... THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THE TRUE BASIS FOR I ADMNIINISTIATI1V REFOrM. (From the Editibargh Roview.) The public are supremely unjust when they chal- lenge the Government to employ men of higher ability, of greater energy, ald in the vigour of youth in high offices, for it is not the Government which (gives servants to the State, but the public, and more i he constituencies of England, which regu- ...

... I (From the Times,) Southampton, Oct. 30. By the Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain George Weller, with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant Scriven, R.N., Admiralty agent, we have dates from Tampico, Sept. 30; Havana, (Jet. 10; Jamaica, (et. 12; Jactnel, Oct. 13; Porto Rzico, Oct. 15; Trinidad, Oct. 10; Barbadoes, Oct. 13; St. Thomas, Oct. 16. La ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. MARSETLLES, Monday Evening.-The Euphrates has arrived. She left the Crimea Oct. 27, Constantinople 29. Despatches leave at 8, P.r. An English steamer had advanced up the Bug to re- connoitre Nicolaieff. She states that there were nume- rous vessels in port. The place was strongly fortified. Odessa was still blockaded by the Allied steamers. The weather in the Crimea was ...

... OPFAING OF TILE UNMITFlSITY. Yesterday aftcenoon the University was formally opened for the ?? session by P'rincipal Lee. The studeuts mnstered in great force, and nt two o'clock, the hour of meeting, the Clhemistri Class-roomD wns crowded in every part. Shortly after that hour the Senatus Academicus entered the hall, hearded by thc Principal, and were received wi tl much appl]ause. 'IThe new ...

... (From the Times' Correspondence.) - ?? of the Allied Armies on the Tchernaya, mn October 20. fo II0c Is A few minutes after I had sent off my letter to the Pot on0 S g Tuesday last I heard that the Highland Division had received 3-counter orders, and was not going to Eupatoria, in consequence 1. of an apprehension of an intended attack of the Russians uponbR )our lines. te Since that time ...

... LONDON. OCTOBER 31. af We regret to say that 'the last accounts from the at Crimea leave no hope that Captain Ross, of the Buffs, d St who was returned as missing on August 31, has A: survived that day; The only consolation to his family n is the high character given of him to them by the li- Commanding Officer of his regiment, and by officers at of higher rank; one of whom mentions him as one ...

... to Dr O r IT b 0 I c e. ELECTRIC TELEMRAUmIING. TO TRlE EIIOIt OF TIlL CALEDONItAN tERtCURtY. Sin,-In ail last I gave you an hlsight into the manner in which Yankees manager these matters. Not content, however, with making fools of themselves and damaging a good cause, they are so very 'cute that they must try to make others pay for their whistlo. It seems they insured the rope in this country ...

... EDTINBURGH. ESTABLISTI5ID PtESBYTERY-A meeting of this reverend body was held yesterday, to proceed with thee translation of the Rcv. David Brown, from St Bernards, Edinburgh, to the parish of Scoonie, and to hear any objections which the congregation of St Bernards might make to the said translation. No one having appearcd, the Presbytery agreed to proceed with the translation in due form. ...

... DESPATCIIES FROM REAR-ADMIRAL SIR E. LYONS. | ;he (From a Supplement to the Gazette.) ,he Admiralty, Nov. 1. he Despatches, of whicel the following are copies, have been re- oy. ceived from Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., ?? ye Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the-, . rsa Mediterannean and Black Sea. . a At !ad Royal Albert, off Kinburn, Oct, 18. ] air Sir,-May ...

... - . We (Times) have received the following despatch from our correspondent at Paris:- Paris, Sunday, 10 A.M. The Monileur publishes the following telegrrphic de- spatch from Marshal Pelissier to the Minister-at-War, dated Sebastopol, Nov. 2 ' On the 27th October General d'Allonville, with 24 bat- talions, 38 squadrons, and 56 pieces of artillery, advanced on the road from Eupatoria to ...

... , ., t 1? I I)- 1) I (, ? i 'I I-!, ? ] f, , , , . ? ? , 1 Q 1? 1? i ? I I 1, . I . 'k. - I FRA N CE. ARIIIVAL OF TIHE IHERiOES OF TIIE A'ALAKNOFF. IMIIASEILLES, Oct. 30.-The steamer Simois, with the mails from Cbnstantinople of the 22d inst., ar- rived to-day some hours behind thie, having been compelled to take shelter last night in thc roads of I-ycres from tbe inclemency of' tho ...

... foreign '?fntdligtllm C?l - FRANCE. ROYALTY LrANING TO FATALISM. Some years ago, when. the then Prince Louis was affialced to his cousin Mathilde, the betrothed pair wcere both at Arenenbers, the ?? ?? villa, near the Lake of Constance, where was also the narrator of the tale. They had both of them fixeu upon a certain young oak tree in the park With great affection, and made it an object of ...