... 0 T. CONVICT PnILrW.-We understand that a menatrial t has been got up in Leith to her Majesty, praying for the coin- s mutation of the sentence passed on Mr Philip, late Provost t, of Leitb, by the High Court of Juaticiary. The memoridl hsv a already received a large number of respectable signatures. The p o principal grounds of which commutation is petitioned for are b N the undue severity of ...

... *e ENGLAND. TherlI Is The Queen ihee appbiatea ViscoutifesS Chewton, to te one Of the divii lb the bedeiamnber women Id ordinary t e aeti h omedn of the Hon. Mrs Boothby, regigned. It will be recollected that report:- Viscount Cliewton was killed it -1ie Alma. Durit a, Oh Thursdny morninig her Majesty, with Ps-ince Albert, at- eer a- tended by the Dubbess of Atholl, Major.deiljrlil the Eon. C. ...

... gM nday, Novs. 190 The quarterly meeting of the Governors was held to-day-t sthe Lord Provost in the chair. After the reading of minutes of Committees, which ehewed that the internal condition of the House was in a satisfactory condition, a Baillie M'I{AnsDv brought forward the motion of which het had given notice, to thle effect that it should be remitted to the y Education Committee to ...

... Os HIGwLANvDERS' CAMP, KAacAaRA, ni TUesday, Nov. 6. D No news by the present mail will be regarded with so much or 3interest at home as the very unexpected departure hence for fa LEngland of Sir Colin Campbell, the Hero of the Alma. He so sailed from Balaklava in the steamer Calcutta, on Saturday th evening, some hours after the post, and his sudden 'resignation,' be for so all here regard ...

... Mr James Porter, of Monymusk, Aberdeenshiro, bag an essay in the Journal of the Highland and Agricultural So- ciety, in which be shows that turnips stored in the beginning of the winter are far more valuable for feeding than the same roots would be if left inr the field and carted home as required. The following is an account of his experiment on the subject:- That experiment consisted in ...

... I a pap rWE have beard of two gentlemen who, having quarrelled, Rei resolved to fight a duel after such a fashion ns should ineg18u combine the vindication of their respective honours, one II with security to their respective persons. They painted delive a figure on a board, and took shot about at it; and the myI gentleman who put his bullet through a vital part in Syria( the effigy, was ...

... Si DREADFJL EXPILS0ION AT INKERMAN. o1 Lord Panmure has received the following telegraphic f despatch from General Sir W. Codrington, dated November L 16:-L A very heavy explosion of a store of powder at the French of siege train took place about 3 P.m£. yesterday. It communicat- .e ed fire to our siege train close to it, where there was no powder, as but some naval live shells, most of ...

... T W1n E I W A-R. series RERETURN OF THE KINBU1LN EXPE DITION. there the 'a d November 8! that of For the last four days it has been blowing a sirocco, whichi was b le. painfully affects one just returned from a month's trip at sea. It The air is bot, heavy, and impregnated with most offensive and In id irritating dust, which attacks nearly every sense at once. .The some Id thermometer has ...

... SECOND QUARTERLY RETURN OF BIRTHs N REAGES, AND DEATHS IN SCOTLAND I .I. A-A- . A ..- . . . . - The Registrar-General has just published his Second Qr terly Return of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered in the divisions, counties, and districts of Scotland, for thequareti ending 30th June 1855.- The following are extrart from te report:-th tresfote During the spring, or second ...

... WEDNESDAY, November 21l 1855. - to IT is now very clear that we need look for no Stl ttirring news this season from the Crimea, th unless the Russians make any movement, for the purpose of attack or retreat. The troops in di advanced positions have been all withdrawn. The A' offensive attitude which the allies had assumed on at the range of hills which overlook the Upper Belbeck and El the ...

... THE Conrmissioners of Police- had a long debate- last t week on that source of perpetual trouble to police boards rn3a from one- end of Scotland to the other-Forbes M'Ken- Citi S :zne's Public House Act. Itwas-less on the merits of the Nov measure than on the propriety of the Board giving Can effect to it,. by instructing their, servants to lodge imfor_ Da, Bar - mations in cases of its ...

... I of ted BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Om ace WAR AND POLITICAL NEWS. ex. - - Ink, On the 7th, the Emperor of Russia passed the isthmus y A of Perekop. He arrived at Simpheropol on the 8tb, and 51l left on th'e 9th for Bakachi Serai, where he reviewed the ed troops on the 10th. He then visited the northern forts bot of Sebastopol, and proce.eded as far as the Mackenzie tli hights. hi~ Theliussian ...