... BY ELECTRIC TELEMRNPH. FRANCE. PAris, Friday.-The M3oniteur announces that the Emperor has granted a full pardon or comnmu- tation of sentence to 164 persons who had been convicted at the sessions or by the ordinary tri- bunals, two of whom had been condemned to death. SERVIA. BELGRADrO, 30th Dec.-Prince Alexander's departure from the Turkish fortress has been de- manded, on account of his ...

... 6tatral ApittIliffmak. MR BRIGHT, M.P, AT B]a&nroxD.-Tonday even- ing, the 17th inst., is fixed as the occasion on w hich Mr Bright is to. deliver ai address on parliamentary reform, in St George's Hall, at Bradford. OXFORD MIDDLE-CLASS EXAM5tATMIS.-The University has accepted Gloucester as a local centre for the ensuing year, and a committee is being formed for the purpose of carrying out the ...

... AG E NT ' S. Aberdeen .A. & P. MilnefGreenock..__Xrs Owen. Athenusum. Haddington..J. Millen. Do. L.L & J. Smith. Do. -G. Smiles. Do - W. Panton. . ilawick ..R. Black. Do. D.Wyllie&Sun Do. 3J. Dalgleis. Aberlady ..lir F. Mitchell. Inveresk _J. Gordon. Alloa J Lothian. Inverkeithg ?? Miss Campbell. Do. - S. N. 3orison. Jedburgh ..hA. & W. Eastenj Do. J . Wingate. Do. -.T. Smail. Arbroath .-James ...

... Mr Gladstone has spoken with great plainness to the Greek clergy in the Ionian Islands, who, it is be. lieved, are the great instigators of the demand for annexation with Greece. At a levee at Zante, when the several clerical, military, and civil departments had been presented in due form, the Greek Arch- bishop and all his clergy were recalled, whereupon the Archbishop put out his band to ...

... DECEMBER 1858. %r The abbreviations within parentheals-(Cal,), (a C.), (Ei. an G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-signify Caledonian, Scottish Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, North Britlab, ea8i Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railways respectively, and intimate that the trains start from the termiui o1 these railways in Edinburgh at the hours stated. Aberdeen, (S. C.), 6 20, 8, 12 am.; 8 45 p.m. ...

... ? 'forkip . SPAIN. poro The Madrid journals of the 24th have reached us. comt 'The Peniinsular Corr'espondence says :-The news Brit which the electric telegraph has broughst us concern- den, .iag the message of the President of the United States unti has produed a, g ,eat sensation in the city, and has ente already been commented or, by the daily journals in that the tone of offended national ...

... THE GREAT RIOT IN CANONGATE IAD HIGH STREET. The trial of the parties charged with being con- cerned in the disturbances of Saturday evening, was resumed at the Police Court yesterday before Sheriff Hallard. Corporal Comber and Privates Thomas Biggs George Beeching, William Ayres, Cornelius Bennet, Fames Baugh, William Brown, John Martin, and john Morris (all belonging to the Sussex Militia, ...

... MERCURY OFF=E, SAruaDAY. EL:VEN O'CLOCK. TURKEY. C.oSTA OPFLE Dec. 29.-The bead of the Turkish Church is dead. Frequent Metiting3 of the Council have taken Place i; reference to the affairs in Servia, which cause uneasiness to the Ministry. The Presse ?? states that instructioni have been despatched to Kabuli Effendi, and a circular note to the Turkish ambassadors abroati. Tirn revenue returns ...

... Boxes Close. l - 'Del'vory Generaieev'lpo jln Edfln. P. Office SosslLil.ILeithL MALejtls Aberd'n, Dundee, Pertb,} 5 45A. 10 OF 10 OF 6 40A Stirling, Afloa, .5c . a 7 20P 7 OP 7 Or 6S Op Berwick and E. of England, I1 OP 11 OP IO O 6 40A Berwick, Dunbar, llad-) dington, &c., E. of Eng- S15P 4 SOP 4 SOP 3 OP la nd. .. ?? Carlisle, Liverpool, M~n~4O ~ 0 O chester, W. &S.of.ng 47 202 7 1Or 7 I s 10 ...

... THE LUVINGSTONE. EXPEDITION. I (WRox THE CAr'E ARGUS.) Last week letters were received htere from Dr Livingstone and other members of the exploring ex- pedition to the Zambezi River. The news they contain of the progress of the expedition is alike important and interesting. They bad reached Tete, where a supply of coals for the steam-lanach was obtained, the first ever taken oat of the earth ...

... 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/ ...