... THE 78TH JIMLAMDERM. i-It is not, perhaps, generally known that the 78th Iligh- e landers, the regiment which has so distinguished itslf at Cawnpore and elsewhere, under the gallant Havelock, is of 4 old renown in the East Indian warfare. The original denomni- dnation of the regiment was the Scaforth Highlanders, orthe 78th of the line, and it was raised in 1778, by the re- stored Earl of ...

... EXPERIMENTS WITrH DIFFRRENT MANURES ON T11E GCIOWTnI or TUR.;IPS.-A meeting of the Haddington Club was held onl Friday. The most noticeable feature wvas the determillation expressed by soene of tho members to curtail the expendituro of muillOy in tho purchase of Peruvian guano, preferring other fertilisers. This resolution, which we believe is very general, should affect thle market for ...

... Our usual annual contribution to tlh6 statistics of Aber- ( deen and suburbs is now due. We here give it in the usual form. v I. BIRTHS. The new system of registration has now been in operation for three years; and the following are the results, from the records of the two great parishes into which the town and suburbs are divided. The parish of Old Machar ineludes a small extra-burghal ...

... - ----- -~ IN~SECURITY OF THE INDIAN RAILLWAY GUARANTEES. To the ElDITOIR of the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. S T SIR,-I beg leave to draw your attention to the following extracts, from a letter which has been addressed to Lord Palnserston, by Mr Clarke of Lahore, drawing attention to the question of the guarantees which have been granted to . the Indian Railways, and respecting which, if Mr Clarke's ...

... TTIlE CALCUT'IA NAIL, By thec arrival of the Calcutta sisail we have received our private crin'e-)(iii'leiieC ass il(ies of pipers frust Calcututa, to thi 24th of N ovosuber, anis fosm Jflos'gkong to itI,' 15th1 bi of -November. Tile following is from thLEE Tses' CorresponI- t cleat, and is dated Calcutta, -Novesmbser 23: Thle clouds are breaking rapidly. Time garrison of Luck- NrI saow has ...

... -4----- O- Ate, THE BOMBAY MAIL. THE first Bom1bay mail under the new arrangements ar- rived in London onl Tuesday, bringing intelligence up to Dlecemaber 24tb. Tue letters appear- to have been adequatelyrepresented by thle telegrams that preceded their arrival, for they do out contain a scrap of later intelligence from Oude, where all chief intereat is at thit mnoment concentrated. Tie Dae/p ...

... Tiso annual meeting of this Institustion was held in the Court House on Monday. J'here was a imsulerous attend- ance of ladies and gentlemen. The girls of the school were present during the earlier part of the proneedhigs, and sung the national anthem, as their ceontribution to the joyous de- 12onstratiosts of the day. of William Leslie, Esq., of Wartlill, wias called to the chair; and the ...

... Our contemporary the Herald has thought it neces- sary to vindicate its consistency on Church politics, and reproduce the State Church theories which it advocated in '36, to meet the opinions prevalent in '57. We do not think the Herald's consistency on that subject has been challenged. If so, the challenge has been without reason, since it is so corn plete as to embrace not only , matters of ...

... (From Times Correspondent.) WI LTIE best way to see the agriculture of a country is to shoot ad over it. A landlord who shoots over his estate knows the de - rotation of crops in every field, and his tenant will not dr - wisely be too persistent in his straw crops. With a view to L this same sort of minute acquaintance with the agriculture of the flowery land, I employed somne of my enforced ...

... a; On Tuesday af ternoon, Professor Bieckie delivered a lee- tore on German Universities to a numerous audience, composed almost exclusively of stndoftte, in tles Greek Closse- iRoom of the Edinburgh Unliversity. Professor Fraser pre- Hesdd e i4sslainmed any intention of ebolisising the distinc- es live caib of ties Universities. tii LUNATIC ACCOMMODATION IN THE COUINTY o.EIN- cl BURGHL-The ...

... S BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Ea Eu I N D I A. Ed Or Thu followjig particulars, received by the East India Com- pany, have not been all published:- or CALCUTTA, 10th December.-The Oommander-in-Chief, having La relieved the Lucknow garrison, returned to Cawnpore, with the Br rwomen, and the wounded, and the State prisoners, twenty-three No laes of rupees, and the King'e jewels-also, all the guns ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,. Li FRANCE. PARIS, Thursday.-It is said that a communication has taken nlace betwecn the French Ambassador in London and the Eng- lish government on the immigration into the French colonies of free negroes; that several facts which are stated to have taken place on the West Coast of Africa, and disapproved by the local authoritices, were mentioned, and a request made that ...