... 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, ...

... (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 ...

... PORTABLE THRASHING MACHINE -.2 -- A ,I , L _ - - Yesterday we had an opportunity, on the premises of Mr. D Aidrs~kl, of Bothlwell Castle Home Farm, of seeing tried, for T the first time, a new Portable Thrashing Machine, which inr has just been finished at the works of Messrs. JohamGray & tow Co., Uddingston. This novel and valuable machine has Sit beeln constructed under the superintendence, ...

... TI EE LI(DUOR i'I:AFFlfC . . J. IL 1 /I U U/ tv 1 I Ii .1 11 LL;, 1. U I , DErUTATIONS To Till LORS) rROVorT AND aIAGISTiATTES I Yesterday afternoon a deputation froun the public ieeoethg eled i Oil Teslay evening, uad a depiitatioln irom tih ?? hle Glas- | ste gor, waitod upon ?? me Petitions in favour of a reduction of the number of public houses, CI and the closing of back doors. COD Mr. ...

... Yesterday the Convention resumed its sittings in the Justiciary Court-room-the Lord Provost in the chair. The meeting having been opened by prayer by the Very Rev. Principal Lee, a vote of thanks was, on the motion of Treasurer Russell, passed to the venerable Principal for his kindness in opening the sittings of the Convention. IMPROVEMENT or DtINBAR HARBOUR. Mr RITCH.E (Dunbar) brought up ...

... IT A M I!L'T 0 N-A Ri H L 17, slit e a n WN ( ?? .n± l (Frotm ~our own Corrcspeldc nt) The very severe and protracted course of vwitherimg teast wmd, and hard frost inltheinerninge, yiclded the ascendancy .to a fine westterly ?? copious refreshiing showers on the morning of the1tth iinst, which already haveb bal a ,vmarked effect on the paoehed pastores anitrruuqiledlup.lmds 6-and blossoms, ...

... LETTERS ON TEE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON., - .. ., (From the Field.) My dlear Fred,-! said that when the fish have~ deposited their spawln they retire from the siawning ground, and, as I believe, go bakto the sea. But I was asked by the Earl of Mansfield the other day if I was certain they went back to the sea, and might they not go up the river rather? To this I could only answer that, as ...

... T H E N A V Y. (From the Examiner.) Sir J. Pakington's speech on the Navy Estimates is on the whole satisfactory, and considering the short time he has been in his office, the knowledge he dis- plavs of naval affairs is highly creditable. We have only to object to his makilng it matter of congratula- tion that the force on the African coast for the suppres- sion of the slave trade has been ...

... rd Mit Disnzm.Eia's Budget, which was introduced on Moni he day, is a very simple and common-place affair. It is none the worse for that; but, somehow. there is a in popular impression that ingenuity and originality are of to be looked for from the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, notwithstanding the little affection which the English public have for any complex and recondite ad method of ...

... TSIE OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR UNDElI-IEIT1IOXED PLACES. APRIL 186S. ¢, The abbreviations within parcnthesis-(Cat), (8. C.), (F. 0na G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.) -signify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburghi and Glasgow, North British, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dandee Railways respectively. and intimate that the trains start mrom the termini of these railways in )dinburghl at the ...

... TIME OF TRAIN' LEAVING EDINBURGH FC'(S UNDERMNETIONED PLACES. APRIL 1858. *: The abbreviations within parenthes i-LCal), (S. C.), (E. na G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.) -signilf Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Edinbnrgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectively. and inrtimate that the trains start from the termrai of these railways in Edinburgh at the ...