... THlE EAST. We (Times) have received the following telegraphic despatoh from our Berlin correspondent B n , IBerlin, Monday, May 21. The following despatch, dated St. Petersburg, Sunday, has been received here,- i' Prince Gortschakoff writes, that on the night between the 12th and 13th the Russians made two small and successful sorties. Up. to the 1 lth nothing of importance had occurred ...

... . _ -e a__ I., - -r -> a The annual General Assembly of the Free Church' of SeotW land was held yesterday, in Tanfiel& Hall; Edinburghb There. was a large muster of members in anticipation of- the election- of a clerk. Dr..Gsusasow, the retiring Moderator, preached the opening sermon from Acts, xx. 28; and after closing the introduetory devotioual.exercises, and constituting the Assembly, ...

... THIE LATE CAPTAIN CHRISTIE. We find the follong cpitoie of the services of the late Cap- tain Christie hn the Naval Biography :- ,I Peter Christie is son of James Christie, Esq. of Durie, Fifeshire, by Mary Turner, daughter of the lion. Charles Barclay Maitland, granddaughiter of the sixth EDrl of Lauder- dale, and first cousin of the late Itear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C. B. ...

... 1I A. 4'I' 1Xi S 'I NEWS. EIIURALD OFFICE, Friday Morning. BY ELECTRIrC TELEGRAPH. FOR(lt (4N INTELLIGENCE. TIHE CRIMEA. Vienna, Wednesday Morning6 The Thnes' corresponident says,- Authentic information has reached ine that the bhoibarilment of Sebastopol which had been suspended ocl the 28th was to be resamed in a few days. T1he letters of the correspondents of the London papers to the 17th ...

... (FP-m tho Ayr Observer.) A case of some interest, arising out of the changes conselueit upon the working of the new Registration Act, camne before a Smnall Debt Court at Strauraer on the 9th inst. This was a case raised against the session-clerk and the registrar of births, baptisms, and marriages in the parish of Portpatrick, at the instance of a person named Nailson, residing in the village ...

... C£al'inet Council.-A Cabinet Council was held at E the Foreign Office, Downing Street, on Friday. The t Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the t Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the ( Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren- a don, Lord John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chaicoel-e lor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William ...

... tWITH SUPPLEMENT.] MON)AY MORNING, MAY 28. The news from the seat of war is at length begin- ming to assume a character of vitality, and tells of .- -1 A-__ z .. . I ?? 1 successes which warrant us in saying, with Lord Pal- merston, I think we have turned the point. We never for one moment doubted with regard to what would be the issue of the operations against Sebasto- pol. We had the most ...

... LETTER FROAI PARIS. We have been favoured ivith the following colsunitcation froom an eminent townsman, nPWT in Paris:- Paris, Ist MJay, 8Ifi5 Here am I once more in this ?? and changeful capital, which -aitiougigh twelve months have not yet passed since I last visited it-exhibits during that short period abundance of novel- ties even to astonish its own habitnea. Among these there are none so ...

... O\UA'100. Li of aun WI Xv~v (From tihe Times.) At 1, ngth there is a gleam of hope from the Crimea. We have once more assumed the aggressive, we have been success- fuil, and the success has been such as to induce our War Minis- ter to publish it. The data fromn which we have to learn the precise amiount of our advantages are slight. We are given to understand, however, that there has been a ...

... Deacons and Free Preseses' Society. -At the annual general meeting of this society, held within the Trades' Hall, on Friday the 4th instant, the following gentle- men were elected office-bearers for the current year:- Henry Bruce, Prese. W. E. C. Clark, Treasurer. David Yuill, late Prees. David Black, late Treasurer. Robert Webster, Master in Votes. Directors. Deacon-Convener James Craig. ...

... LETTER FROM PARIS.-No. 2. Paris, 3d May, 1855. tin, When I last wrote you everything was in confusion in the for, .pubi (le l'Industric, but during these three days past a great tha change has taken place on the interior appearance of the ?? Universal Exposition. The thousands of boxes, bales, and mu hampers which incumbered the floors and galleries have been dul ,partly cleared of their ...

... DoweivSG STREET, MAY 18. The Quecen has been pleased to Appoint Henry James Moller, Esq., to be Resident Matgiotrato for the county of D Urban, in the district of Natal, in South Africa. - WswrllTE ALL, MAY 22. The Queen lihs been pleased to present tho Reverend James Mit- ciholl to tle Chrerh and Parish of Peterhead, in tbe Prosbytery of Door, and County of Aberdeen, vacant by the ...