... MIONDAY MORNING, APRIL O.. The Royal mail Steamsbip Asia arrived at Liver- pool on Monday, with intelligence from New York to the 15th instant. The new's is devoid of- interest, The commercial reports mention that the cotton market was quiet, and 'that prices were .uiichanged. The same thing is -stated with respect to the grain and flour markets. Telegraphic despatches from Malta announce the ...

... LE- O -N - LATE.ST LIVERPOOL NEWS. (From our own Correspondelt.) ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA-ANOTHEL 'HORRID MURDER IN CHESHIRE-TERRIFIC FIRE IN LIVERPOOL-BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRIES._ Liverpool, Monday Evening. The British and North Ameriean Royal mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Leitch, which sailed from Boston on the 8th, and Halifax, N.S., on the 0oth, arrived here to-day aboutnoon, ! bringing the ...

... F IR A N G E. (From the Daily News' Correspondence.) Paris, Wednesday Evening The Neufchatel ConferenCo sat again to day. The first pro- t*,col was paragraphed on this occasionn but no inference can be drawii from that fact that the difficulties recently alluded to have been got over. Tae FoxSncs5, Globe, and Stin were seized to-day. A correslioident of the Imil endouce Beige gives the follow- ...

... After the close of the Antrim poll on Monday there was a )r riot in the town of Ballymena, an aecount of which is supplied c- as follows by the Banner of Ulster:- leo About five o'clock a dense mass of men congregated about of the Court Holiseaand down High Street, beyond Kennedy's e, hotel, and they shouted, gesticulated, and moved in a way se which told the on-looker that they were not ...

... is (From Dickens' Houacbold Word?.) - When representatives are being elected, every Briton who is an elector becomes actually a member of the Government. e The voice of the people is our supreme law, but the people d (except, in these latter days, through the press), speaks with authority only when it determines to give power to the opinions o it holds, by giving legislative power to the men ...

... THE EAST. Admiral Lyons, with several men-of-war, quitted' the Bosphorns on the 25th March fbr Malta. The stipulated day was the 30th. The rest of the ships would follow on the 31st March. Riza Bey is appointed Turkish Ambassador to the. Court of St Petersburg. THE PRINCIPALITIES. JAssy, March 18.-The reading of the firman for- the installation of the new Kaiinackan of Moldavia has taken place ...

... et rcu r. ztlc ou all EDINBURGH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857. t The MERacURY is Published DAILY, PRICE TaRER-SALPPENCE or 9s 9d ' Quarter, if paid in advance. 11s credit. Stamped a Penny extra per Copy. Stamped Copies of the Caledonian Afercuryare forwarded bypost for a subscription of 32s 6d Half-yearly, or i6s ad Quarterly, pay- able in advance from any date. Three Papers can be forwarded ...

... I f ,I -al ., grxtll?t'llr 1?11t? I'li, - I REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE FOR THE PAST WEEK. (FROM THE ifARK LAINE E XPRERS.) During the past week, although the temperature at its commencement was lowered, with some quantity of rain, vegetation has scareely been checked 'in its progress, and the corn fields continue as promising as can be desired. The pastuies also are well cov'erer and artificial ...

... 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. ...

... The ?? letter has been communicated by the t eminent German astronomer, Von Litirow, to the Vienma Gazette.- Inquiries have been so often made of late about a the great comet, the arrival of which has been ex- TI pected. that we think it desirable to'state briefly.the actual state of -the case. About the middle of the lest century. observers first perceived the resemblance between the orbit ...

... DINNER TO ARCHD. HASTIE, ESQ., M.P., FOR PAISLEY. On Thursday evening, the friends and supporters of M r Archibald Hastie, M.LP. for Paisley, entertained that gentleman to dinner in one of the flats of a large building recently erected in connection with the Saucel Distillery. The hour of meeting was five o'clock, and by that time the apartment was filled by upwards of 400 gentlemen, chiefly ...

... 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 ...