... m1 - A _1 I 1. . - . . .. f 1T s - w - V Vt - t X. 1 X IS - The Council resolved itself into a meeting of water commis- sioners. The minutes of the last meeting of commissioners and of the t various committee meetings were read by Air. Burnet, tile clerk. a Bailie TAYLOR gave notice that he would move that the Water Committee should consist of the whole commissioners, viz., the Council, so ...

... A U S T R A L I A. r . (From the Times.) Southampton, Nov. 14. By the arrival of the Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Atrato last night, with the West India and Pacific mails, we receive, vid Panama, dates from Melbourne, August 15; Syd- ney, August 18. At Victoria a groat publi r meeting bad been held for the a purpose of organising an association to agitate for the opening of the Crown lands. ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... DRUNKENNESS IN TIHE A11MlY. In our correspondenee from Elm Brtitishi Hospital at Retekictj occurs, quite by the way, and with thle simplest intentions, ap~rojpea of sonre undrinkable wster, the followitig passage- It this country it is quite timsafoL to partake, espe)cially during the heat of thle day, of' stimlttitincg drinks, of any de- sciton. Those who inidulget in beer or spirits ...

... 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 ...

... tV Her Majesty held a Privy Council at Windsor on 81 Wednesday afternoon.-Globe. n The Duke of Argyll will be the new Postmaster- ti General. He will, for the present, also hold his office d of Lord Privy Seal; but this arrangement is only temporary, his Grace ultimately resigning the latter n office. We doubt not that the Post Office department it will greatly benefit by the energy and ...

... (From the Times,) ye The last intelligence from India cannot be properly bry called either serious or alarming, but nevertheless con- the tains matter which may reasonably give cause for dis- it quiet and uneasiness. A wild and fanatical spirit is Ai abroad, so much the more formidable as it disclaims no thfe fears and despises the interests by which the fly masses of mankiiid'are governed and ...

... (From the Spectator.) I ?? is power, writes the philosopher1 with pr a flourish; but tenl to one, if you place before him thle WI things about which lie koows, and ask him to do with get each that which ought to be done with it, hie will tell tin you hie does not know. He who exultingly applies to wc himself, with Isis encyclopiediacal survey of things inre ,genera], the immortal maxim of ...

... POLICE RETURN.-WORKING OF FORBES MACKENZIE'S ACT. We have been favoured with a copy of the following inter r esting return, ordered by the Police Committee, and furnished f by Capt. Smart, Superintendent of Police, in reference to the f working of the New Act for the better regulation of Public s Houses in Glasgow. The return, it will be observed, in as cordance with the order upon which it ...

... - ?? 1CT tT ]I DIVISION O LABOUtl. R (From the Economist.) For statesmen who have to regulate their conduct by the present condition of society and by the future condition, to which the present is for thoughtful men an indication, those slight but general, though slowly t and certainly progressive clianges which continually take place in the pursuits, manners, and habits of the 3 multitude, ...