... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... '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 ...

... berlyern .7our~nal+ o .~ .. VVEDNESDAY, November 2, 1853. . THre recal of the French Ambassador from the Court of Naples is one of the topics of conversation uppermost in the public mind of Paris just now. It is thought, however, that the matter will not come to anything serious, but that the King, having gratified his personal dislike to the French officer whom he refused permission to land, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...