... We understand that the Post Office authorities are about to join issue with the directors of the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dandee Railway, on the question which has led to such an rupture between them, and to such a complete dis- arrangement and delay'i the mails. Therailway company was said to have demanded per annum for carrying the mails —no exorbitant demand certainly considering the amount of ...

... ets. LONDON CORN Dec. 21. The show of wheat by land carriage samples this morning from the neighbouring counties was scanty, but the attendance of buyers being extremely limited, the quantity offered proved fully equal, and business proceeded slowly at the currency of last. Few transactions occurred in flour or malt, and beans, remain unaltered, Limited business doing in barley, and pease, at ...

... REAT NO OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY As the letter of Mr Stewart of Auchlunkart, and the answer of Sir James Elphinstone, the chairman of the Great North of Scotland line, have both appeared in our columns, we think it proper to subjoin the following commentary on the corres- pondence from Herapath’s Journal. ‘The subject is deeply in- teresting to the shareholders of the above line, and also those of ...

... THER ARMY. Major-General Prince George of Cambridge has assume?! the command of the troops in Ireland during the month’s leave of Sir Edward Blakeney in England. Major General Bowles, who was at the siege of Copenhagen, 1807, and. who served at the of the Douro, Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, and Adour; at the battles of Talavera, Sala- manca, and Vittoria; at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, ...

... been that day presented at the Union Bank for payment. By the instructions of Mr Moxey, John Milligan and Alexander M-Pherson, criminal officers, proceeded to the house of the party whose name had been forged, and who is a respectable legal practitioner in the New Town, and, after some inquiry, took into custody the fe- male sertant, who they suspected of the forgery. In the course of the ...

... At Montreal on the 8th inst. the Annexation Association held a public meeting, but from the accounts in the newspa- pers, it does not appear to have been very numerously attend- ed, not more than from 300 to 500 having been present at any one time. There were, however, present a number of the members of the Provincial Parliament, and a series of resolu- tions was adopted. The ground touched ...

... GLASGOW ATHEN ADDRESS BY THE A. ALISON, F-R.S.A. On Wednesday the Hon. Sheriff Alison, the celebrated his- torian, who was lately elected president of this institation, de- livered an address to the members, in the Trades’ Hall, Glass- ford Street. The hall was crowded with a most respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen. The learned Sheriff, on rising, was received with great cheering. ...

... | rf SBQUESTRAT wine and merchant in Cumnock, in An oo in the Crown Inn, Kilmar- peck, 13th December and 3d January, one o'clock. Rosert Paroy, wright and merchant, latel ow in 11, St James Place, in the Saracen's Head Inn there, 17th December and Yeh damn ary, one o'clock. EXAMINATION. Axexr. Srevenson, baker in Sheriff's Ofice there, 20th December, twelve o'clock. , Creditors of Jonx oom 3 ...

... EDINBURGH SHARE LIST. —— 33, 1849. — When | Description of Stock. 5 rae Price. — | ' Per Cent. | Banks. s & Rank of =| too 100 | 4 Dee Linen Con Sl wo (100 | 220 0 vw one Bank | 3 & Aug City of | 20 100 10 | 166 & Jo Commercial Rank | 10 ais & Nov, astern & Aug | & Glasgow wo | 50 | 5 De. ® Exch. Rank of Scotland so uw Jan. & «| National Bank . ...

... GRAND LODGE OF FREEMASONS m= SCOTLAND. The annual election of office-bearers of the Grand Lodge took place on Friday, the anniversary ot the festival of St An- drew. The following is the list of office-bearers for the cur- fent yéar Grand Master Mason. His Grace the Duke of Atholl. Past Grand Master. 7 . Right Hon. Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H. Grand Master. of Bennochy, &c. i John Whyte ...

... — On Wednesday a special adjourned meeting of the share- holders of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company was held in the Thistle Hall, Dundee, for the purpose of receiving and disposing of the report of the committee appointed at the general meeting of 10th November last; and also of consider- ing notices given by the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company, of bills to be ...

... THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBU This present Evening, MONDAY, December 10, 1849, Will be performed, CYMBELINE, KING OF BRITAIN. Posthumus Leonatus by Mr POWRIE. To conclude with, PRINCE CHARLES STUART!! To-morrow being appointed for the Funcral of her late Ma- jesty the Queen Dowager, the Public is respectfully informed that the Theatre will be closed. On Wednesday, the Merry Wives of Windsor—Sir John ...