... Witerature. ‘Tun Lay or tux Last Minsrnet. - Illustrated by Birket Foster and Jolin Gilbert. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black. To the splendid edition which the publishers issued last year of the Lady of the Lake, we have here a superb compa- nion bound in the same chaste style of clegance, and abound- ing in illustrations of the same rich and varied beauty. No poem has ever been presented to the ...

... LALES NEWS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sunpar — AMERICA Liverpool, Sunday Arrived Niagara, from Boston, sailed 28th ultimo, brings 181,000 dols. Two weeks later from California, 1,345,828 dols arrived at New York, and large amount in hands of passengers, The reported capture of Joaquin is said to be correct Desperate fight between Indians and whites. Commerce in San Francisco extremely dull, ...

... SOUND LIST. September 3.— Grace and Janes, Smith, Inverkeithing, Cronstadt—Jane, Williams, Wick, Stettin— Admiral, Young, Riga—Eliza, Petrie, Leith, Cronstadt—Hercules, Smart, Alloa, do.—Jenny Lind, Toogood, do, Stettin,—4. Ellangowan, Roberison, *Riga, Dundee—Eagle, Ritchie, Ko- nigsberg, do.—5. Promise, Turner, Petersburg, Leith. Winds at Elsinore. — Sept. 3. N. NNW. NE.—4. ENE. ESE.—5. E. ...

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... WISHAW GUARANTEED RAILWAY C@MPANY. EE A general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday (Wednesday) in the saloon of the Queen's Hotel. George Square, Glasgow—Alexander Glasgow, Esq, nheew. The Secretary, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, thea submitted the directors’ report, which stared that the second half-yearly annuity dee to the Wishaw Rail- sway ...

... England LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1852. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY, Bank Stock . India Bonds under £1000 — Ditto for Account. — South Sea Stock ree per Cent. Red. An.1604 Do. Old Annuities. Taree per Cent.Con. An. 992 we 994 Do. New Anauitie: New 5 per Cent. Ann.. — Consols for Ae . 993 New 3} per Cent lo4 India Stock for Ac.. New 5 per Cents. Canada Guaranteed Debs. — Long ...

... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ANTI-STATE CHURCH ASSOCIATION, Yesterday evening the annual meeting of this body was held in the Queen Street Hall, The proceedings seemed to excite little interest, as the meeting was very thinly attended. Bailie Fyfe, who occupied the chair, was supported by the Rev. Mr Renton of Kelso, Bailie Boyd, Rev, Wm. Reid, James Peddie, The Rev. Esq., W.S., Councillors Tod, Dick ...

... arkets. GRAIN, &c. MARK LANE—May 24. The weather has been cold the last day or two, with the wind easterly; but the reports from all parte of the kingdom respect- ing the aspect of the growing crops are favourable. There was a very small show of wheat this morning land-c arriage samples from the neighbouring counties, and were scarce- ly any offers from and Cambridgeshire. The de- mand was ...

... MELROSE Annual Market was held on Thursday on the usual ground near the Kildon Hills. There was a special train from Edinburgh at three o'clock in the morning, which arrived at Melrose a few minutes after five o'clock, and at which hour a great number of the lambs were oa the ground. A heavy shower of rain came on about four o'clock in the morning, and destroy- ed the appearance of the stock ...

... IFF COURTS BILL The Lord Advocate’s bill © to Facilitate Procedure in the | Sheriff Courts in Scotland” has been printed, “as amended | in committe and by the sclect committee, and on considera- tion as amended.” ‘The measure has now been read a third | time and passed in the House of Commons, but as the clauses | contained in it, with few exceptions, have already been laid before our readers ...

... case of a Commission of Inquiry despatched from a neighbouring planet to ascertain ;—we could imagine their report to be composed of such a mass of contradictions as to lead to belief either in the of the reporters or in that of the subjects of their igation. If the Commissioners began their task by a call at Buckingham Palace, as ia duty bound to do, and requested the opivien of Her Most ...

... Areland. Robert Dorgan, Esq. is appointed Advocate at Sierra Leone, in room of the Joseph O'Neill, Esq. of Li- merick. ‘The situation is worth L.1500 a-year. The prospects of the Exhibition are bright again. The daily visitors have reached nearly 14,000 ; there is a sure prospect that Mr Dargan will be reimbursed, and public spirit is being roused to do full honour to Dargan at the ban- quet ...