... i? 1? i - In military circles it is stated the 4^h dtagcon guatds are to be added to the 16th lancers, and 7th dragoon guards to the 17th lascers. The 2d or queen's move from Dublin to Newry, the first week of April. BaRAcos.-Tho new barracks now being erected at Sheffield, and capable of accommodating 37 officers arid 910 msren, will not be ready for nccupatinn until the year 1852. KILKFN.ra ...

... aiateonian ?? EDINBUREGH THURSDAY, JUNT 20. It is our painful duty to record one of those desolating catastrophes in the wreck of the Orion steamer, on her passage from Liverpool to Glasgow, which, in the destruc- tion of human life, we believe has had no parallel in this end of the island since the loss of the Comet in 1825. We refer our readers to the latest particulars of this ap- l palling ...

... MHEETING OF TEE FIRST WARD. A second meeting of the electors of the First M;/unicipal so District, 'convened in consequence of the numerous candi- dates for theWard, was held on Thursday night in the Council an. Chamber. Mir J. HI. Stoct was called to the chair.t Before the bosiness wans psoceeded wvith, Mr W~ylie asked eel Mr Sinclair, the cleik, wvhethler he had a letter from Council- ph I ...

... TOWN-COUN?L PROCEEDINGS. The Council met on; Tnesdav,-the Lord Provost in the chair. AmE ANNorner IAx. A letter was read from Mr R. WV. Grey, the secretary l of Lord John Russell, acknowledging the receipt of the Town- Council's memrorial respectintg the Annuity-tax, anid intimuat- ing that it wouold receive his Lordship's best attention. A letter to the same effect weas received from MIr ...

... |The follow ing is froms a letter which appeared in the Aforrning Herald of Monday; it wvill at once be seen it refers to the re- cent conversion of Lord Feulding to the Church of Romne. TO TH1E RtGttT REV. BE GILatS, ROMfANz CATHTOLIC BSHfOP | ~IN EDINBUR~GH. Th RGET REV. Sm2.-Rscent events, some of which have ob- tained but zoo painful notoriety, compel mhe to address you through the public ...

... ;si_ hgtrtct *d FRANCE. I The Moafgiteur announces that the President of the Republic, I th on the report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to give a Is proof of the satisfaction of the Government at the manner in n which VT. Gros acquitted himself of the mediation confided to re him with respect to the differences between Great Britain and :e Greece, has raised him to the rank of commander ...

... WAR OFFICE, June 28. Seats lusiier Guards-Major and Colonel W. T. Knollys to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Colonel B. Drummond, who retires upon half Pay unattached-Brevet- Colonel H. Lord Rokeley to be Major, by perchase, vice Knollys-Brevet-Colouel W. Graham, from half pay unat- tached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lord Rokeby-Lieutenant and Captain F. Seymour to be ...

... LATrgESTM NEW SC BYW ELECTRC tEEGRAP9 i~ ¶xC~s OF ?? mnate (Fienmic GBRM1AI'T before th2e Rn A ?? letter of the 31st nlt., inB the Cologn~e Gazette, trials on the states that the Emperor of Austria is thirstiug frgetdeuce, and deeds of wtar asid conquest. Austrian officers tell, wsith a ofthei reckicto good deal of enthiusiasmn, that wtheu Prince Charles of ad No pa Prussia wielcomed .the ...

... ?? *ntcHtgcuet. FRANCE. It is said that M4. Guizor has determined to offer himself as a candidate for the department of the Cher, at the election which is to take place in the course of next month. The Re- publicans having resolved not to bring forward a candidate, M4. Guizot's chance of success is a good one. Among the rumours afloat, there is one to the effect that the Government is ...

... LEITII. ACCIDENT.-On Monday a man named Dickinson, from Edinburgh, while shooting sea fowl with a double-barrelled gun on the sands at Seafield, one of the barrels went off while loading, which mangled his hand severely, and carried away the thumb. FIRE AT LEITIL-On Thursday, about one o'clock, a fire broke out in the soap-works, Salamander Street, which, from the combustible materials on the ...

... P.UVATE COI{[ESPONDENTCE: P4'NffVAT.&E CORRlKESPLONDENCtSE.: (From our Specit/ Co; respondenct.> LONDON. TuESDAY EVENING. Although we are so near the opening of the session the Protectionists are as ripe for agitation as if tiryv were be- s ginning the campaign, The signal defeat at Bledford has Ihad no influence with thens, they still persevere in their senseless cry svith tbe expectation of ...

... EDINBURll!u GAZETTE, MEETING. Creditors of'JoHN INGRAM, 2rason and merchant, lately resid- ing in Mffacduff, now deceased, meet in the chambers of George Bannerman, solicitor in Banff, 16th August, ten o'clock. DbVIDENDS, Ac. Creditors of JABi7s TuRNER; taker, lately residing in Dum- fries, now deceased, -will receive au equalitoing dividend at the chambers of Messrs W. a T. H. 'G~owan, ...