... WEEKLY COMPENDItM. Aonog the II ish antiquities in tho Dublin Exhibition is a MS. of the'Psalms, written about the year 650, and ascribed to. Qblumba, the Christian founder of Iona. -Sir Edward Bu'wer-Lytton has mode a good bargoin with Mr R6utledge, a young and enterprising publisher. He has sold the copkrightof all his works for a period of ten years, the terms being £2000 a-yeaor FrRST ...

... 9 There was no delivery of the South Mail yesterday evening, I the mail bags having arrived at the Post-office only at 10j c P.M. The detention, we leoan, was occasioned by a goods' train having run off the line at Crewe, which de- - tained the mail train for about four baum. We are, of course, without the London papers of Monday evening, q and our correspondence from the South. 7 BY ELECTRIC ...

... '- .4 9111AI, n SPRESENI'TIVE PEER 'FOR, The election of a representstiveP.ee.ifor Scotlandshmstlesroom-of Lord Sasltouan has Been -oiered&tn-tak,-plsce at'olyrood Palace o 1n Wednes day, lath Nov.' TnE VACAVTcJ4UDGRE5Hp..-It has been stated hi the Lon- daa and several of tbe.Srotcljouinals, that Mr Inhis Dean of Facelty, would be the successor of Lord Anderson. This re- port is erroneous, aa- ...

... . IN'DIA AND CHINA. TMu news from thbe ast is not. at all satisfactory. The Burmese war, which we thought at an end, is about to r be recommenced. The country is teeming with armed Ihordes, which the Burmese authorities say consist I of dacoits, but which, the British soldiers know too well, are only- dacoits when . it suits their; conve- nience, and are really Burmese soldiers. It is now ...

... T: EI D - O D - ;5 !I OLD DIGGINGS. .- : . j . . . - TunE gold regions of Australia have ceased, for many. months, to monopolise public attention with tbczt'ezcl- siveness with which. they ook posgsession of it a'.coupie of years ago.. Privation and su{ ring are not such' pleasing= sbjects ofconatemiplation as the wonderful tales of fortunes made .y the. tdrning of a stone, gold dug out in ...

... I a RFFECTS 0OF Tlir RUSSIAN WAIt.-Womalf-A three-farthling TI lairldle afy~u please? Chaudcler.-'ihey're apenny apiece now. TI Woiman Why, how's that ? Chandler-It's on accounit of the tion Allwean war. Woman--What I you don't mean to tell me an c 'they're-fleliting by candle light -Diogence.. well 'MR DISILABLI.-Whleu Mr Disraeli was a boy at school, he the wras asked. by..a companion, who ...

... 'TOWN COUNCIL PREDiGS. - - -:.: :,:~~~~~~~~EINS *or Monday, Nogbr3. to TuE concludingnieeting of the old CouniToopcetida )l- Pulisfisr-Ball~ies Henderson~ Sha,' Boss, and Ledinglitints idDean of Guild, Treaoeur EoKmefy'; D Chiristie;a Mda$i Watson, Laing, Macallan, Berry, Gibb, SmithA eid- son, Leslie, an& Jamieson.~ er '.-COLLECTOR OF OHUinrOK SEAT, ]INRTS. - to Th hurches Committee 'reported ...

... LORD PALMERSTON AND'.THE PRESBYTERy OF EDINBURGH. : : w~~~~~VV -r rfI.NI5UltKiH. . : : : a THE Rome Seoretary h given very grv offenb -tot a the Presbytery of Ediburgh, by lecturing them on the, propriety oif substituting oleml~ine99an~d s~to~ o.- !form for prayereandiahmiliation, ash A m nt- , g i the pr~ogre~ss:f cholera;' ThePresbytery-applied to ,hi Lords~hip, through their Moderator, to ...

... THE CIVIC ELECTIOmS. THE yesterday's elections, cousidering the character of the candidates, could scarcely have resulted in a way to t cause much reasonable, disappointment; so that it is I heedless to express our satisfaction, except in seeirg so I many able men sent to the Council Board. The gentle- I ence returned are-Mr (lately Provost) Blaikie, Mr John t Drntan, Mr John Webster, Mr ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, rreane. n L The AMoresicg Herald says that its private accounts from Tou-7 pri LIon affim that whatever secrecymay be observed from Pruden. Or tiel motives, yet it is known in p articular quartorm to be the ale fact, that thlro are twelve !war steamers ready for sea at five minutes' notice, so tha 12,000 troops could be embarked. for- dirI Constantinople- without the ...

... RFEE; CHURCH SYNODO ANGUSAD EA,,RNS.' The Synod of'theFieChrhoAiusaleatsm'A a6 St ohnChurch,. M-1ontrose, on Tuekday. There hsuo ttl ie present T.kTid0,,: im itbdo be .koagpy U-hilei the. ', .r Oyeskinrthe, o le~~n'~fteE ltD liiab} is, 9UisTE5XATiONV rUanj~ The Rev. r Ewin, D ane , rad he bDrepore on the n Sustcntation Fo od; omthieh itiop r th r eamont of 11, inretoeasfor the lihal eaias ...

... EXAMINATION -OP TIT TOWN'S SCHOOLS. meti TH an'nuaI visitation anid exhinijnatioit of the Town's P&isli bee' a Schools commenced onl Wednesday. The Lord Provost ind 'tha.( Magisttatw-a~sembked. ~ leCuclCana iteb)& byci ten,. A.M,, andi'prtoceedbd- in.prodession, as usual,'to the Gram.' morei mrar School,.wlt'sre they werepmet by the Ecaminers-including.I'1 Seve~ral of the ~rocsaors of ...