... & & Raitways. Week ending Oct. 23. Passengers, 103,499—Receipts__. £9633 11 ’ joods, 7954 4 74 - £14,876 16 os — 14,719 Corresponding week last year. Giascow & Sovru Week ending Oct. 29. — Receipts, £4585 0 Corresponding week last year, 4207 0 Cexrrat & Scorrisn Miptanp Ramways. Week ending Oct. 30. 1390 1 ot Passengers, 1501 18 ‘ £2891 19 - 74 Corresponding week last year, 2741 ‘ 4 Mowpay ...

... recent death of G-neral Count de Neuilly at Chalons-sur Marne, the exactitude of which, it declares, it can fally guarantee ;—*“ For some time past ru- mours were in circulation respecting the conduct of the tess de Neuilly, who was represented as keeping up criminal relations with Captain de Laporte, her husband's aide-de- camp, and frequently repairing to the private rooms of that officer. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... to be appointed Judge in room of the late Lord Anderson. Mr Craufurd, Sheriff of Perthshire, will succeed Mr Handyside as Solicitor-General. Tue Aztec remarkable creatures, certainly the most wonderful specimens of humanity in ex- istence, are being exhibited in the Waterloo Rooms. There is nothing dwarfish or repulsive in their appearance ; on the contrary, the head and other parts of the ...

... becanse Scotland has no money voted to it for the purpose of harbours of re fuge ; and this, notwithstanding | the fact whieh T have already mentioned, that L.2,300,000 is in the course of bemg expended on English harbours, while the sam devoted to Scotland is nothing but L.2200, which is given to Portpatrick. Now, let us look at the subject in re- lu Scotland, we all gard to the matter of the ...

... PASSAGE OF THE DANUB THE TURKS. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROARAN Tuesday Nov. 1. By the Semlin telegraph it is reported that 20,000 Turks crossed the Danube on the 28th, near Widdin, and have without resistance. taken Possession of Kalefat, which the Russians had evacuated ...

... Caledonian EDINBURGH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 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 Evening. To have to thank “ A ...

... London, on Monday evening. Tue Barna Sntpwreck.—An official inquiry is to be in- stituted into the loss of the Annie Jane, by the wreck of which so many lives have been lost. Government have au- thorised Captain Beechey to examine into all the circumstances connected with that awful catastrophe, and he is te commence his labours at Liverpool on Wednesday.— North British Mail. ...

... | The elections ov this occasion did not create much excite- | | ment, compared with those of previous years. In two Wards there was no contest, and in the others the numbers who polled for the different candidates did not ran so close as cause much interest. In the First Ward, Messrs Ridpath and Richardson, the re- tiring Councillors, offered themselves for re-election ; the re- sult has been ...

... @noland SS —— 1, 1855. Lond Cloncurry expired on Friday night, aged $1. He is succeeded in his title and extensive estates by his eldest son, the Hon. Edward Lawless. Professor Maurice has been dismissed by the Council of | King’s College in consequence of the doubts respecting his | orthodoxy suggested by his “ Theological Essays.” } The lucky persou to whom was intrusted the manifesto or ...

... — (From Mr Allan's Cweutar.) Electric Telegraphs were expected to supersede all other sources of important information, not only in speed but in accuracy ; they certainly, however, for the past month, have afforded but a sorry earnest of what may be anticipated from them when war really comes. The statements of one day are discredited the next, and the “ authentic” information of the morning ...