... ?? 7,77- ili(IRD EDITIONO MERCURY OFFICE, THREr O'CLOCIL LONDON CORN MARKET-FRIDAY. Price for English wheat same as last Monday, with few buyers. Foreign held firmly; millers cautious. Flour not lower, but slow sale. Prime barley wanted, but little doing in common. A moderate trade in oats, but best sorts not lower. Rape and linseed a little cheaper. Arrivals :-British wheat. 3290; barley, ...

... I-Irobilidat . nIttlflenct. _ .- PRESENTATION TO SIR COLIN CAMtPBtEU.-As an instance of the unprecedentetl cantiusinsir wiich per- vades all classes of thc community in regald to thc presentation of a sword to Sir Colin Campbel, evwc may mention that a gentleman belonging to the rost- Office opcned a subscription list on Saturday cveniog, and in less than two hours every officer in the estn- ...

... 6- ?? . THE TIHOMSONIAN COLLECTION. TO THE5 EDITOR OF TIlE CALEDONIAN BIERCU RT. SIR,-I am hn mineralogist, and therefore have perused with no small astonishment the statements made by some of your correspondents, in recent num- bers, in regard to this collection. But more-I am a citizen of Edinburgh, and as such feel no slight in- dignation at the extraordinary manner in which our ...

... 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 ...