... ?? The %EnRCUitY is published on Mondays and Thursdays. Price v annum, £2, 4s credit; £2 paid in advance. Half-yearand Quarter in proportion. ,6/ + I 11'Itra rp'. - ?? ?? - - EDINBURTIGH, THURSDAY, IMAY 17, 1855. A SUPPLEMENT is otublslsed with the MEIlCURY every Alonday andl Tiursl y Afternoon, containing the Latest News received by Telegraph. The Reports of the London Corn and Cattle ...

... (BY OUR USUAL EXPRESS.) LONDON, WVEDNESDA y MORNINIG. THE CRIMEA. I The Times correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs on I the 12th inst. as follows:- 6000 Sardinlans have gone to 7 Sebastopol. Excessively heavy flring takes place every night f between tih French and the Russiansb. The British are wiithin 50 vards of the Russian sentries. They are constructing neivt batteries. The Sultan ...

... thillall ff, ?? n EDINBURGH, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1855. nA SUPPLEM11ENT is Published with the MERCURY erry 7 Monday awd Thursday Afternoon, containing the Latest News a received by Telegraph. The Reports of the London Corn and a f CattleMarkets, with the state of the Funds, is gives in the t )f Supplement with Monday's pablication, and can be forvarded, a in most instances, to any part of the ...

... From one of the 93d Highlanders to his Wife. Camp, Crimea, 12th Dec. 1854. My Dear Jean,-1 take another opportunity of sending you a few lines, to let you know that I am still very well, notwith- standing our many hardships and difficulties. We have not had any battles since my last, but no one knows the moment; there are 30,000 Russians lying within two miles of us, as we can see daily, and ...

... RESULTS Or IE RIOT'S- [IOSPITAL SCIHOOLS. O HEl 1lulTTURt O'st' !jiS qT2st'lSttlC ' j 'ro Tim Cot~on or TtI dinbsl-ghg D 2ec. 22 1285,4. | S[Ra,-W.Vilon lateW itt London, 1 received a letter, iln refer. CL c j tO edtoeatinnal matters, front a gentietnant of censiclsrablc inflitenco. wvhiieh induced rme to ecpapiu to him the riLnage- I ?? and results of the free schools int this city, crectued ...

... SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AN-ND TWEEDDAML. A pro r-s nata -meeting of tlis St-nod was held onl Tuesday, for thle purpose of takitig into con-sideracion the Lord Advo-I Oaie's Education hilt.-cte Rev. Dr Sismpsetn of Kirk-newton, The Atev-. M~r TAIT Of Kirklisten introduced cthe Subject by reading a report from the Par-ochial Srtl0ools Commnittee, whlich, aifter enamneraticig the objectionable features ...

... LP'NIRON GAZETTE, ST JAMiES'S PrJALACE Mray 19. The Queen bha been pleaced to appoint Anne, Dlichess Of Athole. to be one of thr Ladlir- of the R,.dehnmbpr in Or-intrY to Ilker 1 jes y, in ro crow of u1:, Coun)t.tess . ' Ciarxwont, BETTER.S FO)R TliRh.El: %1 tE r S3EA- FOR ~r~iy AN-D THE BLACK SEA The (rcaerte of this ?? eont ?? Warrant, stating that on letters posted in or addressed to any ...

... TOWN-COUNCIL PROQCEEDiNGS. The Council miet on1 TuMesIhy-the Lord Provost in the chair, Tilt QCiOtS'S STATrSE 'AT. HyOLYROD. Mr BMTwrra. referred to certain damage %which had been re- coutch sustained by the statue of Eer Majesty at Holyrood since the wvithtdrawal of thle guard at the Palace, conse0liient on the departure of the 4th Re-gimnent. The LorD. PRO;OST stated that arrangemeints had ...

... 9?,t Qjmftou of itt P i1g. TEIE CANKER AT TIE CORE. (Globe.) If a moralist needed, alas, al illustration of the canker that lies in the heart of man and his works, if he wanted proof that care and sorrow, guilt and dan. ger, are often concealed under the mask of prosperity. where could he find a better than in the condition of the United States? Abmitdantly gifted by nature, with an ...

... 15, allit ]lIttillpurt. IeC ENGLAND. e Timncr, is a rumour that Sir Benjamin Hall will r be raised to the Peerage. is Tii¢ Princess Margaerite of Saxony has been be- - trothed to the Archduke Charles Louis, Governor of s' the Tyrol and the Voralberg, and second brother of Is the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. x- A LiNr of screw steamers is announced direct from - London to Montreal. The ...

... ?? ?J, atelligeurf. DEAN or GUILD COURT, GLASGOW. -William Brown, Esq., was on Thursday inducted into office as Dean of Guild, and W. West Watson, Esq., was appointed Sub-Dean. DRuNKEN SPRKE.-OnThursday a drunken seaman and four carters forcibly entered a house in the Salt- market, Glasgow, and attacked the inmates in such a manner that, to escape, two of them. father and son, leapt out of the ...

... ADMAIINISTRATIVE REFORM. on Saturday, Mr Roebuck, M.P., the newly-Rp- 0 pointted chairman of the Administrative Reform As- s=ation, made his first public appearance in that a capseity, by presiding over a public meeting of the ,seamhers of the Association, held at the London Arnougst the gentlemen on the platform were ob- served. Mr Tite, Ml.P., Mr Michell, M.P., Mr Mur- . yougb, .M.P, and ...