... The election of a member of Parliament for the Leith dis- trict of burghs, consequent upon the acceptance by Mr Mon- creiff of the office of Lord Advocate under the new Adminis- tration, took place on Tuesday at noon. The hustings, as on former were erected in front of the Exchange Build- ings, Leith, but, as no contest was expected, little interest was excited in town, and the crowd was ...

... (neland. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 185 whe 4 PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Bank Stock ab 2997 India Bonds under L.1000_ Ditto for South Sea Stock one 3 per Cent. Red. Anns.. 971 Ditto old Annuit 3 per Cent. Con. Anns Ditto New Annuities 3 per Cent. Ann. 172 3 per Cent. Anns. 1751. New 3} per Cent. Consols for Account 974 oa India Stock for Account New 5 per Cent. Ann Long ...

... LUNDON GAZETTE. OSBORNE HOUSE, Dee. 5. This day had an audience of Her Majesty :—The Count de Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Portagal and the Algarves, to deliver a let- ter from the King Ferdinand, Regent of the Kingdom of Por- tugal and the Algarves during the minority of his Son the King Don Pedro V., notifying the death of Her Majesty Queen ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1853. ‘KS THIS DAY. Bank Stock 2 PRICES OF _ India Bonds under Ditte for \« “unt South Sea Stock — 3 per Cont. Red. Anns wel — Ditto old Annuities. r Cent - Con, Anns Ditto New Annuities — > ut Aun. 726 w 3 per Cent. Anns. per Cent. lang Consels for Account. : New 5 per Ce - Aun. India Steck for Account. _ Long to expire _ Exchequer Bills 30 vears Jan 5, 16 a 30 ...

... SECOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, Four o’Ciocx. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Loxpox, Mownay. Advices of an active demand in y. France, together with orders from Pa afious corn markets of ris and Marseilles, caused extensive purchases of foreign descri ptions, chiefly those from Odessa and the Danube, to be made rates. on Siturday at advanced The Cabinet Council sat three hours on Saturday. The Times ...

... Imperial Parliament, HOUSE OF LORDS. Monpay, June 13. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented petitions in fa- your of inspection of nunneries from the Scottish tion Society, General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, Keith, and St “ree Church, Edinburgh ; and from a number of p laces in England. TURKEY AND RUSSIA—THE COMBINED FLEETS. The Marquis of CLANRICA question to my noble friend the $ ...

... LATEST iE S (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Lonvon, Sunpay Eventnc. TURKEY AND GREECE. Paris, Saturday.—The following telegraphic despatch has been received at Constantinople by telegraph from Belgrade. May 13.—Prince Menschikoff has granted a further delay for consideration of his ultimatum This important news is certain, but the telegraph further adds—* It is said that a change of Ministry is on ...