... EXPLANA.jTAU OP DEFECTI'V SUPPLY. We readily insert the foliocing statement by Mr. Couanil. lor Gemmill, which has been transmitted to us, and which deals ably with a subject of great local importatrce From the recent copious rains which have fallen, we trust that fears as to the further and complete exhaustion of the Gorbals reservoirs are now at an end. Mr. Genainill's statement is as follo; ...

... TUBm uituaca11 mscoksILc. Each (lay this monstrous vessel becomes tiii ier rapid progress towards completion a greater and a greater Eastern stilt. For f nearly four years she bps loomed tin dim immensity over tire river side like some pre. Adanmite leviathan-for nearly, four years she has stood an iron enigma, exciting and baffling all conjecture as to how she was to be got down to the water, ...

... (Fronz 1the. ondon Joumnals of Yster day AMorning.) l ._I a- ?? tile Times.) adi Tle Bombay mail has brought us further intelligeni0 ae to Ba the Fall of' Delhii, and, although those accounts are still meagreat a r. and unsatisfactory, enough is told to show with what indomi- hal table igour and determination tile Blritish troops advanced to occ Ythe assault of the fortifications which ...

... WR.ECK OF AN AMERICAN SHIP. Southampton, Oct. 17. n By the arrival of the captainu and creav (16 in ail) we learn the particulars of the loss of the Richard Anderson, Captain C. l E. 'ofIn, ?? the narrow escape of all onl board. The Ricilard 5 Anlerson was a full ship, atnd left Itotterdam for Baltimore on the 29Lh of August. (Ji the 23d of September, when in lat. C 44.9 N., long. 38.12 W., it ...

... STATIONS OF THE JBRITISII ARMY OuT ri' CT' OCFOa.RE, 1857. (From the United Service Magaiine.) Wheraetwso placesOarnenllioned, the lastuanoed is that ot lit Deplt of theJlsagimientisstatio7sed. Life Guards. Foot. Ist, itegtstt's Parko 42d, India; Aberdeen. 2d, Hyde Park. 43d, Madras; Clhatham. Royal Horse Guards. 44th, India; Uolceter. Windsor. 45th, C. of G. ilope Ct.nterbour Dragoos Guards. ...

... A QUEER PUOTOGtArAER. On Saturday morning last detective officer Thomson and police constable Win. flarleyapprehended a photographic artist named Patrick O'Brien, in his photographic booth, situated on a green at the head of Caumberland Street, Hutchesontown. Fromn iformation received by Thomson and also by Harley these officers had reason to believe that O'Brien was the indi'- vidual who, for ...

... IL A T E s >r E II, XV !,1 d I ?? 0EPPI1n.1 ?? ?LJ 1SAlr-'l HERALD OFMICE, Alonday MO)n2. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. AM ERICA The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston,, arrivei at Liverpool yesterday about nine AM.u, with advices frmn New. York to the 6tth and Boston to the 7th instant. S!ie briogs fies paseagers, but no specie. The screw steamship New York, from Glasgow, had arrived: at New ...

... rog ke TIE WiORKS OF CHARLES WATERTON. ad We extract the following from an able review of theworks of a- Charles Waterton, the eminent naturalist, in the National re Review for October, published by Chapman & Hall, Lon- ,w don:- a No man perhals has ever lived more completely in this sort :a- of interest [the study of nature] than Mr. Waterton. We all oh know how, after his return from ...

... L A l T If,' T INEW X8S HERALD OFFICE, F1rid1ay M4Or)ling. i, ge (I BY ELECTIZIC TELEGRAPH. tU _ _ tl ARRIVAL OF THE EAST INDIA MAIL. sI Southampton, Tbursday Noon. o1 The steamer Ripon has arrived with the India mail. She fe brings £28,850 in specie. Her dates are-Alexandria, October m 7; Malta, 11; Gibraltar, I0. Exchange at Gibraltar, 502 onl I London. tbl The Ripon brings 150 passengers, ...

... It ?? O. ?? (From the Greenock T'legrapl,) Late on Thursday night last the news of tie money panic in Glasgow, and of the run of a paccel of old women, both ihipan- taloons and petticoats, upen ona of the banking houses in. Glas gow and Greenock, reached the ears of a few specimens. of the 4 Old Light, or antique in, commercial affairs, just as they were sitting down to ted. News of an ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2. d; L1 L. corresponding quarter in 1856, need take none by yio surprise. The revenue this time last year was swelled be- greatly beyond its ordinary dimensions by the addi- .Ids fld tional taxes imposed for the war. These, with the the exception of the malt tax, were then in full force bie nen during the quarter ending 30th Sept., 1856, more ke. especially the income ...

... I L '19ES ?? -~ p AT l S ?? N E W So - -_ - I - - T I P./ U HERALD OFFICE, Friday Mo1r1ning. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. THE INDIAN MUTINIES, The Post has farther details, received from Bombay nia Uar- sailles. Lord Canning has refused to comply with the request of the peeode of Calcutta that he would proclaim martial law. Lieut. Htward Campbell, 78th Highlasiders, had died at Cawnpore. Lii;ut, ...