... (From tise Times.) Scotland has a different law, a different judicaturer and a different established religion, from England Io there is also someo difference in the excise duty levied wv onl spirits. In all other respects, as fier as we remem- II, ber, their rights, their privileges, their institutions, are C identical. It is impossible to go to any county sn .n England without finding Scotch ...

... MONI)AY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14 're request our readers to attentively peruse the lnews from the last, which we have given at consider- I I I I1 * _ .1 ?? T .'11 able length in our pnper this morning. It will be seen that tlhe intelligence mentioned in our ]ast, to the effect that the Tturks liad been victorious over a large body of Russian soldiers, at a point on the left bank of the Danube ...

... The attsention of parties passing iup and down. the river dur- iag the past snltmsner and autumin miust have been attracted, ?? have no dotsbt, by the iminmesme shueds which have been in pro- coss of erection at the extensire shipbuildingg establishment of Bossrs. Tod & MArGregor, at tile tioitth of tilhe Mlvin. Thesa stately erections are now on tbe eve of completion, and wvill t heliceforthi ...

... llis (From the Times.) OM Thu borough was in a more tranquil state during Tuesday Oa, tds night and yesterday than it has been since Friday, bnt some b fears Wvere entertained on Tuesday night that the houses of b Ir, Peneo, at Haigh, and of Mr. Gilroy (manager of the Orrell N a Colliery, belonging to , II. Brancker & Co.) would be per attacked daring the night. These are outside the borough; ...

... Viteruture or Untversar Iistory. For the Use of Schools. Edited by Heury White, M.A. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd. Mr Wutre is well known to the British public as the author ofa volume of undoubted merit, “ The Elements of Universal History,” as the translator of D'Aubigne’s History of the Re- formation, and other literary labours. We have perused his * Ovtlines of Universal History” with very ...

... (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Lonpox, Wreonespay Eventne. On to-day copper was quoted at an advance of L.10 per ton. Scotch pig-iron and tallow dull at rather under yesterday's currency. The Giole states that Mr J. R. Colvin, one of the Judges of the Bengal Sudder, at Adallaut, sueceeds Mr Thomason in the government of the North-West Provinces Morning Paris correspondent writes on Tuesday evening ...

... 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 ...

... few words to you on the above subject. Various s ctions of the population have already adopted the moustache, or are doing +o, and medical of the highest eminence axticipate very beneticial cifects as the sult of the change. there is no profession, the members of which would experience more good from a movcment ot this sort, than that of che- mi-ts and dragyists. I have myself spent a good ...

... FAIRS DUNSE Fair was held on Thursday last ; there was a large show of cattle, numbering 750, the greater part of which were sold at pri a shade lower than Hallow Fair. Prices may be quoted as follows : Stirks from L.5 to L.9 — two-year-olds, to L.14—three-year- olds, L.14 to 1.,18—1milk cows, L.7 to L.12. 10s There were 846 sheep in the market. Fat sheep were selling from 888 to 43s— half ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ; . .-MISCELi.ANEO U S CCON VEossItNS JO MAHOMMEDANIsm.--The Bisbop~.- of.the ICape of Good Hope menitions one.truly.asstorinding feet-that some Elnglish emigrants have actually leeu converted to Isahom- medanism by certain Malsa' settlers I WITTY RETORT. GnrlZaeb ad a-vet-y long Polish name. The king, having hseard'of it, onedayiek-edhfimngood humouredly - Pray,- Ziaiemiba, what. is your ...