... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 .- ...

... jortip GERMANY AND THE1 BALTIC. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) HAMBURG, October 28, 1858.-The chief event that has occurred here since the last letter was despatched has been the arrival of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia with the Grand Duchess and their son and a very numerous suite. They landed at Kiel OD the 24th, and proceeded to this city the same day, but their stay here, where they ...

... .601irt a'O 'fin'llioll. D -.A- Hfer Majesty's dinner party on Friday included his Royal Highness tce Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Princess of Leiningen, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Sir James Clark, Col. Tyrwhitt, and Col. the Son. R. Bruce. Thle Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice end the Prince nd Princess of ,Leiningcn,- drove out on Saturday morning to ...

... GENERAL POST-OFFICYE, ED INBURGH. Boxes Close. lve Del'very General Receiv'gl P. 0. in Edin. P. Office, louses. Leith. & Leith. MAILS, _ _ Aberd'n, Dundee, Perth, 5 45A. 10 OP 10 OP 6 40A Stirling, Alloa, &c. . I a 720P 7 OP 7 OF 630P Berwick and E. of England, l 30P 11 OP 1 OP 6 40A Berwick, Dunbar, Had-1 dington, &e., E. of Eug- 5 15P 4 30P 4 SOP 3 OP land . . Carlisle, Liverpool, an..) 4 OP ...

... The annual meeting of the United Kingdom Alli- ance, says the Manchester Guardian, was held on Friday eveniu1g, in the Free-trade Hall. There was a very large attendance, the hall being crowded. Mr Joseph Thorp, the President of the British Temper- ance League, occupied the chair; and among those on the platform were several clergymen. The Chair- mn9n enlarged at some length upon the evils of ...

... TINE OF TRAINS LEAVING EDINBURGH FOR U-NDEBMENTIONED PLACE&. NOVEMBER 1858. Aed The abbreviations within parenthesis-(C&.), (h s ?? (E. sa&i G.), (N. B.), (EL P. and D.)-signify Caledonian, Scottish Cent.l, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North British, and6 Edinburgh, Perth, and D.ndee Ralways respectively. and intimate that the trains start from the termini 9& these railways in Edinburgh at the hours ...

... October 30, 1858. In ordinary domestic life the starting of the junior members of every family, for the first time,' upon the broad theatre of the world, to encounter its responsi- bilities, its duties, and its cares, far away'fromu the parental hearth, is always an event of interest. Such an event has this week occurred, and another vacancy been created in that royal circle upon which the ...

... THE DISPUTE BETWEEN FRANCE. A?D PORTUGAL. The Herald bas reason to know that no application was made by Poitogal to our Government for pro- tection. Portugal, to her cred.t, adopted the only mode of action which was worthy of an independent and civilised State. When the di'cussion with France assumed an angry complexion, the Portug-ese.Govern- mert, mindful, o the value of the protocol, of ...

... OPENING OF THE UNIVEUSITY OF EDIN- BURGH. The University of Edinburgh was formally opened n yesterday by the Very Rev. Principal Lee, wvho de- e divered an address to the students in the Chemical f Class Room. The very reverend Principal was I .accompanied to the platform by Professor Dr Lyon I 3?layfair, C.B. ; Professor Pillans ; Professor Blackie * -rofesser Fraser: Professor INI'Dougdl; ...