... D)OMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. 180 --fee L30 ENGLAND. be- ME cr- LaEE.-The Queen held a levee at 51. James's Palaee, tat ry, on Wednesday. The Ministers, Officers of State, and ltsa for Diplomatic circle, were present. Mr- Justice Byles wee knighted. Among the presentations were-Liedtb.-Colonel. thi ITM Alison, Military Secretary to 'Sir Colin Campbell, onl pro- M the motion and return from the East ...

... gatip ?Ilfdliyllm - 4-- FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:- The long-vexed contest between Professors BrewsteX and Wheatstone as to the first discoverer of stereoscopy, has been judicially set at rest by a sentence of the Civil Tribunal of Phris, in the lawsuit of Dabosque versus Gudin. The date of Wheatstone's first inti- mation of that natural phenomenon to the public, ...

... U 6 WALLACIi MOT0INUMENT. TO TrIta EDITOR OF TilE CALEDONIAN MERCt'IY. in Sir,-Freon two or three lettcrs wlhich have 3p- di' peared in you'r columns, I notice that the subscribers ye gcnerally are beginning to think that to place the wi nlonunent ot the Abbey Craig would destroy the th beautv of that hiIi, atiretc looking about for a more mi Euitablc site. In this conclusion I heartily concur ...

... g4t (Civil 5trmu. .A- A FoIrUTxm CiviL SERnvCic Or'rosxLE.-A CtS- C tomis official, dealt with rather summarily by the ders Board,, hs been made acquainted with the fact of for t his heirship to twenty or thirty thousand pounds. OfNi Tun PORT Or LONDoNDERRY.-The following is a Dur summary of the Customs' duties received at this port Bro, in the two years ending March 31, 1857 and 1858, to I ?? ...

... IMPORTANT POINT UNDER THE NEW POOR- LAW ACT AND LUNACY ACT. Can a lunatic, having no parochial settlement in Scotland, who has become chargeable since the New Lunacy came into force, be removed to Ire- land, the place of birth, under the provisions of the 77th section of the Poor Law Act ? Or, does the lunatic fall to be supported by the parish whence the removal to an asylum tcook place A ...

... FRANCE. The Times' Paris correspondent says, the state of the relations between the French and Swiss Governments is beginning to be viewed with some ?? in Paris. The fatality that was so near bringing about a rupture with England seems present on this occasion. The Minister of Public Safety will make an official toni' through the departments in the summer. Owing to the state of the finances, ...

... GF'ffiRAL TOSW-OFFICE, EDNBURGlI, BoxesICoaC sl Delvery C General Ree iv'gl P.O. i. EdOOS P. Of fce. Houses. Leith.. Lelih. MATILS. Aberd'n, Dundee, Perth,) 5 46A. 10 OP 10. OP r 40.' ( Stirling, Alloa, &c. . S a 7 20P 7 OP 7 O- 6 S0P Beiviek and E. o0f'England, 1 30P 11 OP 1 0r 6 40A Berwvial, Dunbar, lHad-) dington, t&c, K of.Eng- 5 U 55P 4 Sop 4 30P' 3 Op Carlisle, Liverpool, Ian-) 4 OP 15 ...

... T IiID EDIT[ON. MERCURY OFFICE, THirEE O'CLOCK. VDINB13RGH CATrLE MAR1KET. April 7. 'The supply of sheep this morning was 3387, being 322 iass than last market. Demand good, consequently sales wers easily effected, at higher prices. Best blacklaced wedders, from 7d to 8d; best Cheviot do., from 61d to 71d per lb., middling and inferior, from bid to 6d. A good elearanee. The number of cattle ...

... LONDON, APIUL 10. His Excellency the Count dle Persigny left the ° Fredlll Embassy on Tlhurstlay oveninlg for Paris. The iP Dulike of Malakhoff is expected to arrive in London I ( to enter on his diplomatic dluties on Mollday.-Tiim~es. |5 TrIE LAMARTINIE SUBwS.RlPTION.-In at letter to the! Conrfstittionnel, dated Florence, April 3, Lord Nor- maurby hlas requested that his name be put down for ...

... (Front the Daily News.) The statement of Sir John Pakingtofi, in movinig the revised Naval Estimates, was clear, frank, and satisfactory. The immediate exigency of the time is a want of men to complete the manning of our homue defences. We must have a Channel fleet in a state reasonably ready for inme- diate setrvice. We have the ships, but as yet we have not all the men. We are still about ...

... EA.RL STANHOPE'S RECTORIAL ADDRESS. (Fros t 01 Timesca) TnEI address of Lord Staishopo to the University of A-ber- deen deserves a high place !in What has now become a nu- nm. mo1rous and important class of compositions. We have sol- M dens read anything. so likely to al)]ly thle needful stimulus to the often aiciouldering fire and fitful amnbition of Acad- thl denlde youth. A Scotch precedent ...

... g IT seems the question of the capture of the Cagliari is lne to be hushed up after all. The British Government wa restrict their demands to compensation for the injury tio inflicted on our countrymen, and the Sardinian Govern- ga' ment, feeling itself deserted, appears inclined to com- me promise the question by referring it to the decision of tut the King of Holland. The Court of Naples has ...