... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TEN CALEDOXIAN NZECUZT. Sen,-I have read with no little interest in recent numbers of your journal some articles from your pen relating to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, bat regret to observe the conclu- sion to which you own yourself to have arrived at, that Go- vernment aid, ore compulsorylocal rate, seems to You indispen- sable as its future means of support. But, with all ...

... THE WAR-EVIL OF INJUDICIOUS CRITICISM. - -- - 111-0.1. f A _rN tAA (From the Morning Chronicle.) si I The grumbling Englishman is not an aceurate reasoner. An I accumulation of annoyances moves him to discharge the foll It measure of his wrath upon whoever happens to be nearest, al- Pi r though the real author of all or most of his discomforts may be absent or undiscoverable. He vents his ...

... The tougsor, which left Constantinople on the 14th, and the Egyptus, on the 19th, have arrived at Marseilles with despatches for the Government. The news brought by them from the Crimea is unimportant. Accounts from St Petersburg state that Prince Mensehi- e kof writes from Sebastopol on the 29th of December,- T Nothing new has taken place here. The weather is bad, and our well-directed fire ...

... (From the London Journals of Satluday Evoning.) IC (Froem the Standard.) 1n The following are among the latest telegraphic dispatches re- c3 ceived:- ItConstantinople, Dec. 20. id It is confidently asserted that the resoltion has been adopted 1 to storm Sebastopol as soon as the Turkish reinforcements come e up. TheFrenlit is said, are to storm, whilst the Britishand Turks attack Menschikoff ...

... (From the Times of Friday.) The Russian prize Ernst Merk has been sold by public auc- tion at Hull, and realised a very good price. . The Court of Admiralty proceeds on the 8th of January to adjudicate on the prize FraTicislia and the other vessels captured by her Majesty's cruisers for attempting to break the blockade of the Russian ports in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothlia. The Russian ...

... a PIAIZLUr11' Ovj. se5-l,'. s [The following appeared in part of Friday's impresFion.] r The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To- ,, day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides ,a ?? Maxin. . 5 Health.-Take, for example, a young girl bred delicately in town, shut np in a nursery in her chilildood, in a boarding Y scheool through her youth, never ...

... Despatebes from Vienna state that at the conference held in that capital on the 28th notes were exchanged between the representatives of the three allied Powers, defining the sense in which their Cabinets understood the four points proposed as conditions of peace. Prince Gortschakoff, it is understood, demands time to obtain the instructions of his Government. Another despatch, of the same ...

... Er I a n W. MIr Stephen de Vcre was elected representative for the county of Limerick on W~ednesday, in the place of the hate Mr Wvudham Gould. Therc vas no opposition. AaqTImt ELrCecON.-Captain Pakenham was elected en Wednesday, without opposition, to represent the county of Antrim, itt the room of his brother, the late lamented Co]onel Pakenham, who met an honourable death on the bloody ...

... PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE. Scarcely any change has taken place in the batteries the last few davs. The French have a number of new guns mounted, which are being kept in reserve ; for use. it is pre- sumed, at a period not very long distant. The firing in the Greenhill and Frenchman's-hill batteries has been very slack, and generally in the Russian batteries opposed to them. The Greenbill battery ...