... 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 ...

... COUNTY OF LINLITHIGOW. The annual general meeting ot the Commissioners I of Supply or the County of Linlitli-ow was held in the Coulty Booms, Linlithgow, ?? or Shairp of Houston, convener, presiding. Tile report of the Police Committee was read by Mr J. A. Dawson. It stated that the police force for the county, under the General Police Act of last session, had been established as follows-I ...

... q r t i 1? yl-t 7Ilt dlignm FRANCE. The Paris Conference assemb!cd on Wednesday, to receive a communic'acio of the treaties b twcen Russia and Turlkrc rtladtve to the Asiaiic fiontier. Haider Effcndi has received special powers from his Government for the purpose. The four points to be settled are the following :-The ne.w boundov litn- be~tneell the A-iatic possessiorns k f Turkey and ...

... XTGLNTS FOIL 'TEE C LEDO-A?- 'E1'CC;Y. A berdeen ..A. 3s R. .liins, Glasgo-:.v ..W, Love i IGreeneocakutll , EuocrhSqlut-: Do. --L. & J. Sin.ith. Greecc' _Yrs Owen. X Do. _~V. ?? L' i:c ..J. 2tillel. Do. -D. Wy~lie a:id Do. ?? Sml.es ,brady .) - y M, 3r.c11cll: 19u. --J. I llei-h Alloa _ -J. Loithian. ?? Gordon. Atrbrouth .._Ja vies S! tIith. - v:;i:,.3isCII e: Do. . Soth:erlaiid. ?? ?? S W. ...

... Important news has just reached from India. On the 27th March-we adopt the dates given in the despatch to the East India Iouse-Sir Hugh Rose invested Jhansi, and on the 28th commenced its bombardment. The bombard- ment was continued till the 6th April, when the town and fortifications fell into our hands. Dar- ing the siege, 1500 of a large body of rebels, who attempted, under Santa Togee, to ...

... CO-2NTY OF ABERDEMN. Thc -usial atbth of Apuril m-eetiilg of tbis county rnas held at Aberkleen ?? A. :h. Hay pro ;id& ing, i, the a'esenco of the convener. The convoner,. Mrl Thomsote> of Banchoagy ; Clerk,. Mr B. Bcraott; cv ald collcter of county rItes, Mr Fl. J. Ccchrar5.viere TI. re-elected. The bigh'.'ay and baidge money assess- Lci rnevt was ^e-imposed at the rate of i-d per L.5. ster- ...

... y. ste. day t2e statutory meeting of the Commis- sioners of Stpply of the county of Haddington took ?? B. 1custoflO, convener, presi'ing. oil the motion of Sir T. B. HEintuenN, Sir Robert Houstoumn vas re-appointed convener for the cusuing a,'iar. The landtnxwas fixed at the same rate a; last year. The Police Coommittee reported that, la- ig hid before them an estimate by tlie clhief c instabl ...

... GENEUIAL po,?aT-OFFICE, EDLNBII'rGll. Boxes Close. e _ _ _. _ _- D al'ic COcllral. RI~coiv'_U p. 0. 'illEi,61; ?? Ofltc.1 Houeses. I Lititj. &Leith. M xtrs'. i _ _ _ _ Aberl'u, DandeD, ?? r 5 454 . 10 Or 10 Or 0 40A Stirling, Alle., C.. C |a 7 420 7 Cr T Or 6i r Berwiek and 1E. ic- lngland, 1 SIOr 11 or 1 SP I G 40A Beterwick, D].)nIl, hIad- ' I I4 I P ; dington, &cI Es. of llg- s L 4 l0p 4 ...

... I~L'resgz^,lUe te. FREE CHURCH ASSEMBLY HALL. TO TIlE EDITOR OF TIlE CALEfDONIAR 1!,MERCURY. SIR,-My argument forraising the sum of L. 10,000 build an Assembly Hlall is stronger than ever, lice, instead of L.4000 having been raised for Mr M'Donald's church, I am informed that nearly L.Gooo is the sum. Thus, while one congregation undertakes and performs this task, need the Church of Scotland, ...

... MERCURY OmaTCr, SATwUDAZ EEvNw O'CLom. TURKEY. Advices from Constantinople say, Mehemet Bey has been sent back from Circassia. Sefer Pasha stayed his execution on account of his posi- tionE as an officer in the Tarkish service. COMMENTS OF THE LONDON PAPERS. The limes calls attention that a detachment of the 37th Regiment was shut up at Azimghlur, and not cut up as reported in the Government ...

... '7 1 1 g4 ',IT ? ? r Y at_ -- -D it r I i a lit t it t. 1IOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. Earl GREY presented a petition signed by 1070 inhabitants of Bury, in Lancashire, praying for the restoration of the Kiing of Oude. lt'VEaNUES OF INDIA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, in reply to Earl Granville, stated that, in conformity with a resolution of the directors of the East India Company, dated June 18, 1856 ...