... GOVAN PAtROC1HIAL BOARD. e Tlte wohly mieeting of the Geleeral Committee of the , Parochial Boardl of Govan was held yesterday in the Board | e Room-Mr. \WTilkie in tie chair. *k Mr. Kirkwood produce(d a license by the Commissioniers it of Lunacy, autitorisiug the use of a portion of the promises F le for the reception of pauper lunatics. TIhe CHiaIRMAN read a letter from the Home nSecretary, ...

... MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4. Austria, screw steamer, belonging to 'the Hamburgh and America Company, left Hamburgh on Sept. 1st, and Southampton on the 4th, for New York, with between 400 and 500. passengers, and a crew of about 100, and had been nine day's out when it had taken fire on the 13th September. All the news we as yet have was brought to Bristol by the ship' Pemberton, which spoke ...

... EDINBURGH. A meeting of the Commissioners of Supply for the county of Edinburgh was held ?? Trotter of Mortonball in the chair. Sir Geo. Clerk moved that the assessment for the General Prison for the current year be Id and 1-8th of a penny per pound. This was agreed to. Sir George then moved that the assessment for the police for the current year be 2d per pound, and for rogue money 4-d per ...

... The usual monthly meeting of the Clyde Trust was held yesterday-the Lord Provost in the chair. TiTE NEW REGISTRATION RhOLL,. Mr.. D1ce, with reference to the remit recently macie icy the Sherif' to the Trust as to the claims of parties claiming to be enrolled as eligible ratepayers, expressed a hope that they would himestly carry out, in letter and spirit, the in- tention of the Conimittec of ...

... A~very novel and huge kind of vessel, with a breadth of beam larger even than the Great Eastern, was launched on Stturday afternoon, at the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Works, at Blackwall, and excited a considerable amount of interest. She is the first vessel, ornrather Patent Floating Derrick, which has been constructed in this country, for the purpose of carrying out Bishop's patent for, ...

... SE('ESSION FROM TIHE FREE C-HUTJRCH IN V LUSOTiESAY. A ?? espondent, known to us, sends and requests inser- tion c-.o the following &S-ral paragraphs having appearedl i different news- ipajhioi respecting the recenit secession fromin the Free ?? iii Rothesay, but not conveying an intel'ligible account of that movement, the followving statement is sohnittedl -s giving a vilinoos of the wvhole ...

... THE SEWING MfACHINE IN GLASGOW, AND ITS EFFECTS ON PRODUOCTION, PRICES, AND WAGES. it Dr. Strang read the following paper, inl the Statistical Section, on Sat urday last : l1 Thie Use Of sew~ing muaChineS throughout Europe and America, during the last few years 1, ha soese osc an extent as not Only to hattract the attention of thed mechanist towards their improvement, hot likewise thle t ...

... ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. 'The British and North American Royal Mail steani ship Asia, Captain Lott, arrived in Liverpool to-day from Hali- fax and Boston, which latter city she sailed from on Wed- iesday the 22d ult. She has brought Boston papars to the date mentioned, and New York jonanals to the 21st. The Asia bad a fine as well as a rapid run, and has brought 79 passetigers, besides the usual ...

... (From the Tines' Correspondence.) Simla, Himalyas, Aug. 28. Ten days of incessant rain, ten days of existence in IL vast eloud which lapped in its embraces the ranges of the lower Iinalyas, which insisted on coming to bed with one niightly, and of rising with one in the morning, and got into one's shirts, boots, socks. clothes, damped the fire and the spirits, rusted one's penknife, filled the ...

... FRANCE. Prince Napoleon left Paris on Monday for the Carmp of Chalous. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, October 5.-Brockhausen, Ambas- sador of Prussia at Brussels, died last night at Baden, where lhe had been staying for the reco- very of his health. LORD Buity's VISIT TO BRITISH NORTH AMIE- RICA.-Tlie Globe believes that Lord Bury's visit to British North America will be for strictly private reasons. ARMiY ...

... A general meeting of the Commissioners of Sup- M ply for the County of Linlithgow was held yesterday1 C in the County Rooms, Linlithgow-AMr Norman Wt Shairp, convener, presiding. REPORT OF FINANCE COXtMITTER. rf The.report .of the Finance Committee was read by _m Mr Blair, the chairman. It began by stating that, in pursuance of the remit made to them at the April meeting to report on the ...

... MERCURY O1F3CK SATURDAY Emvw ofOL INflIA The Bombay TVi:n of September 7th, fays- The rebels in Onde, deserted by the Quee, ate in a desperate situation. There is a cobsiderable force, but disorganised, in Bebar. Cotoaels An- derson and Fraser are dead. WEST INDIA MAILS. ..ouTHAmTPoN, Oct. 2.-The Panam has ar- rived,withtheWestlndiaMexico, ?? mails, and nearly on&amillion dollars in specie. ...