... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PARIS, Monday.-The Paris Conferences for the consideration of the affairs of the Principali- ties will not be re opened before the end of the month. The revision of the special treaties be- tween Austria and the Italian States, and the ex- amination of administrative reforms, will be excluded from the deliberation of the Congress. The Moniteur of yesterday morning says: Russia proposes a ...

... The follo wing is supplementary to the telegraph account of the speeches of Lord John Russell and Lord Stanley, given in our last:- Lord J. RUSSELL rose, in a crowdef house, to a propose the following amendment:- That this X House is of opinion that it is neither just nor politic to interfere, in the manner proposed in this. Bill, with & the freehold franchise as hitherto exercised in, the d ...

... AGEN T S. Aberdeen .-A. & R. Milnhe saddington..J. Miller. Do. ?? S, J. Smith. Do. -G. Snfilep. Do. -D. Wyllie & Soun. Hawick ?? Black. Aberlady .-Vr F. Mitchell. Do. ?? Daigleibt. Al103 J--. Lothian. inveresk --J. Gordon. Do. - S. N. Morison. Inverkeithg-iss Campbell. Do. _ J. Wingate. Jedburgh..-A. & EaW_,na Arbroath .-James Smith. Do. .T. Smail. Do. __G. Sutherlanld. Kelso..w-- J,u es ...

... The Critic, in its last number, has some further re-bi marks on this vexed question. It still maintains G that George Combs was the author of The Ves- w tiges ; the only evidence, however, that it furnishes d of the correctness of its assertion is, that a gentleman a] -understood to be Professor Owen-corrected cer- tl tain misstatements as to matters of fact in the first o edition of the ...

... SKCOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICK TUMODAT. ELEVNI OCtvc FRANCE. PAws, Mondqy.' The Paris ConferenCes for the consideration of the affairs of the Principali- ties will not be re opened before the end of the montb. TAe revision of the special treaties be- tween Austrisa and the italian States, and the ex- aminatioui of administrative reforms, will be ?? from the deliberation of the Congress. ...

... sordou FRANCE. Tie Siecle observes:- We entertain the firrm hope that a perspective of negotiations will neither check the vigilance nor efforts of France. We must pre- pare ourselves more than ever for war, since it can issue, quite as well as peace, from the deliberations of a Congress. We are on the eve of one of those solemn days which only appear at distant intervals in the existence of ...

... INSPFECTODSH1P OF ST CUTTHBERT'S. To THE EDITOR o0' t51 10ALEDONIAR MIERCURY, Edinburgh, 20 Comely Bank, 22d March 1859. Sxn,-As the annexed correspondence has ariset out of my application for a public situation, I will feel obliged by your inserting it in your colamns.-I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, JoEnv THOMSoN. Edinburgh, 20 Comely Bank, 14th March 1859., DzAn Ss,-Among the many ...

... 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 ...