... GREAT FLOOD AND Loss or LivEs.-We have el received Calcutta papers to the 25th November, and hi Madras to the 20th October. The weather at the e' latter place had been very sultry. The Calcutta adnvices mention, that Runjeet Singh and the Governor-General had had the long talked of interview, and the latter ( had left Roopar for Pattiala on the 1st of November, of and Runjeet had returned to ...

... _ I REE COLOUIRED POPULATION OF .l~~~~~~AAl pIt ICA. i f The following is an extract of a letter fronm a retired physician in Philadelphia to his medical friend in Glasgow, Who had lived .*i years at New Orleans. The first part of it opens up viess which must be new on this shite of tile Athq!itic. The distinctions of race are a]] but Ct-rinal; and 1i a Counyrv vhere, by an inexplicable ...

... IN1EII1El3 S OF, A SS.\1r3 1y. lrsity or Edinbtirl-V.r- I?- U fneerit1, of 5 S SSnurhVr ltev. 3rIYtsiUti Burgh of Burotislanj'..Alexr. Hutchison, Esq. writer,I t Edinburgh. Burgh of K(irkeudbrightWalter Cook. Esq. W. S. elder. C Blurgh of Jedburgh-W~illiam Bell, Esq. of 113antlill,I It W.S. elder. as Burgh of Tain-Robert Paul, Esq. Socretary Co the a a Commiercial Bank, elder. C ...

... SETTLEMENT OP M1NISThE9. * ~~~~~en Life TO THlE EDITORs OF TaE CALXDOX Aw IEltcl)yy. a to- SIPt-it was with no small supIset o osynotlc-5 hat tion~~thar, on openingshe Mercury or Thursdity'last, insiend, te oCf seeing the overture from the Presbytery Of Lauder on tite '1 g~subject or calls inserted ast length, and precedled-by the sbort er, paragraph I had rent you along with it, or by one ...

... HOUSE OF COMI.ONS-r1arch 28, ARMY FITIMATES.' (Continued from our last P'rivate Corresponlence.) Lord ALTlHOIRP (in continuation) doubted very much that his Uight lion. Ftiend opposite (Sir H. Parnell) would ever have been able to, reduce to the amount of L.600,000, es fie had stated, consistently writh the due maintenance of the efficiency of the n-ilitary force of the countrv. He doubted ...

... LIN [HT RJ N -,us m. , iliire , nt eenter our Elecidd qots- g.:,n!t tle us- n.su. Ptif lof a right, upon tie p Ofrt at ny oltr, to call up r r to defc d empenlzioedr in piions, far less il/c.inl!'ions, ex. to preied cr employed in t 'he uual course of fair politiranl di:- Cussion, we have nevertbeleis given a place to the lC!ngth; is commnuication of Mr Stannis-first, because he allege h: that ...

... NI E 'Si 1; E t ? s (;. F G I.,.,lAl, ASSI?Vfl' I - , i. Y? r !:eshylot % of A ttirh a- 1'r *;:; a:ni Rer^ s:-I ny~lo e; Mr.3 Rto!,st llarc :q, T~itjna, :zl-.Ri : 1,e Mi/ter, l.Fq. UtI~n!enr eai, 1er. te I resbvterv nf Mei,,lc_ 1thomai 11irty, bendochic; Jarmns e~ J ohtisto!, t -iiirgowrie- Francis Cao'nan, Lintrathan, mi- nisters. Geurge Sinythe, advocate elder. le Preshytery of Dov.bar-Dr ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TaE CALEDONIAN MERtCUeiY TO TES EDITOR OIF THit CALSDUNIAn Slit-In the lasrt Doisfries Courier, the patrioticeditOr mnakeStwoveryiin to leresltig comtprisOdgr. In thefirst place, he compares the political :saj tgmce of 1stie with that 1659. and decides in taourt of the f'rdietr. in the neUctsisce. he compares the golrt of Earl Grey itsti statesmeni with t ...

... CHOLE iA. I . March .30. .Naueq7 ses, 82r;iDiedr4 jR~v~red -$5;-- A- c t & qqrNe' ,eantse, I8asPc4d jthcorere& '.i. Re*maidinjzcais . i Toci Glr sess~iiotlfst iF~5 :Lotdd ' re-i :partial at X hi~ehasll up lio April; 2r, 0w~. t7Leattc .,.A fe~ dres isinee-ts a inrasriated monb a~itt1kdilhe ioleru .hospital or eSt George's iln thbe.East,! ednd threaened td'r pi!w .down he house and niurder the ...

... F O G FR Elf THEff LONDON GAZETTE. DOWNTING STREST, APRal 7. t The King haq been graciously pleased to nominate and t appoint Major General H ugh Fraser, ofthe Madras infantry, t to be a Knight Commander of the Mlost Hon. Military Order of the Bath, in the room of Sir G. Martindell, de- C ceased. 1 BANKRUPTS. R. Elenesey, Drurv Lane, 'Middlesex, timber merchant r J. Gallier, Park Street, ...

... HOUSE OF LOtDS-April S. winyr Eenerallv understood that the debate e It being generally understood that the debate on the se- cond reading of the relorm bill would be brought to D close J this evening or tomorrow morning, the gallery was erond_ ed so early as ihrec o'clock. There was also more bustle out of doors in tbe vicinity of the llouse. At half past four, 0 11asah Ram Mohem Roy entered ...

... IWES1T LOTHIAN REPORT FOR A5ARCII. AGRICULTUILE. Brut for the shortened *av. twvo stoswv showers, asml a fesv days of fiost, sve shiould harily have Itknossn November, De- cember, and January, to have been svioiter months. Dluring the first twto of the'e monthsa gre3t deal of rain fell, thot the last was unusually dry. This being followed s ibh tne of the finest lehrtnarys ever remembereo, not ...