... 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 ...

... you ever know a hotel-keeper, whose “ wax” lights would bear the test of a tallow-chandler ? Did you ever know a Continental tourist who, if he unfortunately happened to speak English, didn’t everywhere discover he was charged at least double for it? Did you ever find a “ professional” win a game of bil- liards of you without assigning your defeat entirely to hi: “ flukes ?” Did you ever know ...

... auspices of the National Association, at which, we understand, the Earl ot Eglinton is to preside. Law Cuances.—There are abundant flying as to the approaching legal appointments. We may give the more prominent of these, but without vouching in any degree for Mr Charles Baillie, it is said, will be trans their authenticity. ferred from the of Stirling, to succeed Mr Cran- furd, the new ...

... => Ramway. Week ending Oct. 22. Passengers, 0 0 %3 0 0 £1803 Corresponding week last ¥: ear. 1632 Duspee & Rattway. Week ending Oct. 30. Passengers, 6 1 Goods, 229 19 74 . Corresponding week last y: ear. 332 13 & Jusctios. Week ending Oct. 30. Passengers, 8 4 458 2 0 4761 10 Corresponding week last year. 665 13 Peatn, & Ramway. Week ending Oct. 30. 22, Receipts, 2465 ing week last year, 2223 ...

... Caledonian stlerenrp. EDINBURGH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 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 Telegraph. The Second Edition can be forwarded, in most instances, to any part of the Country by the Mails of that — Ovr sweet-savoured and ...

... HERALD OFFICE, .7i'Iodoij Morning,. Jr BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. AMERZICA. ARRIVAL OF TUE, CANADA. Liverpool, Sunday, 5.50 x'1.se 'rho steamier Canada ase arrived from Boston; she sailed onl thle 26th instant, aind brings Nisw York advices to the 21st, and S278,00O in specie. Thue Asia's ncws was received onl the l9tb. Tilo Hlsrahl says tbat anl organisation of thie Cotton trade has 31 ait length ...

... 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 ...

... WAR-OFPICE, Nov. 4. 34 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Henry Free- man George Coleman, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hill, who exchanges, Nov. 4. Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Wm Hickes Slade, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Penton, who exchanges, Nov. 4. 10th Light Dragoons—Licutenant Frederick Thomas Ong- ley Hopson, from half-pay 3d Light ...

... '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 ...

... Dubilin, Friday. FEARiFUL INUNDATION AND LOSS Or LIFE. The Co)-k- .dItaosinCi- of WVednesday evening coiitains the fol- loswing account of the disastrous effects of anl isiundation with which that city hils been visitedl, involviing thle less of sae-eral lives and great destructien of property:- 1Tile niost terrible flood which lies ever appeared iii thle city is howr raging, isot only fin the ...

... [ NATIONAL ASSOCFLON FORsTTE VINDICGATION | ~~~OF SCOTTtI'.rll RIGHT'lS. On ylednesday nighta ptbio meeting iii favour of the oljeets wit of ?? Nationa~l Association for thu Vindication of Sel.otitol has Iligilts' was hold in thle Mimoic II ill, Edlinburgh, which was sta, cro`wded to OSCOss, mnany hundireds htaving busids foiled to oh- ho1- tain admoission. Thle auditory COmpqrised at ...

... EDINBURGH GAZETTR AMINATIONS. John Bowie, writer to the signet, kelp agent, and underwriter and insurance broker in Edinburgh—to be examined in the Sheriff's Of- fice, Edinburgh, 10th November, eleven o'clock. Peter Clark, slater and contractor in Kilmarnock —to be examined Sheriff's Office, Kilmarnock, November, eleven o'clock. a Cowpar, spirit dealer, West Nile Street, Sheriff's Office, G ...