... '-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 ...

... ?? I ? 1 A, i f: ? tf Q?'i 'P , t 5 5. :1 , , P - r I THE SCOTTISH- LUNACY COMmISSION. 7 ?? . -. -:O THE POST.) gotwitlistandinig' the damnatory 'evidence. against, t'te Board of'.Supervision which the;.Commissioners adduce, :we. cannot help perceiving ,that they :deal leniently with the members' of the Board, and almost. hint that'it is the'system, and no.t the .med, who ard:e: to blame.- Sir ...

... I Aberdeen ?? Messrs A. & R. Milne, Athensaum. Do. M e. srs L. & J. Smith Do . Mr W. Panton.. Do. . ?? Messrs D. Wylie & Son. 'herlady . Mr F. Mitchell. AllU. ?? i Mr J. Lothian. Arbroath. Mr James Smith. Do. M r G. Sutherland. Auehterarder ?? Mr Lawrence. Bathgate. ; ?? Mr J. Johnstone. Do.r..l r James Ferguson. Berwick North ?? Thomas IMope. ?? Mr A. Henderson Do. .. Mr J. M'Dowell. ...

... ELECTi RIO TELEGRAPH. .. CHINA. The Chinese who murdered the.captain of the French brig -Anais, has been executed by the French Admiral in the Chinese Seas. SPAIN. Spanish papers give contradictory accounts of the state of Catalonia, which, according to the most favourablestatements, appears to be far from satisfactory. Numbers of workmen are out of employment and starving. Food, is scarce and ...

... AGENTS FOR T1EE CALEDONIAN MERCURY Aberdeen. ?? Messrs A. & P. Milne, Atheneum. Do. ?? Messrs L. & J. Smith Do. . ?? Mr W. Panton. Do. ?? . Messrs D. Wylie & Son. Aberlady ?? Mr . Mitchell. Allo a ?? Lothian. Arbroath .UIr James Smith. D o. UG. Sutherland. Auchtera r e ?? Mr Lawrence. Bathgate ?? ?? 3ir J. Johnstone. Do . ?? Mr Jamees Ferguson. Berwick North ?? Mr Thomas Hope. ?? A. Henderson. ...

... -GORGRMBAZ, TRYST.C A- This, ?? ocf ouir no0* 0:ma m~kt~s hed 'o hesi e'nud on'$ d,&adws no'the, ?? held' c t | ' aon;tf .ti'~6~t aformnern.o caioi and ti9e prces realised -fornaierousI individui i hiheat lkoot n iai'be ; Th' numbe'iofhttle on tlbe groqnd'wa voeed- ingy large, and several' of the lots; excited gret ad mniirtiou.i, -Am' pmany' ots :fdr ad ti moe . sibl~etfo give die' whmole, dl ...

... MONDAY. Yraserburgh Harbour-Report from Selet Com- mittee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Lord Haddo and Mr Thompson. Alva Parish Bill-To be read a second time on Friday. Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Extension Railway Bill, and Cannock Mineral Railway (No. 2) Bill- each read a second time and committed. Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill-Read a second time and ...

... (FROAt PUNCH{.) The great comet struck the earth (which, with the mnoon, is as well as can be expected) precisely at half-past two o'clock on Sunday last. The shock and terror produced a most beneficial effect upon great nwnrhers of persons, and among the instances in which the visitation caused the most satisfactory re- sults, Mr Pench has heard of the -following- Mr Spooner, seeing an Irish ...

... We (flines) have been favoured with the follow- ing graphic account of a public execution in India: Ahmedabad, Oct. 26. I have just returned from the calm eyewitnessing of a sight of which not many months ago it would have sickened me fo hcar. I shall never see such another, nor you ever see such an one at all; and, as all scenes have their profit. I will fix it while the details are fresh. ...

... DESPATCH VROM INDIA. en. ?? - ?? t.o (FROt THE GAZETTE.) I ath8 ISBT OP 4OPPICSFnS yILLED -twD woumtED BsEFOREz and DELI UP TO 3ST ATO1GST l857. I its Eilked or Died of Wouads-Colonel C. Chester, a it, Adjutant-General of the' Aimy. 'Captain C. W. rdly Russell, 54th Reginient Xatlve Infantry, Orderly ctor Officer. Captain J. W. Delamnain, 59th Regt. N.I., held Ordelyj Officer. Lieiateiaint H. ...

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVMNG EDINBBURGH FOR UNDERMINTIONED PLACES. DECEMtBER lSF-,. T% Tv abbreviations withih parenthesis-(Cal.), (S. ?? (E. and G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-slgnqfy Csledonilri, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Sdinburgh, Perth, and Dandee AlIlways respectively, and intimiate that the trains start from thse -termuini of these railways in Edinburgh at the ...