... A SPCA ~eIGo h onCuclwas held on Wed- 131 a -FIESI~q ALO-he ou Ballesth Dean of Guild, tio k h iyTesrrMsr ilas Sh~epherd, cia o rikhnGrdn edroG Jamieson, Be. - and J. Jameson. lid Tar PROPOSED NEW POST OFFICE. 8~Mr-ANGUS read tiss reply of the Council to communics.- 8 tion froni Mr Abbott, Secretary of the General Post Office, Li Edinburgh (with resolution of the Council), as a.-reed to he a ...

... It. ATErPRS oil the Continent have assumed a pacific N it aspect for ten days past. The resignation of Prince v Y' Napoleon, and the manifesto which preceded that step, a a did much to calm the apprehensions among politicians d - and public men, both in France and elsewhere. The t ISBourse likewise showed the good effects of the change c in the Imperial Councils, while, at the sanle time, ...

... FORMIARTINE AND BUCHAN RAILWAY. AN ordinary general meeting of the Shareholders of this 70 Company was alo held in the Board Room yesterday-Mr I Stewait in the chair. The CHAOIeMAN said, as it had been thounht unnecessary er to have a printed report, lie should read an abstraet of the charge and discharge up to this date. It was as follows CAPITAL ACCOUNT. Dr. To Prelieniary and Parliamentary ...

... FRANCE. C PARIS, Sept. 24.-The King of the Belgians was to leave Biar- ritz lest nig t for Geneva, via Marseilles, where, it is said, be l will confer with eeveral important pereonages. It is suppoede t joureyDf his Majesty isin some wyconnected wt ai Terpr ftefonaino igo of Central Italy 'O undr he ul o th CuntofFlndes asbeen positively de- P' PARIS, Thuirsdasy.-There has boon no important ...

... PUBLIC HOUSE COMBSSION. THE Commission on the Forbes Mackenzie Aet met hern on Monday, in the Mechanics' Hall. Mr Sheriff Monteith . presided ; and the other Commissioners present were-Pro- fessor Swinton, Mr M'Geachy, Mr M'Lean, and Mr Leslie of Warthill. COUNTY OF ABERDEEN. Mr Thomson of Banchory examined-I am Convener of of the County of Aberdeen, and have been so about 2i years. v I have ...

... BOY8' AND GIRL' 1)SP.ITAL, eA 8BpEiA meeting of the Trustees of this InstitutiOn w5: held on Tiursdiy, to consider the BReport of the Committea on the Rules; and also to deliberatejand deterline on ;tho W tmotion of which notioe had been given by Ur Reid, that at Page 5, Section 6. Rile No. 1, viz. .- Candidates for the Ed of fice of Teacher in tfie Boys' or Girls' Hospitun iriust be un- ...

... L ATE:ST NEWS. BY ELECTRIC TELERAP fh. h' : BERLIN, Tucsday.-ThePrnssianc Gazettestatesiteelfauthlrised tt .to declare that the communication of the correspondent of the ac Yord, respecting a letter alleged to have been written by the fth Prince oegont to tile Eiiperoi Napoleon, on tae chataeter of bc themobilizationof the 6thcorp a.'armce, is entirelyan invention vi SARDINIA. - King Victor ...

... PHiILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. , - . . I I f . - Igr ~ ~ ~~~V. O',P.ii1 hs e tails which I have thoght it rquiisitl opitott o on the gf/cfleral hargso 'llosophi and science. It is 0 vat m ran B t at o hould unlrtndtese; ando I ft~ have some notion, if'you have fairly gvnyu Ind to of! what I have already addressed to you, that you distinctly jeS compreleend. what plHosophY and scie;nce respectively ...

... ELECTION FOR THE ELGIN DISTRICT OF BURGES. AM1 GRANT DUFF ATS PETR~UEHAD. Si ON Wednesday evening, M1. E. G. Duff, Esq., M.P. for the in u Elgin District of Barghs, addressed a meeting of his crrnsti- with tuents in tihe Pavilion, Broad Place. There was a fair at- and tendanCe on thle occasion, Somewhere near two-thirds of M~l those present being non-electors, .of tli On the motion of G. G. ...

... . . WE are very sure few will see much to find fault with in the spirit of Christian liberality v wch characterised the closing discussions in the GeneralAssembly-viz., on the abolitionof the anel-Popery Committee, the question of Chapels of Ease occupied by the Free Church, and the labours of the Home Mission among the humbler portion of the community. It is not long since clergy- men would ...

... TIlE REFORM DEBATE ent TosE issue of this great debate is known by this time o Ids over the whole length and breadth of the kingdom; c is but how different is the interest which it has excited a of from that which followed all the turns of the great il re- Reform Bill ! Indeed, the public in this part of the V the country seem to take no very warm concern in the h the matter. This cannot be ...

... l: - -j f Tun opinions expressed in the British Parliament were . scarcely uttered when a Pamphlet made its appearance in Paris which was calculated to increase still more the apprehensions of war. This publication is 'all but avowedly from the pen of the Emperor himself, and is . an exposition of the principles on which he seems dis- posed to assume the position of the champion of Itaian E ...