... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... In the House of Lords last night the Foreign Socretary stated that the Crown lawyers had sent in their opinion concerning the seizure of the Cagliari. According to the views of two of those officials, that act was legal; the third pronounced it utterly illegal. The Duke of Norfolk moved for an address for copies of correspondence and returns in reference to the Patriotic Fund. In the House of ...

... GENERAL, POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH. BOXC3 Close. ~Del'verv General Recciv'gl P.O. in Edin. P. Offce.,j Houses.I Leith. a L~itlt. Aberd'n, Dnuidee, Perth,) 5 4.5A. 10 CY 10 OP 6 40A Stlrling, Alloa, &e. a 7. 20P 7 OP 7 O 6 SOP Berwick and E. of England, 1 0p. 11 OP I CP I 6 40A Berwliek, Dunbar, Had-5 din-ton, &ac E. of Eug- U P 5 t6P 4 30P 4 30p 3 OP lanQ . . Carlisle, Liverpoool, llan- 74 Op 3 ...

... Cor s Vonh lt t. THE CONFESSIONS OF LUDUS INGENUUS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sxu,-Your readers of to-day must surely be greatly edified by the loud lamentations so piteously poured forth in the lugubrious lucubrations of L Ludus In- gennus. But, a moment, en passant, Mr Editor, as to the import of this remarkable subscription to this no less remarkable production. Does the ...

... SECOND EDITION OF TUESD)AY. LON'DON. The Duke of Cambridge will preside at t loe 'i user given by the members of the United Service Clut! 'IO the Duke of Mqlakiffon Thursday next. Lord Cowley arrived in London yterday ?? Paris. COMMENTS OF TilE LONDON PAPEIN. The Times in a leader on the Budget says, 'T;e only point of importance in this speech is the cellor of Exchequer's viow of sinking ...

... AGENTS YOR TUE CA1X!)OtlA-N MUERURY. Aberdeen ?? & R. :1ilneXClasgow --FW. Love, Ea Athenncum I E ocl Square Do. .L. & J. Smith. Greenock ?? lrs Owen. Do. -W. Panton. 'fladdington..J. Msllen. Do, ?? WyLie andL : Do. -G. Smfles. Son. I1awick - R-1 Black. Aberlacly .-.Mr ?? 3Iitolie!'L Do. -J. Dalgleish. Alloa - J. Lothian. inveresk ..J. G-ordon. Arbroate ..-James Smith. llnverkeithg..3iiss ...

... TIME OF TRAMS LEAVING EDMUBURGH FOR UN)ERMENTIONED PLACES. APPRIL 1S58. , The abbreviations within parentiesis-(CaL), (S. C.), (E. arn G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-aignify Catedonian, SCottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectively. and intimate that the trains start from the termini o. these railways in Edinburgh at the hours ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, WEDNESDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK. LONDON. Da BErNARD.-Last night Dr Bernard was pre- sent at Wyld's Reading Rooms, Leicester Square. He was received with very warm congratulations, and made a speech on the occasion of his health being drank. He said- Gentlemaen, I thank you for this demonstration; you do not drink my health, but the health of your own country, you drink to liberty, ...

... To-niglht the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to develope his financial scheme, and make the coun- try acquainted with his ways and means to provide for a deficiency of, according to the estimate of the Press, something approaching to L.6,000,000. This deficiency, says our cotem- porary, is the result partly of redemptions of debt made obligatory upon the present year by the Acts which ...