... We (flines) have been favoured with the follow- ing graphic account of a public execution in India: Ahmedabad, Oct. 26. I have just returned from the calm eyewitnessing of a sight of which not many months ago it would have sickened me fo hcar. I shall never see such another, nor you ever see such an one at all; and, as all scenes have their profit. I will fix it while the details are fresh. ...

... DESPATCH VROM INDIA. en. ?? - ?? t.o (FROt THE GAZETTE.) I ath8 ISBT OP 4OPPICSFnS yILLED -twD woumtED BsEFOREz and DELI UP TO 3ST ATO1GST l857. I its Eilked or Died of Wouads-Colonel C. Chester, a it, Adjutant-General of the' Aimy. 'Captain C. W. rdly Russell, 54th Reginient Xatlve Infantry, Orderly ctor Officer. Captain J. W. Delamnain, 59th Regt. N.I., held Ordelyj Officer. Lieiateiaint H. ...

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVMNG EDINBBURGH FOR UNDERMINTIONED PLACES. DECEMtBER lSF-,. T% Tv abbreviations withih parenthesis-(Cal.), (S. ?? (E. and G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-slgnqfy Csledonilri, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Sdinburgh, Perth, and Dandee AlIlways respectively, and intimiate that the trains start from thse -termuini of these railways in Edinburgh at the ...

... AGENTS FOR THE CALEDONIAW MERCURY. Aberdeen .-A. & R. Milue,,Glasgow --W. Love, SI Athenaumu I Enoch Square Do. ?? & J. Smith. Greenock ..-lrs Owen. Do. _W. Panton. aIsddington..J. Millen. Do. .D. ?? & Son. Do. -G. Smiles. Aberlady .,lxr F. Mitchell. !lawick U.R Black. ALcoa J .Lothian. Do. --J. Dalgleish. Arbroath James Smith. Inveresk --TJ. Gordon. Do. --G. Sutherland. lnverkeithlgMiss ...

... jutign ?Iltflliqnrf. PRUSSIA. The very unmistakeable signs that have manifested themselves at Charlottenburg of the total insuffi- ciency of the King's cure, as at present attained, have compelled a renunciation of all idea of his resuming power fer a long time to come. It is stated that the King of Prussia and his sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, will go to Italy to- gether in the month ...

... o250e 9 u IIAetlte. MR HODGES, of the Western Circuit, has been ap- pointed Chief Justice of the Cape Colony. SAMUEL LovnL, author of s Rory O'More, &c., has a new work in the press upon the Lyrics of Ire- laud. His time of late years has been almost exclu- X sively devoted to its compilation and annotation. w Tsa ATLANTIC TtLEGRAPH AT GREENWICH-An t extensive winter shed is being ...

... TDIE OF TRAINS LEAV1KG EDINBURCH FOR UNDE31BFOUNED PLACES. DECEMBERI 1857. Tle& abbreviations Within paranthleais-(Cal.), ?? C.), a. Slid G.), ff,. B.), (E. P. and D.)-zignifly'Caledonian, Snottish Central, Edinburgh and Gleegow, North Britisl,- 'iad Edinburglh, PFrth, and Dundee Railways respectwiety, and intimate that the trains atrb fomn the terinisi of these railways in Edinburgh at the ...

... I [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHI,] THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. Parliament was opened to-day by the Queen in person. Her Majesty arrived shortly before two o'clock, and the House of Commons having been summoned to the House of Lords, the Queen deli- vered the royal speech as follows:- MY LoRDS AND GENTLrEMEN,-Circumstances have recently arisen connected with the commercial in- terests of the country which ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, TUMSDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK. RUSSIA. A despatch from St Petersburg, dated 14th Dee., announces that an important victory had just been gained over the Tcherkesses. A great number were killed in this affair. A number of the villages of the Tcherkesmes were burned. COMMERCIAL. The Times' City Article of yesterday says, that in the Stock Exchange there was no alteration in the rate ...

... 1) Zza .I-C I 11'a c 11 t !. Tna PU.Eyac D ?? From -a return, published -on Monday, it is shown:that inuthe year ended the 431st March last thie paper duty amounted to L.1,138,8S0, whilst in the previous.year the amount was L.1,047,aob. DUTIES ON SPTnrs.-On Monday an cfficial do- curnent was iesued showving that in the Year ended the 31st March lat, the duties on r pirtsii ioonted to L.1 1,435 ...

... fortign gattIligme. GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEr{T.) HAZIBUBo, Dec. 5.-At the date of my last letter it was thought that the prospects as to mercantile affairs were beginning to brighten, and that the means resorted to for the purpose of restoring confidence had already proved to be effectual. Immediateiy thereafter, homwever, intelligence was received that the house of ...

... The-more detailed accounts brought bythe Over- land Mail fully confirm the favourable impression created by the telegraphic despatches. Brigadier Grant, with his troops, overtook Colonel Great- hed's column on the 18th of' October, assumed the command of the combined force, which then amounted to 3500 men, encountered and beat a body of the enemy at Kanouj on the 23d, and reached Cawnpore on ...