... ::BY: ELECTRIC TELEGRIAPH. VPROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. f HOiIRl OF LORDS-MbNAar. Their Lordship muet at 1.45, when, the Commons t ti liavimg: been summoned to the bar to bear the Royal t :Opeeci, on the occasion of the prorogation of Parlia- Mont, the LoRD, CDmweELLOR proceeded' to read as 01 MrD LORDS* Or GmeTLEMEN, We are commanded by her Majesty to e-spress her b *atisfaction at being ...

... Nomf Air ALBIERT SSUTct.-Mr Albert Smith landed at Alexandria, from the Indian vacket Pera, on the I 6th ult., in good health and spirits, and immediately coml- menced a journey across the Egyptian desert on his way to China. - SIR llGUGH Rosa's FAMILt.-Sir Hugh Rose, wbose success in Gwalior has jast been reported, belongs to a ?? family. His grandfather was the cele- brated William Rose, the ...

... 6 -arrt s nV-U t e. TESTIMONIAL TO THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MIERCURY._ Sma,-l am glad to see the subject of a memorial S to the late Ettrick Shepherd again stirred. I say again, because a proposal was made a number of years since to get up a monument -to Hogg-the place then proposed being Iriferleithen, Whieh, as the scene of the border games, of which the shepherd ...

... I N D IA. A Marseilles despatch asserts that Sir Colin Campbell has issued a general order to the troops, informing them that they were now to go into caotonments,,anud that their offensive operations wot1d be suspended until after the rainy season. ¶The Princess of Jhansi has been killed. The amnesty is to 'terminate on the 1st of September. X RE-TAKING OF GWALIOR. Btmbay letters to July S, ...

... EAST LOTHIIAN AND BERWICKSHIRE SEOMANRY CAVALRY. (>egRO A CORRESPOND lENT.) I This distinguished corps has just completed its period of embediment for permanent dugy. As the X muster of troopers was above the general average,. and the display of horses equal, if not superior, to any former year,. the week's drill was accomplished in a way to give satisfaction to both officers and men. Only ...

... flu-nflit '11hittIligow. IFRANCE. e 'ublic rumour has long given out that the app:)int- mentt of Prince Napoleon as Minister of Algeri and the Colonies had given rise to various difficult qunesr tions betweenu'him 'and the Ministers of War, Ma- line, and the Colonies, and that tbe Emperor himself would 'uiimnately resolve these difflchlies. The result of the Imperial interveptin isemboied in a ...

... (WRITTEN FOR TOE CALEDONIAN MCERCURY.) Cold weather with a want of sunshine during the first two weeks of the month, acted rather beneficially than otherwise in checking premature ripening and promoting the proper filling of all the cereals, but the heat and sunshine for the last ten days have fully recovered lost ground, and we have now the pros- pect of an early harvest. By the end of this ...

... (oart TESE TIMES.) Judging from the debate in the Lords on Friday 'nighbt, And the announcement since mrude witth regard to the Red Sea Company, the question of telegra- :1 phlie communication with India is in a most inco- herent position. Lord Donoughmore, on behalf of the Government, strongly contended that the line from Constantinople by the Tigris to the xfer- sian Gulf, and thence to ...

... AGENTS FOR THE CALEDONIAN MHRCURY. Aberdeen .-A. & R. Mile, Glasgow -W. Love, St. Athen.aum Enoch Square Do. _-L. & J. Smith. Greenock ..Mrs Owen. Do. -WNV. Panton. lHaddington..J. Millen. Do. D. Wyllie and Do. G. Smiles. Son. F Hawick ?? Black. Aberlady .-Mr P. Mitchell. Do. -J. Daigleieil. Alloa - J. Lothian. rnveresk -J. JGordon. Arbroath ..James Smith. lnverkeithgMiss Campbell. Do. --G. ...

... SECON I) Fh[rtaxN. MEIRCURY OFFICZ. TuESDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCa. COiMMENTS OF THE LONDON PAPERS. The Timecs criticists the comno3ition of the Royal Speech. The Daiq Nca {i e9 ;; review of the Parliatmen- tary Sessiou. The Herald aslo has a stmiuary, and maintains tbat the results of the sessiow., are satisfaetory. LONDON. TlE ViCTuROA Caoss.-Oa Muonay the Queen distributej the Victoria cros. to ...

... TIME OF TRAIlS LEAVINC. EDINBUGR FOR UNDEfLyjTIONED PlACE The UST 188. 1.1 he bbreiatonswithin parenthlesis.-(Ca].), (S. C.), (E. ene. ?? (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-signify Caledonian, Scooui Central, Edinburgh and Glasgowv, N'Orth British, end; Edinburgh, Pet th, and Dimdee Bailways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the termini o} these railways in Edinburgh at the hoars ...

... Boxes Close. l Generai |Receiv'gl p in Edhi.; !P. Offlce. Hotlses.: Leth Leith. MAIL& Aberd'n, Dundee, Perth,) 5 45A. 10 OP 10 OF 6 40A Stirling, Alloa, &c. . 7 20Pr 7 OP 7 OP 630P Berwick and E. of Engzland, 1 30P 11 OP I OP 6 40A Berwick, Dunbar, Had-) din,.ton, &c., E. of Eog- S 15P 4 SOP 4 SOP 3 OP land. ?? . ?? Carlisle, Liverpool, Mtan- 4 O chester, W. t S. of Fog. rP 3 15P 3 3OP 60 oA ...