... ABERDEEN RAILWAY. Week ending Feb. 17. Passengers, --Reccipts,_£-10iO 0 0 Goods, 570 0 0 -- £1G30 0 0 Corresponding w eek last year _ 1734 0 0 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. Week ending Feb. 18. Passengers, 56,341-R~eceipts ..93415 8 11l i Goods, Ac_ ~ G 0644 5 04 --£IO,050 13 11l Corresponding week lastyenar-- _ -- 9,775 15 11 EDoNUrGnc & GLASGOW RAILIVAY. Week ending Feb. 17. Passengers, 13,314-Roeipte ...

... Cr The llfmxury is published on 3tondjys and Thursdays. Price V annum, £2, 4s credit; 42 paid in advance. Half-year and I Quarter in proportion. v + ?. IC) 11. 'd cvff laid g r a r ?. .6 ( '111 it 0 EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1855. A SUPPLEMENT is Published with the 31ERCUR'Y every e . 0oday end TheurslLy Afternoon, containing the Latest News e received by Telegraph . The Reports of the ...

... The monthly meeting of this Presbytery was held yesterday -the Rev. David Brow'n, Moderator. MiR STIRLING'S EDUCATION BILL. Dr SEvmE, on the part of the Parish School Committee, laid otn the table a copy of Mr Stirling's bill. He stated that it was to be read a second time that day month, and suggested that a pro re oata meeting should be held to consider it. The Presbytery agreed to meet on ...

... In this case, the Lord Ordinary (Neaves) has pronounced the following interlocutor.: Edinlburgh, 23d fiebruary 1855.-The Lord Ordinary having heard Parties' procurators, and considered the closed record and whole process, finds, that by a charter, dated the 15th day of March 1603, his Majesty King James VI. granted or confirmed to the provost, bailies, councillors, and community of Edinburgh, ...

... TOWN-COUNCIL FROCEEDINGS. The Town-Council met on Tuesday-the Lord Provost presiding. GOlVING DOCK AT LEITH. Treasurer Dicxsox called the attention of the Council to a matter that was at present exciting a good deal of attention at Leith-he meant the proposed new graving dock for large vessels. It appeared that some members of the Leith Dock Commission considered that it should be formed at ...

... i DESPATCIIES FPRO LORI) RAGLAN. The report of Omer Pauha's victory over the Russians at Eupatoria is confirmed by the following despatch which Lord Panmure has received from Lord Raglan: - * Before Sebastopol, Feb. 18. A force, said to be 40.000, of Russians, with a large nurm- her of gnse, attacked Eupatoria at daylight on the 17th, and was repulsed with loss by Omer Paclha. The Turkish ...

... iTEsMS FROM THE CANJP. CLOTHING AND 1HUTS- The British clothing served out is of the best quality, and has given the highest satisfaction to both officers and men. The hutting of the troops appears to be getting on briskly now. Ten huts per division are already up, and they are daily on the increase. SICKNESS AMONG THE FItFNCH TROOPS. p A great deal has been said as to the relative perfeetion ...

... LATEST NEWS& (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvamNa.G. A Privy Council was held at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday afternoon. DAY OF SOLEMN FAST. A supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday con- tains a proclamation for a fast clay on the 21st of Mlarch. FRANCE. ! ,The Times Paris correspondent writes in a postscript- a rumour is afloat that several arrests have been this day made ...

... FOREIGN OFFICE, February 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr Herman Dirs Mertens as Consul at Margate, and of Mr V. Weber as Consul at Rams-ate and Deal, for the King of the Belgians. DOWNING STREET, February 26. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Henry George Ward, ?? St M. and St G., now Her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner for the United States of the Ionian Islands, to ...

... EI)INPUliGHi GAZETITE. SEQ UESTRATIONXS. Jlhn Lawson & Co.. calico, woollen, and silk printers in Paisley, and Johis Lawson, senior, and John Lawson, junior, calico, woollen, and silk printers in Paisley, two of the individual partners of the said Company, as partners thereof, and as ?? meet in the Saracen's Head Ion, Paisley, 8th March, one o'clock.- Joh n Fleming, Glasgew, interim factor. ...

... The following list will be found as correct as can be ob- tained, at this early period, of the ships intended to form the expedition to the Baltic:- Commander-in-Chief-Rear-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C.B. Second in Command-Rear-Admiral of the Blue Michael Seymour. 'hird in Command-Rear-Admiral of the Blue Robt. Lam- bert Bavnes, CB. Captain of the Fleet-The lion. F. ...

... EDINBIURGH, PERTH. AND DUNDEE RAILWAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the sharellolders in the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company, was held in the saloon of Gibb's Royal Hotel, yesterday ?? Balfour of Balbirnie, chairman of the Board of Directors, presiding. The report (the sabstance of which appeared in our last) having been held as read, and the usual preliminaries gone ...