... WAR DEPARTMENT, Oct. 29.--Tice Qucel has been ffraqcieobis Dk-1, to give orders for the agpointment of the itigcht onourable L.. l'anmcure, K.T., one of ber Majesty's Principal Secretaries of 51: having the Departmentoi War, to. be an ordinary member of u Civil Divislon of the First Class, or ?? Grand Cross, of thjc )11i Ron. Order of the Bath. MaEM3EaS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMIENT.-IotiCCS, in ...

... VALE OF NEATPI RAILWAY. The nineteenth half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the Castle hotel, Neathi on Wednesday last, Viscount Villiers in the chair. The Secretary, Mr. Wililame, read the directors' report, In which, among other matters, they ?? accounts trans- mitted to the proprietors, when compared with those of the corresponding half-year of 1854, exhibit In the traffic depart ...

... IT is singular how-long an excellent eause remains corn- paratively unencouraged-at all- events unenforced- until some strong current of public opinion, taking a I particular direction, sweeps all before it, when that which has been battled for during many years is at once settled f by a strong will and a determined resolution. So it was with the question of intramural interments. No- t thing ...

... REsuiunG BUSrINESS.-A housebreaker in the Midland coun- ties, having completed the term of his imprisonment, applied to the Grimsby magistrates to have his skeleton keys and other professional tools given up to him. A YANREE ALLEGORY.-A New York paper states that a sporting gentleman,' who h has paid great attention to rats, makes a bet to harness a hundred rats and drive them in a light ...

... LAWFORD'S GATE-TNirflSDAY. |gaistrates present: The Rev. Mr. Mirehouse, and. Messrs. Sampson, Clutterbunk, and George. FUACAS AT HJcnAm.-William Lapha a, assistant ovorseer of Huanham, v. Thomas fc hite, of Hcanharn-cour.-Mr. Nash ap- peared for the complainant, and Mr. Ayre for the defendant. Mr. Nash, at great length, opened the case, and called Mr. Uapham. who said that on the 5th of June ...

... lortip PWITYCAM - - . .1 [Continued from the Supplement.] THE BOMBARDMENT OF SEB&STOPOL, (From the Times Correspondent.) Fourth Division Camp, Friday, April 13.-Up to the present moment our batteries have succeeded in establish- ing a superiority of fire over the Russians, but it is not very decided, and the silence of the enemy's guns may arise, in some measure, from want of ammunition, or ...

... F id Royal South Gloucester ?? Cunmingham, Gent, to be lt quartermaster. il CastlemartinYeomanryCavalry.-Cornet Thomas Stokes, to be lieutenant; Decimus WIliams Byers, Gent., to be cornet. to of. BANKRUPTS.-FRIDAY, M~Lt 25. ty Popplewell and Goff, Lime-street, merchants, to surrender June S, m Julyb,satBasingball-street. Solieltor, Pollock, London James Martyr, Union-street, Southwark, ...

... CEPISTOW FLOWER SHOW. The timid prophets who had gloomily predicted that the Chepstow autumnal show would be heavily eclipsed, if indeed, not fairly snuffed out, by our own gorgeous gathering at the Zoological-gardens, must have been agreeably disappointed on Tuesday, for probably never in the history of the society has the little town been thronged by a more numerous assemblage of visitors ...

... ?? The %EnRCUitY is published on Mondays and Thursdays. Price v annum, £2, 4s credit; £2 paid in advance. Half-yearand Quarter in proportion. ,6/ + I 11'Itra rp'. - ?? ?? - - EDINBURTIGH, THURSDAY, IMAY 17, 1855. A SUPPLEMENT is otublslsed with the MEIlCURY every Alonday andl Tiursl y Afternoon, containing the Latest News received by Telegraph. The Reports of the London Corn and Cattle ...

... (BY OUR USUAL EXPRESS.) LONDON, WVEDNESDA y MORNINIG. THE CRIMEA. I The Times correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs on I the 12th inst. as follows:- 6000 Sardinlans have gone to 7 Sebastopol. Excessively heavy flring takes place every night f between tih French and the Russiansb. The British are wiithin 50 vards of the Russian sentries. They are constructing neivt batteries. The Sultan ...

... 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 ...