... ?OTCH FA 4ORIES. {Sir 'JRhuf Kiaaid's Re~port on Factories in. LaseV, land iti thie Lsa~year ending Seth April has appear'ed.. . Hei s~ea thyt a praiseworthy desire continnes to . ?? itself' among the miil~owners generni8 to 4 c onfonwtxe the prvisions of the'ihwr, but, wene~t bU a fewv cases of its-infaction., ?? li o' thie fhncing of machinery it is state tihat,., shicie ha-, last reperb., ...

... I OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM FIELD-MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN. (From Tuesday Evenirfg's Gazette.) WAR DEPARTMENT, May 5. Lord Panmure has this day received two despatches and their inclosures, of which the following are copies, ad- dressed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Baglm, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, May 22. My Lord,-Adalerting to my despatch No. 251, of the 14th April, I do myself the ...

... : (1?ep~Ie4 fo the ,Afrcurj). -;3 To this, spirited .s-socjiioui agricultuiusts are in- debted for. te imprtant .competitions in wiaping' machines. YesteidyAb9W ?? .Show, which has been advyertised .fpr samue tirue,.and for comIp~i- tion at which upwaids of. L5& wras offered in prizes,> was held in a fleld~i~ the- mmdiat~e heighhbourhiootl' of Stirling. .A 'iri trge'$numtcr -of 'hruers -and] ...

... DESeATfCHES FRO0M LORD RlAGLAN. (F~romw a Seplolemnent to Friday~s Gazette.) WVAR DEPA&RTMEENT, June 1 8. Lord Panmure has this day received three despatches and their inclesures, of wvhich the following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by Field-M;arshal the Lord Raglan, GB.CB: Before Sebastopol, June 5, lg55. My Lord,-I amn deeply concerned to have to inform your Lordship that Rear ...

... THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. VEinsxA, June 14, 2 Olr.-A despatch from Varna, dated yesterday, Wednesday, Juno 13, says that the French troops had been recalled from Kertch, probably to assist in some great blow against Sebastopol. Prince Gortsrichakof dating June 8, thus reports oln the assault of the previous evening:- The allies kept up a very heavy bombardment on the 6th and ,th. until six ...

... GEEERAL POST.OFFICE, June 1855,-On and from the I Ith instant, the regulations and postage rates of the Inland Book Post will be as follows, viz.- 1. For a Packet not exceeding 4 oz., d. . d. Do. exceeding 4 oz. and not exceeding S oz, 2d. Do. ,, 8 oz. ,, 16 oz., 4d. Do. ,, I1 lb. ,, 1i lb., 6d. and so on, 2d being charged for every additional half-pound or any less weight. 2. The postage must ...

... ?? ?r n q IT W Offli I? k ma. FRANCE. Pnits, Thursday.-It may be reten-irbred ?? sonei time ago (a long while belore the afllair of Pianoti) several politi- cal arrests were made in Paris. -3l. Brault, the Judge of In- struction, by whomn the prisoners were examined, has now completed his investigations, and it is expected that in a few days 54 persons will be tried by the correctional police ...

... The following, is a letter from David Wallace, lance-cor- poral, 71st Highlanders, to his parents in South Queens- ferry Genikale, May 30, 1855. Dear Parents,-I take the pleasure of writing these few lines to you to let you know that I am quite well at present, thank God for his mercies in having protected and guided cue through all my difficulties which I have undergone since I wrote to you ...

... (Prom the Trimes.) U. is n5* 't An so Ii a dist'aly of feeling has been nv-.l . ;i of L .rds as was manuifested on 1w - ' the Earl of Mellmesbary called the tl; he peers to the massacre of N~augo. ?? in 1st jbe a momentous one indeed whiich 2ouses 'so dignalied andl reserved an assembly to the ex- pression of violent indignation. Cold andi unimpassioned by habit and by policy, the peers of ...

... .LATEST NEWS 9 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-) LONDON, SUNDAY. THE WAR. St Petersburg, Saturday Morning. A despatch has arrived from General Prince Gorts- chakoff, dated 26th May, stating that the Allies have occupied Kertcls and Yenikale. The Russians retired towards Argbnie without any particular loss. The Allies havo not shown themselves in the interior. Marseilles, Saturday. The Mail steamer ...

... The following passages are extracted from a French work published in 1853, by A. Corcard, and which is looked upon as in grea; measure an authority on the subject of which he treats - i The Sea of Azoff is ninety miles in length from the Straits of Kertch to the point of Bieloserai, at the entrance of the Gulf of the D)on. The gulf itself is 76 miles, making a total of 166. From the extremity ...

... ?w (Ea I total 3 EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1855. A SECOND EDITION is Puuoished every Afternoon, coniitaining the Latesw-e7 s received by TeILkgrapli. Wt are apprised, through the medium of the tele- graph, that the ravine a(djoiningr the MaIakahoff Towmer has been carried by the allied forces, and also that two vessels in the harbonr hakye been sunlk The re- port still be definitely ...