... SPHIPIRIT O'r T PUBTIC lp.Ess. I AESTIIINSTER ELECTION.-The Tories have been most miserably disappointed in their can- yvass for Sir Francis Burdett. Not a sirgle s promise can they get, except from those of their r 6wn party. W1hen they accost the really free and independent electors, and express a hope that they will not desert an old friend, the universal question is, How come you to be ...

... PflOSPt¶'CTTI OF TI-E CfWy CT YTORS- ELECTION OF~ NEW TRUS1EILS. (lP'ow Ielse &soaewil .) Te imeeting otlbe City Creditors, wvich is tatake pltee ou- 11onday first, for the elertitol of new Truriteel; in the room of Lord Melville. Lord Rose- ?ierv. Sir James Gibson Craig, aud Mr Richard MVackeinzie, who resigned because they felt they coultl not continue to aet with Sir William Rae ?? John l ...

... wabal Entellige-Iter. Portsmouth, Sept. 9. The Pearl, 18, Commander Lord Clarence Peget, sailed on Sunday last for the West India station. Captnin Drake superseded Captain Brace in tho comn- tan d of the Di,neaal, 78. at Plymouth. on Tulrsdav. Rear-Admiral Sir luhn Oninanncy will hoidt his flan in her to-day, but nill strike it again on leave till the ship is ready for sea; shie will comne to ...

... dFIR17. OV, THE PunLic f?WSOO- LoRD Dur.HAM.-T he Standa.rd is in a sinfl ,,ular state of political optimism-a state, we may add, alarming to its friends and its party. There is something so nnnatural as can bode Them no -good, in the spectacle of she slandard in charity with all men. The filial Chinese who wept bee cause his mother, wno drubbed him daily, laid on with a weaer hand-the ...

... I Calrbanian OM I EDINIURGIH. SA TURDA Y. APRIL 29. To CoaR.spO- eiDENTs.-` Two of oer R1ailerrs Xrut: pardon us, if we decline to solve their knottv leal ri die. Such duty is not within the limits of oar vauonaD The Lords hare read the Irish Municipal Car porations bill a second time. Our readers 0rillre, collect that in announcing on Thursday the certain ty of this event, we prefaced it by ...

... , (From Galigneani's Messeng&.) A letter from Inspruck, of the 6th instant, has the following:_ A barbarous outrage was lately committed in Carpathia-upon two English gentlemen, Mr Gleig and his son. While travelling from Agram to Fiume, tbey were attacked on she 13th of August, about twventy-five English miles from the latter place, by a body of thirty or forty peasants, and, after a stout ...

... 1lOMTICtULTtJAt COIMPE1TIT!ON. The following is a list of the premiums awarded at the competition on Thursday by the Caledonian Horticultural Society. Al account o.f the other proceedings will be found in our last page For the best three sorts of Peaches from the open wall; first prize to Mr John Braid, gardener to George Simaon, Faq. of Pitcnrthie House, the kinds being Royal George, Red ...

... wabal Entellileurc. Portgnioutb, April 22. Letters from Sierra Leone, dated March 4, state that the Bonettn, Lieutenant Deschamps, had raptured a Portu.-UQSe vessel, the Timerara, with 352 slaves on boart, *which he had sent to Sierra Leone; and, that tle Dolphin. Lieutenant Roberts, had taken another with 700 slaves on hoard. The Seout also bad within the last two months madl prizes of three ...

... LAtJNVC U or THE STE.AM S P~l LEtTTIT. Ah unch is ?? an exciting spectacle to fA r5om the highest to the lowest. The t ail f'55 d nteresting sight of the kind which t 5oblest a .tlessed took place on Thursday, when ae ever WI ,er, indeed the largest vessel, ever vv re -t sta eI the ?? ras launched from Messrs t buil in, Sbuilding-yard, Leith. Edinburgh and i lenz weron the qui vive on the ...

... IW1Pt~ZAt PARLIAMTE-1,T. HIOUSE OF LORDS-February S28. On the motion of Lord DUliCANNON, the Post Office -contract bill piased through a Committee, and ?? then re.nd a third time and passed. The wills billU va read a see'ons' time. On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUTGH, a re- turn was ordered shorwing the popiulation according to the laseicensus of all such unions, ul'ar tler poor law amuend- ...

... I SCOTTISHI PARLTAMENTARY BUSINESS. ElrlLS. Febrnarv ~2.-Glasgow sad A*r Rlil ?? fair hill rep orted, and hill oirlered to be brought in by Mr Dunlop and.Mr Hitstie. Edinbuogh and Glasgow Thilws-Petitions in favour of the application for a hill; Provost. Mkagistrates, and Town Council of Avr, Incarporated Trades of Asr, andl Mlerchant Company of AN r; to lie on the table. Glasarow and Avr ...

... AGRICIA.TURIAiL REPORT FGft EAST LOTHIAN. (For the Caledoionan Meerc-ry.) Harvest is now advancing with wonderful rapidity, ?? has become general throughout all the earlier districts of East Lothian. In the course of a few days a great qd:in- tity of grain will be cut down, and there is little doubt that should the same very favourable weather we aro now experiencing continue in its beneficial ...