... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... We insert in another part of the paper a letter from a correspondent, who is evidently as warmly anxious for the welfare of this noble Institution as ourselves, butwho has been induced to take a vicev of the best nmcans for promoting its usefulness different from the one we re- cently advanced. Affirming the competency of the vo- Inntary principle to furnish the requisite pecuniary sup- ...

... (From At/ens badian AfaL.) Pursuant to notice, a meeting was held at the Collector's Cutchnry, Kurrachee, on Monday, August 28, 1854. The meeting was numerously attended by most of the influential members of the community. Amongst those present were Mr Frere, the Commissioner in Scinde, the General commanding the division, the Brigadier commanding at Kurracbee, and all the heads of departments ...

... 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 ...

... MISMAANAGEIMENT OF THE WAR. The Tinmes of Friday has another article severely reflecting supon the authorities fur the manner in which they have con- ducted the war. It is afraid that the came bungling which has pervaded so many of the departments will find its way into the operations connected with the proposed railway at Balaklava, and that the military authorities will throw so many ...

... MISMANAGEMENT OF THE ARMTY. (Fronn the Times of Satulrday.) t Two months ago we could not have seen the letter of L an officer containing some trifling refections on the inevi- table mishaps of an army oi the march or in the field without being laid under the most solemn obligations not to publish it, or at least to disguise the source of our in- formation. Now the whole army rushes into print ...

... LATEST NEWS, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) London, 4.30 ra. N'o later news from the Crimea. LONDON EXCHANGE-. Dec. 30. SITABES. Consols forAccount, 011 a ex d.!ExchequerB.(large) 4 7 pnn. Do.nletonev i.. 01 exd.iDo. (stsall)>. 47 pm. New 3 perCents.,. 914 g Do. Bonds, - - Bank Stock,--- 208 9 Me:xican RAILWAYS Aberdee en.. - &Lo & South-W., Caledonian - 604;- 14 ;Mal., Sheo., & L., 244 54 Do. ...