... Mction in the Fifteenth Wnrd. cnnqenrient ke The Election in the Fifteenth Ward, consequent upon the parity of votes between Messrs. Edmiston and Gemmill at Tues- o- day's poll, took place in the BaroniaL Buildings, Gorbals, on Sa- ts turdaylast. The contest was one of the keenest which has ever taken place in the Municipal or Parliamentary experience of the Y city, and yet the majority of the ...

... THE AlIIIY BREVET. Sulrnleent to the London Gazette- 2esd, Norn- inr sin Supplement to the Londona GaucIe, Tuesday, XbVremnber ID. M%~a OFFICE, Nor. 9. Hecr Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following officers to take rank Cr brevet ais undermeorioned. The commissions toi he dated N or. 9. 1846 :- Ge-neral Sir Georgee Nugent, iiart.,andG.C.B. ; General Thos. Grosvenor ;General Henry ...

... THE NORTHERN FISTIERIES. (From tie Correspondesnce of e MwForaiag Chronicle.) Both in Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland the existing dearth has proceeded from one and the same cause. In both these sections of the empire the lower orders have almost exclusively relied upon the same capri- dious esculent for subsistence. That failing them, they starve. It is a happy circumstance, however, ...

... ENGL A ND. Sir Robert Pleel is in excellent health, and has not been Of afflited with gout, as rumnonred. fol We have to announice the serious indisposition of the Earl of Portsmnouth. His recovery is exceedingly doubt- t. jul. The Noble Earl, it is well known, has long been i subje-ct to aberration of mnind. His Lordship i at pre- n sent a t his country residence, Htarsthourne Priors, Rants. ...

... LONDON, NOVEIMBER 7. The BoRal Family are still at W-indsor, and the Queen andl the Prince have been taking their accustomed out- door exercise during the present fine weather. It is ex- peeted that her Majesty will go to Arundel Castle in the cour se Of next week. His Excellenev the Earl of Elgin, the recently appointed t Governor-General of Canada, is expected to embark for NBorth America, ...

... HIGHIC-VATER AT GLASGOW AND GREFENOCK. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ u ?? - ?? G ?? w~Gn~zocnA. Nt; ,ea. orning toetin.. qrn~ing. Eveningz0 V',tI'aOk .14 Ni c il 3S t'1 45 1 I FROM THE CLYiDE BILL (IF ENTRY. Att:.%Ls AND ltOTS Nova, Thor 7. Bounty of. Providei-ce- cf Got.e. ¶ V.Aitirnont. Dut:ltrk. %6tlt a cargo of ai-ples--i' Cs OaInie ill dIstKUte-2TR !,s toottc(, Ito ?? toeil.\- Co-S, iris 7111:2 toe ...

... RAILWAY COMMiISSION. TumnsorY, Nov. 10. The Commissiot resumed its sitting to-dav, in the Mferchants' Hall, when Mr. G. V. NMuir waas e/amninedL at consideralhe length Y in suppolrt of the scheme for a General Railway Terrninns at thr I site pi-esentily occpiied bv the buildings known as the Wyiids of I Glasgow. Mr. Muir's stateiments to the Comtnli-siclners wvent to -lhow the advantage to lie ...

... EDlINBURGR PIIILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. T.. 1 -_a _ _ . - - . I I . . . I In our last we briefly alluded to the prniozcli-ngs which took cas niece at Edinburgh on the opening2 of this Society on 'Wednesday. dei From the vari o~is longl and eloquent speeches then delivered, for whichl we have no Space, we select that of Mr. Macunolay, as per- lad haps the most appocsite to the occasion. hry Mlr. ...

... UNITED STAiTES, &c. 1ivrrpool, Saturday. i (1tti T() packet ship JToIab Fates arrived in the Mersev this morn- I 2 irng tlron Boston, after a fine run of sixteen days, bringing advioes ' ne, I ?? from that city to the 2124 ultimot, a-nd from -New York to the 216t, Since U ~ ofstrkin clspach f or Ist cconts by the steamer no event id .ineethdocrendfrom the citv of Aotee futenitlienehdbenrcived. ...

... MISCELLANE OUS. Microscopic Revelations.-Whienever we turn, within Ia( athe precincts of o-ur own homes, in meadow or mnoorlanel, a' In bill or forest, by the lone sea-shore, or amidst crumblirfg ME rruins * fresh objects of interest are constantly to be found; pri splants and animals unknown to our unaided vision, with pr, ~,minute organs perfectly adapted to their necessities, with ?? it ...

... PO RTU GAL. TRZL¶x1PII pr THE Qur Q -N'S TRforoi. le ' (Franz the Tin'itSf3 e- We have advice.s from Lisbon to the 30th of October. Tvwo I consilerable actions had tak.en place betwveenl the Queen's troops 2l and thce rebels, in which the former had utterly routed the latter. u The latest news was as follows, and its perfect authenticitv may 7d be relied on :- lie VisconTle de Setubal has had ...

... ot- | Thle Prince of Wales's Birth-doay.-On Monday, his E ige' Roval Highness, the heir-apparent to the throne, attained eat- his fifth year. At Windsor there was an inspection in the T rge Quadrangle of the Ist Life Guards and the Scots Fusileer i rnt; Guards, who fired aftea dejoie in honour of the occasion. j ;gt.IIn the evening the Queen gave a dinner party, arnd I iam afterwards an ...