... 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. ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... - ?? 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, ...

... 1,11 -? r t I q II N? II t t I I i g c 11 t t . Q? - FRANCE. TIHE EMPEROR S SPEECI. The impression produced by the Emperor's specch in reply to thc address of Prince Napoleon, is very favourable. The acclaniations, the repeated and cn- thusiastic applause from more than 30,000 people, which interrupted his delivery of it yesterday, frora both French and Englisli, was an unmistakeable proof how ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?CIHE:91 ? W-A-IRj OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA- SUPERIOR JURISDICTION OF THE FRENCH. (Times Special Correspondent.) CArtp BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.-When the *fleet.iwas off Odessa the advice of the highest person in France on the project of bombarding the town was sought by the French Admiral, and it is believed that his reply implied a radical opposition' to any such proceeding, nor was our ...

... (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 ...

... *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. ...