... Prasad. The Emperor Napoiton IIIL opecied the Legislative Session on Tuesday with the followingsec Gentleman, ISenators, an Dpepies,-d :Since your last meeting great events have happened. The appeal whiuh I made to the country to provide for the expense ci of the war was so well responded tb that the result even exceeds I my hoepse. Our arms have been victorious in thle Baltic as dl wall as ...

... TIE ARMY AND ITS HEAD. on F'rom the Times.) DREADFUL as it Must be to reflect on the passibitity of 70,000 ant -British and French soldiers and some 30,000 Turks suddenly rer, let looke upon a city that has so long defied their efforts, and !nts for the possessiou of which they, have gone thmough so much the suffering, yet we must desire it as the choice of evils. We gis- desire'it indeed, and ...

... THE .-WAR. ST vne THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. in tha n-, where as DESPATCHES FROM LORD RAGLAN. biefore id return to War Department,, Dec. 30, 1854. The .r- His Grace thle Duke of Newcastle haRS this day received a we we he Despatch, of' Which the followving is a copy, addressed to his favout iso Grace by Field-Idarshal the Lord Raglan, GOCB. i-Dm d, BEFoRE SEBA'STOP'OL, Dec. 13, 1851. on the le ...

... Titesdayj, Jasn. 2. rsi 'Vhe 'Town Council met this day-the Lord Provost presid_ of ing. 'Ste g PeESaNeT i-BaillieS Watson, Smith, Leslie, and lien. th, derson ; the Dean of Guild ; Treasurer Elmsly; tht Messrs Laing, Webster, Williams, Bothwell, Gordon, Oswald, Duncani, and Gibb. on The PROVOST , before commnening the business, offered the th members of Council thle corngratulations of the ...

... TIHE ALLIED POWERS AND RUSSIA. (From the Times.) We states on Soamrday last that engagements rxid already in existence, or would shortly be concluded ne- tweeu the three Courts which have signed the treaty of the 2d December, to determine without delay the effec- tual measures required to accomplish the objects of their alliance, in conformity with the fifth article of that agree- ment. The ...

... nstus has addressed the following communication to the Editor of the Glasgow Constitutional:- In my last letter on the above subject, I took the liberty of addressinga few words to the electors of this city, as to their duty in reference to this important movement. I would now say a few words on that system of centralization which has been going on for a length of time, to the great ...

... 9 t g '41 a b 1. APIIOISTM2ENTS AND PTtOMOTtONS. Lieutenants.-J. M. Jackson (1846), from the Horatio, 24, screw steam guardship at Sheerness, to the Blenheim, 60, screw steam ship at Portsmouth ; H. R. Crofton (1842), from the Cruiser, 17,. screw steam sloop, to the Horatio, vice Jack- son; J. W. Newport (1850), to the C.Tsar, 91, screw steam- ship at Deronport; John Ward (a) (1849), to the ...

... ?? BtJHG Ht GA.Z~rITfE. SEQUESTSOATIONS. Alexander Watson, of Auchinleck, in the county of Renfrew, and lately residing in Glasgow, now ?? meet in the Crow Hotel, George Squaru, Glasgow, Ith January, two o'clock. Thomas Wilkie, joiner at Bothwell, near Hamilton-Creditors meet in Craiisen's Black Bull Inne, Tovnhead Street, Hamilton, l8th Janwnavr, twelve o'clock. Wom. Blackett, coal merchant ...

... The annual public meeting of the subscribers and friends oft his institution took place yestetdary An examination of the classes, and an exposition of the industrial department, commenced at eleven o'clock, and was attended by a con- siderable number of visitors, who seemed to be gratified alike with the efficiency of the educational branches of the school as with the diligence and proficiency ...

... 3 fI au Colonel Cole has been returned for Fermanagh, without I Opposition. The Belfast Sehool of Design has been closed. It was established in 1849, and the Board of Trade thenguaranteed, in effect, at least, an annual grant Df L.500 towards the main- tenance of an untirely untried project. For wadit of funds, the school has now been closed. Irtsee PRor.riss.-The Belfast Mercury compares the ...

... IV 4 1),?l t th Ilu'll ??I C?Ijl I'D EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1855. A SUPPLEMENT is Published wvith the MERCURY every o Monday and Thuirsday Afternoon, containing the Litest News received by Telegraph. The Reports of the London Corn and C Catte MirkCets, with the state of the Funds, is given in the r Supplemenot isith Moaday's publication, and can be fonrvarded, in most instances, to ...

... This rev. court met ?? Lewis, (Leith), mode- rator. THE FREE CHstRCE CHAPLAIN IN THE CRIMEA. The Clerk read an excerpt minute of a meeting of the acting Colonial Committee, relative to the appointment of the Rev. Mr Watson, who was recently sent to the seat of war, in which was embodied an extract of a letter fron Mr Sidney Herbert, of date Nor. 30th, stating that Mr Watson had been appointed ...