... CE (1'rom our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. As the Parliamentary recess draws towutds close, and the opening of the new session begini make its appearance, the functionaries in all thedV partments of the Government are under the nMP sity of applying themselves more assiduously ?? siness, which they are doing with becoming 0 for the public interest. The members of the 31' ...

... THR ARMY. Ist Life Guardi-The command hags evolvei on Ma- jor Sir Hlenry Wyatt during the absence of Colonel Crv- vendih in attendance bn her Majesty, as Clerk la'rslaal of the Hiosebold. 13h Light Dragrorns-Major Lang proceeds to Iddia to join his regienett, early next month, in the Semiraumis transport. let Font-Privates Doran and Denison have been tried by Cot'rt Martial in Athlone garrison ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRMESS. PARTIES IN THE NEw PAULIAMiFNT.-We have had occasion to point out some instances in which Members, counted upon by the Tories, have declined to attend their feeds,- on the ground of a repugnance to mix themselves up with any party. The case of Mr Long, the cola league of Sir Francis Burdett, in North Wilt-' shire, is one in point. We have now the plea- sure to ...

... i mRoM TmE LOMMON GAZETTE. VWHIITEHOALL, OCT. 2. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. John Lamab D.D., the place and dignity of Dcan of the Cathedral Church of Bristol, void by the promotion of Dr Thomas Musgrave, late Dean thereof, to the See of Hereford. WAR OFFICE-October 1. IftsaoaaANDuta.-The half-pay of the under-mention- ed officers have been cancelled from the 1st instant, ...

... A BATTLE WITH A TIGER, There is now living in the village of Kildwick, in Craven, Yorkshire, a Mr Turner, who, at nit early period of his life, was in the East Indies, as a soldier in one of the regiments stationed there. When encamped at Ganjani, on the Malahar coast, he had a dreadful personal conflict with a huge ti- ger. With the particulars of the affray Mr Turner himself has obligingly ...

... The following changes and appointments, although not referred to in Friday's Gazette, have, we under- stand, been decided upon-:_ 32d Foot-General Sir Robert Macfarlane, from 89tl regiment, to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir S. V. Hindo, deceased. 41st-Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Darling, from 90th regiment, to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Hon. Sir E. Stopford, deceased. 60th ...

... - JFOreaign JEutdgenlie. RUSSIA. - A letter'from Odessa of the 14th Septembercon. tains the following statements:- The arrival of the Emperor at the camp has been announced as an impartant event. The superior Turkish officers whose-term (if quarantine was expired, have set out in baste ; thev as well as all the other persons will 3nve all their exp'nses paid. This expense is defrayed out of ...

... I SPLENDID DEMONSTRATIOrN. Lord Haddo, eldest son of Lofd Aberdeen, lhavirg at- tained his majority on Thursday last, a grand entertain- ment was given on the estate to neadly one thousand in- dividuals. Ord Hill, a gentle elevation Situated about the middle of the estate, was the grand scene of the fes- tivity, and certainly a more appropriate site could not have been selected. Aceording to ...

... THE QUEEN AMD TfIE DUKE (lRory O'Muore's Ver sion of it.) TO DANIEL o'CONsEr.L. King Arthur reigns, in England. in Ireland reigns King Dan, The Queen in Windsor Castle; 1)Dthrene them if you cnn. Ilozos.n21) Slft__0r broad is 1,aked black ; a~nd your fine spikulations about 'Mi3thur Jrohnoy go for nothing. The match is made sure enough. C'ouns'llor Prata is drawing up the marriage articles, ...

... -LY. Yeterldav moraing, the pena tv of death was inalioted on the criminal, Willinun Peruii, in` frort of tihs Cijunty Builinge, Paisley, for the crime of.murder. Perrie, the sufferer in this case, 'was a tobacco spinner to trade, anot a nativc of GLuiug, but he has resided in Paibley for aheut ten yorit past. fle was a man of abclet 38 years of age, and lost his first wife, by rlhorn he had ...

... METINGd Or, THE GOVElNO1R OF GEORGE H-ERIOT'S HOSPITAL. A very ?? mucating of the Governors of the above Institution was held on Saturday, which had been specially celled, regarding the erection of Greenside Church. The following report from the Committee, to whom the matter had been remitted, was read: - ?? The Comrmittee having had a conference with the Trustees of Graecsido Church, and ...

... NEWSISAPER rETURNS-TRE TuMBUG oiP TORY RE-ACTiON EXPOSED, TO THE EDITOR OF TIlE CALEDONIAN 31E RCURY. SIR-YoU have so often and so successfully ex- posed the humbug of Tory re-action, whether claimed on the election of a Member of Parliament, backed by the exchequer of the Carlton Club, or that of President of a College,where the franchise was vested in thoughtless and wayward boys, whose ...