... MERCURY OFFICE, WEDSzSDAy, ELEvsx ?? FRANCE. ST BzBt;S, August 17tb.-Their Majesties entered this- town amidst universal enthusiasm. An immense crowd rendered the streets almost impassible. There is to be a ball given to their Majesties this evening, and to-morrow they set out for St Malo. The Emperor having been visible for a moment at the door, the crowd broke through all op- position, and ...

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR U-NIDERMENTIONED PILACES. AUGUST 1858. *g The abbreviations within parentheois_((CsL), (S, C.), (E. ac G.), (N. B.), (E. P. and D.)-aignify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British d Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways ?? and intimate that the trains start from the termini it these railways in Edinburgh at the hoars stated. ...

... FARIS, Friday.-The plenipotentiaries met on Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sign the Convention relative to the organisation fE of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. R The exchange of the ratifications of the said Con_ r vention will take place at Paris within five weeks or earlier, if possible. It is only after the ac-a complishment of the formality that the text of ...

... I la?tt ?Itttllqtutp. - k .- Tnl LA.,NDED ESTATES COUXIT tt IRELAN'.- Hnury Marnley, Esq., Alontefort Longfield, E;sq., and Charles James lUargreave, Esq., the late C(;.nniis- sioners of the Encumbered Estates Court, have been sworn in as Judges of the new Landed Estates Court. DEATEL AT UIS POST.-One evening last week Mr Skyrme, the sub-editor and reporter of the E'retpr Gazette, was engaged ...

... I J! nfilp ?? littiliglya. . TURKEY. Tlie Wrd of Brissels ?? from Rapsa on announce that the rayaes of the Herzegovina have tle offered their submission on the follow ing conditions: Thi - The taxes of all kinds are to be abolished and to replaced by a tribute, to be fixed on by common ac- Cp eta, cord, and paid on the ist of MTarch every year into hei the provincial treasury of Mostar; the ...

... Yesterday the Justices of the Peace, Commission- ers ot Supply, and Roed Trustees of the County of Haddington, met in the County Buildings, 1-ladding- ?? Robert Houston of Clerkington. convener, in the chair. There were ?? Elcho, Sir T. B. Hepburn, Bart., of Smeaton, Mr Cadell of Tra- nent, Mr James W. Hunter of Thurston, Sheriff Riddell, Mr D. Anderson of St Germains, Mr Wm. Hay of Hopes, Mr ...

... GEINERAAL POST-OFFICE-, DINBURGIH. 'Boxes Close. I ' el'very Genoral Ireceiv'g P. 0.1 Edin. P. Office. Houses. Leith. :&Leith. MAIYS. -I -- Aberdn, Dsundee, Perth,) -5 45A. 10 OP 10 OP 6 40A Stirling, Alloa, &c. . a720P 7 O - 7 p 630p Berwick and E. of England, 1 ?? }1 Or 1 OP 6 40A Berwick, Dunbar, Had-) dington, &c., E of Erg- t 5 15P p S4o0P 4 SOP 3 OP land ?? Carlisle, Liverpool, Mas-) 74 ...

... 2piti oft1A t vrm, ell, THE RELATION OF A CAPTAIN TO HIS vi, PASSENGERS. CLi (lmotOM TIJr T I tES.) ch Spread as the interests and alctiots of this corin- on try are over so large a portion of the habitable globe, ge none of us can feel quite sure that we may not be ea called on some day to undergo that most dreary Vi( of all ordeals to a man's temper, spirits, and self- co command, a long ...

... voru ?? A WOPKING AMqN'S FETE.-ThC numerous ens- pleyis of 0Msrs Kerr and Binns, the extensive porce- lain rnsnufactllrers of Worcester, had a day's holiday on Saturday last, of Perhaps as pleasant a character as 'they ever enjoyed. A short time ago the ?? of the French. wio is staying at Malvern, paid a visit to Messrs Kerr and Binns' works, and in addition to giving extensive orders, left a ...

... M il RERNAL OSBORNE AND HIS CONrST-I TUENTS AT DOVER. On ll'riday evening last, this gentlemnan, who11 W- ~alltl cupied the p0s1 of Siesertary to thle Admiralty in, the flec Pa!m~a-ston and Aberde-en Azdministralionfs, met ` -as Y partyaof his colistiuencs it the Royall Oak bIn, DoN-ec. the Mr Emnis occupicd the Chair. the Mr1 'OSnOeTNE, ?? reception was -very Iheals, po having, in the first ...

... GEt 31 TRItN.IrY H1OUSE LEGISLATION AND. THE st FISHERMEN OF NEWHAVEN. Sy To T5HE EDITOR OF THE OALEDONIANS MSERCURY.. in SIR,-XA worthy member of the Trinity House has i. very candidly come forwardto afford a Harbour Pj;ota some enlightenment as to the authority of the Trinity at Masters far restricting the Newbaven fishermen 'from fo becoming pilots on the Firth of Forth. 'One' thing th ...

... I IM'E; OFt THAJI-N LEAVINGlG .EDSBURGH FOR i U.NDEUMENTIoxL D.TACR -S I - AUGUST 18s8 ?? The abbreviations within parenthesis-(CaL), (8 e.,, ( G, (N. B. (E. P. aind 9.) igolCaledoulan, Seotlah Cuntral, Ediuburgh Bled Guasgow, North Zritti0l, and Edinbutrgh, Perth,; antd Dexidee ltailways respeetively. ated intimate that. the ralnestart fres tha tdrmio . these uileways in Hdnabhergh at the hom ...