... AGENTS FOR THE, 'ALEDONlA.Y MERCURY. A'ordeeu .-A. & R. 3EIne, Glasgow -AY. Love .St Attleneurm. Iieoci Sj liare Do. --L. & J. Smith. Greenock .31ra Owen. Do. --et. Pantou. lladdiligtanJ. MiLlen. Do. -D. Wyllie aud' Do- -G. Similes. So!I. Ilawick _I. Biack. ! Aberlatly . Nr F. 3I5:chlsl. Do. -J. Dalgleish. A|lloa - -J. LothkLn. 1nyersk.~S. Gordon. ?? ..-James Swith. tnvczskeit)lgMiss ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, Weduesday.-At one o'clock to-day the Conference met for the second time at the Minis- ti try of Foreign Affairs. p The Minister of War has sent a very strong tc circular to be read to all the officers in the service fc relative to the late duel. It silently admonishes officers to avoid any quarrels with civilians, and imperatively prohibits officers corresponding with newspapers ...

... The committee re-assembled on Thursday at noon -Mr Clive in the chair. I- Mr JoN0soy, counsel for the Border Counties DI, Company, stated that his clients had resolved to ask the committee to affirm the preamble of their bill in conjunction with the line of the North British from 3 Hawick to Riccarton. 4 Mr DLNisoN, on the part of the North British C Company, requested the committee to ...

... 'TH11E OUDE PROCLAMATION. Ihe rollowing is the correspondence between Sir dralies Outramn and Lord Cannin-T relative to the Oode Proclasmation, of which a brief surmmary was givx. in our telegraphic report of Saturday. Froni George Couper, Esq., Secretary to the Chief : ,unmissioncr of Oude, to G. F. Edmflonstone, Esq., . 6rotary to the Government of India. D. Camp, Chimlut, March 8, 1858. r, ...

... TIME OF TRAIUT LEAVRNG EDhNBIRGH FOB UNDERMENTIONED PLACES. MlAY 1858. *;c The abbreviations Within parenthesis-(CaL), (S- C.), (E. cc G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.) -signify Caledonian, Scott-i1 Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow,, North British, an, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respecti vly. and intimate that the trains start from the termiu:l a these railwvays in Edinburgh at the ...

... The Synod resumed at six ?? Peddie, moderator. CASE OF MR nOOD, DUNDEE. Mr George Hool, a member of the Temple Lane congregation, Dundee, made a serious charge against Mr Thomas Morris, a fellow member of that church, in October last. The session required Mr Hood to lodge his charge in writing, but be failed to do so. lie gave it as a reason why he had not obeyed the request of the session ...

... ?? AR?Mng aval 40 - ?? & - ?? W\Vr-OFICE, PALL-MALL, April 30. Ist Dragoon Guards-Captain George Paynter to be Major, by purchases vice Thomson, aho retires Lieutenant Evelyn Harpur Crewe to be Captain, by purchase. vice Paynter; Cornet C. R. K. Hubback, to be Lieu'enant by purchase. 4th Dragoon Guards-Cornet E. 1). B. Cunning- . ame, to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Baum- garten, ...

... TIHE GENER.AlL ASSEMIBLIES. ESTABLISHED CHURCH. THIRD DAMY-SATURDAY. The Established Assembly resumed its sittings to- day at eleven o'clock; Dr Leishman, moderator. - ASSEMBLY HALL IMPROVEMENTS. Dr SrITH, convener of the committee appointed two ycars ago to Carry out certain proposed altera- tions on the Assermbly Hall, said they had actively engaged themselves in carrying out these ...

... 4 * P~~'RANCE. Count Mlgeori;. the opposition candidate, has been elected for the Department of the Upper Rhine. A second duel, arising out of the first, has taken place in Paris between a member. of the Jockey. Club and a young Marquis, all officer. The former was severely wounded. ' M. De Pene, who was wounded by Lijetenant Heyene, is,'better. Hundreds of persons have put down their names at ...

... The committee met on Thursday, after an adjourn- ument from Mlon'day-4Mr Clive in the chair. The cross-cxatmination of Mr Johnston, mining engineer, was resumed. I-e was not prepared to say that coal could not be worked profitably at Byre. The indications of an extensive coal formation in the district were much greater than those to be found at Canonbie. Mr Taylor, mineral agent for the Duke ...

... During the past winter several evening meetings of a friendly and social character have been held in the Royal College of Surgeons. Lectures on Periodicity in Disease, 1 The Hospitals in the Crimea, and The Connection between Intemperance and the Restraints of Law, have already both delighted and instructed audiences consisting of many of the most intelligent of the inhabitants of ...

... COUNTY OF EDINEURGH. Ci si TheQuarter Scstii>~ su ; iih the County Buildings egrec yesterday-the Duke of Bduccieuch, and subsequently remu Richard Trotter, E'f.q. of Mortonll, pracsO. 0 REDUCTION OF LICENSES. golld A petition wvas prcsented fromi the inhabitants of Boar Dalkeith, setting forth the desirability of a reduction Sir I -if public-houses or other places for the sele of drink Ande ...