... Fishing-Latheron, Caithness, August 10.-The fish- ing of the past week on the Caithnese coast has been a moderate. At Wick the fishing averages about 9 V crans a boat for the week, and 29 for the season; at a Lybster, 10 crans for the week, and 20 for the season; t at Dunbeath, 12 crats for the week, and 24 for the season. Helnsdale is the only station in this quarter V that has been heavily ...

... A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon . at the official residence of Lord Palmerston, Downing Street.-Globe. RlRepresentation of Oldlzam. -Several meetings of electors have already taken place in reference to the vacancy caused by the fatal accident to Mr. Platt; l and we understand there is a strong feeling in favour r of nominating Mr. Cobden.- Globe. Thee Militia.- The following ...

... (From the Illustrated London Ne-ps.)- The mortal remains of the late Right Hon. John Wilson Croker were consigned to their last resting place, at Moulsoy Church, Surrey, on Monday. The funeral was of a private character. f Lieut-teneral Pennefetleer, in command of the. forces at Malta, has assumed the administration of the civil Government in the temporary absence of the Governor. The monument ...

... AceQ isnA Xr- .IA ?? n lA .. The annexed extract from the provincial journals received are important at this period:-- Libmniciz.-The crops are being fast gathered in throughout the country, and everywhere we find that the yield is most abuidant, and beyond that of late years. The wheat crop is abundant; but the oats are short in the straw. Reaping is general throughout the south of Ireland, ...

... [COMSiUNXCATED SiX A YACHTING FiRIEND.] reflE At this season, when so many enjoy boating at the oast evel some few reminiscencess of anl excursion to the Western Islands this of Scotland may interest your readers generally, and perhaps beau benefit such of them- as contemplate sailing for the first mor time beyond the isthmus of Kintyre and exeninotei, d ventures to the waters 'of the Hebrides ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-hMoNDAY, AUGUST 24. Their Lordships rnct at five O'clodck.ntetbl h pno The 1,OUD CH1ANCELLOR laid upo h al h opiniofn of tha law otffcars of the Crown in relation to the legalit f the opism trade wit China. se h oenett The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH ase h Gvrmn wrhathar they had received any further telegraphic intelligence fii from India? Lord PAN11URE said nothingbhad beenureceived ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TIiURSDAY. I . . n -I - ThAir Lordships met at five o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Queen of Oude, the Prhice her eldest son, and the brother of the King, now in this country, expressing great regret at the military outbreak in India, and sorrow and surprise at the suspicions - attaching to their relative, the ?? of Oiude, of disloyalty and disaffection. The ...

... (Frome the Timees.) Royal visits rank as phenomena with great meteors, comets, solar eclipses, and new planets. They are extraordinary evnts, and immediately set even people not the least inclined to qu or- stition thinking what they mean and what they pint to. Mt that there is any absolute reason why they should mean more than what the simple fact conveys. For why should Kings and Queena not ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS-TiUE'3DAY. vuoU UN ?? O .LLUnOJA. The SPEAMEn took the chair at twelve o'clock. The. SPEAKER announced the withdrawal of the Cashel Election Petition. ?? committee appointed to try the petition against the re- tturn of Mr. Glover for Beverley was -sworn at the table, ande ordered to sit next day; as were also the Sligo Borough and! ?? of Dublin Election Committees. The House ...

... MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24. _ ?? It has been announced in the Senvday Times, as will be seen from the telegraphic despatch elsewhere, that ive Government have nearly completed arrangements for the the despatch of troops to India by the Red Sea. The hat Viceroy of Egypt having granted permission to this nd effect, tlih Government, we are told, propose to send For, three battalions of infantry, ...

... To the Edidtor of the Glasgow Herald. SiR,-l observed in the Ilerald of last week a paragraph de-. scribing the arrangements fbr the Show on the Green, in which it was mentioned that wines would be sold il the refresh- ment room for ladies, and refreshments generally in the place for gentlemen. Perhaps you will remember that last year the parties who sold refreshments on the Green at the ...

... TilE ELEVATION OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL. 1- - 11 IS - nail Ioe (From the Daily News.) of After many ineffectual attempts to drive Lord J. Russell from sc, the position he has so hong occupied in the House of Commons, sit the Times would fait, as acting in the capacity of anconsiderate ml friend, try to persuade hint that for his own sake it would be ciE well if be would ask Lord Palmerston for ...