... Wua Office, April 24 : ScolosFusilier 0unrt'ls--Lieut'enant ond.Captain and Brevet-Major the Hon. William Frederick Scarlett to be Captain and Lieutenant Colo. nel, by purchase, vice Stracey, who retires; Captain R. H. Whyte, from the Mbth Font, to he Lieutenant and Captain; by purchase, vice the Hon. W. F. Scairlett. 7th Foot-Lieutenant .J. R. Cooperto be Captainh;withoutpurbbase, vice Hon. C ...

... Tune annual general meeting 'of Commissioners:,of Supply, &c., c: for Abordeetimhire, was held'in the Court-Houseeon Monday. A The gentlemen present; qualified to gOverishnent, according to the Statute, the oath being adininistered -by Sheriff Davidsoja; I after which Ur Grant of Tillyfour wasecalled to the chair. Sir J. D. II. ELrnXNSTON4 *hn pr opw94 the roevitieton of Mr Grant as Conveneor ...

... HousE op Loans, 24th April. The Committee for Privileges met this day, and consisted of Lord Redesdale, Chairman, the Lord Chancellor, Lord St. Leo- nards, the Earl of Minto, Lords Polwarth, Kinnaird, Petre, Saye and Sele, and several other peers. The claim of Sir Jamee Carnegie of Southesk, Bart., to the titles of Earl of Southesk, Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird, &c., was resumed from the last ...

... FOREIGN. INTELLrGENCE. Pranem . o Galgrgani says :- The Emprers, we are happy to state, basOt benefited considerably in health by her recent visit to Eng- se *da We road in the Coastitltionwet-A Tho camp equipago .oftlic Emperor has been sent off to the south by the Lyons Railway, in ebarge of several ermptr of the Mensus Plaisirs. who, before Jr their departure, wore provldedwithl a complete ...

... is T'is measure has passed the ordeal of the second read. r ,. ing. It was carried by 210 to 171; and, unless Mr C. Bruce's motion in committee, for dividing the bill into no e two-one for parish and the other for town's schools- C be be snecessful, there is little chanre of its being modified, b e till it come before the Upper House. The debate was confined to Scotch Members, with ore very ...

... - PRHOYTERY OF ABERDEESf. ,, ., - . t- Thisrey Vort yeserdy-M? Tornson, Belhelvie, Mo. ?il Colan, Dwri, hvin' dc~iuedthe functions of an As- sembp rpreen~ive, DrMacliesonwas elected in his EDITCAMJDN`-LOBR AD)VOCATE'S BILL. Dr `Tia:GAEiT,,0v5(1 that the Presbytery petition Perlia- met-ginst the Loid'Adivocate's Hill. -The Presbytery w -re cleonto adopt this course bpth fromn the importance of ...

... LATEST NEWS. ,-r ELE APH. :at s T H E W. A R. g0 (Brom the Times.) BERLIN, Monday. -A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated 29th, says, Prince Gortschakoff, under date, of e 24th April, writes from Sebastopol:- 0 The fire of the enemy continues, but is slacker. The damage done to the fortifications and houses of our gar- e rison is also less.. tit . The Daily News says, non-official advices ...

... THE LAST OF THlE CONFERENCES. ie LAST week our readers were informed that the Confer- encesq had been adjourned on the Saturday previous sine die-in other words, were at an end-anl that Lord John Russell and hi )rouyn D'Lbuys were on tleir . way-i hmneward. This news neither surprised. nor dis- appninted us. We could not hut regard the alternative conditions off-red under the third head as a ...

... iTlonday. April 30. - if A Meetine of the Coinmslinners was held this day-Baillic Watson (acting Chief Magistrate, the Lord Provost being ab. e sent from town) presiding. DREDGING AND DEEPENrCG OF 0?ATBOUIV. i A memorial was read from the shipbuilding firms of IMesrs I h' Hal, Dii])thie, and Hood, setting- forth that the tidal harbotir if opposite their yards was gradually filling up for want ...

... To the EDlTOR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. SiR,-I am desired by Lieut.-Colonel Douglas, commanding 79th Highlanders, to request that you will have the goodness to publish in your paper, for the information of their friends, the enclosed return of casualties, which have occarred in the 79th Highlanders, since the 9th February, 1855, until the 9th April, 1855.-I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, ...

... a EDoctle8.en mwe 2u1855 WEDNES8DAY. May 2, 1855. .PAR B IA MEN T. THE ELECTRIC TELEORAPIH.-On Thursday, the Go- Vernment were questioned in both Honses on the sub- s ject of telegraphic communication with the Crimea; but I the only information given wast that the lines were corn- pleted the whole way, except from Rutschuk to Buchan I rest. A telegraphic despatch had been received, but it I ...

... GREAT NORTaiOJ'SC&TLA. Al WAY-.- A, Special General Meetinigi'f the §hareholders of'thi§ urder- taking waii'lleld in' the Rdyal Hotl, on Friday. 'On the rmo- tion of Mr J. D. MrLifn,Stn4 Mr1Milnd of Kinaldy, wis,'in the istbsenrerf ~tbr Clisirnan of the Directors,-called to he .Cliairr ' 'The rotic6 callingthe'xaeeting:wastlthen tread; from which it appeared the objectwas to have laid before. ...