... t. I-, t 5 g ? a t frr t. CURIENCY-SLLF-REGULATING AND ELASTIC. TO TrZ EnDITOR- OF THE CALEDONIAN MIERCURY. Smr,-Your paper of 7th inst. contains a notice of a work lately published under the above title. As the author of Tleat work,d have to return you my best thanks for the favourable tone of your criticism; but I hope you vill pardon my remarking that you hare hardly donte mejustive, when ...

... LATEST LIVERPOOL, NEWS. (From our own Corrospondent.) EABEZZLEMENT-MURDER-TOWN DUES- SUNDAY QUESTION. Liverpool, Wednesday Evening. There seems to be no end to crime in Liverpool. 'We have this evening to record two very serious offences against pro- perty and person, viz., the embezzlement of £5000 by a confi- aential clerk and another murder. A few days ago a reward of £200 was offered for ...

... ILATEST INEWS. HERALD OFrICE, Friday Morning. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Marseilles, Thursday. The steam-frigate Sane has arrived with Aali Pueha, the Turkish plenipotentiary to the Paris Conferences, on board. He leaves for Paris this evening. The Countess de Caumont Laforee was murdered by her ser- 3 vant in Paris on Tuesday night. * The Post's Paris correspondent writes.:- ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURIDAY. Mr. HARDIE took the oaths and his seat for Leominster. An immense number of petitions were presented from all parts of the country against opening the British Museum and dtie Crysial Palcep on Sundays. Many. also were presented with a contrary prayer. I On the motion of Mlr. HAvfln, a new writ was ordered for Sligo, in place of Mr. Sadleir, dkcessed. Lord J. RUSSELL ...

... The followving is the Report (slightly abridged) by the direo- tors to the thirty-sixth half-yearly general meeting of share- holders, to be held on Thursday the 28th day of February, 1856:- As the time has now arrived when your directors think it proper to include the receipts and expenditure of the Stirling and Dunfermline Line, and charge the rent payable for it in the same way as has been ...

... AT a Meeting of the Senatus of King's College and tVniver. gsity, on Saturday the 16th instant, we understand, that the t afollowing resolutions, moved by the SUn-PaINo1rAL, and a seconded by Dr SCOTT, were adopted:-] I. That the Soniatus adopted, on the 19th October 1853, Rseso Ni lutions in favour of a Union of King's and Marecial Colleges, ii awith single Faculties of Arts, Laws, Medicine, ...

... THE Conferences are now sitting with shut doors, and every member bound, when out of doors, to keep his mouth shut. All that seems to be known is that the Fifth Point, which is the postscript of the Allies to the Austrian proposals, is to come first under consideration, in order that the ultimate question may be brought within the scope of probability as-speedily as possible. Should the Fifth ...

... MUBIC IN ABERDEEN.- ., , - rl 1L.-HISTOSRIC A OL NOTES CONTIUDb ti SItCo our last paper on. this subject appeared, further ti investigation has discovered some gleanings on the hisbtorical in part of the subject, which we are unwilling to omit. . i First of all, we shall dispose -of the communication' of a A Correspondent, who, in reference to an expression in our pl first article, says:- : el ...

... TV LED W ARB., OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (Tidnes Correspondent.) I FORT SICHOLAS. CAMP IIEFORtE BXASTOPOL, Feb. 8.-e The quantity of powder used the other day in the explosion of Fart Nicholas was 50,000 kilbgramines, or ] 00,'000 French pounds. Double that quansity was found under the fort when the engineers commenced their operations. This is not the only concealed store of' powder the French ...

... 1. St Chrysostom, whose prayer is read every Sunday in all churches, says.- After the congrega- tion is dismissed, every man may apply himself to his lawful business.-Homi. v. on lfMatt. i. 2. St Athanasius ?? keep no Sabbaths as the ancients did, except an eternal Sabbath, which shall have no ?? de Sabb., p. i83. 3. Eusebius, the ecclesiastical historian, speaking of the Patriarchs, says :- ...

... ANO D )Ifti.- ill R fkil g t R t 1. , . I ? ?? a,/, ENGI4&ND. e e THE SOUND Dues.-It appears: that the composi- tion which the maritime nations propose paying to Denmark in respect of the Sound Dues will afford *s little relief to the commerce of this country, which bears the largest share of these exactions. The c Danish Government have imposed heavy transit d duties on all goods carried ...

... EDINBURG H. MEstwtuac AssoCIATION - ANNUAL MEETING.- Our readers will observe from advertisement, that the second annual meeting of this Association takes place this evening in Queen Street Hall-Professor Gregory presiding. .PfsrLOSOrInCAnINSTITUTION.-Last night, the first of a course of two lectures, by Hugh Miller, Esq., author of the Old Red Sandstone, on Palmon- tology, was delivered ...