... JI'JU, 11 littiligna. FRANCE. ATTEMPr TO AtSSASSItATE THtE EMPEROR. The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the following:- 'Yesterdav, about five o'clock, the Emperor was on horse. back in the Champs ElyseeS, accompanied by Count Edgar Ney, one of his aides-de-camp. and Lieutenant-Colonel Vala- breque, chief equerry. On the eminence near the Chateau des Fleurs a well- dressed man approached within ...

... MID-LOTHIAN. (Written for the Ca7edonian .Atercuri.) Very little rain baving fallen since December! the little moisture in the land is chiefly due to the quantity of 5510W which fell during the earlier spring months. To this warnt of moisture, and the prevalence of cold, is to be imputed the scantiness of grass in pasture lands, and the general backward- ness of vegetation. The weather during ...

... LATEST NEWS, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LONDON, W*EDNESDAY EVzNING. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this afternoon. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. The Gazette contains the following despatch from Lord Raglan:- Before Sebastopol, April 17. M My Lord,-The fire of both the French and English armies has been continued upon Sebastopol since I ad- dressed your Lordship on the 14th ...

... E lI3NBURGI] GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATION5. David Nicol, merchant in Linlithgow-Creditors meet in the Star and Garter Inn there, 18th hay, one ?? Dawsonjun, Lilithllgow, interim factor. John Craig Wylie, commission merchant in Glasgoav-Creditors meet in the Queen's Hotel, George Square there, 14th May-, twelve ?? MEwsan, Glasgow, interim factor. James Campbell & Co.. machine and tool makers in ...

... Z?-whipf.rial ie HXOUSE OF LORDS. s,_ _ 1 MONDAY, Armsl. 30. THE SARDIIINIAN CONTINGENT. The Earl of ELLEN'BOOUGH wvished to know whether any convention existed with Sardinia as to the supply of food ts for her contingent, and wehether the Commissary-General in Id the Crimea, when he was applied to, had replied that he would be unable to supply the required amount of provisions. le Lord ...

... 2 rf I an b. NMuRDER IN THIE KING'S COunTY.-On Sunday night a man named Brian Bergin was murdered near Dunkerrin, in the ring's County. The deceased was returning to his home with a party of friends, when he was attacked by five or six men, and beaten in a savage manner. He was knocked down, and while lying on the road his head was literally smashed by blows from large stones. The murderers ...

... LONDON GAZETTE, o DOWNING STREET, April 25. j The Queen has been pleased to appoint Cornelius Kort- right, Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Exe- cutive Council of the Virgin Islands. WHITEHALL, April 28. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignit- of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto ...

... ON THE 1ST OP MAY 1855. [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the depot of the regiment is stationed.] CAVALRY. j 27th, Bengal; Chatham. Ist Life Guards, Hyde Park. 29th, Crimea; Isle of Wight. 2d, Windsor. 2tPege ; Chatham. Royal Horse Guards, Regent 30th, Crimea ; Fermoy. Park. 31st, Zante ; Pemhroke. 1st Dragoon Guards, Piers-* 3,2dKussowlieBengal;Chat. hill. 33d. ...

... CAD'Ilial Iflittilivila. Q? CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The mercantile advices from the Cape of Good Hope reach to the 17th of February, and are of considerable interest. The mania regarding the Namaqualand Copper Mines was rapidly subsiding, and several of the companies had become extinct. The rascality of a few, and the ignorance of more, have, it is said, become patent to the most credulous. Some of ...

... (From the, KimarnecJ, Chronicle.) Mr De Quincey and Sir William Hamilton are now old, infirm, and poor. They have produced works of unrivalled abilitv and influence, works which will brace and sway the minds of the leaders of thought in generations yet to come. Those two authors are worthy of the best age of British lite- rature and philosophy, yet, they are altogether unnoticed by a ...

... EDINBURGH. The statutory annual meeting of the Commissioners of Supply, Road Irnstees, and Justices of the Peace for the colimty of Edinburgh, was held on Monday at one o'clock- Co : ?? of Puccleuch, Lo ?? of the county, pre- sided. APPOITNTflYTS, ETC. i. - ' 1> ; ;L >[it'd taule t excepting for Edin- ?? :! , m Dit, kraii there was no hillet-master appointed I 1,1tr of tile coulitv. 'I he ...

... THE CRIMEA. MARSELLrEs, May I.-The Caire, which left Constantinople on the 19th of April, has arrived. Despatches leave at nine A£5. General Forev has arrived here. BALAKLAVA, April 17.-General Bizot was buried yester- day. On Sunday, 15th, Magazine No. I of the right attack exploded; one man was killed and five wounded. On Satur- day, 14th, the French fired three mines under the Flagstaff ...