... The Have APPOINTMENTS. Woolwich, Oct. 29. Captain Lord Clarence Edward Paget (1839), to the Princess Royal, 90, screw steamship, commissioned this day at Portsmouth. Commander James George Mackenzie (1847), to the Princess Royal. Lieutenant John Hanbury Chads, recently serving in the Diedalus, 20, on the Pacific station, to the Princess Royal. Chief Engineer John R. Closh, in charge of the ma- ...

... TATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER. — Throughout the sent week there has been a more decided abstinence than before from any but such small pur- chases of yarns and goods as might be absolutely in the way of assortment. This can only have arisen from the increased danger of war, as indicated by the reports, whether true or false, that reach us as to the threatening declarations of the Czar, and the mi- ...

... (Written sor the Caledonian Mercury.) ‘Tue continued prevalence of rain during the past month, greatly retarded the gathering-in of the harvest, even in the earliest and most favourable districts. Patches of spring- grown wheat, small quantities of oats, and a considerable balk of beans, were still a-field at the close of the month ; and when it is kept in view that it rained on nineteen days, ...

... & Anproatn Week ending Nor. 6. Par 13 2 ao 186 9 8 4414 210 Corresponding week last year. 491 14 8} & Anenpeen Jesctios. | ending Nov. 6 Passengers, 4631—! 6 5 563 8 7 4877 15 0 Gi7 4 4 Correspopding week last year Peetu, & Dexper Rarmwav Week ending Nvo. 6. Passengers, 18,539—Receipts, 16 10 Corresponding week last year, 2318 16 3 Scorrisn Cexrrat & Jcsction Week ending Nov. 6. nn ny, ~ hare ...

... _— MEETING IN EDINBURGH. The directors of this company having resolved to extend their business to Scotland, a local board has just been organised in ; and at their request a deputation from London visited this city on the 2d instant, to explain at a public meet- The meet- ing the principles and progress of the company. ing, which was held in the company’s offices, 32 St Andrew Square, was ...

... Crade and Money Matters. EDINBURGH SHARE LIST WEDNESDAY, NOV 9% — - - » Wien Description of Stock, Mire Vaid, Price. Payable —_ Bailway)s. B cont. £ié« Stk. lew 2 £6 May& Nov. Deo. ww © Stk. ive Arbroath & Fortar 2o Zo 2 1 ae Do. Halves n 124 le Ww lo Do. Quarters .. ie SO 35 Mar. & Sep. Caledonian .. lv Si De. & Do. Do. . Sth. lee tee ee Do. Clydesdale 25 lo 10 oe ene Caledon. & ...

... TDINBURGE H GAZETTR SEQUESTRATIONS, John Fraser, merchant in Invergordon—Creditors meet in the Commercial Ina there, Sth December, twelve o'clock. Alexander Nairne, weiter in Edinburgh, and solicitor before the Supreme Courts of Seotiand, lately residing in 52 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, now deceased—Creditors meet in the rooms of & Lyon, George Street, Edinburgh, 2d December, two ...

... STATE OF CHINA The following is an extract from a private letter from the same source as the one which lately appeared on the same } subject in the Mereury :— “ Canton, Sept. 24.—We are kept constantly on the alert by the continual arrival of expresses night and day, so that we have little sleep, and next week we may get no sleep at all. | We are on the top of a and must trust in Providence ...

... he twenty-seventh annual report has been issned by the Council of the Academy, and will be found of a highly satis- factery nature. * ‘The the Academy on the prosperity which has attended its exertions, and on those steps of marked progress towards the realization of some of the highest and most cherished objects contemplated by the institution, which, by the liberality of the members, have ...

... Gangland, ae LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1853. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Bank Stock — India Bonds under Ditto for South Sea 3 per Cent. Red. Anns Ditto old r Cent. Con. were ot) 953 Ditto New — $ per Cent. Ann. 1 3 per Cent. Anns, 1791-— > XN per Cent. Consols for Account — New 5 Ann = India Stock for Account———- Lo An S es lo expire— Exchequer Bills Jaa 5, 1860. 2d 6 6 SU vears Get. LO ...

... holders of the various petty stocks falling due in January next gave a fresh impulse to the stock market this morning, and Consols during the day experienced & farther advance of 1 per cent., from which there was only a slight reaction at the close. They left off yesterday at 94 to 4, and opened to-day at 944 to 95, a considerable degree of excitement being observable from the haste of several ...

... THE NEW 3ANKRUPTCY The first competition in Edinburgh for a trusteeship, under the recent amended act of the Lord Advocate, came before Sherit¥ Gordon on Monday. The decision in such cases being now final, and there existing much diversity of opinion as to the extent of power conferred on the Sheriffs by the seventh clause - which requires them to call upon a creditor to rectify his oath and ...