... 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 ...

... MERCIURY OFFICE, WEDNESDAY, ELEVEN O'CLOC. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Saturday, October 3 O.-The Caradoc, on which Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had embarked, has run ashore near Sniyrna. The passengers and crew have been saved. GENEBAL DE SALIS, of the French army, is dead. TEE NAvy.-The present number of ships of war afloat is 276, with 4628 guns, and 46,754 seamen. THE Post understands it to be ...

... 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 ...

... f rr esp avatf. THE SCOTTISH POOR-LAW. eli TO THE EDITOR Or THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. WI SIR,-MY attention was directed just the other s day to a paper on the Defects of the Scotch Poor- co Law, read by the Rev. Dr Begg at the recent meet- co ing of the Association for the Promotion of Social pe Science, in the department presided over by Sir to James Stephens. co It is not my intention to ...

... BY EIJECTRIC TELEGRAPHI. 2E FRANCE. PARIS, Saturday.-The Pays ?? French Government is by no means prepared to renounce what it calls emigration operations on the ll coast of Africa. in The Daily News' Paris correspondent says it is be ?? ?? stated in legal circles that the Government will at not follow up the prosecutions of C(ount Monta- fri lembert. - . PZ The life of General De Salles ...

... 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 ...

... SUlMMARY. Another French vessel has been seized by a tent Portuguese ship-of-war on the east coast of Africa canu and taken to Mozambique. The vessel was the eventually given up again. The Government the prosecution against the Count Montalembert will not not be proceeded with. Mon Intelligence from Bombay to October 10th sfe has been received. Tantia Topee, after resting for for a fewl days ...

... PHILOSOPHICAL INSrITUTJJON The Lecture Session at this Institution wzO opened last evening by a lecture from the Rev. W. Fa-hqubar Hookl, D.D,, Vicar of Leeds, On the influence of a high standard of academical culture on the moral and intellectual condition of society. The lecture was delivered in the Music Hal, which was completely filled by the members of the Institution. IAmong the ...

... I j! utign GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. (mRolio otr ow-t COErSPOttDENT.) sto .Utm~ztnr, November 2, 1s5S.-The eloquent and to telling crntiens of Mr Bright at Birmingham, now WI] so complet.ly absorb attention as to public affairs, ha' and the ?? elections occupy so much of what mit can be otherwise spared for local matters, thlit it is ha, scarcely to be expected that any thing which is alto- par ...

... SEUOND :EDIT ON. MERCURY OFFICM, MONDAY, ELEVEN O'CWLOC - FRANCE. Pam,Saturday.-The Pays ?? French Government is by no means prepared to renounce what it calls emigration operations . on the coast of Atrica. THE DISPUTE BETWEENFRANCE A1ND PORTUGAL. The Herald has reason to know that no application was made by Portugal to our Government for pro- tection. Portugal, to her credit, adopted the ...

... AGE N TS. Aberdeen .-A. & E. 2lilne 'Greenock..VMrs Owen. Athenseum, addington ..J. MUllen. Do. .. & J. Smith. Do. -G. Smiles. Do -W. Panton. . Hawick -R. Black. Do. __D. Wyllie & Son Do. J. Daigleish. Aberlady .-.4 F. MitchelL ILnveresk --J. Gordon. Alioa _-J. Lothian. llnverkeitligMiss Campbell. Do. --S. N. MIorison. iJedburghl..A. & W. Easteni Do. -J. Wingate. Do. -T. Small. Arbroath .- ...

... (Effrts Pol nbt art. -4-- ST 13 BRNARD'S WARD. TO THE EDITORt Or THE CALEDO9NIAN MELRCURY. Sit,-With reference to mny name having been proposed as a candidate for this Ward on Tuesday last, I have to state that it was done without my knowledge or consent; and that I was not made aware of it till three minutes before the poll closed, when one of the Councillors of 2he Ward called at my shop and ...