... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... QUARTERLY RETURN OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND I MARRIAGES IN SCOTLANI). tis The Fegistrar-General has just issued his returns of thle tonI Births, Deaths, and M1arriages in Scotland for the qrrsrtor end- ing tels31toMah.As this is the first report of tile wn- kind ever published in this part of the kingdom, we give tile 'Ons prefatory remarks at full length, and subjojii tables Sihelving ICC-. the ...

... DINNER IN HONOUR OF WM, BANKIER, ESQ. On Wednesday night about 100 of the influontial manufac- turers and merchants of the city entertained Air. Bankier to dinner in the Town Hall, in appreciation of his services as a magistrate and a member of the Town Council for a long series of years, and his character as a private gentleman. The Hon. the Lord Provost occupied the chair, and Alexander ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) Liverpool, Wednesday Night. To-morrow is the day appointed for our annual election of members to the Town Council, alias local Parliament. For mainy years past the affair has not created so little attention or public interest. Party spirit seems entirely abandoned; so that the contests are not only few, but the grounds of opposi- tion purely local, and devoid of ...

... (Fromn Blackwood's Magazino for November.) TIHE GENERAL ASSAULT. The day before the fire opened, the generals of the two armies had finally settled the duration of tile cannouade and the hour of assault. The French ivere decided by the cousideratioee that She nature of the ground would not allow them to push their approaches cmu the Malakheoff and the Little ltedan closer with. out great loss, ...

... -. I_ I - ?? (From the Globe's Correspondence.) Pefis, Tuesday Efening. For once, to the great surprise of el h ?? world Bourse rumour has proved more correct than diplomatic 905i 81-I Geo. Caulrobert has left Paris for Stockholm. The ostensible Iobject of his mission is to pies ent to his Swedish Majesty the 3insignia of the Legion of Honour, in exchange for thdse of thle Order of the ...

... la of_ alief' ark A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday afternoon Iat the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount )t of Palmerston, tile Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir au George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, ?? Charles Wood, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of png Harrowby. - The Council sat two hours and three- tery quarters.-Times. 3ry; A letter to the Russian journal Le ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, N. OVR. 2 . FR'IDAY' MORNING, 'NOVEMBER 2. place in the Crimea or at Kinburn. We are informed by late despatches, from Russian sources, that the largest part of the British force at the liman of the Dnieper was posted near to the spit of Kinburn, but that 36 steamers and gunboats were stationed in the road of Otchakoff. News, also from Russian sources, has arrived to the ...

... 1 HERALD OriqcE, Friday M1orn in9'. I. BY ELECTRIC TPELEGRAPH, .n Id DESPATCHf FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. ie A Supplement to the Londron Gazette contains at despatch d from General Simpson, dated 20th Oct. He6 writes-' I am a happy to be able to congratulate your Lordship on the success- d Voll termination 0o' the expedition to Kinburn. I transmit a )f copy of the report of Brigadlier-General thle ...

... i From the Globe.) Lientenant-General Sir William John Codrington, ?? e the new Conmanderjin-Chief of the Army in the Crimea, is I the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, GOC.B., whose name is so intimately associated with the great exploits of England upon the sea at the close of the last and in the early part of the present century; and whose crown- ingachieverment was the ...