... FOtlMED IN 13i1. The annual meetings of this society for the distiribution of prizes for the best crops, as well as for the best management of thrilms generally, were held-the first meeting of the season on the 17th day of August, and the secomid mecting on the 25th October last. Ol both occasions the judges were met in the morning by a large minmber of the members of the society aud others ...

... We (Tilmes) have received the following from our correspon- dent at Marseilles:- Marseilles, 30th Oct. The Shnois has arrived with advices from Constantinople to the 22d and the Crimea to the 20th inst. 1er mails will leave by the 1 r.zr. train. The frigate Christopher Colombe has arrived. She left Kainiesch on the 15th, and has on board Generals Bosquet, Couston, Mellinet, and Trochu. The ...

... 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 ...

... The University was publicly opened on Wednesday, at q twelve noon, by the Very 11ev. Principal Maefarlan, in pre-t sence of the other Professors. P The attendance was rather smaller than we have been accus- tomed to see on similar occasions. After offering up an impressive prayer, the Very Rev. PItINCIPAL said :-It was almost beyond expectation that I should once more have the privilege of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... (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, ...

... 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 ...

... -. 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 ...

... C I I FORB3ES MACKENZIE'S BILL. We are again in the thick of our annual Municipal Elections, I which come off on Tuesday next. So far as at present indi- I cated, contests in the Wards will be few; but such as there are. promise to be tough and keen. The cause of this'contention in the districts does not exactly present itself on the sufface. In I former times, when a Whig stood on one side ...