... CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE I- THE HlfqHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. (Continued from ou? last pper.) (From the Times Commissioner.) Dinagall, Ross-shire, Sept. 25. Coincidences often arise from the existence of co-inci- dent circumstances. Trees of the same kind bear similar fruit. Like causes produce like effects. In the per- petual coincidence of starvation and helplessness in Ire- land and in the ...

... THE NORTII BRITISH RAILWAY. The fu-wick Advcrtisec- gives tfle following account of the damages sustained ou this line, between Dunbar and Ber- wick - On Monday afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, the rain commenced, and it continued without cessation up to about the same timne next day. The newly formed banks and slopes at the sides of the line soon showed the effects, and in several places ...

... Tile rise in the different rivers and streams in East Lothian on Tuesday was greater than for many years. and the destruc- tion of bridges has been unprecedented. Besides the railway bridge at Linton, the one at Beltonford, and the one across the railway, the ChalLyford Bridge beyond Dunbar, near Broxbburn, the Garvald Bridge beyond Haddington, the Lint. mill bridge between Phantassie and ...

... TA -1 IT 1. I rx s; .nL it. Thc folllving ?? of the itef events at Tahiti have been ; reiived byihe I'rench GecsrmcTieAt from C0eptain IBruat, dated Papctti, Juje 3, 184_ IijTiTiet; le A nistrc ...

... (irons the M1orning Chronlele.) the Iupgeendt to our inquiry into thle condition of the onople of th lglnsand Islands o ~ctad oeacuto h tt or he opuaton n tleeast coast may lire interesting, and instruc- tive. If it should appear that the fishermen who lione thre coast from the Scar Nose,1 at Cailen, to the '-Red Hlead at Montrose, together with the inl and population immnodiately ...

... GLAS GOW, ?? d Da91stalrdly Goa'luct.-Scme months ago, we nofticed the circumnstance of a servant girl natned Ann Wilson, havingr had a quantity of vitriol thrown UpOTn her person whilst passing under one of the railway arches in Gorbals. We have been informed that, on the evening of Monday last, the same girl was subjected to a similar annoyance in the neizrhbourbood of Waterloo Place, ...

... 'THE CLYDE NA TIGATION-THE TIDAL HARBOUR F i s IM ?? Err - ( MISKO The Tida~l Harbour Commission sat again on Frid5ay in the hail of the Clyde Trustees, Robertson Street. ialalie Anderson, at the reques~t Of Captain Washington, took thle Chair, andi, as on thle Previous day, a number of the Trustees and otherN interested in the river and. harbour affairs were present. Mr. David Bell was first ...

... ENGL AND. On Sundav morning, the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine Service in the priv ite chapel. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour- tlnev officiated. ?? as/m Pahzce.-We hear that the greatest es- ertlens wviil be made to expedite the new erections and improvements at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Corhett, ...

... ]3ALLTNASLOE FAIR. 4 a fI _S. I alelinasoe, Oct. 5.-Our great fair commenced this day, and thlrueb people generally appeared to have some fears that it wouild be a poor orie in comparison %with those of former years, I am ha:lppy to tell vou that there is every prospect of as m1'ally sales beinig e&,c:red, and as much business torle-especially itn sheep- as at any previous fair fur years past. ...

... S C(OT L AND. a We are informed that Andrew Coventry Dick, Esq., advocate, has been appointed Sheriff-Substitute of the County of Bute, in the room of Alexander Irvine, de- ?? Coaura-nt. Presbyery of Ayr.-T/ie Qreeen's Order in Council.- a r The Preshxtery met at Ayr on Wednesday. INIr. Menzies of Mayhole, in moving aln overture to the Synod for ac- s negin the band of God in the calamity ...

... UNITED STATES, tc. ARRIVAL OF THE tSRITANNIA. The Roall Mail steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hlewitt, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning, after a fine passage from Boston of fourteen. and from Halifax of twelve, days. She fur- ninhes adrices from New York up to the 15th September. for files of whichw*e are indebted to the courtesy of lessrs. G. &2 J. Burns, the rapidity of -whose steam ...

... EXTENSIVE FL OODS. SERIOUS DESTRUCTION O TEE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. (From the Edinburgh Cou rant.) The heavy and continucous rains with which we were visited eon ?? y and Tuesday, had the effect of swelling the Water of Leith, th Gogar Burn, and other streams and rivers both in the immediate neighbourhood of the city and in the eastern diE- tricts of the CounEry, to an unusual height. so as to ...