... THE BOMIBARDMENT OFi' CANTON. The following intelligence is from the Chiina Mail of Dec. 30 :-We have been looking most anxiously for news from Canton, and by the Opossum learn briefly that on the 28th at 6 ?? the bombardment commenced; and at noon, when the gutnboat left the Tung Pautoi, or Eastern Fort, was being assaulted by the allied forces. Between the Frencis and Datch Folly Forts ...

... ('141aptrial i? [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. The Lord CHANCELLOR, in answer to Lord Wensleydale, stated that the Committee upon the Shrewsbury peerage case would be reappointed on the first week after Easter. INDIA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, referring to the news received from India, asked if Government at home had sent any instructions to India respecting the punishment ...

... SCOTCH BUSINESS IN PARTIAMNT. FUiBRIWARY 4. Fife and Kinross and Kinross-sliire Railivays- Petition, and Bill ordered to be brouebt in by Viscount Meigunid and Sir Graham Monigomery. Edinburgh Life Assuranrce Company-Petition, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Lord Alfred Paget and Sir Graham Monrtomery. Tay Fisheries-Petition, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr Stirling and Mr ...

... Dat 33i&11xtt~. TaE HEALT -OP SiR Joys PorrsE,- M?.P.-With- reference to a paragraph in the Manechester _Exaliner1 expressing regret at the illness of Sir John Potter, M.P., the -faulchelster Guardian ?? doubt- the regret of the Examiner, on learning of the proba- bility of an early resignation on the part of Sir John Potter, is very intebse, and we therefore hasten to assuage it by ...

... TIIURZSDOMY, FEBRUARY 18. Inverury and Old Meldruin Junction Railway- Petition and Bil ordered to be brought in by Lord Hado and Sir James Elphinstone. Border Counties Bill read a second time, and eom. - mitted. Harbours of Refuge-Petitirn of the Elgin Lossiemouth Harbour Company, praying that the Elgin and Lossiemouth Harbour be made a local h.ir- bour of refuge; referred to the Select ...

... IMID-LOT1'IAN AGRICULTURAL REPuORi FOR JANUARY. (WNRITTEs ront TluE CALEDONMAN 3tE.ICYI;. The winter wow past has been one of the mrsrt -t. markable in the.memory of any living person. U; till yesterday there had been not more than a few days of frost, and ?? snow was several times visible on the Lamirrermoors and higher ri.4os ii the Pentlands, in the low country there has beun none. The ...

... AGENTS FOR THE CALEEDONIAX MERCURY. Aberdeen .A. & R. Milue, Glasgow ?? Love, St Atheuncant Enoch Square Do. ?? & J. Smith. Greenock ..A1Irs Owen. Do. -W. Panton. ieladdingtce..J. Milien. Do. D . Wyllie an&, Do. .-G. Smiles. Son. ffawvick -R Black. Aberlady . F.Ur F. Mitchell.' Do. --J. Daigleisb. Allon - Lotifian. ?? --J. Gordon, Arbroath ..-Jaans Smith. Inverkeith-g..liss Campbell. Do. . ...

... J?Artiga ?Ilfflligntt. FRtALNCE. A Paris letter, in the Nord, gives some details relative to the Privy Council and tie Regency. It ?? - It was at first intended to nominate a consider- able number of persons nsembers of the Priiy Coun- cil, and to give them important attsibutions. But the Emperor decided on selecting only representa- tives of the Church, the Army, and the three great bodies of ...

... FOf'..TY-SUI-IILLn-G FREr'HOLD MOVEMENT, Last night, a public meeting of the trades of Edin- burgh, favourable to the freehold movement, was held in Brighton Street Chapel. The attendance was very large, comprising a great portion of the working men of Edinburgh. Among those present were -Rev. Dr Begg; Bailie Grieve; Councillors Fyfe and Crighton; Dr Russell; Messrs Gorrie and M'Kniglht, ...

... L(!Imperial valliallmit. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] HOUSE OF LORDS.-TIIuRSDAY. Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice that on Friday he intended to call the attention of the House to the unseaworthiness of the vessels, especially the Alma, which had been employed to convey the troops to India. The Earl of HARDWICK presented a petition complaining of the aggressive policy of the East India Company ...

... A INDIA AND CHINA. MORE VICTORIES. -SIR COLIN CAMPBELL'S OPERATIONS. * The following telegram from Mr Acting-Consul Green was received at the Foreign Office through Malta, 10th Feb.,. at 2 A.M. ALuX_-1DRIA, February 6th.-The HindostanX arrived at Suez on the 4th inst. She brings dates from Calcutta to the 9th Jaijuary, Canton to the 29th December, and Bombay to 13th January. Str ?? Campbell ...

... The North of Ireland papers are at present filled with reports of the gross outragesperpetrated on tenant property by the Earl of Leitrim, a nobleman who, if all the reports now circulating about him are cor- rect, seems to have exceeded his class in injustice to- wards the unhappy people who have the misfortune to be under the exercise of Iis arbitrary power. The Loncfonderry 55tanda-d, the ...