... H WAR. cC will irge in. the tee fact nth 110. low THE ALLIED ARMIES. DEPAITUEX OP GENERAL SIrMPSOr. General Simpson Ias ceased to be Commander-in.Clhief of this army. All must feel sorrow for the circumstances under which a veteran officer like Sir James Simpson resigned his command. His simplicity of manners and singleness of mind never failed to conciliate the regard, if not the respect and ...

... T. (from the Economist.) n, The writer of sn article in the North Britishs Review says: o - In the present aspect of European affairs, who shall come t forward and assure us that ere long her Most Gracious Majesty g id will not be called, by the voice of the British people, to fight s ie the world almost single-handed in defence of the one spot on li k- earth where liberty-political, civil, ...

... PEACE WEGOCIATIONS. T aEsE'1Zegooiations do not appear likely to come to any- thingl It seems Russia bas U10ough9t it desirable to anticipate them, by a proposal of her own, viz., to de. v or olare the Black Sea neutral-at least in the Russian t' ad interpretation of neatrality, by excluding all vessels of v 38- war from its waters, except a certain number belonging s Id to Russia and Turkey, ...

... Fr seems that. there are actually some sort of negotiations evidei in progress. Are we to believe that Austria has once more most brought France and England to submit their just de- siste macads to her diplomatic management ? As well elevate kp a petty village 1Birlieman, picked up at random, into Xi8,C the arbiter of so great a contest, as dignify a trifling, £014,2 purposeless, and ...

... le Jos le A public meeting was held in the Court-House on, N ednes iN day, for the purpose of considering a proposal for reviving the s d Society for the Prosotion of Education among the. Poo. NNathl. Ne, tj Farquhar, Esq.,- Advocate, was called to the chair;: sad among Wu dthe gentlemen present ere Rev. Messrs Stirling Spence, Du Ut sarker, andRitbi Sheriff Watson; Mr Ogg;. Advocate; s MI; 3. ...

... . u. PT to ell re- ORiDERH 0F THE GARTER TO THE KiCsoG WcSATDINIA.- rig Tire pulbliosvill learn with universal gratification that her Ma- dc g. Jesty has, signified her graciors wish to invest~tthe King of Say- H is di nin, wi h the Order of tue Garter-the highest honour which vi it is inhlerpower to bestow. TIre cerenony wi~ltprobably ta.ke ini 1 placo. on Wedneedlay, .the5th November, ...

... e or - d men Sashesdaj, Decesber 1. lig' and The monthly meeting of the Board was held this day-Mr and and Ross presiding. mue PRSENT:- Messrs Urqnhart, Leslie Shearer, Rose, kind e Reid, Bisset, Crombie, Bothweil, Williams, Hen-d ent dersen, Buyers, Ironside, Campbell, 'ildawie, it w4 shat Lumeden, Eddie, Watson, Melville Clder, and ciou y of Ga.stan s is The minutes of the House Committee ...

... S.I JOHN M'NEILL ON T lE. WORKING CLASSES L AND THE:ARM.Y. e Theintrodubtory address to the session of the Edinburlrh n Wiiosophical Ins1titution was recently delivered by Sir John le Oi-eill, G.C.B., lately one of her -isjesty's Commissioners to e'Sir J.ANeill said, he proposed to' speak of some matters rehithlg to the working classes in thiicountry. There was, he of belbved- a very general ...

... SC OIL RNP. FrSTIVAI or SCOTTXISH Music.-A musical e ra ente under the above title, was given on Thursday night in the Music H Hall at Edinburgh. As might have been expected, the attend- Al once wfie very large, every portion of the spacious room, even to re - the orchestra and passages, being densely crowded. The chief oe feature of the entertainment was the reels and strathspeys, for sh the ...

... SC OTLAND. iire ROYAL CAL-EDONIA.lS HVOST-At a meeting of the Royal O T Of! Caledonian. Hunt, held at Edinburgh on the 11th current, the Second 1, mfollowing members were appointed 6iffice-bearers, viz. previon very TeVson llype.r~5 Gerard, The iscont abryple-Prees.Asylun Sir James Fergusson, lBart., Treasurer. Egn James Duff, Esq., M.P.,habe No- Lord Frederick Gordon Halliburton, Councillors ...

... of Thte Qasen held a Ch~apter of the Most Noble Order of the M~ 16i Garter at. three o'clock on Widnesday afternoon, at Windsor ts of Castle, for the purpose of investing his Majitesty thle King of gi flour Sardinia 'with the Order. The Knights Companions wore in, cund called by Garter,1 whntefloigasee -Thle Marquis ti andl of Exeter, thle Wilke of Richmond, the Marquis of Larisdowne, G to ho ...

... 'rTr OH E W A R., ASt, be~en CryI TI{E ALLIED ARAfIES. third liv as be tnCrrimp, Nov. 20. broil a n- As if, to moiulits. for our self-irrtlicetd mliqeries of Ins' vear', feote odls t~ir Aveatirer cotirtnoec to pr'eset tire rmost delightful contra'st boone -RCc to'tlr'o storms coid rai'ns of this time twelvemlorith. 'fiho coune lower liE. try is Opena in evor rA direcution tot Carriage, men, or ...