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... elura xi. HUAIIIOLIT's LiItnARY.-The library of the late Baron de Humboldt, bequeathed by him to his old vllet, has been purchased for 40,000 thalers, the Vienna journals state, by Lord Bloomfield Amb sado of Englend at Berlin.IAbs SALE OF HORSES IN PaoSSL.-The horses pur- chased for the mobilisation of the Prussian army have been sold off in -Berlin and its environs, at prices far below what ...

... ?? fii-t-111-0. SCHIAMYL, ?? is putuing Ib 4o7use in ordor: ,at ia ga, ?? sent hi- Bo Uzi 4.horak ?? 'fetbb the remainider'of his ?? the Can- . casus. The warlilie Imsalaw has hat'n6 fewer tfiii bineteen' ?? 'wieh& wsere oD , the'ihedi. ?? , ; ,- Coiowa~ WILYORD, Aa~sistantboninfandant and Chief Indrnuio` of',te 6 ?? of Musketry 'aillythe; dediikedan' hite'rest'ing lectuare on Friday in' the ...

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... 6ourill ?Iltflliyllm CAPTAIN WARD, Son of the late Admiral Ward, SC] was killed on Tuesday ni~hi, by falling clown an area at Kengington. bet MR GEORGE P. BOND has been appointed Director by of the observatory at Cambridge, U.S., to succeed his As father, the late William C. Bond. Th THE Lords of the Admiralty have raised the wages tbc of the whole of the labourers employed in Chatham Ii ...

... FORFTH AND CLYDE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share-, holders of this company was held at Stirling yester. dav at noon-his Grace the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the company, presiding. The attend- ance was numerous. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, and the company's seal affixed to the register of shareholders, ; The CIAs.&ais proposed, and ...

... LIFEBOAT FOR ANSCH'RUTHER. A correspondent writing from Austrather thus allud es to the necessity of a lifeboat at that ?? are perhaps aware that this is the centre of a very ex- tensive deep-sea fishery: within two and ?? miles of coast we have a population of about 7000, the greater part of whom are fishermen, and their families. We have several harbours, but none of them can be taken at ...

... MERCURY OFFICE, MONDAY, ELaVa1X O'CLOcK. FRANCE. A Paris correspondent writes on Saturday that the officers of a division of the army of Paris were summoned on Friday to the quarters of their re- spective colonels, and informed that they were to hold themselves in readiness to march, as the division was to form part of the army about to enter on a campaign. The Government have in- quired as to ...

... THE BANQUET TO LOIRD DERBY. Though there was really little of importance in the speech of Lord Derby at the batiquet at Liverpool on Sa turday, the following passages serve to bring out more prominently than in our last publication three or four of the important features. The noble Earl thus described mo- dera Conservative principles us be understands them:- CONSERVATIVE PFIINCIPLES. It is ...

... INDIA AND CHINA. The Calcitti ?? the' 22d October, and those from ?? to the 13th Octoberhave been received - Admiral Hopebhas quite recovered. In Japan the Gorerner of K anagawa had been dismissed 'to appease 'the Russians, and it is asserted that ?? ot Siberia,; who was pre- Sent with twelve ships of war, has taken advan- tage of the .cpportunity to obtain the lower .por- tion of' the Island ...

... Following up his recent measures of re- straint upon those journals of France which have exhibited the strongest feelings of hos- tility towards this nation, it is reported that the Emperor Napoleon has charged Lord Cowley with a proposal to our Government for a simultaneous disarmament of France and England. If this be true, it must have the effect of demolishing all those prejudices about ...

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