... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... T8L== WA.Rh OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (Daily News Correspondent.) DESTRUCTION Or FORT ALEXANDER. CAIP, SnBASTOPoL, Feb. 12.-Yesterday, precisely at one o'clock r .w, Fort Alexander was exploded into ruin by the French engineers. This work, which was immediately opposite to Fort Constantine, and commanded the approach and entrance to the road- stead, was second only in extent and importance to ...

... t¶OUS:E -OF LORDS. TnniaSnaY, XFBn-2L. T. 1h& use met at five o'clock. Tain EUDIntAN J'UEreow tCord-PANMTJ1iE said, Government would appoissi ,a Board -of General t'fflcers to toinonire into, the '.dharges contained in the report of the Crimean Corn- -missioners, and that ithe Board would be autborised 4t0 receive such explanations as the ozcers implscated shad to tiffer. In reply to the ...

... gridt Df ?? PM. THE SABBATH QUESTION. (Thines.) There are ponds which will bear drawing about once in five years, and the process is very exciting. That is about the interval at which the British public will bear a good brisk agitation. The crop is 'ather an exhausting one, but the soil is generous, and will bear it without nitter desolation. Not to commit our- selves to the opinion that the ...

... LE is cc II an a au$ BLn5rnDRo AT TnaE Nosp.-Dr Neglar, a French sur- geon, says that the simple elevation of a person's arm will stop bleeding at the nose. HIe explains the fact, and de- clares it a positive remedy. WIT DEFINED, ORtTIHE Puxsrox AselaD-In a private conversation, the late Earl of Chatham asked Dr Henniker, amona other questions, bow he defined wit ? The doctor replied, ' Miy ...

... (M1orning Advertiser.) The unprecedented activity which just now prevails in our various ports and dockyards, is exciting no little attention,. mingled with considerable amazement. People very naturally ask the reason why all this un- wonted animation and energy, when it is so well un- derstood that all, or nearly all, the requirements necessary for the coming campaign, if there is to be ...

... , T E 7Ei WV\-I OPENING OF THE CONFERENCES. (Fromn the Express.) PAuIs, Monday.-The Conferences opened at one o'clock this day. All the plenipotentiaries were pre- sent. They arrived at the place of the sitting with- out formality, and in their ordinary dress. The re- presentative of Piedmont was the first, and the representative of Russia the last to arrive. Compara- tively few persons had ...

... ta I Inaiant Hrt r II, EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1856. SECOND and THIRD EDITIONS are Published containing all the Latest News of importance. ThE Government have now pretty decisively intimated their determination to leave the mone- tary system of the country where it is. The rea- sons which weighed with the community, and led to the general and continued protest of the last three or four ...