... ED rNBUR G H. ART MANUFACTURE ASSOCIATioN.-Last night, a full-dress promenade took place in the National Gal- leries. There was a numerous though by no means crowded attendance. LECTURIS1 ON LIFE AssunA.cn.-Last night Mr Edward Sang delivered the first of a course of four lectures on Life Aqsurance, under the auspices of the Faculty of Actuaries, in the upper lecture room, Queen Street Hall. ...

... IECOND EDITION MERCURY OFF, TrntsoAy, ELTMz OIOM NAPLES. tAs, Wednesdayv Jan. 7tb, 4 P.M.-The Nea- n war steamer Charles the Third has blown up. men arc killed. ITALY. CoN, Wednesday.-The Session of the Piedmon- Chambers was opened this morning by the King salt. s lajesty's speech was greeted with a most en- ltic reception; especially the allusions which it nired to the great national cause of ...

... '-probinfial aultIlIpAct. PILLAR letter-boxes have been introduced into Avr. LAST week, a sow belonging to Mr Purdie, farmner, Ettrickbank, littered no less than seventeen pigs. Sixteen of them are strong healthy animals, and are doing well. The tenants and friends of Sir James J. I. Maac-' kenzie, Bart. of Scatwell, propose entertaining that gentleman to a public dinner on Thursday, the 12th ...

... (Tliefollowing appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) The King of Naples has concluded a convention with the Argentine Republic for the reception of his political prisoners who may ?? to be exiled thither. The offer has been made to Poerio, but he has declined to go.E FRANCE. PAts, Thursday Evening.-The appeal of Verger for a reversal of the sentence, or a new trial, has been this day ...

... (The following appeared ibi our Second Edition of yesterday.) ,, 9 ViRNsA, January 19.. On the 12th inst., the T'wjJ sreasmer Asia, en her way from Trieste to Constantinople, weas lost off Valou, on the coast of ,Albanip. ,The passengers,. mail-bags, and. remittances were saved' VxaxNiT~ieiday.-The Archduke Maximilian of Austria is-appointed Governor General of the Lom- ardo-Veretian.,States, ...

... -prtiga 4-iomt. ,liti FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Tiames says The proposition presented to the Council of State for the grant of a pension of loo,ooof. to Marshal Pelissier hai been negatived by tile particular sec- tion to which it was referred. The casting vote was that of the President. The objection, however, is not to the grant itself, but to the form in which it was made. ...

... i?ptrjt af t4t jprtss. THE BRITISH OFFICIALS AND THE CHINESE WAR. (Dais News.) The conduct of the British officials at Canton, in so far as the question of the Zorchla Arrow is concerned, is now admitted on all hands to have been indefen- sible. Even the Yvnes, which at first rushed headlong into a justification of this part of the British proceed- ings, has desisted from the attempt. The ...

... On Saturday night a public meeting in consection S with the. Freehold Movement was held in the Queen Street Hall, .Which iwas densely crowded in every part. AMr Willianri.Uhambers-of Glenermiston- was r calledito the chair; and among those in the plat- formn were Mr James Taylor, from.'Birmingham, Mr J. Beal, from London, Mr Duncan U'Laren, the Rev. Dr Be.gg Bailie Grieve, Bailie Blackadder, l ...

... DEPARTURE OF THE RALWAY TRAINS STEAMERS, &c., PFtOM EDNBURG JANUARY. WVAS'EILEY BRnDoE Teumz ius OF NORTH ODIVEan1 EDniNOuiRO, PERTHi AND BosoEm Rat AtW~y7 7 Aberdeen~ (a. a) am. 6.30, 7.30pml ~ IeL 1215, 8.45 -- 2 1 kI d - Aberde4n (IL P. aD.) am. 6.30, 10 2016 i'll Arbrosnh JZ. P. AzD.). am. 6.30, -pm j -. (Ato N.B.) am. 8-pr.m.2, 4, 6 7 o a64 - 0 Bathgate, am.89.30-.pm. 4330 67a 2 0 ...

... 44,1 ff nit ? 11 ff tit ft. TnHE directors of the Commercial Bank of London have declared a half-yearly dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, free of Income-tax, payable on the 24th inst.' THE serious symptoms of Alderman Farebrother's recent indisposition have subsided, and his medical attendant states that he has strong hopes of his ul- timate recovery. THE OPENING OF PARLIAME;NT ...

... AGENTS FOR THE CALEDONIUN MERCU1RY. Aberdeen . Messrs A. & 11. Milne, Athenvsani. Do. ?? s L & J. Smith Do,. M r W.'Panton. Do. Messrs D. Wyllie & Son. Aberlady ?? :Mslitchell. Aloa . ?? Mr J. Lothian. Arbroath . M ?? Mr James Smith. .Do. ?? Mr G. Sutherland. Auchterarder ?? Mr Lawrence. ,Bathgato ?? ,,.fMr J. Johnstone. Do. ?? James Fergason. .Berwick North ?? ?? ?? Hope. Berwick-on-Tweed ...

... -,Fiat F.NGLA.ND. Tim FurNCII IN Ct11NA.-A letter from Toulon announecs that a Company of the 4t'i Regiment of Marines bave received orders to hold tihemselves ready to embark in the Imperial corvette Duranee, which is to proceed to China. Two gunboats, fully equipped for war, are about to sail for the same de- stination. D'URrEY's TAnLET.-Iul enlarging the Church of St James, Piccadilly, they ...