... WHITEAULL, Dec. 27. The Queen has been pleased to present the Honourable and e Reverend John Thomas Pelham, B.A., to the Rectory of Saint Maryleboue, in the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, r void by the death of the Reverend John Hume Spry, D.D. 9 The Queen has also been pleased to grant unto the Rev. I William Stone, M.A., the place and dignity of a Canon of tbe metropolitan ...

... |DUNDE & AuBROATx RAILWAY. rs ?? ending Dec. 24, Passengers, 6847-leeeipts, _ s221 19 St h Goods, S 169 1 s £8131 1 41 i- Corresponling week last year--- -- 411 10 4 D(SDEE, PcnT1e, & AniuDELN RAILWAY JUNCTION. at Week ending Dec. 24. Passengers, 3G78-Receipts, 4254 .11 1 at Goods, &e., 535 12 1 e . £790 3 2 i- Corresponding week last ye arr- 709 4 2 K- is EnoteuRGco, PERTIi, & DUNDEr RAILWAY. ...

... The commissioners (MAr Macaulay, Lord Ashburton, Mr II. Melvill, Mr B. Jowsett, and Mr John Shaw Lefevre), appoint. ed to consider and report upon the best means of carrying out the clauses in the India act of 1853, relating to the admission of candidates to writerships in the East India Company, have sent in their report to Sir Charles Wood. The report enters into an elaborate consideration ...

... SEQVESTRATIOOS. Hugh Frazer, merchant and manufacturers' agent, residing in Girvan-Creditors meet in the King's Arms Hotel, Girvan, 15th Januarv, one o'clock. Alexander M'larlane & Co., hea-th-rug and carpet manufactur- ers, and dyers in Glasgow, and Alexander M'Farlane, bearth-rug and carpet manufacturer, and dyer there, the individual partner of that Company-Creditors meet in the Globe Hotel ...

... 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 ...