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... .? ru 0 W.60 q aide I - I . - - 1? i THE SCO29SMiAN'S SLIGHT EXOEP- a n ' : .- TION.. d TO THE RDITOP OF THE CALEDONIAN NECUROURt. SIB,-I have nothing to- do directly either n with the Annuity-tax or the representation of t Edinburgh, and perhaps I have no business to be writing you this note :; but like a good many t] quiet people living in the country, I take ani amazing.interest iu your ...

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... LTY .roTh TOlrGA : ; [BuEV'r TELEGt aAWS9] * j , F4ANOE. . ; ' PARI3, Monday Eveniog.'-The report that: ,* ome Governments have recently taken collec- ,tiv B steps at Paris in reference to the question of.Gaeta is withoutkfoundation. Russia has made complaints hore. on account oft the revolutionary agitation iD the Prinoi- paities.'\ -- Prince C6pua has offered to, Austria certaia gttarantees ...

... Pantalo \ flarleqzuh, _ iaR AL ioijv. .. Columbine, .MDLLE. ARLINE. There will be FOUR GRAND MORNING PER- FORMANCES, viz.-TUESDAY, lbt January 1861; WEDNRESDAY, 2d January; THURSDAY, 3d Jana- ary, and SATURDAY, 5th January. Doors open at Half-past Twelve; Pantbmime coMamecing at OLe. - NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Mr WYNDIHAM begs respectfully to announce tbqt no Second Price 6an be taken or Places ...

... THE OAPTURTl AND TREATMENT OF MR CONSUL PARKES BY THE CINESE. We make the subjoined extracts from the very fall and interesting rarriveiopf his carl- tivity drawn up by Mir ConsuF Parkes, and transmitted home by Lord Elgin:- - CiaCoMSTANCES OF TRECAPTURI. We had just passed Chan-kea-wau, and were hoping to be clear in ten minutes of the Chinese lines, when a fire of Chinese artillery opened ...

... I. guilta, Zralf Natipto., The following are the Railway Receipts for the past Week:- 1860. 1859. Belfast nnd Northern Counties' -' £1,443 £1,184 liifsht and County Down - . 646 608 Birkenhead, Lance, and Chie. Junn. 2,541 2,336 vlyth an d Tyn a 1,460 1,115 Bristol and Exeter . * 5 6,673 6,039 Caledonlan * . . .d 16,940 14,894 Cork and Bandon - * 352 812 Cork, Blackoc, and Passage - 1a 20 ...

... 'r, .. _ _ 7.- -Z;~i,~ :~. - ~ - I - . 7 The annual tsee ing ofTthe- ,A4b= br nd friends of the United Tdn ustrisil'School in South :Gray's Close. was held yesterday. . Th l chair was 'occupied by Mr WaliaOs tam bers; and amongst those on the platfor 'were -Lord Mackenzie; Professor Pillans, Dr Woodford,- l Mr Wauchope of Edraoistone, Sheriff Ballard, Mr R. Campbell, 'Mr BR. C i,' W.S. ; Mr J, ...

... THE OtaIeninn :lcrcu. EDINBURGH, TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 186t TO COlRRESPONDENTS. AUl communications addressed to the Editor should be brief legibly written, and only on one sioe of the paper. We cannot undertake to return rcejeted eomsnsnications. l0o notice can be taken of anonymous communications. Whatever is intended for iscertlon must be anthenti- cated by the name and address of the writer; not ...

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... r: Our. : ~e ;.', Ellr.,gglun - Astir.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | t . , i -, ISLACK'S LOGIO,. 'Mr Adam Black, Ihave 'l6iig since decided, isno logician..- .Some people think that-;it-is the easiest- thing in th'e orld 't6' redson eor. reotly ;butr it is-uob., !Qn thebcontrary, 'the art of re~asoning is anedof -fthe-rarest ac'd6mphish-' .ments.' Ba3o0nknew thi, and it 'wasto6tepch. ...

... 'S C TH1? KING - A) F?RAI?9L?Th Whien Viictarni iuwass at'F1oreiiee !in the spri'n'gof i eayeliilj' Lto the ~rowg~ [i' ng of Snples jg i~tiiiitiviecdi bdviee, 'advis ing him*'l 'graint' aS. ntitfit^, +ad offerig him thie alliance off:IdlekrhtSP 'Heia is thi t'tedtjoU,'in'ItW1Ib'11d'i':f'r mee't4s[ point out,'the poltioql sikiX o ttfefixi'edi4 isince the great vnctories eF Mav~enti an' d:So- ...