... f1guipit FRANCE. A fire broke out on Monday morning at six, in the compositor's office of the Afonsiteur. The flames spread with such rapidity that the whole building, on the Quai Voltaire, was speedily one burning mass. After great difficulty the fire was extinguished, but not before the furniture of the editors' rooms and of the printing office had been 'entirely consumed. The presses had ...

... THE INDIAN MIUTrNIES. A~ ~ ~ To1 1 1;-i OFFICIAL NEWS. (From the Globe.) We tire enabled to publish thle following narrative of events ~ 1receivod from the (3overnment ?? Bombay :-St Dpar.mi.-The news from D~elhi ils up to the 29th Of July. Tlhe btieg'iing army, was attacked by the mutilmers onl the 14th, 18th,~ and 23d. Thle assailants' were on each occasio1n replilsvd with great loss. (Ito ...

... 'faval auto 'gul, ilitarg ?'attIlignut, The Royal Dragoons have given twenty-four vo- lunteers to the 7 th Dragoon Guards, about to embark for India, and the Scots Greys twenty-one. The 13th Light Dragoons have given twenty volunteers to the 17th Lancers, also under orders for India. Colonel Henry John Savage, commanding Royal Engineer at Chatham, having been appointed Com- manding Royal ...

... I 0OURTH EDTITON. MEiCURi OF1I'CE. T IILLRE O'CLOU.i EDTNBUQII . CATTLE ?? ?? Sept. 18 1'Ii numiber of tlie p this morntittg was 7;,65. Ulmantld t nl. at I t i wecri's prices ior bothl kinds sPIP0oltc(L is': price of thle best blaclkfacetl wedder mattoln, 7d rret, ,id to Td; eaves and inferior, from sld to Gd. atntn). top, 27,s; currenttfor best sorts, front 14sto iTS; and ?? Ss. Blaclfaeced. ...

... In the Dublin Freeman's Journal we find the fol- lowing remarks on India, published as Extracts fromn a Discourse Preached in St John's Cathedral, Salford, onl Sunday morning, by his Eminence Car- dinal Wiseman, on behalf of the Manchester and Sal- ford Catholic Orphan Asylum :- We have been for a hundred years striving to civilise an immense population; to civilise it in evcry way except ...

... Tithle8 on Oysters.-During the past week the habi- Vi tual quietness of tte Mumbles has been interrupted f by a dispute regarding the tithes levied on the oysters ill which are brought il such large qditiities to the cl village. Tile owner of the tithes is-R.. D. Berrington, Yc Esq. of Woodlands Castle, betweeni 'whom anid the. oyster dredgers the question was the subject of a long H and ...

... SsMIThI THE POET. (sr-o w1 PUNCH.) I fo, All readers of poetry must be deeply ited'ebted to . the Adhenceumn for its eliborate exposure of the pla- sid>s giarisms of Mr Alexander Smith. The neble per- in ti severance with which every lrhrase of Mr S Jth'. has thel been overhauled, and the etores of collected and re- towa collected learning which have been addut-ed to hims demonstrate the ...

... . (From tho Times.) A famous historical proposition was once enounced under the title of Killing no Murder. In pretty similar terms might we describe a paradox which has been allowed income way or other to affect opinion in recent times. Murder is thought not to be exactly murder when its features are considerably more shock- ing than those of the average crime. Killing by inches is not ...

... SCQTcH uNVMISITY -REPRESENTATION IN1 PA.BIIADENT. (Fpe-on the Mofoin~~g ~Post.) University replesentation is ?? a part of the consti- tution of Parliament. Members are returned to the House of Commons b the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin; and the concession of one or two members to the university of London will not now be much longer delayed. Tie case of the Scottish ...

... (vFOtr O. m 3TM N. L, .. _ . il On Wednesday last, the Dukne of Hanmilto.-t. as is knoi' his practice, had his yearly fishing of Loch Uarsie ?? -with a net, when, besides the Dukie and his coa-pany, the there are generally assenmblcd fromn 30 to 40 ot the tieI tenantry, and when there is feasting and drinking On ing a Ithe side of the loch. About three gallons of eshisky tge a had been taken ...

... te n Iflqh School Examination.-The examination of the Yvarious classes in the High School is fixed, wve observe, for Wednesdayand Thursdaynext, and the distribution of prizes for Friday. The latter ceremony will take place, as usual, in the City Hall, under the auspices of the patrons of the institution, the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council. A large concourse lsof the parents and ...

... THE WEATHER AND CROPS, A. ANGUS AND MEARNS.-We are assured that the crop ha will not as yet be injured, provided sharp, drying weathere set in, but appearances give little promise in the meantime. Le Many of the farmers in this quarter are already finished with 36' . their cutting, and it is estimated that there is less than a /n third of the crops standing over the whole of Angus and . Mearns ...