... THE COUNTY OF MID-LOTMIAN AND THE I LUINTACY ACT. In a communication to the Courant, Mr Dundas of C Arniston takes up and discusses the letter of Mr Duncan A'Laren which recently appeared in our columns. Mr Dundas agrees with Mr M'Laren as to the desirability of a moderate-sized asylum, and men- s tions his own views as to the mode in which the divi- sion should be effected. He says on the ...

... RESULTS OF THE NEW PUBLIC- HOUSES ACT. The following statistics of the total number of cases of drunkenness which came under the nsticeof the police authorities in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leitb, and Invemess, have been prepared by the various of- ficials,uin answer to a return moved for in the House of Commons by Alexander A. Denlop, Esq., M.P., _=nd .wiich iz.i expectedL will! be printed -in a ...

... The following is a list of the paintings purmhased by the Fine Arts Association:. No. 9. Study from Nature, IDarnick. By Johea.C. Wintour. No. 19. Moonlight. By George Simpson. No. 24. Winter Afternoon-Curlers and Skaters on Linlithgow Loch. By Charles Lees. No. 31. Inch Colm, looking weat. By Sampel Bough. No. 51. Sketch on the Beach, enaly Hastings. By Keeley Halswell. Eo. 54. Pandy Mill, ...

... TLME OF TPRUNS LEAVLNG EDLNBURGH }FOR UNDEIMtlENTIO?wED PLACES. FEBPUARY 1S68. %. The abbreviations within parenthesis-(Cal.), (S. C.), (E. an, G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-signify Caledonian, Scottisb Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Edinbiirgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains stare from the termirni of these railways in Edinburgh at the ...

... BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FRANCE. With reference to the appointment of the Duide' of Montebello as Envoy to Russia, the Times Paris correspondent remarks, that the Orleans party must indeed be in a ruinous condition when such mnen as the Duke and M. Dupin leave it for ever. The Times' Paris correspondent writes on Tues- day ?? arrest of the French refugee Bernard, by the English police, has given ...

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR UNDERMIENTIONED PLACES. FEBRUARY 1858. %* The abbreviations within parenthesio(Cal.), (S. C.), (E. and O.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-signify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Daftdeo Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the termini, o these railways in Edinburgh at the ...

... coud and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of IKent visited her Ma- jesty the Queen on Wednesday, at Buckinughal Palace. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Mr Gibbs, went to White Lodge, Richmond Park, in the forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Sercne Highness Prince Victor of HEolienlolhe dined with the Queen. Viscount and ...

... IM,]PORTANT P1UOCBEDINGS UNDER THE COMMON j O1)UINQ-HOUSE ACT. [FRO0M rUSNCE.) y Mr John Bull, keeper of a common lodging-house, .brighti much frequented by foreigners, was charged with as int variousoeci under the Common Lodging-honse were Act, and generally with keeping a disorderly house,, and th and harbouring notoriously-bed characters. ,peared 'The principal witness against him was a ...

... TDMBE OF TRAINS LEAVLNG EDLNB?URGH FOR UNDELRM.ENTINED PLACES. vEBPU.ArY 1858. e The abbreviations wilhin parenthesis-(CaL), (S. C.), (K. and G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.) -signify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Ediaburgis and Glasgow, North British, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dandee Hailways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from tohe termini a these railways in Editburgh at the ...

... Surap 311ttIliplar FRANCE. A ease of conscience has just been discis4sed .and: settled at the trimestrial meeting of the clergy of the archdiocese of Paris. When' an insolvent, who-, has compounded with his creditors, becomnes subsequently in a position to pay in full, can he shelter himself behind the law and refuse payment, or is he bound in conscience to make full restitution before he is ...

... gsotrial 11arlialligut. [BY ELECTRIC fIwTEGRAPH.] ShOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. 35 THE LICENSExG SYSTEM. d Lore H. WINFORD, in presenting a pefition from the General Quarter Session for Monmouthshire, called attention to the evils of the present licensing )rsystem. l e arl GRANVILLE intimated that it was the inten- l tion of Government to bring in a Bdl upon the * subject.l 0BANKRUPTCY LAWS. The ...

... ?Illptdal laarliallifill. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY. The Ecclesiastical Residences (Ireland) Bill, and the Churches (Ireland) Bill, were read a second time. CHURCH RATES ABOLITIONT. Sir G. TRELAWNEY moved the second reading of the Church Rates Abolition Bill. He objected to the imposition of church rates upon many grounds. The course presented by law for their ...