... INDIA AND CHTNA. IDUL&A £flI UlWi Bty the arrival of the Calcutta. m~ail we have received our *2.iviatO correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to t :iie 23d of Septemlber, and from Hlong, Kong to the 12th of The following is this letter of our Calcutta correiionl- ''Tue ortnigt has ooms amost 'Calcutta, Sept. 23. Tie frtn~li ha barenablo~tbarren of intelligence. [lie procla-matioxi ...

... A despatch fromn Lisbon announces that the bi Charles and Georges was delivered. over to, the French authorities on 'the 23d ult. The'TFreniha vessels in the 'Vagus were to leave.- the river en the following day. The feeling in the capital was a violently excited against this coantry for the im- cs passive attitude it maintained throughout the affair. It is reported that a strong Russian naval ...

... . ¢Glaswabatralb, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1. . BY the last Indian advices, ppblished in another column, we have an account by the Times' Calcutta| correspondent of a veiy smart affair. Two regiments of Sepoys, stationed at Mooltan, had been amongst those disarmed when the mutiny first broke out in the Punjaub. It was resolved that one of these should be discharged and the other re-armed. When ...

... (From the Times.) it would seem to have been reserved to the era of Mr. Disraeli's Chancellorship of the Exchequer to dissipate the last nebllous fragments of the great Asian mystery. Lord Elgin's mission has already made Chinese Mandarins as familiar to us as Marl- borough Street police magistrates, and events already promise that we shall soon know rather more of the habits and belief of a ...

... FRANCE. m Nothing new about the Portuguese affair. The to .Moniteur is still silent. at PRUSSIA. BERLiN, Wednesday.-The following members of a new Prussian Ministry have been ap- di po'nted:- A Prince Hohenzollern, President of the Council; ?? Schleinitz, Foreign Affairs ; M. Bathman Holiweg, Public Instruction; General Bonin,E War. P The rest of the present Ministers are to be dis- s] missed ...

... MECHANICS' TNSTITUTION. Tim annual meeting of the members of the Mechanics' In- pm] stitution was hold on Friday night in their buildings, Market ohs Street-Mr Westland, banker, the Chairman of the Dirceo- Ma tors, presiding. After some preliminary remarks, Th The CHAIRMAN, alluding to the classes established in ao- wh cordance with the rules of the Government department of Coi Science and Art ...

... EDINBURGH. Public interest was not excited to any great ex- tent at the municipal elections yesterday. The ex- eltement, indeed, appeared to be confined to the im- ?? vicinity of the contested wards, in which the usual amount of hurrying to and fro, in gathering in 'the voters took place. Up till Monday evening it -was thought that, in only two of the wards would there be competition, bat late ...

... M - ?? - 7.A7.4A;7AA .A . n..a To the Editor of the M1forning Post. Sir,-In the articles which have from time to time ap- peared in the newspapers on the subject of the Western Bank, and on the culpable neglect which you ascribe to the directors, you have unintentionally been guilty of in- justice to myself and another director, Mr. Baird of Uric, both of whom were elected subsequent to the ...

... ABRIVAX L OF lE CANADA. (From our own Correspondent,) The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Canada, arrived in Liverpool ozl Sunday, and brings letters and newspapers from Boston and Halifax to the 21st ult., and intelligence from Yew York, by telegraph, to the same date. The Canada had 91 passengers on board, and brought $54,800 in specie on freight. The Anglo-Saxon (s. S.), ...

... The iollowing letter is from a passenger on board the Eastt:rn -City to his brother in Glasgow - Soldiers' Barracks, Cape Town, Cape of ,A-O t ?? Q.-r6_ IQ';R r, clear . ?? did either of us expect, when Wv± parted at Liverpool, that you should ever receive letters frnni me dated at the above place, and under such painful cireumstances; still far less expectations had I, at midnight 1 *-f the ...

... I-llervm v __ ,* a> tffl 'Jr 'SLIJ~iIV . The ordiar monthl meeting of the Preshytery of Glas- gow was iheld on Ni edneday-thie Rev. Mr. Hill, of Xil- *sytis, the retiring Moderator, hi the chair. lIlr. Cochrane, of St. Peter's, was appoisted moderator for the ensuing six months, and took the chair accordingly. ST. COLULMBA'S CHURCH. The application of the Rev. Dr. M'Lcod, of St. Cohnn- ba!8, ...

... I It may have been seen from our advertising columns that Mr. Pollok has written a reply to Mr. Manuing's Observa- tions and Mr. Hill's Remarks upon his plan, and that in the shape of a pamphlet published by Messrs. John Smith & ! Sons, Glsg7ow, and Messrs. Blackwood & Sons, London and Edinburgh. Mr. Haill's remarks having appeared in this .paper, we have been reqnested to insert that part of ...