... 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 ...

... The Mcaniteur de la Matte gives the following de- tails respecting Cherbourg, which may be interesting at this moment :-..Cherbpurg is the result of the long-continued rivalry between the two nations. After our disasters of La Hogue, Tourville impressed upon the great King that it was of orgert importance for France to possess a naval port in the Channel. This necessity having been admitted, ...

... I ?? JULY 0. e The Queen has been p leased to appoint John Inglis, Esq., her ei Majesty's Advocate for Scotland, to lie her Majesty's Justice-Clerk,, and President of the Second Division of the Court of Session in a Scotland, and also one of the Senators of the College of Justice there. ~~WflITEiIALL, JULY 10. ?? Queen haes been pleased to grant the office of her Majesty's Advocate for ...

... THE INAIJGURATIONt OF CHERBOURIG. A FRtENCH COMPLIMENT TO EN0LAND. (From the Times.) t We are informed by the Ilfoaiteurr de la, Fotte, that the D Emperor Napoleon III., wlbse tact in such matters is so | very delicate, has not hesitated to invite QueenrjVictoria to. add by ler presence an additional charn and pi stige to the rejoicings at Cherbourg. France rejoices, and, as we are in- ...

... The folloeving telegram was received at the East India House on Wednesday, July 14, at 7.15 P.M.:- To J D. Dickinson, Esq., East India House, London, from a. F. Edlonstone, Esq., Secretary to the Government of India, with ths Governor-Genoral. ALLAIIADAD, JusiI 10. OUDE.-NO event of special importance hls occurred in Oude since the date of the last telegram. The rebels are pursuing tihe oljiy ...

... SOOTCIT BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT. HOUSE or ColnhoNI s, July 15. e Bill for Regulating the Sale of Poisons-A petition J against this Bill,' fi6m chemists and druggists in Edinburgh, was presented by Mr Black. EDINBUnGH NATIONAL GALLE-rY. On the question that the Chairman report the re- solutions to the House, ' e re v Mr WWILSON asked the Secretary of the Treasury ' whether, seeing now that the ...

... Boxes Close 'Delrery General IneceivgI P. o. in Edin. MAIS. P.-Offie. Houses & Ieh Leith. Aberd'n, Dundee, Perth,l 5 45A. 10 OP 10 OP 6 40A Stirling, Alias, &c . f a 7 20P 7 OP 7 OP 6 30P Berwick and E of England, 1 30P 11 OP 1 Op 6 40A Berwick, Dunbar, Had-) dington, &c., E. ofEug- 5 15p 4 SOP 4 Sop 3 Or laud . . . . . . . Carlisle, Liverpool, Man-) chester, W. &k S. ofEng- I OP 8 15P 3 SOP 6 ...

... MISCELLA NE OU S. f !. yI LrrTLE GmLs.-There is something inexpressibly sweet in s littlegirls. Lovely, pure, innocent, ingenuous, ?? e full of kindness to brothers, babies, and everything They' t are sweet little flowers, diamnondil dewdrops in' the breath of ,morn. What a pity they should ever become womnell, flirts sand heartless coquettes !-Thc Gheost ,of Sirift. THE RANGE OF THE HU{[MAN ...

... EN G LAND. The death of Rear-Adrniral G. F. Ryves, C. B., took place at his residence, Berkeley Lodge, Bryanstone, on Friday last. lie entered the navy 8th Septemlber, 1804, and served il the war in Ava, where lie re- mained until his health, in April, 1825, obliged him to return to England ; lie was one of the chief per- formers in the scenes that occurred, and rendered hiiself famous by the ...

... ,rdgT tagfna. CI INA.1 (FROM OUR OwN CORRESPONDENT.) HONG KONG, 22d May 1S58.-ITHong Kong, we t have had several attempts at incendiarism within the b l ast two -weeks. On one occasion, part of two houses S wvas burned, but the fire was speedily got under. b Powder has been found by the police in some houses f i i Tai Pingshan Street, with which it was intended tl to blow themi up. It is ...

... AGENT'S FOR THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Aberdeen .-A. & I. Milne, Glasgow -W. Love, 8t Athenmum. Enoch Square Do. -L. & J. Smith. Greenock ?? Owen. Do. -W. Panton. Haddington ..J. Millen. Do. D. Wyllie and Do. -G. Smilea Son. Hawick --.LB Black. Aberlady ?? F. Mitchell. Do. ?? Dalgleish. Alloa -J. Lothian. Inveresk --J. Gordon. Arbroath ..-.James Smith. Inverkeithgiss Campbell. Do. -G. ...

... ,Jun.s A K Xlv_ (From the Times.) Letters from the port of Pekin and files of the North c China Herald have now been delivered, and we had 8 hoped that they would afford us reason to modify the a observations suggested by the telegram. But the de- tails are even worse than the general fact ; they pencil r within the outline nothingbut shadows. The lament- ! able condition of affairs, which the ...