... thillall ff, ?? n EDINBURGH, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1855. nA SUPPLEM11ENT is Published with the MERCURY erry 7 Monday awd Thursday Afternoon, containing the Latest News a received by Telegraph. The Reports of the London Corn and a f CattleMarkets, with the state of the Funds, is gives in the t )f Supplement with Monday's pablication, and can be forvarded, a in most instances, to any part of the ...

... From one of the 93d Highlanders to his Wife. Camp, Crimea, 12th Dec. 1854. My Dear Jean,-1 take another opportunity of sending you a few lines, to let you know that I am still very well, notwith- standing our many hardships and difficulties. We have not had any battles since my last, but no one knows the moment; there are 30,000 Russians lying within two miles of us, as we can see daily, and ...

... M1R COBDEN ON THE WAR. On Wednesday Mr Cobden addressed his constituents at Leeds on the war. The meeting was one of the largest as- semblages ever held in the borough. Alderman Corbett, Chairmau of Mr Cobden's Committee at last election, who presided. put in a disclaimer against, being supposed to parti- cipate inl Mr Cobden's known sentimeuts. Mr COBDEN, w1ho 1 vas received wvith slight ...

... LORD RAGLAN-. TO TSUE EDITOR OF THE CALDONIAN MXEROR'T. Sla,-A most unjust set is now being made upon Lord Raglan bh thc 3-thss. Lord Raglan is blamcd, either directly -or by impleioralo, for nll the sufferings to which our army in the wast is exposed-sufferings which, I am afraid, are too rcn] to be den-ied or even softened down. But it is Cosv to show :that these sufferings ought not to be ...

... THE; RIGHTS OP SCOTLAIND. ( socil )iec ccl e 13lancW.) ! Wlhv is it that we do not love Australia, but hbecaute hic r i histors has' no ]Wlast. becasc there is no legenll, as inc Scotlan(d. 1 connertcd with cey ry m.ountain and every glen-because lucre Ir is notiling here to ?? those ernotiolt. which, thoenlh tbev miav le ordin cilr 'perhaps huished amid thc tcimuit of b ccsi-, neCS an11 the ...

... THE EXPEC: :) ASSAULT ON SEDASTOPOL. Official despatches. e have been informed, were received in Paris on Wednesdtav from the Crimea, which speak in a more positive manner than such communmcations have hither- to done, of the date fixed for the assault. From the 5th to the 10th of next month it is stated that this long-expected event will take place. It does not, of course, follow that the ...

... LONDON GAZETT1E. BOARD OF T1'ADE, WHITEHALL, January i;. The Right IHonour able the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through die Secretarv of State for Foreign AfFairs, a copy of a despatch from Her MTajesty's Consul at Valparaiso, inlosing tivo Chi- lian Commercial Decrees, of which the subjoined aro transla- t tions. (Copy.) Extract from El ...

... LATER FRO, TH UNITED STATES.' ~OTHIEAMIERICAN GOVERNMEl-NT AND TilEEASTERN WAll- Id ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. 6 ?? our own Corresponldenlt.) . '5 The United States' mail steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, r-which sailed ?? York onl the 28th ultimo, one day after hher appointed time, being detained by fog, arrived in the river ~lost evening. She brought 13 da~'s' later news and 97 passon- [.gers, ...

... THE GLASGOW MAN OF ALL WORK AT THE DIGGINGS.-No. III. SC, el~---ii cd Up in the morningj, Wednesday the 15th.-Some cursed tc ke thief has stolen a Coltsa revolver-C5 or £0 gone to pxrofit'and ox !ir loss. I am rather batter, tirough very stiff necked yet. I wasi Ax ye up at thle post-office to-day, but no attention seems to have t~i n, been paid to the letter I sent the postmaster. Another ...

... WAR APPLIA NCES. * (From the Builder.) 'It is to be hoped that the present vital struggle with despotic 1, barbarism will'oiee for all render Wei imiipossible, by maturing l its deadly energies beyond all human endurance or resistiiice; and thi cant oinly be done by themore enlightened and inven-. tive portion of the human race, and hence by those who ought to acquire thi masteiy. It miay be, ...

... SIR. A. ALISON ON THE WAR. it The inauguration of a Iliterary institu te at Sealiain on Wednes- 111 dlay attracted a large attendance of persrons from, thle adjacent adtowrns of Newcastle and Shields; to hear anl address by the his. S-torian of the French Revolution, who wais one Ofa party enjoy- IleO iug the hospitality of Lady Londonder-ry at Wyiiyard P'ark. ?? ?? AmeoNr add ressedl the ...

... |LATE ST N E WS. mier LONDON, Saturday Evening. and te r, FOREIGN I NTELLI.GENCE. ady REIGN out The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says- this It is stated, on the authority of a person in a position to be very well informed, that Gortschakoff bas communicated the at decided refusal of the Emperor of Russia to accept the inter, has pretation of the four guarantees as agree(l ...