... LATEST NEWS WepNespay Evenina. A Privy Council was held at Windsor at half-past two o'clock. Sir James Stirling has been appointed to the v: at the Admiralty Board, vacant by the retirement of Rear- Admiral Deans Dundas. Greenwicu of poll to-day : —Stewart, 2956 ; Chambers, 1211 ; majority, 1745. — FRANCE. Panis, Turspay.—Lamartine, it is reported, de- clines to enter the Corps Legislatif. It ...

... THE BARBAROUS MURDE ERS IN FIFESHIRE. The Fiseshire Journal of Thursday supplies the following details of the murder and robbery near Kettle :—Late on Sunday night or early on Sunday morning, a woman named Margaret Maxwell, aged sixty-six, who kept a small provision shop at Hilton of Forthar, in the parish of Kettle, was bru- tally mardered in her own house—the murderer or murderers having ...

... COURT OF SESSION—FIRST DIVISION. THE AUCHINLECK ENTAIL CASE. We lately intimated the opinions of the consulted Judges in this case had been boxed, and were in favour of sustaining the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary (Wood) that the five letters (irred) in the word “irredeemably” in the clause of the entail of the Auchinleck estate, belonging to Sir James Boswell, intended to probibit the ...

... CARLISLE Fair took place on Saturday week ; there | was a plentiful supply of horses, generally of tolerably good | quality, the best animals having been bought up by the dealers | previous to the fair. There was a large attendance of buyers, and good horses for agricultural purpo-es changed hands at from to L.45. Those of inferior quality brought much lower tices, NEWTON-STEWART Horse Farr ...

... SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1852. Divi- When Description of Stock Share. Paid.| Price. dead Payable. Banks. cen £s. d. +t 100 100 183 ve June British Linen Co April | Bank of Scotland | 100 100 200 00 July Caledonian Bank lw ll Feb.& Aug. City of Glasgow lu le | le 16 Do. & Do.) Clydesdale Bank * 20 lw 12 Jan. & July) Commercial Bank | joo le We May& Nov. | Eastern Bank = lv a 15 jPeb ...

... l Cottage, Newington, on the 3ist ultimo, Mrs Woodrow, of a son. At Edrom House, Berwickshire, on the Ist current, the wife of Captain James Cox, of a daughter. At Park Terrace, Stirling, on the ist current, the lady of T. B. Esq., of a daughter. At Yester Manse, on the 1st current, Mrs Kerr, of a son. At Falkirk Manse, on the 31st ultime, Mrs Broo, of a son. At the Free Church Manse, ...

... Entelliqence. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The John Mitchell, Calcutta to London, 13th inst., lat. 46 N. long. 17 W. The Petchelee, Calcutta to London, 19th Dec., lat. 32 S. long. 31 FE, The Celestial, for China, 15th ult., lat. 1 S. long. 21 W. LEITH SHIPPING. Anrrived.—Feb. 21, Brilliant, Paton, Hall, goods—Match- less, Aitken, Lerwick, do.—Gienalbyn, Gann, Neweastle, do. —Active, ...

... Edinburgh Share Dist. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 1852. Divi- When dond, Payable. Description of Stock. Share. Paid. Price Banks. P cent Bank of Scotland . 100 100 183 v \£ April British Linen Co. 100 100 200 0 Caledonian Bank 10 LV lw leo wiz City Bank * w R % Jan. & July) ee De! Clydesdale setae 100 17 0 May&é Nov. Eastern Bank le 2b 3 16 a Do. & Do. | Feb.& Edinburgh & Glasgow* Exch. ...

... EDINBURGH. MONDAY, FEBIU'AIIY 1. A SECOND EDITION of llie IIERCUKY it published Monday Afternoon.containing Reports London Com and Cattle Markets that day, the state of the Fund?, and all other intelligence received Telegraph. Tl-c Second Editioncan be forwarded.in most instances,to any f/ttt of the Country by the Mails of that Evening. The l/ord Advocate introduced the Sertoli Reform bill iv ...

... — English funds opened this morning with t continued firmness, but renewed sales of money stock caused ‘The first quotation of Consols was 964 to §, and they left off at 96} to 3. The closing prices from the Paris Bourse received to-day at the Hall of Commerce, showed a slight improvement in the Five per Cents., bat a decline of a quarter per cent. in the Three per Cents., the former being ...

... the Chair. a — a BANK OF SCOTLAND. TORS OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SCOTLAND A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT OF PROPRIE- will be held in the Orrice, here, on Tuesday the 9th of March next, at Two Afternoon, pursuant to the Char- ter. JNO. S. CUNNINGHAM, Secy, = Feb. 2, 1852. = Epinsureu Gas-Licnr Company's Orrice, 25 Piacr, Edinburgh, 2d February 1852. MPUE DIRECTORS of the GAS-LIGHT COMPANY hereby ...

... Falkland, in St Anprew’s Cuveren, on NeXT, the Sta of Ferrvary, when a COLLEC- TION will be made in Arp of the Funps of this Divine Service to begin at Two o'Clock. Edinburgh, 31st January 1852. TO STATIONERS. WANTED to SELL STATIONERY and i] ACCOUNT-BOOKS to Consumers, viz.. BANKERS, MERCHANTS, throughout England—must be persevering, of good address, and thoroughly conversant with the Trade, ...