... GENERA-L POST-OFFICE, EDEIBURG1I. Boxes Close. I4\ii MAILS. 'General Recelv'g p. O 1at P. Office. Houses. Leith. I Edin. *Aberdeen. . ?? Do. (On Sundays at7Or.)1 7 20r 7 Or 7 Or 10 I .r ?? .. . 7 20? 10 OP 170 OP Do. gee 6 1SOr 0 A 10 Or 11 P tt Inolud'g Do: I I i0P I OA Or 10 2sr Do I .72P..70 0° 00 Do. vision of Egl'd. Sr O 85 Dlikoint, Peebles, O.. 15iSA 10 Op 10 OP 9 OA Dublin & S. of ...

... ADuLTERATION Or FOOD D1IL.-Mr Scholefield, M.P., has revived his useful Bill a for Preventing the Adulteration of Articles of Food or Drink. It imposes a penalty of so many pounds (not yet fixed) on every person vending or exposing for sale any article of food or drink with which, to the knowledge of such person, any noxious ingre- dient has been mixed. More than this, the offender will be, ...

... TOWN AND COUNTRY TALIK A railway is projected for connecting the South-Eastern station at London bridge with the railways to the west of the metropolis. It will pass through the property of St Thomas's Hospital, close to the wards, so close, indeed, that the hospital will have to be removed from its present site. The shipment of horses for the continent is increasing. The Bishop of London has ...

... Dlering the two years' internecine struggle, which has cost us millious of pounds and torrents of blood, and has desolated so large a portion of our Indian empire, there has been a great difference discernible between the opinions of the Press of Bombay and that of Calcutta. The first has been always full of hope, and sanguine of speedyvseeress; the second, fearful of the present, and overcast ...

... (From the Globe.) The discussion in both Houses on the affair of the Charles et Georges esh6ws, at all eienits that the question is very de- bateahle. The Lords have had enough of it; but the Com- mons are to' continue the subject when, as Mr. Disraeli sar- castioally remarlked, they can find some convenient day- plain. indicating that her Majesty's Government have had enough of it, and ...

... | -PUBLIC DINNER TO AMR TURNER, M.P., IN | MANCHESTER.I A publie dinner was given to James Aspinall Turner, Esq.M.'TNLP., in the Free Trade Hall;'Manchester, on Friday eveningj; aq'ais acknowledgment of his eminent services to this. cbnstituency and to the country ; and also at this impbrtant juncture of political affairs, to show to the coun- try that those-who formed the majority at the ...

... (From Punch.) Another of those unfortunate collisions which arise from our gaine-preserving system has just taken place upon some land known as reform Field, part of the preserves long held and jealously kept by the family of the Oldwiggs, connected with the noble house of Bedford. One of the shrewdest and mnost vigilant of the Oldwigg keepers, a man namued Rustle, had, it seems, been watching ...

... (From the China Telegraph.) _ ?? Chinese army may be estimated at 1,500,000 men, in- 1 c huding the reserve. The purely Chinese element may be X counted among them for 600,000 or 700,000 men. The Mant- t chous, who are all compelled to serve in the army, are divided, into nine bodies. The Mongols do not supply more than 300,000 men. - A great review by torch-light took place pre- ( vious to ...

... CALDERBANK-LECTURE BY SHERIFEP I-- -1 I .STRT&THERN. in connectio evnnteseodo h series of lecture, p inconectin wth te ClderankandChapelhall Mission e ary Society, was delivered by Sheriff Strathern, Gla~gow, inl Th the New Schoolroom, Calderbank-the Rev. John Wilkie in e the chair. if Is Subject of lecture- Popular Superstitions and Wel. 'e sions. F rom the learned gentleman's well-known ...

... LAT1EST NEWS. ned HERALD OFFICE, WCScdledesdey Mo)nilg ion, _ BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. - ills, HOUSE OF LORDS-TUSD.A.Y. .e.e The LORD CliANCELLoR took his scat on the woolsack at, ierefive o'clock. 'ed Lord WODEH1OUSE, in nsoving the second reading of *rdo the Marriage Law Amendment Bill, stated at some length eki the grounds which were relied upon by the advocates of the hill for le.alising ...

... LATEST LiVERPOOL NEWS. tv-,A AWES Ia . .. (From our own Correspoudent.) Saturday, March 12. CHARGE OF MURDERINC A FlIRrr.aN ON BOARD THE BOGOTO (S.S. )-The furtherinvestigation into the case of John Buchanan, chief engineer and Archibald Mitchell, second engineer, oil board tee screw steamer Bogota, on her voyage from Rio to Liverpool, having been fixed for hearing to-day at twelve o'clock, ...

... HO-USE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 24. IONIAN ISLANDS.—Earl GREY having inquired when a copy of the commission under which Mr. Gladstone had undertaken his mission to the Ionian Islands would be laid .before Parliament, the Earl of Derby objected to the promulgation of a document which might, he remarked, provoke a premature debate upon the whole question, which was not yet ripe for discussion. ...