... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess Alice, went to Claremont on Friday afternoon to visit the Countess de Neuilly; in attendance were the Duchess of Atholl, Colonel the Hon. A. N. flood, and Captain du Plat. The following visitors left the Castle on Friday :-Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord Kingsdown, the Judge Advocate-General, and M~ajor-General Wylde. Lord Broughanm ...

... 11-_AA ?? To. I (From the Times.) A deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen-Mr. Crawford, M.P., Lord Goderich, M.P., Mr. Gregson, MP., Mir. Horsfall, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Drummund, M.P., Sir Dalrymple Elphinstone, M.P., the Mayor of Manchester (Mr. Machie), Mr. William Fairbairn, Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, Mr. Pender, Mr. Ross, and Mr. Simpson, from Manchester; Mr. Charles Turner, ...

... EN G LA N D. M. DE MONTALEMBERT.-We are requested to state that the author of Un Debcat sur ?? personally de- precates anything like a subscription in England for the purpose of paying the fine to which he has been sentenced.-Timnes. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. -The Government emi- grant ship Dirigo, 1206 tons, Captain Robert White, sailed from Liverpool on Sunday the 28th ult., for Melbourne, ...

... Will. BBRIGHTS GON8STITUTION. (From the Times.) The supporters of Mr. Bright's forthcoming bill ought in consistency to abstain from the unprofitable metaphysics of Reform. Every scheme for regulating the franchise assumes that the object of a representa- tive system consists in the good government of the country, and not in the privilege of exercising the suffrage. When Mr. Milner Gibson ...

... 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., ...

... FRANCE. (From the Times' Correspondence.) Paris, Friday, Dec. 1, P..r. The half-official journal Le Monitcur dc ?? contains in its impression of yesterday a paragraph corroborating what I mentioned somie days since on the great accumula- tion of var material in the Governmenit stores. It says:- The War Department has published a gencral account 10f the material in its possession at the ...

... -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., ...

... FlU I)AY MORNING, DECEMBER 10. | Tfdi draft Bill to enable the Malgistrates and Council to lay out, maintain, and improve the Kehtillgrove and Queen's Parks, and the Corporation llalls and IV Galleries of Art in the City, cngclged the attention of the Town Council yesterday, andi w'iS agreed to inl an amiended form. IU the original draft there was a U1 clause providing that out of the ...