... 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. ...

... - ?? 1CT tT ]I DIVISION O LABOUtl. R (From the Economist.) For statesmen who have to regulate their conduct by the present condition of society and by the future condition, to which the present is for thoughtful men an indication, those slight but general, though slowly t and certainly progressive clianges which continually take place in the pursuits, manners, and habits of the 3 multitude, ...

... ENA CA-6 NE -AC GENERAL CANROBERT AT ISTOCKIIOLM. We read in the Aftonbladet of Nov. 7 To-day, at one o'clock, General Canrobert was received in audience by the King, in his capacity of French Ambassador. t General Canrobert was conveyed from the Brankenjerg Hotel r to the royal rcsideoce in a state carriage of the court, drawn by eight white horses, preceded by several outriders and runners, ...

... (From the London Journals of Saturday Evening) ENGLISH DESPATCH. Foreign Office, Nov. IG, 1855. Lord Clarendon has received the following message from Viscouttt Stratffrd do Redcliffi :- > Therapin, Nov. t5, 185I. At noon Omar Pachta forded the river Inguor ol tile 5th, at the head of 20,000 men, and defeated the ltussians, computed at 10,000, irclidinig militih, aid partly jutrncielied. the ...

... SC O 1, A ND. Ave are aliforiscdl to state that the Rev. Dr. John Crtithie Iof, conc will be proposcd as Moderator of' tie enw-ing (General Assecibly.--Edinbura/h Post. N' fk 13o7W.-.W-e untlerstatid that MIr. Konnedy, the mainntagr of the Royal Banik liere, has just purchased 1 for that camnautn tile property at the corner of Sand- gate atid \ewimarket Streets, Aid that a fine building will ...

... (From the London foynals of Yesterday Morning.) (From the Daily News' ?? Carrespondenee.) Camp, Sebastopol, Nov. 5. The rumour of an attack from the Russian army has become again a subject of talk and speculation in our different camps. A: deserter from the enemy, a Hungarian officer, is said to have given information that the present intention of the Russians is to make an assault against ...

... TUE PRESENT PRICES OF PROVISIONS. (Prom the Times' City Article.! The late rise, not only in corn, bht in sugar, tea, and most articles of 'daily consumption, is attracting serious attention. Its influence upon the entire mass of the population at the ap- proach of winter will be such that no pains should be spared to make them acquainted with its true causes, since there is nothing that could ...

... (From the Times.) How far may we count on the speedy exhaustion -of the Russian empire ? It is evident that the power of our adversary is a question second only in import- ance to that which regards our own resources. The -levies of men in the depths of the Muscovite terri- tory, the marching of barbarous and even pagan tribes from beyond the Ural range and from the frontiers of the Chinese ...

... E N G 1, A N D. A Cabinet Council was held ou Tuesday afternoon at the Foreign Utlfice. Thle Alinisters present were Viscount Palmerston, tile Lord Chancellor, tile Mar- quis of' Lansilowne, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, tle Iall of Clarendon, Lord Paninure, the Chancellor of the Exchiequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right llon. R. Vcrinion Smnit h, Viscount Calning, and the Earl of Illirrowby. ...

... SCRAPS FROM PUNCIh. it A TICKCET-OF-LRAVIS MINIS'IEIR FOR TilE COLONIES.- C (Scene-Downing Street. Lord Pam and Bill Crowbar e discovered.) d 0row/car (tfie T'icket-of Lceae). 'ell, my Lord, as you've ,f tried th swells for- the ilotlice, and it's rno go, I ma:sces b,,ll to ' ?? mryieff for the place. Arid is a ticket ',f-leave, I canl lay mlly 'and uitpon my 'art, and say-thero'is not a ...

... (From the Delhi Gazette.) (From the DcliW Gazette.) Seven or eight months ago one Shalh Gbolam IHusscin, a dis- solutevagabond, formerly a llindoo, but like manly others at Lucknow, a pervert to Islam, with that fierce rancour which animates renegades, published throughout Lucknow and the ITritcipal Mtlhinniiedaln towns and villages of Oude, that the Ihiidoos had lately destroyed and dedled a ...