... 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 ...

... GENERAL POST-OFFICE2PACKET BOATS. OCTOBER 13. Destinations. SOUTI1AMPTON STATN. Portugal, Spain,.and ?? Malta, Egypt, Man-) ritius, Ceylon, In dhli.-1 Gibraltar, Penang, Sin ?? Britis1i Colonies in WV. Indies (except l Honduras & Baha- mas), Foreign Co- lonies,&c. in West lndies (except Ha- vana), California VenezUela, New Granaua, Chili, anl PerlGreyTn, (St. Jllan d'Nica- ragua) ?? - - ...

... 1 i2 I .- 1 ?? ?? ..1 . i-.- - I 1, BlY ELECTRIC~ TELEGRAPH. IIN D)IA. A 5-larseilles detsiatch, says4 1100 mjen of the two reglimients which revolted at M- torltan arc killed. This news must be received withi caution, as the EIAt India Douse despatch stated 400, and the Marseilles reports of India news are .S generally exaggerated:. rl 0 FO0R _iTG N IN-T E L I (I1N CE. F RA NC.E.-It is x ...

... COUNTY OF EDINBURGH VALUATION.-The follow- q ing is an abstract of the valuation of the county for 1858-9 as contrasted with the previous year. In six- teen of the thirty parishes which are wholly or partly to within the district of the county assessor, there is e an increase, as compared with last year, amounting tl altogether to £X527, 12s. 64d. This, however, is so I far counteracted by a ...

... (From the Times' Correspondence.) Lisbon, Oct. 19. The letter of your Paris correspondent,-inserted in the Timtes of the 9th inst., contains a fair ressunf of the French and Portuguese versions of the disagreeable question arising out of the capture of the Frencllbarque theCharles-et-Georges, Captain Rouxel, by the Portuguese schooner of war Zambese, at the port of Conducia, near Al ozainbique ...

... FU1O OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. I Paris. Friday. i.n the present peaceful cahin of Europeai politics, a small r(:: i; refreshing, and the case of the Charles George is 1:. to furnish di-cussion, diplomnatic and other, for a ti!:i . 'lrhs case strongly resembles the Regina Cmli affair. ,A Irench vessel engagtes (that is tele word) and omnlarklsfree n or the Mozambique coast for cmployment in ...

... 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, ...

... ?? ?? ?? The Royal Warrant for regulating the promotion in the v higher ranks of the army has at last appeared. It is dated the 14th inst., and is almost wholly based upon the recoiin- mendatioiis of the Royal Commission appointed to revise the warrant of 1854. The new warrant entirely supersedes pre- vious warrants; the following, however, sufficiently indicates t the changes which it brings ...

... (Fromi the Spectator.) Y( The condition of France question has forced itself ap upon theattention of the ImperialGovernmentin asman- TI ner rather disagreeable. In 1857, emigration had in- th, creased so considerably as to provoke inquiries, espe- co: cially in the province of the Lower Pyrenees, but fr( probably also in some others. Last autumn, the mz Minister of the Interior put certain ...

... (From tha (pro., el Ad-Vntiqs- nf ?? N (From the Greenock Advertiser of Yesterday.) e THE FOG IN THE RIVER.-On the mornings of Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday, the river has been overhung by fogs, On Saturday morning the steamer Islesman, while on her way down the river, came into collision with the Belfast 0 steamer Elk, when the former had her davits and a part. of h the bulwarks carried ...

... V RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN INDIA.-A Sergeant in it the Royal Artillery, named David Carr, writing to a b friend in Bauff-Sergeant Lamb-gives a rather strik- E n ing account of his experience of railway travelling in II India. The journey of which he speaks was from d Allahabad to Cawnpore, and was accomplished-about e the middle of February last. We left Allahabad by t] train, he says, and ...

... a, I 7 .7 _ -~ X]. XI To the Editor of the Glasgow Herald. Sin,-I observe a paragraph from An Old Soldier, in ?? MEonday, makinga strangeandsomiewhatgross nilsatatenient, which is calculated to mislead the public, and place the spirit trade in a false position, notwithstanding the nany wrongs they have endured under this unjust Act. I sav unjust, because I do not see why we, a mere section ...