... catbontian A£rmurv EDINBURGH. MONDAY, JANUARY 4. THE PAST YEAR. A POLITICAL RETROSPECT. While the good wishes of health and happi- ness to every one, and the bright anticipations of increasing and enduring prosperity to our coun- try, greet appropriately the advent of a New Year, we feel invited to perform another, less flattering, but probably more useful, duty to the public. We would remind ...

... Mr Campbell of Islay arrived at Drinoon at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning. On land- inig from the steamer, he was received by his Chairman of Committee, Mr Macfie. Three hearty cheers welcomed his arrival, and he pro- cceded to Leitch's Inn accompanied by a nume- rous body of his friends and supporters. At one o'clock he appeared on the hustings, at- tended by Mr Macfie, Mr Campbell of Dun ...

... LEITH DOCX COuMISSION. At a meeting of the Leith Dock and Harbour Corn- I mission, beld at Leitha on New Year's Day, the Lord nei Provost in the chair, nor The minutes baving been read, hut Mr Philip called the attention of theI meeting to a mi bei note of the Special Committee, from which it appeared, wo that Mr Howden attended and entered his dissent against tlic the general measusre of ...

... I ,.CJRWUT1TYRAL soCISTV I &N or SCOT LAND. ,f th~is National As- fIIA' ofD this National As- gfl + Inn Aleexange ot lbn -ti trheir Hall on Tuesday last, llr111% it l their ally full ait ?? woe lliS ~ proportion Of the iowrcal lff rank, p'operty, and Oo~a~iintle Esen;s. of Ard~lrn ol qae lO~rrl' e inr Esq- Ainbslic Pcnd the vicinityb lI1 ~ die arql S of L otbian, V ice- 'r ?? 3 t s pportq d ...

... It will be recollected that in 'he onth of February last the warehouse of Messrs Hall and Co., on the Cus- tombouso Quay, had been broken into, and, a box, in which there were deposited diamonds beloegilg to a fo- reign Countess, and amounting to from L.700D to L.8000 in value, stolen, th~erefrom. From the mode in which the extensive robbery hid been effected at the Customhouse, it was the ...

... If - ?? this bas virtually jep ot a es a holiday, this bas virtenally it not Steck Exchllngd 6 in respect to its Tbioogt tile It I qfalount Of business trans- in or 'It'd thle sn edicte at first a decline in 'DC ,emcd ?? any extent worth r. ! t Idi ' pace t done in tile latter 0' t ita0a0d thle fe t ba trifl advance on the rli0l109'd b . , r a er i I Ong was 9t G of he -D) The last ...

... Qealeboniatl £drcrtvU. Ip EDINBURGH. p SA TURDAY, JANUARY 9. e e None of our readers can ever forget the loud, o long, apparently unextinguishable clamour of the C Tory Press about the internal dissensions of the d Liberal Party. The more utterly groundless, to the more virulently calumnious were the state- a ments on this head, so much the greater din, so a much the bigger words were emlplyed ...

... TIHE AGRICULTURAL QUESTIONS I TO THE EDITOR OF TugP CALEDONIAN MERCURY. prov, -.5th January, 1836. high Sin-Mly attention, ns a farmner, having been obed much attracted of late by thle discussion which has been carried on in the newspapers regarding tile distress which a~t present exists among agricultUrists, aind more especially by the reports of thc proceed- Ei Iinogs of the various meetings ...

... ARM1Y IN SCOTLAND-PRESENT STATIONS. Poval Arfilliev-There are two ernnianies at Leit ARMOIY 11N 1VUFJJALN-kesrlnteLa ZlIAIIU.On. Royal Artillery-There are two companies at Leith Fort, which send detachments to GlaFgow and Fort George. 5th Dragoon Guards . E linburgh 10th Royal Hassars . . 1 rsigaw 92d Highlanders (Depot) . Fort George 71st Highland Light Infietry . Edlinhurgh 6th Foot (Depot) ...

... MR CAMPBELL OVF !SLAY, M.P. IN KINTYRE. No sooncr was it generallv known that our wor- thy ond esteemed reprcscntative had arrised in town (Campbeltown), than he was waited on by a deputation froin the distillers of this town and neighbourhood. The dreputation entered at great length into the detail of different matters connect- ed with the trade, and expressed their extreme gra- tifitation at ...

... KIRtKALDY. OCl q.atetlasy a dinner was given il ?? GeoTze- In here, by a number of the inhabitants of Xirlkldy aiied vicinity, to Mlr Alexander Murray, late editer of the Fifeshire Jonialf, ts a mark of their respect for him as an inflividall, anod of the sense iheycontortained of his attention to matters of local interest, and of his concilia- tory department in conducting that paper. Robert ...

... IThe ordinary monthly meeting of Prephytory was I a beld yesterday, the Rev. Mr Simpson of Leitlh Wynd II Chapcl in the Chair. 01 NEWV DivismioN OF PARISnlEs.-A Committee was oip- pointed for the purpose of devising ai scheme for a new 1. llivision of the city into parishes, with power to corre- vi epond] with the Town Council on the subject, and report tl' to next ordinary meeting of ...