... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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) ?? - - ...

... (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 ...

... ?? ?? ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... . ENGLISH MI1SSES AND FRFNoU MADEMOISELLES. -The dsfference between them is this :-Your English Miss flirts before she isrmarried; your French Mademoiselle gets married first, and flirts afterwards. mi Neither plan is safe, and both are objectionable. Ph N',um 00en POOR IME!s.-Ir Costs a deal if money Sh to be rich, and it is a question if so much is worth so bus little ? After all, is wealth ...