... LATEST N EWS. nrRALD OFFICE, Monday Morningl; BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. Y ~ AMERICA. e - THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAG E. Liverpool, Sunday Morning. The steamship Africa, from New York on the 8th inst., e arrived in the MIersey at half-past seven this morning, bring- ing 60 passengers, and 187,000 dollars in specie. She was off I Point Lynas at 10.30 last night, but was detained ...

... JOURNAL OF A HIGHLAND SOLDI'ER. ?? -- I . - .. . . _ . I C(Fros the Inverness Coulier.) Our correspondent, A Highland Soldier, sends the fol- lowing extracts fromI his journal of the proceedings in India with the Highland Brigade:- (ct. 23, 1858.-I n the evening a patrol of two guns, two 1 squadrons, three or four companies of Rifles and Cihoorkas, event out to reconnoitre the enemy's ...

... ING. I[DO.. AIrEIS PUNCH.] One evening not very long ago, there was held a very briyht meeting on1 the subject of Parliamnentary Reform. The assemblage was evidently one that needed a great re- formation, individual and collective, and therefore highly appropriate. On the platform we observed a Member Of Parliament, an intelligent Glasgow Bailie, two notable Councillors, three complacent ...

... UV 1rut UiNfl'SiJJ r1i1raIu. At the centennial celebration of the occupancy of Forts l)uquesne and Pitt, held at Pittsburg on the 25th of No- veiober last, am1on(g the letters of excuse for non-attendance was tile followin1 flom the President of the United States. Having regard to the pres.cnt unsettled state of the country, the opinions expressed by Mr. Buchanani possess a peculiar importance ...

... ' c_ a ?? 1- _ ?? t I r . 1, - I - X r On Monday night, shortly after eight o'clock, Mr. James t Mioucreiff, Dean of Faculty and M.P. for Leith, addressed c a public meeting of the electors and non-electors of that c town, in the Assembly Hall. There was a numerous attend- c ance, apparently mainly composed of non-electors. Mr. Henderson presided; and amrongst the gentlemen on the platform ...

... If (51anow i4ftralb,. MONDAY MORNING1 DECEMBER 6.. I Wm have intelligence from New Yorki to the. ?Ath, T1tt. ,, by the Royal Mail steamship Asia,. which ainrived at t Liwwinnl+ v .4--orlx aqtor;on cl- -4o. At ?? Liverpool yesterday afternoon. The City of Balti- more steamship had reached New York the day be- - fore the Asia sailed. We are told that. great excite- a meat prevailed at Mobile, ...

... - .. --l - r L . -1 ?? .. 1 ., By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we (Times) have re- ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the 9th of Nov., and fromu Hong Kong to the 29th of October. The following is the letter of our Calcutta corresponden t:- November 10. I The proclamation was published all over India on the samne day, the 1st of November. It has, ...

... ?? I ?? t..- . fl. - _ rn ? & RIedical notes from the Continent, by Dr. Mercer Adams of Dumfries, in the Ediinmlugh. Acflical Journal.] And now, in conclusion, a few words about the Heidel- berg students, who, after all, are the most curious speci- mens in the place. Mluch has been written about them by Williao Hoowitt, and other authors, but, nevertheless a few sketches taken in the sununer ...

... THlE LATE ELOPEMENT IN YORKSHIRE. -It is stated that the young Yorkshire heiress who some weeks ago eloped with her father's groomn has returned with her husband to the northi, and is now residing at the vil- lage of Helperby, near Boroough Bridge. No attempt is made by the couple to disguise their position or the circuiistaices connected with it. The lady takes daily exercise oi the horse ...

... -1,-1 AA LILA P 1 - - . By the arrival of the Calcutta mail We (Times) have re- ceived our private correspondence and files of papers from Calcutta to the 21th of October and from Hong Kong to th, 13th of October. Calcutta Oct. 24. The Queen's llroclamation has arrived at last, and' I sin, told -will be published on the 1st of Noveniber soine delay being necessary to secure its simlultancous ...

... Un L vU jt n% U. SALMON.-The river Southesk has been swarming with the salmon tribe of late. No doubt the spawn- ing season is the cause of so many making their ap- pearance at the present time. Numbers of them are found dead and in a sickly state, arising doubtless from the impure state of the ?? Standard. UNIVERSITY DEGREES.-The Senatus Academicus, at their meeting of the 27th Nov., ...

... ROITHESAY. ?? X2I!iJtk 1. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR. PRENTICE. On Friday evening last, upwards of fifty gentlemen enter- l tained Mr. Prentice to a sumptuous dinner in Attwood's Queen's Hotel, West. Bay, Rotbesay-Duncan Salmon, I L Esq., in the chair;. Provost M'Ewen, croupier. Amongst . the gentlemen presentw ?? Muir, Esq., Foley House; Thomas Gibson, Esq., Spittal; John Urie, Esq., ...