 1805 Caithness and Sutherland 49 Peebles and Selkirk, 905 with some slight deduction in the latter case for the small towns separated from the counties, and erected into a group of burghs along with Hawick.