... I SECONI) EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, SATOiDxr, ELEVEN o'CLouK. F'RANCE AND AUSTRIA. (FrOM THE TIMES.) We have received the following alarming do- ateb from ocr correspondent at Vienna - VxEStA, Friday Evening.-The long-expected tsj at had. A corps of 50,000 men goes ctis City to Italy to-morrow and on follow- .D da)bs Another corps of 60,000 men is to be az6embled here. A reserve corps of 70,000 ...

... MERCURY OFFICE; MoNDAYi. ELrrN O'CLOG. SARDINIA. TurIN, SaturdSyr.-Today the Chambers met in special session, and invested the King with the power of a dictator. Ile will have the assistance of a Council possessin, the confidence of the Chambeis., INDIA AND CHINA. The India and China mails have arrived, with dates from Calcutta to 22d March; Madras, 29th ; and Hong-iKongt 12th. The Begam and ...

... THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN TFHE MID- I LAND COUNTIES OF ENGLAND. (WRITTEN FOR THE CALEDONIAN dERCIJr.) After a week of the most severe and wintry weather we have had this season, with a regular snow-storm I on Wednesday and sharp frost continuing for several days, it is again milder and more spring-like thaI ever. The frost on Thursday night has howevere| done considerable injury to the apricot ...

... The second performance of this exquisite musical festival took place in the Music Hail last night. It produced in every way a brilliant and a marked suc- cess, whicb augurs well for the concluding performance this morning. Before touching on the subject of the programme we cannot omit to notice, as wre somewhat ,naccountably did in our last, that the conducting de- partment of the series is in ...

... The Conference on the Principalities opened at Paris on Thursday. No specific information can at present be had as to the deliberations of the Plenipotentiaries ; scarcely a doubt, however, is entertained that the double election. of Couza will be sanctioned. There is no other intelligence of interest from the Continent, if we except a hostile order of the day, apparently of doubtful authen- ...

... MERCURY OFE.WE TuEsDAY. ELEVEN O'CwO. LORD DERBY ON THE AUSTRIAN ULTIMATUM. THE LORDI MAYOR'S DINNER. At the Lord Mayor's dinner, on Monday night, Lord DERBY ?? Lord-We bad not known for 12 hours the course which Austria had detet- mined upon taking before we instructed our Minister, in the name of England, emphatically and formally to protest against the step of Austria-(loud cheers). ...

... A G E N T S. Aberdeen ?? & R. Milne Haddington..J. Millen. Do. -L. & J. Smith. Do. -G. Smiles. Do. -.D. Wyllie&-Son. Hawvick ._R. Black. Aberlady ?? F. Mitchell. Do. __J. Dalgleials. Alloa _ J. Lothian. Inveresk ?? Gordon. Oo. _S. X. lorison. luverkeithgaiss CampbeLl. Do. --J. Wingate. Jedburgh ?? & W. Easter Arbroath ..Jsaies Smith. De. -T. Smail. Do. G. Sutherland. Itelso.___James Lawrne ...

... -. 3gmg~ti jarliament HOUSE (OF L.ORDS-MONDiT ArTuL 18. THE ITALA QUESTION Lord MAs.MESBURY called attention, at con- sid rable lengtb, to the state of affairs on the Conti- nent. His statement was nearly to the same purport as that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Cal mmone. Lord CLARENDON wished that Lord Blalmes- bury could have a more satisfactory statement pre- vious to, ...

... .1? On Monday Mr Fenwick reported from the Corn- Ec mittee on the Tweed Fishesries Bill that they bad agreed to the follow ing special report :- n That the evidence taken before the Committee, so L. far as it had reference thereto, is in confirmation of the report of the Committee on the Tweed Fisheries Bi Bill of session 1857. That since the Act of 1857, AS the destruction of salmon on their ...

... SEVONI) EDITION. MiERCURY OFFIIE, MONDAY. ELmvsy o'Loo. FRANCE. pARIS, Saturday Evening.-Preliminaries for oe Congress proceed with great tardiness. Austria is cot Jet satisfied, and demands that France, on the intervention of England, shall pledge herself to bring about the disarming of P~ied1mont. Sunday Eveniug.-M. Massimo ?? has set out for London. The state of affairs con- tinues ...

... At the recent Kilkenny assizes an action was brought by Mr William Kenealy, editor of the Kilkenny Journal, against Mr Durham Dunlop, editor of the BeZfast Mercury, for an allegcd libel published in the latter paper. The jury awarded a verdict of L.5 upon one of the issues, and found for the defendant upon the others. - Tue following por- tion of the cross-examination of the plaintiff, with ...

... I I At a meeting of the Hunterian Medical Society of the University held last night iu the Logic Class- ?? Gilchrist, president of the Society, in the spe ?? Struthers read an elaborate paper on the ldam method which, in his opinion, should be adopted for improving the present system of University education wai in Scotland. her Dr STrurnTa1s, after briefly noticing the different wit methods in ...