... 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 The case of Staff Adjutant O'Neill agai nst Mrl 'Gre- 8 gor of the Royal Hotei, was again taken up by the - Burgh Court on Saturday. On the bench were Bailies 9 Blackadder and Forrester, and Mr Young, advocate, .s assessor to the Magistrates. The question now at e issue in this case, as our readers will recollect, is whether Mr M'Gregor, being a resident within the extended royalty of ...

... T THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. Letters have arrived. The news is entirely anticipated by official telegrams with the excep- tion of a few details. General Mitchell reports no officers killed in the action of Scindia on the 19th October. Only two men were killed in the previous affair with Tantia Topee-one of the 71st and one of the 92d Highlanders. At Meean Guuj we had only one man killed and ...

... (.ROM THE JoAtLY NEWs.) iA Bad wearher has kept us long waiting for our American news ; but now it has come it is abundantly rel remarkable. For the first time in the history of the Cr Republic the whole of the Free States are united tet against the policy of the South. For the first time the numbers, the wealth, the intelligence, and free spirit of the Northern States are aroused to united ...

... The letters brought by the Indian mail add: little to the news previously forwarded by tele- graph. General Mitchell, in his anxiety to inftev- cept Tantia Topee at Rajghur, effected a fouced march of unusual severity. Two hundred of his Highlanders died,,or were rendered powerless by Gun-stroke, while. his baggage falling gradually into the rear, was cut off and carried away piece- meal by ...

... 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 ...

... A G B N T S. Aberdeen .-A. & R. Milne Greenock ?? Owen. Athenzeum, itaddington..J. Millen. Do. .. & J. Smith. I Do. -G. Smifles. Do _ NW. Panton. , lawick --R. Black. Do. --D. Vyllie &Son I Do. --J. Dalgleish. Aberlady Ur F. Mitchell. Inveresk J. Gordon. Alloa -J. Lothian. lnverkeithgMiss Campbell. Do. --S. N. Morison. Jedburgh ..A. & W. Eatteal Do. --J. Wingate. Do. T. Small. Arbroath ...

... ALL-HALL.OW FAIR. WEDNESD&AYT.N07. 10. The show to-day of all kinds did not amount to the numbers anticipated, but still the show was large, and the quality of the kinds- exhibited good. The stock shown consist-d of a few two-year-old West Highland stots; and also heifers, which were in de- mand to-day, and sold at equally as high prices as yesterday. The North Highland cattle, of all ages, ...

... TIon OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOM UNDERMENTIONED PLACES. NOVEMBER 1058. ?? The abbreviations within parenthesis-(Cal), (S C.), (E. a ?? (N. B.), (N. P. and fl.)-signify Caledonian, Scottlib, Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, mini.i Edinburgh, Pertb, and Dundee Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains st4rt from the termini ei these raitways in Edinburgh at the hours ...

... LIABILITY OF PARISH MINISTERS FOR STATUJTRT -LABOUR CONVERSION MONEY. A case involving this point has recently been de- cided in the Shexiff Small Debt Court at Falkirk by Mr Robert Robertson, the Sheriff-Substitute. The Rev. William Begg was summoned, by order of the Trustees, for four shillings and ninepence as conver- sion money due by himn, in respect of his occupation of the parish glebe ...

... The annual meeting of the subscribers to this In- stitution was held yesterday in the School, Adam Square-the Lord Provost presiding. Dr MURRAY, the secretary, read the annual report, 'which stated that the total number of students dur- ing the past year was no less than 622, being about '80 more than the average of the last ten years. The number of tickets sold was 909, being 43 above that of ...