... THE ,WAR. THE FIRST ATTACK ON SEBASTOPOL. Co-NSTAcNTINOl'LE, May 10.-The combined fleets have begun to bombard Sebastopol. They are engaged, with guns of long ranlge, in the endeavour to destroy the more ad- v'ancede works. Three ships of the line and two frigateslbave been detachedi to bombnrd the fortresses en the coast-of Asia 'Minor- - The Turkish Ileer haks 5000 men on-beard, w1ho are to ...

... TilE ICA}. THlE AUSTRIAN AND 1R1USSIA'N TREATY. I The otiliieation, of the treaty o the lo of AlpiSii-Ii 1 i Pri-:taTtl i-triae ct at rest thec, untcertaitl rumilrtit ciii- Tniiitas to the ti attire nend ext etl ftisdrtt n. it thre inforitat ion ve: hadala]renir obnitaieel ottii his i-it CciA Ii a thi- Couvrts of Vieniut a il Ii-erlitt coll lie judged ofi ft-ot-he pit] i- ct pce l~i t c each'I ...

... The ainual distribution of prizes to the students attending P the School of Design took place in cite Royal Institution on in Sacutdrs afternoon, in presence of a ?? and highly 5RI respctaleC essetoblge. Professor T. S. Frail presided,' an4 tit amnong those present we ?? Rilght Ilion. tie Lord di Justicle-General, Professor Julio Shank -More, Sir John j'Sat- f Ison Gondon, R.A., Dr M~aclagan, ...

... E,. 1.tO ,,-! ..,,O 6.. is, .:s.' -, 1X I f ':,9 (E I D QNIt Qqrll$QP -T.3 OX THE opinion of the contry.is ,eoming out slow1yion the Lord Advocate's Bill. People seemed to havea,,amrost ceased to think about it, and had set it down apparently as inevitably doomed, by, at all events, the Upper House, Now and then, however, a public meeting, a meating of Commissioners of Supply, or some other ...

... SYNOD OF. ANGUS AND MEARNS. 'This.Synod met at Arbroath on Tuesday. The retiring Mo- derator, the eev. Mr Halkett of Brechin, preached an excellent discourse from Matthew xxviii. 18, 19. Theireafter, the Rev. -Mr Lindsay of Eassie was unanimously chosen Moderator for the ensuing half year. .- . . -I . . ,, , I. I AflrIOA D.D.'S. The Clerk, after calling the; roll of the Synod, read a note from ...

... PA RL IAMEN T. HOUE OF LO-RDS-Afoaday. MArd 8. The Bdri a$ Eg=ito alipealed to Lord Broughams to post- MtC pone. till another sesin tI~e Bankruptcy Bill for Scotland, or J.I to afford further time for fta consideration. son Lord Brougham'nsaid be would stato either to-morrow or on. vea Thuhrday thJe course he proposed to take. C The Church Building Act Continuance Bill was rea~d a se- tog cond ...

... I A joint meeting of the members of the Town Council and hr Harbour Commissioners was held on Friday-the Lord Provost presiding. re TlE gtARBOlJ BOARtD AeD TiEl WORTH OP SCOTLAND ra RAILWAY. V The Provost soid he had called this meeting for the purpose ov of laying before the members a report from a joint committee oa of the Town Council and Imarbour Commissioners, in reference in to the North ...

... MISCE LLANEOUS. Yew GROSS LEVITY OP TUE Czinx-When Nicholas compelled rePr the Jews to serve in his army, lie tool, a very unwarrantablesi method to increase his Levies.-Tiowsi~. wt HBALTsc.-An indispensable requisite, for business as well as bt amusement, which young men spead the greater part of their no money in dam-a~ing, and old men the greater part of their the vrealtb in repaireg. ...

... THOS BALTrc. Telegraphic intelligence has reached London to the effect that the British fleet, after eight hours' bombardment, destroyed the the Castle of Gustafsorn, south of Hango, at the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. 1500 Russians were taken prisoners. The date of the affair is not given, but as it is mentioned in au the London papers of Monday, there is very little doubt of its per- ...

... a WeDEeSA alo2r a85 WEDNESDAY, Mray 24, 1S54. P A R L I A Al E N T. fort HOflSE OF LORDS. tho !r-HEIR Lordships, when nothing else is doing, keep bur themselves in matter for speech-making by general mei questions suggested by petitions, and by those occasional exit sources of small inconveniences that start up to disturb of; the theoretical precision of legal critics like Lord reAn Brougham ...

... W& EDINBURGHI, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1854. A SECOND EDITION ofltle MERCURY ispoblished everyMor- day AftontoDn, cont.aining reports of the London Corn and Ca ttle M1larkets of that tdav, the state of the Funds and all other fintellizence received 'ov Telegraph. The Second Edition can be COr arded, in mrast inlstances, to any part of the Country by the Mails of that Evening. Wa are still wirilout ...

... FREE CHURCHI. TnnRSDAs , MAT 25. The Assembly met to-das' at ten ?? Grierson in the chair. APPOINTMIENT OF AIR SMEATOOF 01 Xl;cnTERARDE11 TO TEI ; SECOND C11AIR AT Afi'tOE1;N'. Dr CAoDtLsn rose and said-I have a ver' agreeable dutv to perform, and one which I perform with peculiar gratifiea- tion, as it concerns a minister of this Church for whomn I have I a very high esteem, with Whom I have ...