... (The followin9 appeared in our Second E dietion of Saturday.) DESPATCH FROM AD'MIRAL BRUAT. The Paris Moniteut contains a despatch from Ad- miml Brunt. It reports a reconnaisance of the branches of the Dnieper and the capture of the valu- able rafts. The Tinmes, alluding to the scene at the Guild Hall last night, says, it was literally a warlike demonstra- tion. The guests echoed to the roof ...

... T2E1-M WABR. THE DEFENCES OF NICOLAIEFF.-THE CREWS OF THE SUNKEN FLEET. According to the Ost Deutsche Post and Oester- 7eichiscke Zedilng, of the 27th ult., Todleben is said to be workitg wonders at Nice laieff. Below Spasska, where the Bug is 600 sagenes, or fathoms, broad, the new gnu-boats. wvbich will be manned by the remain- der of the crews of the former Black Sea fleet, are to be ...

... aZ ith 1111 g abR (From the London Gazette of Fiiday.) WAR OFFICE; Nov. 9. ad Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant J. W . J. Gifford,,from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 7th Dragoon Guards-Captain C. W. Thotupson to be Major, by purchase, vice Walker, promoted, by purchase,: to an UAattached Lieutenant.Colonelcy- Lieutenant J. W. Wetherall to be Captainby pur- ...

... V, rotilahl ziddligolu. A FoRTUNATD PURCHAsE.-In the year 1838, Mr James Malcolm of 01rig, Caithness, bought half an acre of ground in the town of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, for the sam of L.40, and sold the same in 1852 for L.12,000; and, in another purchase of a similar amount, he realised much more. This almost incredible rise in the value of land is entirely owing to the discovery of ...

... al~t~llia lt R I t 7j It IyI EDINBURGH, SATURDAY, IIOV. 10, 1855. SECOND and THIRD EDITIONS are Published containing all the Latest News of iipoltance. COMING events cast their shadows before, says the author of The Pleasures of Hope, in a line so often quoted as to have lost half its force from mere triteness, These shadows seem at present somewhat ominously thicken- ing around that man ...

... ELECTION OF CITY MAGISTRATES, A meeting of Toown Council was held yesterday-- the Iloti. the Lord Provost in the chair. Councillor Sibbald, Mr James, Convener, and Mr Wemvss took the oaths. The CLERKe having intimated that the Council should now proceed to elect two Bailics, in the room of Bnilies Morrison and Clark, Bailie KAY nominated Councillor Hill as a proper person to supply the vacancy ...

... A 00 0. III c '( II f f I .1 i g c IT t t . 8 ENGLAND. -4 LORD PALMERSTON FOn THIE CITY OF LONDON.- A correspondent of the Dailil News states that a movement is ol foot amongst a large number of in- fluential citizens for making arrangements to return Lord Palmerston for the City of London at the next general election. It is not intended to ask the noble Lord to become a candidate, to which ...

... I 'Y A r ? I 11 ill ;, ?? t t.1 1 i q t II c t . FRANCE. THlE RIIMOURED ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION Or THE EMPEROrl. Although I have not yet been able, while sifting an infinity of stories on the subject, to ascertain the pre. cise circnrmstanccs of the unluckiy accident which I reported in my despatch of this morning, I believe there is no doubt that it was but an accident, and that there is no ...

... CIIITNA.-AlISSION TO AMOY. A public meeting was heldl yestcrdan nftcrnoon, in Quccn Street Hall, to hcar certaiti statements reard- ing tile progrcss of a mission recently established at Amov, for thc propagation of the Gospel. POnotMRT PAUL, Esq., vho was called to the chair, bricfly stated the object of thle mnecting, nnd then called on Donald MJathesoti, Esq., the Secretalry of thle mission ...

... ELECTRIC TELEGRAP1L DESPATCO FROM GENERAL SIMPSY-1 A Supplement to the London Gazette contasI. A. despatch from General Simpson, with enclosures -t;r-s Brigadier-General Spencer and Brigadier-Gerxc+-,!>, Lord George Paget:- General Simpson dates his despatch-Sebaeio.!, Oct. 27th, and says-I havc to report the arrivil tsi the 25th instant of a detachment of prisoneca to Ps;.- number of 132 from ...

... .(The folbowilg apjwetoed in our Scond Edition of yesterduey.) TIIE CRNIMEA. It is stated that Admirals Pclion and Stewart hare been up the Bug, and ascertained that the river is navigable for large ships. Letters from Sebastopol of 23d, and from Kinbulri -of 20th, have arrived. Tilc Aiges gives some interest- ing details of the operations at Kinburn, but no new facts. The Colomba has ...

... U110olliall IjUrturit.I EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1855. SECOXD and THIRD EDITIO:S arc Publishled containilg all the Latest .News of Illportance, CALL it ADaIXISTPATIVr IhJrO111l, or What we may, it seems scarcely possible that any man of ordinary capability of reflection can doubt that somile additional checkc upon the conduct of the executive department of Govcrnmcut is now most urgently ...