... PAYMENT TO EDINBURGH FROM TEE REVENUES OF LEITH PORT. The following is the historical statement of the Lord Provost oti this subject, promised in our last:- The LORD PROVOST said that some discussion hav- ing recently taken place in the newspapers, and also at the Town Council ofLejli, in regard to the annual payment made to Edinburgh by the Leith Deck Com- missioners, if had been suggested to ...

... Iqfdttal ~~alet HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIhAY. The House met at 5 o'clock. The Royal Assent was given by commission to the Consolidated Fund Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Enclosures Bill, the County Court Bill, and the Burial-Places Bill. THE IONIAN ISLANDS. The Earl of DERBY, in reply to Earl St Germains, stated that he never, while referring to the subject of the Ilonian Islands ...

... ,vAwl aab xLUiarg. rnteligentem WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, March 1. 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Captain Thos. Nisbet to be Major, by pur., vice Paynter, who re- tires; Lieutenant Arthur James P. Wadman to be Captiin, by per., vice Nisbet; Cornet Guy Webster to be Lieutenant, by pur., vice Wadman. 2d Dra- goon Guards-Lieutenant Silvester Calvert to be Captain, without pur., vice Bridgeman, ...

... Yesterday, a meeting of the Quarter Sessions and Commissioners of Supply for the county of Edinburgh was held in the County Buildings-Mr Trotter of Mortonball, presiding. A letter was read from Mr Walpole, secretary to the Lord Advocatc, in answer to a memorial from the county of Edinburgh, stating that his Lordship bad the question of vagrancy under consideration with the view of introducing ...

... AGENT S. Aberdeen .-A. & RI. Miles Haddington.-J, 32.L. Do. -L. & J. Smith. Do. _G. ., Do. -D. Wyllie & Soc. Hawick -R. 2 Aberlady .-U.r F. Aitchell. Do. ?? lai Alto , ?? Lothian. Inveresk --J, J~fl. Do. N N. Morison. ;tnverkeithg:li-s ;.l; tell. Do. W. Wingate. Jedburgh . ?? ?? Arbroath .-James Smith. Do. ?? - Do. -G. Sutherland. Kelso _ Ja j.- L.,xr:e Auchterarder.Mr Laurence. Do. J, P ...

... MALILS. * Aberdeen. . n. Do. (On Sundays at 4P.s + Bervick ?? * Do. CInclud'g 1N. E. Di- Do. j vision of Engl'd. Dalseith, Peebles, &c. Dublin & S. of Ireland Dumfrles H. Do. Dunbar * Do. ?? ?? * Do. ?? Do. Dunfermline . * Do, ?? Fife, ?? D ?? Glasgow. * ?? * Do. ?? * Do. ?? Hawicl . * Do. ?? Inverness . * ?? * Ireland (North of) Local Poots . . . . . ?? Inclu'g L'pool, London Manchester, ...

... jurap Intaliplut. THE PR11KCIPALITIES. The new Hospodar of the United Danubian Prin- cipalities is carrying things with a high band. He has met the menacing preparations of Turkey, which is forming an army against him, by calling out -the national militia, 70,000 strong, a force numerically double that which the Sultan can bring down to the eDanube, and stronger still in the enthusiasm of the ...

... THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN WHO EVER SAW A GALVANO-ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, Dr Hamel, of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg (and the oldest corresponding mem- her of the Society of Arts in London), has communi- cated to the Academy some results of his researches relative to the first development of galvanic and elec- tro-magnetic telegraphy. Among other interesting facts, he shows that the ...

... SLECOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, TIESDAY, ELEVEN OIYCLOM Ma GkD5smrEt is expected in London to-day. Iba Bombay letters of 9th February hare arrived. rS.AND PaL, the bankers, are to be libe- catod in October. STOPPAGE OF TELnGRP~rc CoUttcNxoAT1O BE- cwast MALTA AND CAGLAI-Another interruption has been reported in the submarine communication between Malta and Cagliari. The nature of the faalt is ...

... EDINBLRGH, PERTH AND DUNDEt RAILWAY. T'he half-yearly ordinary general meating of the shareholders of this Railway, was held 3esterday - the salorn of M'Giegor's Royal Hotel, Mr Joah Balfour, Chairman of the Company, presiding. Tue ClHAttiRAN, in moving the adoption of the report, after referring to various details connected with the capital account, proceeded to say in refer. ence to the ...

... S'Dr-tigT btaligelut. -4-- I I PRANCE. r.l Pae oaiwces the opinion that ithe hopes F -11nY now be regarded as having assumed a -Lcosdsccnoy, nblt in its Bourse article it observes utt Sa ma ny people doubt the official acceptance of .Aucnfa, aend persist in regarding the present phase ?? r edna as noerely a proof of the desire of dinlo- MIZ IC o maintain peace, but not as any evidence ?? s ...

... A meetinx of Quarter Sessions and Cotatmissioners of Supply of the county of Haddington was leld in the County Hall, Haddington, ?? Robert Houston, convener of the county, presidirg. THE LATE LORD IYADDONGTON. Ti--e CHA.r11rAN said that before proceeding to the regula; business, he wished to move that the Corne missioners place on their records the deep rege- e wi which they regard the death ...