... RNTUZN OF COLON3L SYKl.F THiE Polling commenced this morning at Eight o'clock. Both sides were early and actively at work, and the result was that an unprecedentedly large number polled within the first two or three hours. Immediately after the polling F commenlced, the Sheriff and the Procurator-Fiscal of thle County visited the dlifferent Polling placec, and found the i whole arrangements ...

... COU2NTY OF SUTPIMMRLAND. On Thursday the 2d inst., the election of a knight of the shire for this county took place on the huatings erected A in front of the County Buildings, Dornoch. C Sheriff Lumsden having read Her Majesty's writ, called upon any elector who had a candidate to propose to do so, E when E w r JOHN HAtm,, Seiberscross, proposed that the Marquis G of Stafford be re-4lected to ...

... THE SPEAKERSHIp. of ROW thati we have our new H~ouse of Common,,tee oe again the ?? is to be the new Speaktere ?? Eve question is already ansered, as far as it' can be at, prelesnt, sliaby the selection ?? Denison for the Minigttsria1 ecandidate. -The result of a centest ought to be net only Or- successful, but triumphant ; and therefore it is an object to 'ay start a candidate who will ...

... FRANCE. A long list of Eli1lish mimes appears ill thoe lfoitiistt, whose mosiioiu-lo sorvicos tiiriig tho lato war havo beon recooniso(l by the Emperor Napoleon, iind for which his Impelial Majesty baa boosi pleased to confer the orrdie of tboe Legioi of rloani., th litest sitting of t ie cosferenes i itt Paris, ltrtolositiois for tile scttleieit of tlse Neinlfeiatcloso ?? wore siteessftilly ...

... LA.TEST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. T - ?? ?? THE CRIMEA,.-The number of persons returned to in Ci Sebastopol is described as' wonderful. The theatre is wer re-opened.' No hopes Aeem at present to be entertain- s, ed that the town will ever recoi'er its, former import- Brq, ince, untless the G, overnioent makes it again a military S And.naval 'depot, and of this there ?? present.' in ...

... OITY BLEC.TION. N4& iNTION OF 0AWDIDA~ks, .TiHE Nomination. took plate yeSterday, at the Hustljgsge : opposite the Town;House' where' there Was Sa very'great I ooneoetrseof eoleotors aid nt~i-electors. The meeting was ofI thei) Uisual diharactei.~ with plenty of shoueim,'btit on the whole the ?? of thsd, crowd was ejueellnt. Alnmost all, -the svsnl~oswaithin view-of tisoi~ustiugs were flled ...

... or -d THlE RIVAL COMdMt'ES5 fu Tins present Electon is in some resects different from w: any other which we have seen in th city-.viz., in the ma vigour of thecdsivss, the number ofthe voters, and the general ientity ofthe opinins of thecandidates. The Y( society of Advocates, with a few excptions, is fairly exhaucted. There is scarcely a good breath in its body, aRI' with hard *qrli - and ...

... LATEST ELETION INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND.a XM¶DLESEX ?? Hanbury (L), 5426; Lord Robert 3 Grosvenor (L), G324; Viscount Chelsea (C), 2916. No (Lll r, thlat Member2T)L(2$Hs d~havi~ng been Liberals. EC13NT1(WEST)R (2).-Wyk nml (C),2776; H. 3J. Adeane (L), 2615 S8; Wn Sr ite (C), 244;Lord G. Manners (C), 2131.bAheeat is lost to the Conservatives here, a e Liberl haing scceeed ?? George Man- J ners. ...

... Tuxr anticipations in which we indulged in a few words addressed to our readers, in our Edition of Wed- ¶ nesday evening, at the close of the poll, seem, we are happy to say, to have been realised. Any irritation caused by the contest appears to have entirely sub- sided. We think we may congratulate both the 1 electors and the candidates on the manner in which the whole proceedings were ...

... re t. d, THE annual dinner in aid of the funds of the Royal General enr I Theatrical Fund took place on Monday evening at the Free- I zhmasons' Tavern, London, and -was one of the msubt numer- call re ously attended charitable banquets of the season. Mr S. pla :+vPhelps was chairman, and spoke in behalf of an institution it i lie having for its object to render easy the declining years of abs ...

... - ?? STATE OF THE POLL, Distinguishing the Municipal from the Non-Municiyal - Electors--- MUNICIPAL. Col. Sykes. Mr Leith. Majori- ty. Ist Ward (259 146 i(2d do. ISt. Nicholas Parishl 1j4 113 BSd do. ). 220 178 4th do. { s Ould Macliar, w-ithiu202 15 0 5th do.. { (Gilcomtoen & Upper Den-} 5 10 r 860 699Cl I - - 251 f NOW-MfseIcInAL. 4thWard5 South Old Macbar, beyond - 61 81 I Municipal ...

... MARISCHAL. COLLEGE AND UNIV7MUTY. and At the 0l08e of the Sessioin, the followint Sttdzt ?? Ifound entitled to Prizes in their respetv Uase z- LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOROPIY CILASS.'. I Determined by TwnrtY-eight Writtena Examianationti. George Sinclair. Aberdeen. M I James Pittondrigh, Newhills. t1115 I John Millie, F0rdeuns.foI James Geaimack, Turft* for 3 Lend, ?? lt amei Willhrm Coland, ...