... SCOTLAED. - I SYAlINGOTON- ANCIENT URN. - Last week some drainers, while at work in Shewalton Moss, came upon an ancient earthen urn. It was about 15 inches dia- meter and IS inches deep, and bore evidence of having been beautifully ornamented with alto relievo flowers and hieroglyphics of different characters. Unfortu- nately, when raised to the surface, it was unable to sustain its own ...

... WATER CROM MfISSION. . .1 I . . . S ?? x~at ljliOIN,.N.l The Council then sat as Water Colmlnissioncrs-William Murray, Esq., in the chair. Bailie YOUNG produced tile balance-sheet for the year end- ; lug M1 ay 28, and moved that the books and accounts be re- inlitted to Air. William Anderson to be audited. Assuming that this statement was correct, the affairs of the \V ater Trust was in a ...

... 'The Town Council met yesterday-the Hon. the tord Provost in the chair. PROPOSED COLLEAGUE AND SUCCESSOR FOil ST. ENOCa's; The Clerk read extract minute of a joint meeting of the General Session and the Session of St. Enoch's, agreeing to apply to the Town Council for the payment of £100 a year, for a colleague and snecessor to Dr. Barr. It was stated that| Dr. Barr had consented to give £100 ...

... {pa_ ?? . (From the Times.) Belfast, Wednesday Morning. There is really much sound sense to be found in the sub- joined rather long extract from a comrnunication re sjrecting the approaching July follies, which appear in the Ervnirrg Post. The writer is Air. John Grey Porter, of Bell'sle, in the, county of Fermnaugh, a convert from Orangeisai, and who, as ex-grand-master, and heaven knows what ...

... ,§._5 1.. I. . rI '.XUV&±N V-t(UUHtirl1 . IUAUi). (iProm the MAail.) The annual examination of the schools und(jer the chaln; of this Board took p-lace on Monday last-AMi. Steel, Viic- Chairman of the Board, presiding. Amngei the iniliber5 1presnt we observed Messrs. Caameron, Jolin Craig, 1-11. and ljrawford, andl of the clergvmen who worship' in the parish, we observed the Rlev. Alessrs. ...

... GENERlAL POST-O1FFI (IE,-PA&CX(ET BOATS. JUNE Go: t. MIlails despatheed LastPacket. Nextb3a'l - Destinatons. I frmn London. Sailed. due. SOMrnAIMPTOX STATh' Portlgal, Spain,and l ?? .. ! Malts, Egypt, ?lanl-) rithis, Ceylon, In- din . ?? . . I. . . Gihralt ir, lPenang, t Sincapre,&rclizn:l British Colonies inA W. indies (exept I Hondurns & Bbha- mas), Foreigrn Co- lonies,&c. ii W est ...

... ( ?? iRNI JULraYb2 FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2. IN coniection with a memorial from the proprietors of houses in the West End Pank, complaining of the rA.0-1 A--J 1- A - To'A1- A Iwe*aAAeJW foul state of the Kelvin, the general question of the ei sewage of the city briefly occupied the attention of the t( Town Council yesterday. We are glad to observe tj that Mr. Dreghorn, the Convener of the ...

... The following, hi anticipation of the Overland Mail from Calcutta, is from the Times' correspondent in that city dated 'I May 18 :- e The insurrection has assumed a new phase, which, if less -dangerous to the empire, is most embarrassing to newspaper 1 correspondents. There it no longer a war in the European sense of thle wbrd, no central point on which the mimd can rest as the one from which ...

... HOTUSE OF LORDS-TiIUMDAY. 1- A r A - A - - I The Lorse CHANcELLOR took his seat e . the woolsack at a five o'clock. The Earl 4f DERBY, in presenting some petitions in fa- E vour of the Bill for the Abolition of Churdh-Rates, intimated i that lie entirny dissented from the jirzyiaer4f~the petitioners, and ?? move to-morrow that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The Earl of ...

... We (Times) have received the following communication from a correspondent at Hong Kong:- , | Hong' Kong, May 5. Pel-Kwei, our Viceroy of Canton, the Tartar General, the Hoppo, and another high official of our setting up, were taken into custody this week, by order of Mr. Parkes and the other Commissioners. The charge against them was probably not undeserved-that of intriguing with the China ...

... (From the Times.) r The Thaimes and the Victoria sewer have plainly declared s for the Derby Cabinet. The yellow Tiber, swelling to the demolition of the vestiges of King Nuina was not so dread- tful in his wrath. Acheron and Styx and Letie all poured into one volume could not roll such a tide of avenging pesti- lence. Our indlignant British river, furious at being neglected maices his ...

... (Froiu the nimes.) i One portion at least of the latest intelligence received I from India will give general satisfaction. Calpee has been ia taken by Sir Hugh' Rose, and the mutinous (Iwalior Con- tingent totally routed, with the loes of 500 men, 58 guns ' taken on the field or in the fort, vith 94 standards, and, t what is of miore imnportance, immense stores of ammunition. 1 It is difficult ...