... Last night a public meeting of licensed vict nailer, was held in the Royal Hotel, Princes Street, for :! c purpose of devising means to procure the abolition ., the billeting system as it p revails at present. Mr Kerr, 1 Princes Street, wvas voted inlto the chair. The CHrAIRMANX traced the history Of the billeting system, and said the billeting of soldiers now tell upon 400 individuals in ...

... AGENTS FOR THE CALEDON.'NU MERCUTIY. Aberdeen .3Mesrs A. & R. Milne, Atheuseum. Do. Mesirs L & J. Smith Do. ?? M r W. Panton. Do. ?? essrs D. Wylie & Son. Aberiady ?? F. MritchelL Alloas. ..Mr J. Lothian. Arbroath ?? Mr James Smith. Do, . Mr G. Sutherland. Au chterarder ?? ?? Mr Lawrence. Bathgate ?? Mr J. Johnstone. Do. ?? James Ferguson. Berwick North ?? Mr Thomas Hope Berwick-on-Tweed ?? Mr ...

... 4 I ?? r P ?4;? g I r ? t c f t 1 ? z . , 5 5. jOIIN MIACGREGOIt IMPOSED UPON. (FrR03 LLOYD'S WEEKLY.) Mr John Macgregor, we learn, has been imposed upon. This was hardly to be expected of so astute a man as the active ex-director of the British Bank; who wisdom, however, he has since modestly con- fessed, dill not come from thle East; inasmuch as, in banking concerns, be was -purely a West ...

... I- r is s.- . April bt ;-tell 13 THE ENGLISH AND THE SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES. (FROM TUE DiLY NEWS.) We alluded the other day, to the misconceptions which prevail with respect to the Scotch Universities. The thing is not surprising, for every one must have observed that there is nothing so difficult as to uunler- stand any system of education in 'i hich the critic has not had some practical ...

... V'rooiltriat A VALUABLE ?? ANIMAL.-A small bull not over II months old passed through Invermry on Fri- day, which had been bought by Mr Leslie of Rotbie at Mr Campbell, ?? sale of short horns, for L.69. MISBEHAVIOUR iN CHuRcu.-The Brechin Adver- tiser ?? Sabbath evening last, during divine service in the West Free Church, a young man seated in the front of the gallery, of whom better thi.1gs ...

... b- atilt U10 401, Hitarg WAR DEPARTMENT, Jan. 16. Soots Fusilier Guards-Lieutenant and Captain the Hon. Roger Mostyn to be Instructor of Musketry. 3d Regiment of Foot-Ensign the Hon. James Wilford HeWitt, from the 4th Foot, to be. Ensign, vice Eames, who ?? Eustace Greg has been permitted to resign his. commission. 4th Foot-En- sign Richard Fairfax Eames, from the 3d Foot, to be Ensign, vice ...

... iNSURRE:CON -t SARAIWA.i: We (Tuska) ha4b;en fav>ed with the tollowie@ letter from Sianj Brook%.addressedtoa warm per- sonil iri wid; ad descri ing the eventgf ~fthe late in. surrection, and the steps taken to suppress it:- Balidah, March 15. I may now relate more circumstantially the events of the last few weeks. Sarawak was as peaceful as it had ever been, and there was no cause to excite ...

... DEPARTURE OF THE RAILWAY TRMN STEAMERS, &c., FROM BDINBURGn1 MARCH. Wx.%vrr.LEY BUInnoi TERRIL'106s Or 'NOUrrx flItnst, EnIniURnin, rseta, AND Drisnas8 RAILWA-3, , LEITH, AND GPAnTOX RAMLwAY-REDI'1'stnIAN VA~t5LA13e11.0;W RAILWAY--SCOTTI5SH CENTRAL RAILWAY. GlA! ~eo & d~s. iL, 4 Aberdeen (S. C.) am. 6.30, 7.S0--p.m. d S. ,f 12.15, 8.45 - - - 2 1031 Aberdeen (F. P. DI.) am. .30, 10 21 1li si ...

... . -5,pirit uf tt)t. 'Prtss. THE COALITION AND THE MINISTRY. (FROM T11E TIMES.) We presume that by this time the Coalition is be- ginning to have a foretaste of what awaits it in the forthcoming elections. Five days have barely passed since the vote of Wednesday morning' became known, and already the answer of the country is one about which there can be no mistake. We were hardly pre- pared for ...

... ELECTION INrELLIGENCE* SCOTLAND. FALKIReK BURGSi.- Mr Merry is actively and successfully preseeuting his eanvias. l He addressed a crowded meeting of the electors of Lanai-k in the Free Church, Mope Street, on Wednesdav ?? and an iqually crowded meeting in the T'orn ?? of Lin'ithgow on Thursday night. On both occasions the meeting passed resolutions approving of him as' t candidate. Mr Baird ...

... ?? - -? v ; ? - cc cii oh4se 27ju Saysy that rnot one spp ears more satisied with the amicable te' mination of the Persian ifficalty than Ferok Khan. He went himself to the' telegraph office to transmit in person his despatch to Bucharest, where an attahe') of the Persian Ambassador bad been waiting for intelligence, in order to set out for Teberan. Feruk Khan got a reply to his message in ...

... . (TAe following appeared in our Second Edition of - . yesterday.) BERNE, Thursday.-The Federal Council of Switzerland,,considering the new propositions which' have been submitted by the Emperor Napoleon, and supported by the good offices of England, to be such as are acceptable to the Swiss Confederation, has de- cided convoking the Federal Assembly of Switzerland for the 14th January, to ...