... 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 ...

... t We are glad to observe that our townsmen, Majors s 3M'Kirdy, of the 69th Foot, and Wilkie, of the 10th a )Hiissars, have obtained their Colonelcies under the G 3 operation of the new Army Warrant;. and that En- -sign George Gilmour, late of the 1st Foot, has ob- t] s tained his Lieutenancy in 21st Foot, without pur- 3 chase. t] H6_UJSEBREAIKINaS.-The following housebreakings ltook place ...

... (Fromi the Daily News.) The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of the fourteen mnen who were killed by suffocation in the Primrose Pit, Swansea Valley, on the 13th instant, was resumed on Mon- day last, before Alexanlder Cuthhbertson, Esq., coroner. There were, however, but few if any additional particulars given to those already made public. The first witness called was David Thomas, the ...

... I -1_b - -lA -iA s -t -W In , _ -4X v4 V . ~ ~ J~ V bU9*. V1 3 (From the Gazette of Oct. 26.)v .-t WAR OFFICE, OCT. 26. t The Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm the l I grant of the decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under- c L mentioned private soldiers of her Majesty's Army, which r decoration has been provisionally conferred upon them by N the Commander-in-Chief in India, and ...

... d This meetingcame offyesterday ?? Race Course; fc L- and certainly this was the best trotting meeting-ever held in 11 Scotland. There was a very large attendance of spectators e (averaging 10,000) on the ground. The first race was ce tlookedtoas beingthe eventoftheday. Dawfromthefirstwas af tthe favourite, and Old Sir William was second, and in some d quarters believed to win. Lady Godivawas ...

... LATES T NEWS. 1-1- . 1 - 7 - r .E .A LI) OFFICE, Friday 1lol L 1g. B;Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. T'EE EAST.---Advices from Constantinople to the 20ths state that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had laid the founda- tiom stone of a building to be called the Commemorative Temn )le, and which uifll have on itthc nmines of the soldiers who fell in the Crimean war. Lord Stratford ...

... MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS O SUPPLY. Yesterday, the annual general meeting of the Commis- sioners of Supply for the county of Renfrew was held at Renfrew--Mr. Sheriff Glasgow in the chair. The minutes of the Standing Committee were read and confirmed.: Mr. Campbell of Blythswood, and Mr. Maxwell of Dar- gavel, were appointed a committee, with power to add to their number, to correspond and ...

... l1 Paris, Tuesday. r M. de Lesseps, the industrious and persevering projector B of the Suez Canal, has at last attained his object. A company f is formed, with a capital of 28,000,000, in 400,000 shares of Z £20 each. The Viceroy has ceded the authority to cut a the canal, and has also granted 825,000 acres of land, of which 147,500 are cultivable, and 200,000 acres will form a band 2000:yards ...

... We are requested to state that there is no truth in the report that the Governmiient intend to create three new Indian Bishoprics.-Times. TiRE NEW REroiM BILL.-At the dinner of the Chard, Ilminstor, and Crewkerne Labourer's Friend Society, at the latter town on Thursday evening, the Hon. W. W. Addington, who presided, observed,- We are going to have next year a great bill, a bill for giving ...

... I ?? 'J.LN t15 .~N*N Jt . N U.LIL. On Wednesday night the members of this society met in ~r the Philosophical Society's Hall, Andersonian Museum. y The chair was occupied by Dr. Macquorn Rankine, C.E.) df F.R.S. Several new members having been admitted, it W. J. MACQUORN RANKINE, LL.D., President of the )f institution, delivered a lengthened opening address, from a*which we make the following ...

... A meeting was held in the upper room of Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday afternoon, to meet a depu- tation from The Newspaper and Periodical Press Associ- ation for obtaining the Repeal of the Paper Duty. Among the gentlemen present were Mr. Adam Black, M.P., Mr. Charles Cowan, M.P., Mr. R. Chambers, Mr. Thomas Con- stable, Mr. John Ritchie, Couucillor Wood, Mr. A. K. Johnston, Mr ...

... .Wan rKJtUtiEN AJiJ.NjX. C (From the Times.) t The Regency question is settled, and Prussia stands I astonished at her own success. Like the great Tom r Thumnb, if she has not fought it is because she has c found no foes to fight withal. The terrible Junker I party, or Squirearchy, as we should call them, the ad- V herents of the KIrcTz Zeitnlbg, the High Church and t Divine Righlt sticklers ...