... ?? 7,77- ili(IRD EDITIONO MERCURY OFFICE, THREr O'CLOCIL LONDON CORN MARKET-FRIDAY. Price for English wheat same as last Monday, with few buyers. Foreign held firmly; millers cautious. Flour not lower, but slow sale. Prime barley wanted, but little doing in common. A moderate trade in oats, but best sorts not lower. Rape and linseed a little cheaper. Arrivals :-British wheat. 3290; barley, ...

... Lord Glentworth, son of the Earl of Limerick, was inspecting a powder-flask by candlelight, last week, when a spark from the candle ignited the powder, the flask exploding violently, and so shattering his Lord- ship's right hand, that the thumb only remained attach- ed to it by a shred ofthe skin. His Lordship's other hand, and his face and chest, were also injured by the explosion, but not ...

... LETTER FROM A SOLDIER IN THE 7MT TO HIS COUSIN AT DLJNDYVAN. Yenikal:, Nov. 2, 185a. t Dear Cousin,-I received your kind and welcone letters, s dated the Ilth and 26th October, and was exceedingly happy f to learn from tiem tbiatyou wcre stiil enjoyinggood health, as this. a leaves me enjoying the samc at present. I may state I am very i, thankful to you for sending me the writing paper and ...

... SCOTL A ND. Jury Stttztysg, PJr't Divisz'on.-The sittings of the First Division of the Court for trial of civil causes by jury in the ensuing Christmas recess, will com- mnence on AMonday the 24th December ; and notices of trial must be given on or before Saturday the 8th day of D)ecemrrber next. Death of the Rev. Chlarles Gordon of Alberdeen.-The Aberdeen papers contain the announceinent of ...

... MONTHLY RETURN OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND I,, , A ,, }MARRIAGES. I The return of the births, marriages, and deaths in the eight principnl tOWIIS in Scotlan~d, for the month of October, is just published by authority of the llegistralr-General. Thc follotv- ing is the report yretixed :- -, luring the monithl of O)ctober thlere were registered ir, tite eight princip~al tow:ns of Scotlanid, 2555 ...

... GLASG(OW, NOVEMBER 30. lAnotkcr, Club.-On Tuesday afternoon a number of geutlemen met together in premises acquired by them in Tlrongate, to inaugurate a club wlhich they have designated the Troll Club. Thc proceedings were only such as characterise similar entelrtaillnments, and the company, wve have no doubt, enjoyed th)emselves to a seasonable hour. This is only another of many similar ...

... OUR ARMY IN TIIE CRIMEA. (From the Doily News' Speciel Correspondence.) Camp, Sebastopol, Nov. 12. Thle event of chief importance affecting- the interests of the British army in the Last lits been the retirement of General Simpson, and the assumption of' the suprense comtnand by Ge- nerall Sir William Codrington, K.C.B. The intelligence men- tioned in my letter sent by the lest mail is thos ...

... EDI N 13 UR GH. DESTITUTE SICIC SOCIETY.-The aunal general 11ectil]goftl is Society was held last night in the Society's Hall, High Street-Bailie Brown Douglas in the chair. Mar M'Calloch, the Sab-Treasurer, read an abstract of the state of the funds, from which it appeared that the income for the past year, including legacies, anounted to L.1379, 1s 8d; while the expenditure for the same ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30., - _ . ?? .. - . mark. Sir William Codrington, the new Commander- ?? in the Crimea, has forwarded his first despatch, enclosing one from Brigadier-General Spencer, giving an account of operations at KHinburn, with which our readers are already acquainted. There are also enclosures from Brigadier-General Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Tottenham, relative to recent ...

... It (From the Suipplerment to the Lenden onzetto of Tuesday, Nov. 21.) 1. ?? Department, Nov. 27. e Lord Panmure has this day received a despatels 'and its en- closursiv, of which thle following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by Sir William Codringtai:- Nv 3 a MAy Lord,-Havhig so lately assumed the command of the amI have not snfficient materials, nor do I consider it no- cessary, to ...

... ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHc TrEu WARV. FRANCE. The Times Paris correspondent quotes a Berlin letter of the 24th as corroborating his previous asser- tion respecting the mission of Count Minster to the Czar, and the success of Gencral Canrobert's mission. The writer of the Berlin letter concludes- I re- peat my affirmation that the mission of General Can- robert, has completely succeeded in all that ...

... (Fronm the TRimes' Correspondence.) New York, Nov. 14. The November elections have terminated-generally in fa- vour of the Know-Nothings. In Maryland they have carried thp city of Baltimore, and also the State. In Massachusetts, although opposed by the Whigs, the Democrats, the Anti- Liquor Law party, and the Republicans, they bave elected a large majority of the Legislature aud their Governor ...