... caebon tan farieurv. List. EDINBURGH. are [tedl SA TURDA Y, JANUTAR Y 5. ?? tare The last arrivals, from America have brought fitl two documents of co'nsiderable interest ; the Mes- 0 'Omn ~ o sage of the President, and the Report of the Secre- P L.of tary of the Treasury. Bothiconcur in representing ti tg the foreign and domestic, commercial and politi- c cal condition of the States as ...

... .. IIGTILAND SOCIETY'S JUBILEE DINNER. TO THlE tDDTTR OF THE NERCURY. sia-I find that an erroneous statteent has been-l- serted in the Sctseman of f ysterday,-vhitfi; in j ustice to the Highland Society, I am- anxious to corrett -aa early as possible. Ina prarpg eed S SoiTetF dit nner onourS, Tin is stated, that at, th Highland Socit y dioetoha oe- day, the King-'s. ?? was given II or., Janar ...

... TrOW\N C(OUNCIL pfOCEEDINGS, 'l'herc wre yesterday laid hersol til i cotlloil a:ioi read:-1. 1eso. liutsio of the SeeLatus Acadellics, e-N pressive of thei? ilisapj)rol)ration of tlhe coildtiI of c!rtailo ?? ofthe1,;tuoal Philosop)by Clafo, in isbldli:'r' a mcetiln in the cbtc3-roora withont authority, anri aeddrcs- ing to the PEatrons a letter on the subject of the vacant Professorsblip ; ...

... d& W.-I'alebanian farMirl-b'' M. ati EDINBURGH. he ma de~w.: SATURDAY JANUARY 12. Adr a.hai bu' Sir George Clerk has recommenced an Active.:. ex- canvass of the County of Edinburgnh on the:. ?? of Sir Johni Daltymnple's prospecthive ee. vation-to the Peerage by the; death of the Earl o of Stair. But we are authorised to state, stO gthat, by a letter froi Lord Stair, dated'at PariX the' Sth ...

... SECOND CliARGE OF..CANONGATE. , TO THE EDITOR OF TieHE c .5T;DONPAN AIERCVRY. Sla-In your paper of -Satmdav you - make a few ob- servations un-on the stops iloiv in protresc for fliog op the vacancy in the second charge of thc Caniingatc Church,- which, while they are'-fonded upor erraneous infoermation; are calculated serioislyto inipede thi Clo n- mittee in the discharge of their duty, by ...

... .: A; -. . : . - I 1 PE - VATE QZ N -Di¶ 'cIg . I . ~~T,-Ain T-s IQ : \ ~ a - - ~ ~London, Jeti. 18. We have received the following letter from our pri. vate correspondent at Paris, dated 16th January :_ *4 The popularity of the Chambor of Peers, already so greatly impaired, is probably about to receive a fresh blow through its own infatuation in pursuing a course which it Nas quite clear ...

... I cry i v z? a ti t a u M-jr r rit r 6, . .EDINBURGHI. ! a IONDA7VDY, JANU4RY S To oun READERS-In the Mercry of Thursdoy! next, eve shall cndewvour to give as full a ieplort as pSSJIIC; of the' proeecdings of the first public meeAftg' of thy I .Edin burgph Iobnntuy Church Association, Wnh isi to take place to-morrow, and which, wve understand, is ex- pected to prove exceedingly iiitercsting. ...

... , At the Marnchester Quarter Sessions onrSaturday, a man named Iichard Harris, of respectable -ppearancc, who had formerly kept a public-house in Manchester, was inidicted for having stolen, at Manchester, on the 24th of Decemaber last, onr box, the prnperty of Messrs Pick- ford, tire carriers, Tlhe cas excited considerablc intrest, as it involved a rather singiular and novel question, viz. ...

... AC LST APPEAL IN BEHALF OF CAPTAIN ROSS. I 14.t l 'ith a mixture of humiliation and regret tawe observe how little has been contributed. i aid of the expedition to be sent out in quest: Captin Ross and his companions, by the in_ °Ofita of Edinburgh, the metropolis of, his bebitalnd. Small as it is, however, the pit. 11ce collected must, in a day dr two, be sent off t Lon0do) where it will, no ...

... PRATY O't ITE PU-'BLC PRESS. FRANCE AND- RuSSIA.-A. cock and a bull story seems to have got into a very limited cir- culation among the Conservatives on this side of 'tle water, and the Jacobins on the other, that a t ripture has taken'place between the Russian and t the French Goveinments; that Pl. Pozzo di Borgo,. who was' reported'to have Tun awiay from -idh congratulatory iinctinse of ...

... PERTH-ISFIIRE ELECTION; PAST MISDEEDS AND PRESENT DOINGS OF THE TORIES. Thle eventful days, big with the fate of O rttlEcIE t an1d of PER tHlSHIllEt, are at length past ; and havve flung for over, far as the centre from the utmost t pole, the Tories from their long-cherislied usur- t p ation of wielding the (destinies of the 11 Yorkshire T of Scotland : A \nd though our fancy has becr fed ...

... SCOTTISH CHURCI VREFORM. LLT-UET IX. COCIeOudir RefleCtionS. n 'so ome of the preceding letters I have exhibit- ,ea a general outline of a plan of Church Reforni, which appeara to mec so moderate and reasonable, that any inconveniences likely to attend it s exeu- tion bear no proportion to the slibstaitiai adivanta- ges which it promises to confer. It prodduces very little innovation in the ...