... .- .1 Id n. t a 16Se (From the Daily News.) It is of the utmost consequence, we repeat, that a _ steady eye should be kept on the proceedings in our West India Colonies in regard to the supply of labour. The visit of Mr. Dalton, of New Orleans, to Jamaica, and his reception there, are a direct challenge to the It. opponents of the slave trade to keep watch in that at direction. Wr. Why was not ...

... SHERIFF COURT-FiIDAY. (Before Sheriff STEELE.) NV ZREACH O)F PROMISE.-SMrlH V. ATTI. This is an action at the instance of Dorothy Smith, resid- TY ing at No. 3 Washingtonll itreet, Glaqgow, against Atting lV Atti, tea merchant in Glasgow. The ;;ursucr concludes for the sinm of £100 as solatiurn and damages in consequence of S the defendier hiaving refused to fulfil his promise of marriage made ...

... 'JI'EENOCK AND COAST NEWS. (Fromn the Gireenock Advcrtiser of Friday.) re-t I1.M.S. l{oGUE.-H.M.S. Hogue will leave the river on a rem sx cruise onl Wethdesday first. During her late visit to p0os ;,N ,rI she enrolled 250 coast volunteers ?? Lewvis, Nolrth the I :;t. anld Skye, and would have been minre successful had s-pe II.t orders front thle Admiralty caused an earlier return to titr II1.1 ...

... (From the Spectator.) Perhaps the estimates may be kept down by re- ducing the gross expenditure of some of our public departments, though we are inclined to think that much more may be done by getting a larger amount of efficient work from our public departments than by, penny-saving. It is not, indeed, by driving the civil servants that this more productive result is to be ob- tained; it ...

... MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16. THE telegraph announces the aririval of the steamer Madras at Suez, with dates from Bombay to July 19. ml _ ; . I . I The news would seem to be on the whole favowrable, andihatters generally settling down throughout India, though there were stillfrom 20,000 to 30,000 rebels in the field. We presume the above number includes only those in arms and open hostility to ...

... SIR R. MURCHISON'S TouR.-Sir Roderick Mur- chison, Director-General of the Geological Survey, C has been actively employed up to the commencement of this week in examining the rocks between Dunnet t Head and Strathy. He is now proceeding through i the Orkney Islands and to Zetland, whence he will c return, in the Pharos steamer, to the north and west f, coast of Sutherland. We are glad to ...

... Thefollowingy appeared in our Late Edition ef Afon day:) F RAN CE. (From the Globe's Correspondence.) Paris, Friday-Evening. I Shooting having commenced on the 1st of August all over t Algeria, such a tremendous quantity of hares, partridges, t quails, and every possible variety of game has encumbered C the markets of Bona, Philippeville, Oran, and Algiers, that I shiploads were sent off to ...

... THE BOMJBAY.MA1L. _ 1 1 . .. We (flob hav reeive by xtrordinary express,, Iin an-I ticipation o the Overlan Mail,. onroual despatces and papes frm Bobay Thedate Icough arsBocinbsy, We mentioned in our last the ceizilre of (bwalior by the ti Calpee rebels on the 1st of Juice, mainly through the-treach- cry of S~'cindiiats owkn troops. ~e stated that Sir Hugh Rose's co~lninii, with th~ebrigades ...

... * (From the Spectator.) fe The 'Brown Ministry in Canada has passed ta If awaylike the newest brood of ephemera; and we are 81 r compelled to contemplate the Canadian question in iU 5 humiliating ignorance as to the formation of the cz g Cartier Cabinet. The most certain fact appearsto fe . be, that no Government in Canada can rest upon that tl *, basis, which according to the dogma of the ...

... MR. W. RU[SSELL.-WC regret to hear that Mr. W, H. Russell, the Times' speciai correspondent in India, v who has arrived at Simla, is still a great sufferer, and a not able to walk from the severe injury sustained fromt 8 the kick of his ?? Times. t T.Eiz DRAMATIC COLLEGE AND THE FtEENc Ei- t PlSROi.-AIr. Sams, of St. James's Street, London, , was on. Smiday admitted to a private audience of ...

... (From the Times.) (From the Times.) On the 2d of this month a screw steamler called the Pactolus arrived at Alexandria from Tangier with a large nmmber of deck passengers, chiefly Jews. The st'eamer touched at Malta. Near Alexandria one of the seamen who was subject to epileptic fits, and bad even been seized with one at the very moment of his leaving England, was seized with another, of which ...

... DEATII OF BRIGADI.ERT(GENERAL CAMPPBELL. . (From the Aynbiire Express.) A very profound sensation of regret pervaded the town on ]Friday morning as a rumour gained currency to the effect that Brigadier-General Campbell, yr. of Craigie, had fallen in India. As none of the recent advices contained the intel- ligence of any action having been fought in the neighlbour- hood where our gallant ...