... THE MIIAFFIES. - To the Editor of the Bcottish Guardian. Sir,-:.My attention bas been direected to a letter addressed to you in Friday's Guardian, by Win. Ml-aflie, sear., in which he says you most unwarrantably introduce the name of M'Ilaffle'c(Vii, his son, the notorious Michael M'Haffie) with that of Macdonald and Monteith, &c. I suppose every one at a glance will see that in giving ...

... - From the Economist.) The series of calamities which has led us to recon- sider all our legislative machinery with regard to India is now, we trust, at an end, but its influence on that legislation has scarcely yet begun. With this week's announcement of the relief of Lucknow and the successful withdrawal of all the women and children of that garrison to Cawnpore, we may feel that the high ...

... SCOT LN- . S COT LA ND. Presentotion.-We understand that John A. A len lEsq. of Errol, has presented the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Aberny te, to the church of Errol, vacant by the re- moval of the Rev. Mr. Caird to Glasgow. The M1ilitia Disturbance.-On Monday a sergeant and four privates belonging to the picket of the Stafford Militia engaged in the disturbance on Friday night, were brought before ...

... (From Smith & Elder's Homeward Mail.) The following translation of an Urdu laper, found in the house of a vakil of the Sadr Court, nmay interest our readers. The original was sent to us by a valued correspondent, and is thought by many to give a clue to tile oriein of the revolt: Extraot from the Lakhnau newspaper, printed oml the 28th of March, 1857, under the slperinteisdence of All Klida, ...

... TIlE STOLEN DAUGHTER-A SAD STORY FOR C H RISI'' AS. (Frome th l Examiner.) It cannot be too generally known that there is now ri prowling about the oittltry a knot of thieves and housebreakers, against whotii it lbehoves every father. of a famil y to tI i specially on hills guard. These dan- gerous characters do not steal into houses with th en ordinary felonilns purposes, to pillage your wine ...

... jL A TI1., S T N I V\, S. HIERALID OFFICI:, Wednesday Mlo-ning. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. IND IA AND CH INA. THlE CALCUTTA MAIL. Trieste, Dec. 28. The steamer from Alexandria arrived here this day at IL r.m., in 125 hours from.Alexandria. The Calcutta and Chita mails had left Alexandria, with dates from Calcutta to the 25th November; Madras, 28th; Ceylon, Dec. 2; and Hong Kong, Nov. 15. The news ...

... J a (From Guizot's IHistory of IWeliard Cromwelil aid the Restoration of ?? Cliries thc Second.) d Amid tbese unworthy agitations of his expiring party, a Ssolitary Republican, John Milton, blind but unshiaken in his e principles, gave utterance, with eloquent sadness, to i5s strong sconvictioens and uscless counsels. A few months before, wlacii ,f Lambert and the army expelled the Parliament ...

... ARMY PURCHASE C(MMISSION. - (Frolm tle Timee.); When the Report of the Arinv Purchase Commis- Bion was published Sir De Lacy Evans appeared to be the only dissentient; but it was afterwards known that a portion of tile Commissioners differed from their colleagues on entirely opposite grounds. Mr. Ellice's great experience in public affairs, and warm interest in military administration, entitle ...

... THE UTAII EXPEDITION. The fate which seems to impend over the expedition to Utah wears, in some sort, the aspect of retributive justice. It was delayed so long in Kansas, meddling in matters in which it had no business to meddle, that the winter has caught it while the advanced guard is still on this side the mountains. From the very outset misfortunes seemed to attend it. Great numbers of ...

... (From the Bombay Times' Summary.) In our last we mesiti ed the arrival of Grantbs column at Cawnpore, on the 271th1October. When crossing the Ganges, , they arrived at Allumnbqgh on the 1st of November. It had I now become known thiai Outran and Havelock were not only I holding their oeiR, bu't wevre suffering comparatively little injury from the almost Wideashig fire kept upon them by the ...

... CULVIN AND) I.A.WRENCE. (Vlram the Timer.) An Indian officer, 'v ho rose by his own deserts Vt) the goveriv treit of forty ?? of peoplo, wvho twitlitsiotied tis posittoit, if tint bill authority, ill thle very foctiS of ttLitrrettiOtt, who cX piiiedl at his ptest. witlhout sit re'otdti r 't (Loltt sdwhs meits still 8111ViVe Ill the ?? situ stiliiili'titii ci his tritliti, is certaili ly ...

... TUHE END OF TIE CRISIS. - - _. _ -_ _ . 1 0 . (From the Times City bltelligelice.) With tbe repayment on Thursday of tle £P2,000,000 of e isstte the commitercial c isis of 1857 muay he c nsidermd e lt 'i end' A I!trge-amnoltit of wreck probably -till r ains to lie l away, but alny such dletails swill henelefortli be legadeae only 6idividual interest. All the exeith-g adjuncts Of storm-will die ...