... (rnot THE CONTINBNTAL RLVIEW.) There can be no question but that the pnobhbility of Austria and France coming into Speedy collision on the plains ol Lombardy besomes every day greater. There are numerous stories curre-t to show how open the separation bet-ween lie two counctries has become, and the emperor, rarely as he allows his policy to be divined horn his personal conduct, is said to have ...

... brother man, sustained that elevation of ' thought and of action amongst his class, of which he l was the true exponent. He furnishes in himself a I noble specimen of the spirit of self-reliance, which isI 30 strongly inculcated in his writings -(chedrs). He I enjoyed the inestimable blessing of the education t which, in bygcne times, was furnished to the people i of Scotland by their parish ...

... | FRANCE. PARIS, Tuesday.Ppeople talk, and still more seriously, of the probabilities of an approaching reunion of the Confarence of Paris, to regulate the questions that arise out of that of the naviga- tion of the Danube ; nevertheless, it would be i premature to fix a date for the meeting The letters from Marseilles speak of continued warlike preparations; 1200 mules were lately pur- chased ...

... jorfigly SARDINIA. .1 We have now a full report of the speech of the King of Sardinia, and an account from the Ptednian- lese Gazette of the ceremony of opening the Chambers. *1- Long before the hour fixed upon, the gates of the . Palazzo- Madame were besieged with persons pro- vided with tickets. The ga lery ot the first floorwas soon filled with ladies, and the upper gallery with o_ ...

... The Duke of Argyll delivered an able and in- j teresting lecture on geology in the City Hall, I Glasgow, under the auspices of the Athenurom, on E Thursday ?? Buchanan, Esq., ?? in the chair. About twenty minutes past 8 o'clock, Sir Archi- i bald Allison entered the hall, and said-4 regret I much to be obliged to state that the Duke of Argyll c has just met with a slight accident. As the noble ...

... TIME OF. TRAINS LBAING EDINBURGH FOR TUhDEBENTI0NED PLACES. DECEMBER 1858. le The abbreviations within parenthasln-(Calj, (S. C), (S. an ?? (N. B.), C. P. snd.D.)-slgnflly Caledonian, SBooiab CentraL, Edinburgh end Glasgow., North British, and Edinburgh, Pereh, and Dundee Railways respectively and intonate that Iha trains start from the termaiu es these railways In Edinburgh at the hours ...

... SCOTrISH REFORMATION SOCIEMTY The annual meeting Of the Scottish Reformation Society took place last night in Queen Street Hall, and was attended by> a large and enthusiastic audience. Mr B. Douglas occupied the chair. and among the gentlemen on the platform ?? Cowan, Esq., M.P.; Andrew Stewart, Esq., M.P.- Thomas Ogilvy, Esq., of Corritnoney; Revs. Dr Begg, Dr W. L. Alexander, D. T, K. ...

... THE CIVILISAT;]C ' RUSSIA. *1i (FRO* TISE: CODTI';1A 9 tiEVIE.) u It is impssible notto sit~6 e o eftreof Rusia ciii-attn. F or gpilo&-r evil, iii gigpntis 6 an enmpire cannot. fail to exercise an enormous infla- ibnie on the world. Up~to 1855, it tried to ideebise ti its ownvotpsiftion as a senmi-civilised couitry,,and bo- 'P came -lhe great conservator of the past, in a world anl -where all ...

... MERCURY OFFIME, XONDAY, EI.vE O CX o10. SERVIA. Thirty Servian deputies, armed, and accom- panied by a numerous suite, also armed, have letS &IMde for Bucharest to bring off Prince MHlosebh who has been proclaimed Prince of Sbvia. - A Renter's telegram ?? Vienna papers Asaert that Milosech is still at Vienna, INDIA. A teiegrfm, dated Malta, 30tb Decen'ber, and received at the Foreign Offce on/ ...

... GENERAT POST-OFFICE, EDYNBURGH. -- l Boxes Close. I General Xccelv'g.. 0. Dl've P. Off6cc Hooca Leith. I&Leith. Aberdon, Dundec Pert) l 6 45A. 10 oP 10 or 6 0A Stir'dng, Alloa, ac. . v a 7 20P 7 OP 7 ir a 3Op B6erewicand E. of England, I aop 11 OP 1 OP 6 40A Berwickc, Dunbar, Had-3 lI Ip 4Ip aO dingtnl &¢, E f En-; '5 15P 4 80.e 4Sor 3 Op Carlisle, Lirerpool, Man-) 4O IlP Ilo D tW. a 8. of Eng ...

... THE BURNS' CENTENARY I' JUNIPER GREEN. On Teesday last, a very respettablecompany of working-men assembled in the Free Church School at Juniper Greeru, and sat down to an ceellent sapper provided and served in first-rate style, by an active committee of their own number; Mr 2tobhn Bssel occupied the cbair, and Mr John Bareaeted as croupier. Addresses,- songs, and tunes, were givren by several ...

... | MR J. BRIGHT AT ROCHDALEe Last evening a soirese was given to John Bright, Esq., M.P., by his Rlellow-townsmnen in the l public 13,11, Rochdale. There were upwards of' 1000 persons present-the ehair was taken by Mr. Andrew Stewart, Mayor of the borough. On the platform ?? Mhili psi M.P., for Bury; Mr George Wilson, of Manchester, and a large num- bar of the leading manufacturers of the town ...