... A few details of the latest operations in India have been received at the East India House. In the Benares division Capt. M'lIullen has cleared a village of the insurgents, killing and wounding twenty. In the district of Allahabad, Captain Dennehoy has overtaken the Rajab of Rewa, and killed about two hundred of his followers. In Central India the Gwalior rebels, after their de- feat on the ...

... S-ortiffit ;GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. - sp (Frnoxi OUR OWN COrIrnSPONDENT.) St HAM BURG, September 11, 185S.-With every in- be urination to say tolltiitig more of Denmark and the D)uchies, it is impossible altogether to discard the theme, as some new phase is continually presented that gti-os a transient interest to a question with the very mention of which everybody has long since become ...

... .gy E.ELECT.IC.1 - TELEGRAPH -4-- FRANCE. The jjoniteetr of Friday. announces the cessa- tion for the interim of the Ministry of Public Works. The Emperor received at Biarritz the French treaty with Chinat. The amount of indemnity to France is not yet fixed. The Prince of Prussia has accepted a formal and pressing invitation from the Emperor Alex- ander to visit Warsaw. The King of PFussia ...

... Tlhe decree of the French Government, per- chic m.itii.g thle importation of foreign corn, expires it t, on the 30th instant. Considerable anxiety is then now felt on the subject ; the fear being that, if fron the decree is not renewed, the obsolete sliding bod' scale will be again revived. thro sires Further news has reached us from Valentia as scru tci the unfortunate Atlantic cable. The ...

... TIME OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOL UNDEIUIENTIONED PLACES. AUGUST 1858. I.: The abbreviations withi parenthesio-7(Caj), (S. C.), (E. ann G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.i-signity Caledonian, Scuttish. Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Nerthi Britiso, and0 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respeeelvely, and intinmate that the trains start from the termini el these railways in Edinburgh at the ...

... Spirit of ftn ?Irfm rc SCHOOL AND COtLEGE EXAMINATIONS. 3 (FROM3 THETIExs.)ki An educationtist, writing from Scotland, is c. start'ed bv the fact that 700 out of I 100 boys, more w or less picked front good schools or with good oppor- g tunities of instruc ion, should have been rejucted by it the Oxford Ex:iminers, and that in the preliminary tl ordeal on elementary subjects. We have ...

... MERCURY OFEICE, TuURSDAY, ELXVRN O'CLOEK. TURKEY. The Excbange has suffered a depression in conse- quence of the reported new loan. The English Consul at Jassy has died of the prevalent epidemic. Prince Ghirka is using his influence with the partisans of anarchy and of Russia to foment dis- order in Wallachia. RUSSIA. ST PETErSBuRG, August 31.-A great explo- sion took place on the morning of ...

... The Independance Belge publishes a document SI stated to be the text of the convention for the organi- U sation of these provinces, agreed to by the members 'I cf the Paris Conference:- 0 Their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the t] Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of S AL1 the Russias, the King of Sardinia, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of a ...

... A1V C 0 N D DIiON.ll0ix MERCURY OFFICE, SATUYRDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOOa. INDIA AND CHINA. Al.E.ANtDRIA, September 7.-The Pera sails t,, v .withh the Bombay mails as well as the 'alctic,;a mnails. The dates of inteiligence are i . ?? 19 Calcutta, August 8; Ceylon, All;Ztt-t 10; and Hlng Kong, July 22. Sir 'Ioie (Grant has relieved Anagbur, and oe^ 'pie Id FIzabdl, where he was joired by Mattu Singh. ...

... THEE CHINESE TREATY. The Cbinese Treaty is published; it contains 56 articles. The following are the precise details of some of the most important points:- British merchant ships are to be allowed to trade up the great river (Yangtze), hut in the present dis- turbed state of the upper and lower valley, no port is to be opened for trade with the exception of Ching- Kiang, which is to be opened ...

... There has just appea~red, in accordance with Parliamlentary I order, a return of the number of Stanopg issued to the News- papers of the United Kingdom, from July 1551, the period. at which the compulsory stamp was abolished, to the end of the last year, 157. It is hardly necessary to state that, whill hbejore the abrogation of the compulsory stamp on newv- papers, the returns indicated t he ...

... SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF FISHERMEN INTHE HIGHLANDS &- ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. A public meeting of the friends of this society was held last evening in Queen Street Hall-Mr E. IHuie in the chair. The report of the Board of Directors was read bv Mr C. Mackie, the secretary. It began by referring to a visit to Staffa and Iona made by the Rev. Dr Fletcher, accompanied by the Dean of Guild, ex- Bailic ...