... MERCURY OJpIGaS MONDAY. EW= en CWE. THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, 4th Sept.-Admiral Stewart had sailed for Malta. The squadron of Lord Lyons was shortly to take the same direction. The Sultan is to grant two hundred piastres a month to every soldier or officer maimed in the late war. OVERLAND MAIL. BOMBAY, 12th August.-Despatches have arrived. Trade still dull, but the coasting trade will soon re- ...

... I5piril )of tit Ist5s. THE REDUCED EST1,9ATES.AND THE n INCOME-TAX. hi (FROM THE T1511aS.) co The reduced estimates have now been published, nc and we are enabled to lay before our readers the -sweeping reductions which are to lighten the burden ,of taxation and give once more free play to the na- tional energies. To begin with the navy ; the sunm hi asked for the expenses of the present ...

... 6?pxdf of Qt 'Orf9s. - ok MR BAXTER AT MONTROSE. (Times,) Mr Baxter's address to his constituents at Mon- trose is not so much that of a British legislator as of a citizen of the world. It is the outside view which an intelligent traveller, of fairly liberal opinions, would take of the state of things in this country and Europe at large. We sav the outside view, because from a man within the ...

... Lord Palmerston has resigned. At a Cahi- net Council held on Saturday no hesitation i'as exhibited or diversity of opinion ex- pressed as to the necessity of immediate resigna- tioin,and Lord Palmerston accordingly proceeded to Buckioigham Palace to convey to her Majesty the decision come to. It is reported that Lord Derby has been sent for, and there is a further rumour that his Lordship is ...

... CE]JEMONIAL To be observed at the marriage of her Royal High- ness Victoria-Adelaide-MarY-LOuisa, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, eldest da'eghter of her Majesty Queen Victoria and of his Royal Highness Albert Prince-Consort, Dnke of Saxony 4sad Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with his Royal Highness Prince FrederiC-William-Nijhol-Ch'arles, only son -of his Royal Highness ...

... THIE ATTACKS ON THES AUMIBAG1I. Inl addition to what we gave on Saturday, from the Ben)gal Hurkatru, we take the following from the Tit} es' Calcutta correspondent:- The advance into Oide is still postponed, and the events of the fortnight, therefore, are not of very ex- citing interest. Such as they are, they are all de- cidedly in our favour. Onl the 12th of June Sir Janes Outram was ...

... THE COUNTY OF MID-LOTMIAN AND THE I LUINTACY ACT. In a communication to the Courant, Mr Dundas of C Arniston takes up and discusses the letter of Mr Duncan A'Laren which recently appeared in our columns. Mr Dundas agrees with Mr M'Laren as to the desirability of a moderate-sized asylum, and men- s tions his own views as to the mode in which the divi- sion should be effected. He says on the ...

... SUMMIARY. Two additional telegrams have arrived, con- firming the melancholy intelligence recently-re: ceived, and adding a few fresh and not very comforting items. The defeat of General Wind- ham is rendered more inexplicable by the reports now furnished. He had defeated the Gwalior mutineers on the 26th November-a fact not mentioned in the first despatch-and was himself obliged to retreat ...

... TI1E OF TRAINS LEIVING hiNJB3UIJGH FOR UNDEIMaENTIONED PLACES. FEPRiIUARY 18S5. a: The abbreviations vithin pareutliesis-(Cal.), (S. C.), (E. and G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.) -signify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Normh British, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railrways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the' termini o these railways in Edinburgh at ...

... I411tp¢tdl Vra lianllltrlll HOUSE OF LORDS-SATURDAY. The House of Lords assembled 'this afternoon at half-past two o'clock, to proceed to Buckingham Palace, to present. an address of congratulation to her Majesty on the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess-Royal. There were nine Bishops'on the episcopal bench- The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cawdor; Lord Erne, Lord Derby, the Dnkc of Argyll, ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, Tuesday.-The despatch from Lord Malmesbury has at length been communicated by Lord Cowley to Count 'Walewski. ?? ERLAND. Letters from Berne state that the Federal Coin- missioners demand the dissolution of the Italian Mutual Aid Society, and that Frencb refugees are to be confined to the interior. CAPE OF GOOD HlOPE. The Norman steamer has arrived. She left the Cape on the 29th ...

... FREE CHURCH COMMlISSION. This commission met yesterday in St Luke's Church -Dr J. J. Wood, moderator. The following applications for sanction to pastoral charges were given in -Aberdour, Blairgowrie (second charge), Boharn, Glasgow (Fiinuieston, Govan Street, and Young Street), Loanhend, and i'arland Applications for colleagues and successors were also given in from the Rev. Mr Craig, Rothesay ...