... Leith, with the view of following up, or rather imitating, what was done at a similar meeting held in Edinburgh on Tuesday. On the motion of Mr Jenkinson, seconded by Mr M‘Alpine, ccmmittee was appointed to prepere a petition for presentation to Parliament by the Lord-Advocate, against Mr Forbes M-Kenzie’s bill for regalating public houses in Scotland. Easter Resident Magistrate of Easter ...

... (Written for the Caledonian Mercury.) Tue past month bas been characterised by tempestuous and rainy weather such as never befure occurred in any living me- mory. The rainfall the month amounts to the extraor- diaary quantity of 9-75 inches, and we shall search in vaio for similar amount within the same period of time in this latitade. The level parts of the country have presented the ...

... PERTH St John’s Market was held on Frida last. There were between seventy and eighty carts of butter an cheese present—a number considerably less than usual. Prices were high. Butter sold at from 20s to 225 per stone, and cheese at from 6s 3d to 6s 9d per stone of 42 Ib., the latter being Is higher than at any market during the last tweive months. The whole was cleared off by the afternoon, In ...

... the railways occupy 65,047 acres. The gross amount of poor-rates in England and Wales in the parishes traversed by railways in the year ending Lady- day 1852 was L.3,113,926; of this railway property contri- bated L.186,539. | A Cowmerctan View or tue Nationa, Movemest.— t For the past four years, as our readers are aware, we have had frequent occasion to urge the necessity of a very large ...

... TATE OF TRADE. Maxonrster.—The prevailing impression produced by the last American advices is decidedly on the sive of larger sup- ply of the raw material than that of last year, This impression has restricted the week's busine-s in Liverpool, giving the spin- ners an advantage of 1-16d. to jd. per Ib. as compared with this day week, and in our own market it has occasioned a holding back on ...

... Tradve and FW EDINBURGH SUARE LIST. —— WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1853. When Description of Stock Share. Paid, Price. — dend —_- Railways. B cent. £s NX Stk. lov 29 15 £6 Mavé Nov. Do. Preference.. * Stk 100 » 0 | Arbroath & Forfar su 0 5} 'De.. Do. Halves. rn 12 15 10 ot Jo. Quarters 7R March C 68 5 Si De. & Sep. Do. Preference Stk. Ws 8 Si! Do. Clydesdale Jne leo ve 108 10 oe Caledon. & ...

... ‘The inanguration of the Manchester statue t the late Sir Robert Peel took place on Wednesday afterncon. The pro- ceedings were marked by much ceremony and excited great public interest,—an interest which was enhanced by the pre- sence there of the lamented Statesman’s friend and colleague when he last held office, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the Chancellor of Her Majesty’s Exchequer ...

... THE NEW CRYSTAL PALAC The work proceeds rapidly in spite of all impediments Phe vast central transept is nearly filled with scaffolding; ib after rib of the huge vault is fixed in its place, and by Year's Day, we are told, the whole fabric will be de- Lvered to the painters and decorators. The British public is so well ace uted with the parent in Hyde Park, that it may be s ut to mention afew ...

... LONDON WITHOUT CARS On Wednesday, the metropolis stood, as Sir Charles We- therell once phrased it, in a “parenthesis of vehicularity.” There was not only a dearth, but an absolute famine of loco- motion, and never since the days of Charles IL, when hackney- coaches were first invented, have the sight-seeing and out- going public been reduced to such an extremity of helpless- ness as by the ...

... by the General Assembiy to be taken on the third Sabbath of March, for the Colonial Committee, Dr Candlish, by a reference to the state of the Continent, the prodigious efforts being made by Popery, the extreme pre- cariousness of present opportunities for eireulating the Word of God, the imminent risk of door after door being shut through the intolerance of Rome and the tyranny of the Po- ...

... Mlarhets. GRAIN & SEED MARKETS, &c. LONDON CORN MARKET—July 22, Fresh up to our market to-day, the arrivals of English wheat were on a very limited scale, and the show of samples of both red and white was consequently small. For all kinds of wheat of home pro- duce the demand ruled steady, and in some instances Monday's prices were exceeded for fine qnalities. A fair average business was doing ...

... Caledonian gy” The Meneury is published on Mondays and Thursdays, Price vannum, £2, 4s credit; £2 paid in advance. Malf-year and Quarter in proportion, EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. A SECOND EDITION of the MERCURY is published every Mon- | day Afternoon, containing Reports of the London Corn and | Cattle Markets of that day, the state of the Funds and all other intelligence received by ...