... EXHIBITIC) OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISN: A: ( A D, E I Y. The rooms of thc Royal Scotish Academy were opsned on Monday for reeoptionof the pictures intended for the I ensuing Exhibition;. and as usual, the streets were thronged [ with parties emiployeds-in carrying pictures, all wending- their I way to one cominonitcentre-the Exhibition Rooms. F roln the unhappy habit of broeraestiation to which ...

... E N G L R N D. SiLEmBR. LEONE.-The Government. have conferred, a pension of £'200 per annum UpoIn Norman William AMacdonald, for selvices as Governor of Sierra Leone. The office of Queen's Advocttte ii that colony is still vacant, the office having boon declined by Thomas O'Brien, Esq., who formerly was Secretary and Su- preme Magistrate inr the West Coast of Afioiaa.-Givil Servicc G'a;.ette. ...

... T.HlE CO.LON.Y, OF VICGORIA. 11116 U UIA5IND4X, UtF V I UT I itIA. tlt (Ercen-the MAelibornie Argesofl15th Dec.) I TI The EVVP6tea 1n11 ssal'to'iciorrow with the mails, andavel pa thrfor suoiusasmnryof intelligenc-e for trans. an THlE GOLDFIELDIS. pr The interval that has elap)sed since the delparture of the of las miail Vas' bes one of 'steady prog'ress ohl the goldilelds, Ti s' raletaof ...

... FRANCE. The following is the letter of the listei' Paris correspondent,. dated Thursday, 6 staf. The anagr ofthe pectateur (formerly Assernlde Nati'n aile) has addressed a circular to its subscribers, informing them. of the suppression to which it is conidemined, and stat- ing that forthle remainder of the period of subscription they: will be supplied with the Union:- Founded (says the ...

... LETTrER F-o-M ~A SOL-D-ER IN --THE FORTY- SECOND. I . . - . - The following letter, from a soldier in the 42d Highlanders 1e to his friends in Glasgow, though not of late date, is inter- me estiin, as giving the personal experiences of an observant t and intelligent man in humble life :- I DerCamp at Bithoor, l6th Dec. }657. Dear Friends,-I write to let you know how we have been s-getting on ...

... EN GLAND. INDIA.-.The gross total area of the regulation and non-re-gulation districts of the North-Western Provinces of India is shown, by a late return, to amount to 117,586 square miles, and the population to 34,265,876. The number of souls to each square milewas 291; the land revenue amouitedto4, 59,86,052 rupees, the ablaree to 23,02,654 rupees; stamps to 1,4132,126 rupees, ...

... - Thp. -rn -A>rn ~fA. _ The trial was resumed on Mlonday morning Lord CAMPBELL said his four learned brethren concurred with him respecting Esdaile's evidence before the Court of Chancery. They had agreed that that evidence was not evi- dence against the other four defendants, but would be evi- dence against himself. Any declaration during the time the couspu'acy was being foirmed, would be ...

... {rn+ T;In ' .- (From the Times.) W -e have received the following telegrams ?? 8 icorrespondentb4- J Malta, Feb. 20. Wirilighto. i Her Msjesty's ship Urgent. has just arrived 3rem Alexan . dria, bringing a, teldigram. feom Suez of political i'telig~ensa- received there, on ithe 16%th by the Bengal, with, the .Calcut;Lv .nd China mails - of which the following is the substance: I Sir Coln- ...

... it : Paris, Friday. a Lord Palmerston's reply to Mr Griffith is publishedin o all the papers here, and -ieems to give much satisotii. b . Surely we shall now see the end of those tirades again ?? i. e I which (far worse than the military addressesY iilted her ti ruler, and created for the time feelings ef bitterness between a I friends. It should be borne in mind that the French Goyern- T4 ...

... GORBALS IPAROCHIAL WOARD. rLTUEWD-X-U ?? AL 15VAlCI. The half-yearly meeting df this board vias held yesterday afternoon in the school roon-., Clyde Terrace. JoIn M .'Ix tosh, Fsq., chairman of the ?? board, was called to the Ichair. The advertisement calling the ineeting having been rend Mr. M'Intosh was unanimously elected chairihan for tIC ?? year. The CnAIaM-tA: thanked the ineetitI for ...

... I -. (From the Times.).. | It is a long time since the public have heard anything of A their old friend the Leviathan, which lately occupied so rlarge a share of their attention, and the bulletins about which 'chronicled alnost hourly how many or how few inches she bhad progressed towards her final destination-the water. IThe fact, however, is that very little has been done in the 3 way of ...

... r, We (Morning} Po.t9 have received ou-papers in anticipation .of the Overland Mal from Bombay, dated Jan. 23. We t take the following from the general summary of the BombaI Y1 s. Times:- * I The, progress of Sir Colin Campbell has been marked by 1; t no hard fighting since ourlastadvices, the insurgents having - e retreated rapidly across the Ganges into Oude, leaving the a. Doab in our ...