... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... (Fromn the Times.)Qc We publish to-day an admirable narrative from our special correspondent of the first operations against Canton. The departure of the mail leaves us s~II] inle ignorance of all that followed the first two days' attack, free but there canl be no doubt that. by the end of the yea r - b 1857. Canton -was in our possession, or, at least, inl our, power. It is impossible not to ...

... CHIN A, THE CAPTUIIE OF' CANTON. ADVICES from Canton are to December 30. The following Goverinent notification had been issued:- TIer Majesty's Plelipst'lltiary, &c. &c., has much pleasure in pnblishilg, for genleral information, the seltiolned copy of a die- patch, dated yesterlay, the 29th inst. to lis Excellelncy's ad- dress, from his Excellency Rwcr-Adinniral Sir Michael Scymom', I.C. ., ...

... WEDNESDAY, February 17, 1858. PA R L I A M E N T. HOUSE OF LORDS. THn EAST INDIA COMPANY. - On Thursday, Earl Grey presented the petition, from the East India Com- pany, against the proposed measure for the abolition of that body. He amplified the arguments of the peti- tioners, expatiated upon them one by one, and strongly deprecated the course proposed by the Government, as subversive of ...

... taes 7o the EDiTOR of t7e ABERDEEN JOURNAL. lay- ABERDEEN, 13th Feb., 1858. UtSI Sin,-In the view of the Council's discussing any pro- ,l,,, posal forthe alteration of the Petty Customs at the meeting hule to-day, I had intended to submit the following resolutions. joe From the turn which matters took, it did not appear to me ma! that I could do so regularly; and, therefore, for various per- ...

... 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 ...

... THE CRTIT4ELA lN ENd M[LAND. (From the Examitter.) Vth( When shall *we get to the bottom of the abuses and Lo ?? of our military systemn 2 Whenever we SOl seemi to have reached the lowest depth, there is always something deeper still, to which each ne'w t'l iuziniiiy is certain to conduiet us. Of all the disclosures MO ?? have yet lbeen made of the mismanagenlemnt of our op asonly, that ...