... forfign zntteizgaeve. SARDINIA. _ The Opinione and Indipendente of Turin both state from Piacenza that the Austrians are actively engaged in fortifying both banks of the Po at that place. We to get nothing from Italy but a repetition of the accounts of warlike preparations on the part of Austria, as well in as Piedmont. Every day seems to add to the chances C- of war. The Vienna Cabinet has ...

... LIVERPOOL, Thursday.-The screw steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, which left New York on the 12th inst., has arrived, bring- ing 155 passengers, 184,202 dollars in specie, and the Udnited States mail. On the 14th she passed the City of Washington for New Yorik. The steamer Arabia arrived at Boston on the 11th, and the North Briton reached Portland the same day, both for Liverpool. The ...

... 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 ...

... TIME OF TRAIMS LAVING ED =B a P UNDERMENTIONED P'LACE FEBRUARYX 186%9 % The abbreviationa within Parentliesla-.(Cal.), SC, G.), (N. B.). (E. P. and D.)-uignify Caledonebe,S(.tms Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, NorthB~te Edinburgh, Perth, and. Dandee Railway s h rpety~lo and intimate that the tralrns start from t these railways in Edinbarith at the hours aeermlimS Aberdeen, (S. C.), 6 30, 9 A~m ...

... The annual festival of the Hospital for Siek Chil- dren in, Great Ormond Street was held the other day, at Willis- Rooms, when about b00, gentlemen sat down to dinner, under the presidency of the Earl of Carlisle. The-noble Chairman, in proposing Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children, said that the mor- tality of children under 10 years of age in the me- tropolis had only decreased by ...

... The latest intelligence from the Continent is the of a more peaceful character; several of the Paris sig correspondents of the London journals, notwith- we standing, are still warlike in tone, and ready to thc believe in the breaking out of hostilities at an pO early date. sol lat By the Magdalena, just arrived with the West ste Indian mails, we have the announcement of the .capture of a ...

... The Times' Paris correspondent ?? friends of Prince Napoleon believe his retirement from the Ministry to be only temporary. The writer remarks that if this be true, M. Walewski's tenure of office will be very brief indeed. The Nord distinctly asserts that, as negotiations are pending, the Emperor Napoleon consented to the insertion of the recent article in the Moaiteur to show his difficulties ...

... Oar readers have already been made aware that this National Institution is to be made available to the public on an after Tuesday next, and we are Sappy to be able to inform them that the pictures which have been brought together as the nucleus of the gallery, are in every respect wortlay of the metopolis of Scotland. The accommodation provided for rho collection consists of a suite of ...

... 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 ...

... ffrrts it £ t . DEEP-SEA FISHING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALBDONIAN MERCURY. SIR,-Great Britain being a nation depending so much for safety on its maritime strength, every- thing tending to train up youth to be active able sea- men, should be the Government's special care. When I was a boy (which wras before the time of steam- boats or railway lines), the sloops, schooners, and brigs employed on ...