... The pensions granted by the East India Company during the year ended April 30, 18SS, amount to an annual charge of £611,140 son the. Home Establishment, of which £8817 is on account of sums payable in this country to the widows, orplhans, and other relatives of officers who have fallen during the revolt, and £1000 on account of a pension of that. l aniount'grantedl to Sir A. Wilson, in ...

... 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 ...

... A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. A cotemporary thus describes the first expedition of the new Sunday steamer:- 1 The river steamer Petrel made her first run to the Kyles of Bute on Sunday last. She started from the Brooinielaw, in a half-finished state, about ten o'clock A.Me., having evi- dently been pressed into the service a week earlier than was at all desirable. On Saturday, we believe, she was ...

... (From the Times.) h When the Duke of Wellington closed six years ago t( his long and patiiotic career, there were those who ti predicted we shoutld miss, not so much his advice in I military affairs, or any positive assistance that he had S1 been wont to render to domestic legislation, as his re- 5i markable power of timely and graceful concession. T It wasi said that he knew when to yield ; ...

... OPENING OF THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCdH, IRVINE. 5 (Abridged from the Glasgow Free Press, Roman Catholic Organ.) , A short time ago the Catholics of Irvine finding that the ) property known by the name of Hammilhill Academy in r Irvine was offered for sale, immediately set themselves into working order under the directions of their vigilant pristd the Rev. Father M'Lachlan of Kihnarnock. ...

... HOIJUE OF LORDS-1O0NDAY, JULY 5. rap: 1 - __l - . . .X Their Lordships met at five o'clock. Lord IbEDESDALE presented a petition fromt 600 railway shareholders, praying for an alteration ill the present mode of legislationl upon railwvays. The lpetitiomiers statedtthattlhey possessed three millions of railway stock, and complained that, though :300 millions ha(l been expended in-the extension ...

... EN G LAND. THE ROYAT BRITISH BANK.-Four out of the five directors of the Royal British Bank who were con- victed of conspiracy after a trial of 15 days' duration! before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, are now in the ! full enjoyment of their liberty. The seventh director, Mr. Stapleton, was discharged upon payment of a no- uilial fine, and the eighth defendant, the manager, still remains in the ...

... ey (From our own Correspondent.) ng F . Saturday, July 10. at OX THE ExCHANG&-Considerable interest and ,e some excitement were created on 'Change yesterday by the aci occurrence of an incident, which, fortunately, is much more startling than common in the place where merchants most ed do congregate. One gentleman was sitting, in the course of the afternoon, on a bench which it is his custom ...

... ?? hTOISE OF LORDS-Mo(NDAY, JULY 19'. Their Lordhpl's tact at nve o'clock. TA9SSACRE AT JEDPATT. Lord STRATFORD DE R.tEDCLiA-E asked the Go- verninoilt if they had received any official accouiits of the massacre at Jeddahb; wvether, acting it, conjinction with France, they had taken the requuisite steis to obtain repara- tion; and whether they were prepared to take mleasures to enforce their ...

... .~ . szol tra : F MN-DJ IFRIDAY MORNSING, JULY 16 . . I WE have received ltelegraphic news ftom Incdia to 19th I I ultimo, at which time the intelligence was more au.YiI~pAir 11 lv U|1±W 1 ±k7J~ltP11±lbAll WanGU favourable than that which came by the immediately preceding message. We learn that on the 1st of June an engagement had taken place between the rebels of Calpee and the troops of ...

... PARLIAMEiNTARY DIVISIONS.-In the division oln Monday on Mr. Baxter's motion to reduce the. grant to Nonconforming Ministers in Ireland from £39,400 to £366, the following Scotch members voted in the minority of 57 (tellers included) for the reduction:- Sir J. Andersoon, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Black, Mr. Crau- furd, Sir H. R. F. Davie, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Fergus, and Mr. Kinnaird-9. And the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-TkEiuiDAY. A,, n - -- . ., . ?? . v - 1_.- t The LonD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at ,five o'clock. gl if Upon the order of the day for .considering the Commons' a' . reasons for disagreeing from their .Lordships' amendlments e -on the Universities (Scotland) Bill, the House, after a short -discussion, agreed not to peitistinthoir amendments. s The Friendly ...