... ~ I - 5',C AN AiEralnlec N SIHP OFr THE ISLE OF Vf-.5r.T-Thc wreck of the American ship Abby Langdon, of N'I w York, at the back of the Isle of bight, has be, reported at Lloyrd's She was laden ?? 1o0 tons of rice. Tae ship and cargo are wallied at L.40.000. EN~rECTED i3551rRT; .OF VGOtnD;-The following is a '.St of the gold ships whichl are still at sea for the United Kingdom :-The Eagle, for ...

... BRITISH COLUMIBIA-ITS CLIMATE.AND RESOURCES. The discovery of gold in British Columbit, says the Canadian ANews, will give a vast impetus to the growth of our power on the western side of the Con- tinent, and will hasten forward the completion of that line of railway from New Brunswick to the Pa- cific which will be of such incalculable importaece to the commerce of England. In its ...

... AGE~NTS FORl THEl CALLDONDN MERCURY. Aberdeen .A. & IL. Milne,.Glasgow W. Love. C-. Athenaeumr EnochSquare Do. -L. & J. Smith. Greenock ..-fs Owen. Do. _IV. Panton. Haddington..J. Millen. Do. . Wyllie and j Do. -G. Smiles. Son. awick . BlacL. Aberlady .-Mr F. Mitchell. Do. J. Dalgleieh. Alloa _J. Lothian Inveresk-- . Gordon. Arbroath James Smith. LuverkeithgVijs CanpbelL Do. --G. ...

... (From our owniorrespondmt) P Saturday, 21st August. COLLISIOX BETWEEN THE ARaBfA AND EccROPA.-Alueh interest and anxiety, and no small amount of disappoint- sE ment were excited in Livecrpool this morning by receipt of Q the first private- business message transmitted bythe Atlantic Telegraph. It was a brief intimiation that the British and 01 North American Royal MTail stenmships A rabia and ...

... ARRIIVAL OF, THS1L GLASGOIO. LATER FR1031 lERuuaA. The Glasgow, David Goodwin, commander, from New York the 7th inst., arrived in the Clyde on Saturday, with a full cargo of merchandise, 22 cabin and 104 steerage pas- ,sengers. She came by the North Channel-has experienced thick foggy weather throughout the passage. On the 8th inst, in lat. 40' 32' Nbrth, long. 70 0' WVest, passed a large ...

... S C OTL AND. of thll A CLAnI3ANT OF THE 13ARnoNy or LOVAT.-It is tT~aI, said that a ociceildant of the ancient family of Fraser at tit of L~ovat exists in the direct line, atd. is likely to ap- Pinlt pear shortly as a claimant of the barony of Lovat, in. tll~ c the It the p)eera~ge of Scotland. This claimant, 'whose name the p is John Fraser, asserts that hie can trace his pedigree a , from ...

... DIOCESAN SYNOD OF GLASGGI- AND GALLOWAY. - r The annual meeting of the Diocesan Synodl of Glasgow e and Galloway was helld on Wednesday, Aug. 25th, withint St. Mary's Churah; Glasgow, and was attended by all the t incumbents of the- diocese, together with all the licensed t elergy, except three-, who were unavodably absent.-. After the routine business of the day had been gone through, the ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, TuESEDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOoK. AUSTRALIA. MALTA, Aug. 30, 11 A.M.-The following has arrived per Ripon, in advance of the Teviot, just signalled with the Australian mails:- The Pera left this morning for Alexandria. The Australian homeward mails leave to-day with intelligence from Sydney to the 10th July; Mel- bourne, 15th; Ceylon, 7th August. The May mail by the Victoria had not ...

... LONDON. Tuiu Duke of Malakoff gave a banquet on Satur- day in honour of the Emperor's birthday. In the E evening he received a number of British Crimean I officers. THE INDIANr CoUNcIL.-The Tines ?? Frederick Currie and Sir Henry Rawlinson have accepted seats in the new Council. Mr John Stewart Mill, to whom Lord Stanley offered a seat in the Council, has declined to serve on the score of 1 ...

... To the Editor of. the Times. 3 Sir,-The Friend of India of the 20th of May last contains t the following remarks:- The.Indian Eiepire states that-the young lady we men- tioned some time since as having escaped from the rebels: (at Cawnpore) was taken captive by the same Sowar who car- ried off Miss' Wheeler. For the' truth of this we cannot vouch, but it is certain that thereis onesurvivor of ...

... V __ _ - . - I A3ERaaEN.-The rains that prevailed recently have been E a succeeded by bright sunshine, whose mellowing influence t V has begun to tell very manifestly on the fields. Cereal orops - are now fast ripening for scythe and sickle, with the promise f of a good yield both of grain a straw. The hay' crop has t been secured, with a better result than was at one time anti- e cipated. ...

... l,. f,DA-.rn~TtA7 - , ?? ?? R .- ; HERALD OFFICE, Friday Mllorw 1iug. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. INDIA. The Indianiletters]have arrived. The Times' correspon- dent, under (late Bomlbay, July 19, writes :- Operations on any considerable scale seemn to have come to an end, owing either to the rainy season new generally set in throughout India, or to the exhaustion and dispersion of the mutineers ...