... __ wh THE RECRUITING SERVICE.-This service seems to have not been done scanty justice to at home or abroad. Our cor un-friends on the continent, who rejoice over every me opportunity of disparaging this country-its people, its utt institutions, laws, resources, and everything else- so have extracted a great deal of comfort from the fact it that the report of the levies enrolled at'the ten. ...

... 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, ...

... (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 ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, Thursilay oveni-g-Theo Empeorti, Empress, mid l'r-iiise liprilleft IliarritZ yesterdkay, aIt hisl-as 2 mdrached jriexat (l i ii th afternoon. Their Mj stisst out from Blordessix att 8s o'clock, aind arrived this mornisig ait St. Cloud. Theo whole party is reported to be in, excellent heal tiiand spirits. It 5S, sttitld that from thle estimate suppliedI by a conasmissienl ...

... (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 ...