... FRANCE. The jfionitenr of Thursday says,- The Emperor left Paris to-day to visit the Camps of l3ou- logne and St. Omer. ?? absence of his Majesty will be of short duration. The Emperor arrived at St. omer at half-past seven in per- feet health.'' The Aloniteur also publishes the following:- The Minister of the Marine and the Colonies has received from the Crimea, by way of Bucharest, the ...

... I Russian Politeness.-The following is a letter from to the Grand Duke Constantine to Lieutenant Maury. to We learn that the Russian Minister lately waited on ?? Maury, at the National Observatory, to r deliver, by command of his Government, an axrtograph a letter from the Grand Dukq Constantine, who, it will le be remembered, is the Commander-in-Chief of the in Russian navy. This letter is ...

... SCOTLAND). r Edinbaugh Wool Scde3.-Tlie August sale took eplace on Tuesday in the Corn Exchange, when the wools catalogued, amounting to about 700 bales, were all disposed of, with the exception of a few small lots, d principally unwashed white wools. There was a fiir attendance of buyers present for laid Clheviots, as well as Southdowns. The competition was very animated, and the prices ...

... The following interesting paper, which we IhivO slighly returi abridged, was read by Dr. Shaw at the meeting of thle section od on Thursday, but till now we have not been able to thind space about fir it Frc 1L`nrowr op ExprDITIONt UP THE RIVERS, KIYORCA AND) TniHA- faster DA, between the 19th of July and the 4th of November, fspoer 1854. ?? ri Dr. TV. Balfour Blaik-ie to thie 8ecretorry of ...

... FEk'OM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. WAi OrFeoE, SEPTEMiitt T. 1, 4th Regiment ?? Guards-Cornot U.Ii arrau to be Adjutant vice Webb, who resigns the A djutancy only. 6;h Dragoon Guoarda-Caliptai A. G.:Dickson, from the t2d Foot, to f be Captain, vica Philips, who exchanges. m 7th Dragoon Guards-Veterinary Surgeon M. Posit, from the ist ft Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Cherry, who ...

... THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THE TRUE BASIS FOR I ADMNIINISTIATI1V REFOrM. (From the Editibargh Roview.) The public are supremely unjust when they chal- lenge the Government to employ men of higher ability, of greater energy, ald in the vigour of youth in high offices, for it is not the Government which (gives servants to the State, but the public, and more i he constituencies of England, which regu- ...

... I (From the Times,) Southampton, Oct. 30. By the Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain George Weller, with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant Scriven, R.N., Admiralty agent, we have dates from Tampico, Sept. 30; Havana, (Jet. 10; Jamaica, (et. 12; Jactnel, Oct. 13; Porto Rzico, Oct. 15; Trinidad, Oct. 10; Barbadoes, Oct. 13; St. Thomas, Oct. 16. La ...

... 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, ...

... THE LATE LORD RAGLAN, Fro-. tho. 'ri- of am-ov \ (From the Times of Monday.) gi The forebodings which wve expressed in the last b number of our journal respecting the work of death in J this exhlausting war had been but too surely veried to oven before we uttered them, by the removal of one of to the chief actors on the scene. Lord Raglan is no th more. He succumbed to a dysenteric attack, ...

... ,, With the opening of the summer campaign the measures for keeping up Lord Raglan's fored in full efficiency, as regards numlbers, come into extensive practical operation. Detach- ments of the several cavalry regiments in the Crimea have. loft this country within the last few days. The 10th IHussara, numbering nearly 800 men and horses, left Alexandria, and would be all under Lord Raglan's ...

... [WITIH SUPPLEMENT.] MONDAY MORNIN(, APRIL 30. . Pact of ou' Advertising matter will be found in the Supplement to this day's paper. By electric telegraph we are informed that the Emperor Napole :n III. was shot at while walking in ., rem -1 I- - _ - I - . Tt_ r_ n the Champs Elysge on Saturday. His Majesty was n not hit. I-e appeared in the Opera Comique the same e evening, and was ...