... 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 ...

... GENERA1L POST-OFFICE, EDINBURGH. Boxes Close. Del'very General Receivg: ?? o in Edin. P. Office. Houses. Leith. ,&Lsith. MArLS. _ _ _ I ' I] Aberd'n, Dundee, Perth,) b 45A. 10 OP 10 OF 6 40A Stirling, Alloa, &c. . J e7 20P 7 OP 7 OP. 630p Berwick and E. of England, 1 30P 11 0 1 OP O 40A Berwick, Dunbar, Had-) dington, &c., E. of Bng- ' 5 I 4 SOP 48OP I 3 OP ?? . . Carlisle, Liverpool, Man-i 4 ...

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... A G E N I 6. Aberdeen .. & I. 3Milne Greenock ..-Mrs Owen. Athenoum. 'Haddington..J. Mlillen Do. --L. & J. Smith. Do. -G. Smilee. Do ?? Panton. Hawick ?? Black. Do. ..D. Wyllie & Son Do. ..J. Dalgleish. Aberlady ..hlr F. Mitchell. ,Inveresk J. Gordon. Alloa _J. Lothian. JanverkeithgMiss Campbell. Do. - - . 1Morison. 'Jedburgh..-A. & W. Eastezo Do. -J. tVingate. i Do. _ r. Small. Arbroath ...

... I BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAP B. | FRANCE. The Times' Paris correspondent writes that the assent of the. Emperor to the prosecution of Count Montalembert was obtained with difficulty, and, it is stated, was for some time refused. It is to be regretted that the refusal was not per- sisted in. The charges in the indictment are very serious, amounting to something like con- structive treason. As much as ...

... TilXE OF TRAINS LEAVING ?DXNBURGU FOB UNDEIL?EETIONED PLACES. Cc) GN.) B. ) {E. iP. n -ignly Caledenian Scttish Esdinbulrgh, Perth, and Dundee Riailways respectively. and intimlate thlat tha trains stafl frum the termhdL ct thoese rceilervays in Edinbur gh at the hours stated. Aberdeen, (S. C.), Ii 241, 8, 12 ant;* 8 45 p.m. Aberdeen (E. P. and D.), 6 10, 10 a~m; 2 45p m. Abrboath (E. P. anld ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, TBBEE O'CLOCK. LONDON CORN MAREET. English wheat in good demand, and realises fully last Monday's rates. Foreign firm, with fair business. Flour in good request, at fill prices. Barley wanted, and prime firm. Oats less plentiful, demand larger, and prices stiff. Malt brings full value. Beans and pease sell slowly, but not cheaper. Arrivals-British wheat, 5669; barley, 1756; ...

... 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 ...

... GERMANY AND TEHE BALTIC. (FRlOM OIJR OWN CORlRE:SPON;DENT.) STETTIN, Nov. 22, 1858.-A longer interval than usual has occurred between the last and the present conmmunication, which has arisen from a desire to ascertain, from personal observation in this district of Prussia, which offered special facilities for that pur- pose, what was the true state of public feeling as to recent events in ...

... (FROM THE TIDIES.) The treaty signed at Jeddo on the 26th of August engages that there shall be perpetual peace and friend- ship between her British Majesty and the Tycoon of Japan ; secondly, that her Majesty may appoint a diplomatic agent to reside at Jeddab, and the Tycoon a diplomatic agent to reside in London, both of them respectively to have the right of travelling Ileely to any part of ...

... sortigil zlifffliplut. ?? GERMANY AND THE BALTIC. (FROZc OUR 0XWN CO(1RESOSPONDEr.) rN HAMHBuRG, Nov. 10.-Your correspondent LI- 3RrtTAs, when he says fliat I have accepted his challenge, assigns to me the character of an antsgo- nist to which I have no wish to lay claim. As I an- Al derstood his previous communication to the Mercury, I considered it was no more than the expression of a ...