... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... ?? 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, ...

... 1J r u ili rit I l 1 tg l lyc II C.srTURE O1 A SHlARnc.-One of these monstcrs ?? calotght oi Macdali oat Wednesday last, the 21st cur- rent, by Mr A. Lyall and crew. The mnimal had seized the hook, and, feeling itsclf caught, had struggled to get free, but in doing so, it was the more and more entangled, and it dashed itself el the bot- tom till it died. Thle species is that known as the ...

... ESTABLISHSED Clluonc Consmmssiom.-A mecting of Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was called for yesterday, but for want of a quorum no business was transacted. Tim COUNTY MILITIA.--YestCld(1ay forCenoon0, two companies of the Edinburgh County Militia, com- manded by Lieutenant-Coloncl M'Donald of Powder Hall, arrived here from Dalkoith, and took up their quarters in ...

... OUR ARMY IN TIIE CRIMEA. (From the Doily News' Speciel Correspondence.) Camp, Sebastopol, Nov. 12. Thle event of chief importance affecting- the interests of the British army in the Last lits been the retirement of General Simpson, and the assumption of' the suprense comtnand by Ge- nerall Sir William Codrington, K.C.B. The intelligence men- tioned in my letter sent by the lest mail is thos ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30., - _ . ?? .. - . mark. Sir William Codrington, the new Commander- ?? in the Crimea, has forwarded his first despatch, enclosing one from Brigadier-General Spencer, giving an account of operations at KHinburn, with which our readers are already acquainted. There are also enclosures from Brigadier-General Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Tottenham, relative to recent ...

... The following are the receipts of railways for the past week:- Hiles opened. NAM N or RAIIWAY, 18665. 854. 115 107 Aberdeen and Scottleli BlIdland Junction ?? ?? ?? 87t 37j Belfast Andl Ballymena 32 32 Iirkenhead, Lancesi.&Chooh. Jn - ?? - ?? ?? i3 13 Blythe and Tyne ?? 117 1039 llristol and ?? ?? 189 189i Caledoinn i ?? ?? 941 94t Chester and liolybelid (wIth Mold) 20 20 Cork and Bandon ?? ...