... FAREWELL DINNER TO DR LIVI4ST4ONE, A grand banquet w.es given on Saturday night to Dr Livingstone, the celebrated African traveller and discoverer, by the members and friends of the Geo- graphical Society, previous to the departure of the missionary traveller to occupy his post of British Consul to the Portuguese settlements in Southern Africa, to which he has recently been appointed by her ...

... 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 ...

... STSMMARY. - In the House of Lords last night the Earl of Elleniborough inquired of the Government whetier any instructions had been sent out to India to arrest the too frequent infliction of capital punish- ment upon the captured insurgents. Earl Gran- ville, in reply said that the practice of punishing all with death indiscriminately was improper, and the Government had in contemplation a ...

... TLME; OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGJ FOR UNDERMENTIONED PLACES. FEBRUAIRY 188. **1 The abbreviations within patentllesi-(CaL,), (S. C.), (E. and G.)r IN. B ?? (E. P. and D.) -asl nify Caledonian, v mnttiaj Central, Edinburgh and Glaisoiw, North Britishl, and Edinlsirgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectivly, and intbmate that the trains stalt tron; the termiai at these railways in Edinburgh at ...

... FOREIGN OFFICE DESPATCH. SERIOUS ENGAGEMENTS. DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY. Capture of Guns and Ammunition. The following telegram was received at the Fo- reign Office on the 14th February, 8.30 ?? ALEXANDRIA, 10th February 1858.-The Pekin arrived on the 8th inst. She brings Bombay dates to 23d nlt. The force under. Sir James Oatram at Alumbagh, 4000 strong, was attacked by the enemy on 22d December, ...

... AGENTS FOR THEB CALEDONIAN i.RECUllY. Aberdeen ?? & R. Milne,,Glasgow_.NV. Love, St Atheneum., Enoch Square Do. - L. & J. Smith. Greenock ..lrs Olve. Do. -W. Panton. 11addington.,3. 31llen. Do. ?? Wyllie and Do. -G. Smiles. Soln. Hawick ?? Black. Aberlady .2flr.F. Mitchell. Do. ?? Dalgleish. Alloa -J. Lothian. luveresk- -J. Gordon. Arbro th ..-James Smith. Lnverkeithg.,31iss Camubell. Do. --G. ...