... iiOUSE OF COMMONS-MONDAY, FED. 26. shd o ls~ ?? Xnl The SrEAKiE took the chair at four o'clock. The following private bills were read a second ?? of Fife Railway; Edinburgh and Glasgow Raiiay; Hamilton Improvement; Jedburgh itailway; and Leslie Raiwvay. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY BILT. Mr. LOCKIIART moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. HADFIELD opposed the bill as unnecessary and as calculated ...

... , P.-A A 0'.Al~Slin We (Times) learn from Plymouti that the ship Plantagenet, Captain Robert Pollock, which sailed from Sydney on the 18th of October last, put into Plymouth Souud o Melday morning, bound for London ' oda mrn Shelsas on board fromn 10,000 to 12,000 ounces of gold, and a full cargo of hides, tallow, oil, and bones. Among her 23 passeiigers is Captain Baker, R.N., late of the . ...

... THE LANARKSHIRE MILITIA AT oHAMILTON. We had the opportunity in the early part of this week of. seeing the First Regiment of the Royal-Lanarkshire Militia at t drill in the Barrack Square of Hamilton. The regiment I has only been embodied three weeks and three days, and already it exhibits the formation of a noble corps. Ab6ut two-thirds of the men have been supplied with their clothing; and ...

... W- nV ?? -- l V 97 WAR DEPARTMENT, Fuli. 27. Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosnres, of.which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastlo, by Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. - . Before Sebastopol, Feb. IS, 1855. A fy Lord Duke,-I mentioned to your Grace, in my despatch of the 1oth instant, that there had been a return of bad weather, ...

... THE TURKlS AT EUPATORIA. (From the Times.) We lately pointed out the probability that the batteries of the Allied armies would soon be able to open their fire with fresh effect against Sebastopol, and we learn with satisfaction that the Russian forces under Liprandi have been repulsed in an attack on Eupatoria. The moral and material condition of the armies would in all probability be improved ...

... ABLE INDIAN OFFICERtS.1' (From tiho Times.) The usual answer given to any appelI for the consolidation of the Indian and the Queen's services is, Name your men. If British India is so prolific ill crops of heroes, it cannot be very difficult to furnish the public with thie names of a few officers whose past achievements can readily enough be inquired into and appreciated. If wo could 'ot do ...

... .THE BRITISH EXPEDITION; - (Fiem the Times' Correspondence.) 'C ?? Feb. 10. le It ralined heavily all night, and the ground Ivas reduced to such a state in a few hbours thiat the Ir~nisnewhich Sir I- Colin Campbell, aided by the French, intended to have made )fwith the men under~his command was postponed.. The etmlo- sphide -was so obscure that it ?? hut impossible to catch a IC glimpse of the ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 2. According to the latest intelligence the Ministerial | arrangements have been completed, not certainly such as we would have most earnestly desired, but arrange- ments such as will enable the Noble Lord at the head of affairs to carry on the Queen's Government. He has been chosen by the nation as the only minister ,competent to discharge the duties called for by the ...

... OBAN.-INJUSTICE OF THE BILLETING SYSTEM. Ad 1h h.Z. /A A x II- A -l ?? n To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. e- Sit,-I notice that many of the towns about your city are id petitioning against the injustice of the billeting system to n cotland, as compared with its wealthy sister England. This is certainly a great grievance ; but it is a trifling one compared to the burdens that one town ...

... THE STORY OF THE CAMPAIGN, *xn a! O011)1'. A THiE HiOSPITALS ON THlE BiOSPOR5~US. (rrom Blatckwoodt's 3Esgaslue for M1archl.) In the middle of January I was dcspatchqd to Constant inople ill the Sphinx, a war-steamer, to send up ai number of transport aninials, oquiiijld with waggonis, clothing, end drivers, for the service of the army. Riding down to Kamniesch in a thick blinding snow-storm, ...

... Her MaTjesty the Qtieeii and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert have most generously forwarded to the Bishop of London a sum of X300 as a joint contribu- tion to the Association for Promoting the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis.-Morning Chronicle. We are requested by the Royal Commission of the Patriotic Fund .to state that, although the circular of the honorary secretaries to the ...

... FOREIGfN INTELLI(*ENCE. FRANCE. (From the Times' Correspondence.) Paris, Sunday, Feb. 25, 6 P.M. We have again some reason for doubting the journey of the Emperor to the Crimea, though not. for stating positively that it will not take 'plate. I bear to-day i' that the Ehfperoi' has decidedly abandoned his project, in consequence of intelligence received from Germany, and not from the Crimea, ...