... 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 tolloaiog is the paper read by the Rev. Dr Begg before the Social Economy Section in the Na- tional Association for the promotion of Social Science on Friday last:- ;; In so far as the towns of Scotland are concerned, there are no features of very marked peculiarity. The same physical degradation which characterises districts of all the large cities of Britain, perhaps reaches its maximum ...

... OUR, LOaNDdiN LETT'ER, October. as, RS58. o The incidrzts-of the week are the arrival of her Majesty, all happy-looking and blooming,. froun her Hi ghland retreat, and; the elevation,. not of Big n Ben, but St. Stephen, to his plaee in the clock- 1 tower of the Parlinmentary palace at Wostmiiuster, g from wbicel he is to Live tongue to. the metropolis, tl and, during, the Session, ...

... ourt aub tasqyinou Balmoral, October 16,155. it lfer Majesty the Queen. H.R.H. Princess Alice, and e H.R.H. Princess Helena, attended by the lion. Miss Stop- ford, drove to Alt na Gussach. I( Mr and Mrs Clark had the honour of receiving invitations to dinner. Balmoral, October 17, iS58. ti Her 517jesty the Queen and H.R.J. the Prince Consort, fi accompanied by the ladies and gentlemen in ...

... 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, ...

... (FRMo A PRIVATE CORRESSPONDENT.) Liverpool, 16th Oct. 1858. The two meetings on Thursday night were most successful. At the soiree there were three times as many persons present as on the first occasion. The great hall fvas beautifully furnished with rare plants and flowers and articles of verta ; and the immense multitude of ladies in full dress, moving about, give it quite the aspect of a ...

... IMR BAXTEkF, M-P., ON INDIAN -KISSIONS. A public meeting in connection with the London -Missionary Society was held in WVardl.Chapel, Dandee, onThursdayevening. W.E.Baxte M>P.,was-called to the chair, and the Rev. J. C. 13Bater opened the Meeting with prayer. The Chairman ?? always affords me unfeigned pleasure to talke a part in .meet- ings of the London Missionary Society, a society founded ...

... C,.Dlxrt aO P516?im ?? &- Her i.Balmoral, October 9, 1S5S. Her Majesty the Qune'n, accompanied by the Count and Countess Persigny, and Lady Churchill, drove out. H.R.H. the Prince Consort and n.r.1l. the Count of Flanders went out deer-stalling. Her Majesty gave a ball yesterday evening to the servants and gillies of the Castle and ncighbourhood, :Balmoral, October 10, 1858. General Peel has ...

... I INDIA AND CHINA. Calcutta letters of September 8th make no mention of alarm there, and of troops being under arms. The Calcutta Englishmzan says the dispersion of the rebels is limited to a narrow circle, and the ensuing cold weather will, no doubt, see the end of the war. It is currently reported that Sir John Lawrence is about to leave for England. The rebels are said to muster 7000 men at ...

... ol ST STEPHEN'S WARD. P The electors in this Ward held a meeting yesterday t ...

... THE BIutL OF THE BALLOT SOCIETY. A Bill to cause the votes of Parliamentary 4lectors to be taken by way of ballot haar been issued bv the Ballot Society. Alter the preamble, clause 1 would enact tha- the returning ficer cause booths to be erected At each polling-place. and to sapply ballot-boxes, and to fur- nish. each booth with copies of register of electors. Other introduieory clauses ...

... 6-fortip gutdli?aa. SWITZERLAND. Advices from Berne state that a fresh communi- cation has been addressed by the Federal Govern- ment to the Bishop of Como, repeating its formal refusal to allow him to exercise his episcopal func- tions in the canton of Tessino, as such a measure might tend to compromise the question now pending relative to the separation of parts of the Swiss terri- tory from ...