... Mbrcury Is now pnbllrhed and EXTBNsrvs Premises tho School lami and overlooking Olmrch-streot. ...

... lurlng the discussions on the Repeal of the Paper Duty last year wve sated, incanticipation of the very natural answer to our argurment3;if ?? of the change, that wre w~ere interested Dadvocates of the measure, that we should be preparedhen the Act took effect to give the public the benefit of the remission of duty. How far the repeal of the Excise may be neutralised by the Increased demand ...

... MI8CEtt-ANE V- !TnE HARvR8T IN 'EcoTLueD.-A. 'oswpondenot of the foerth Britsh matt writes - The best crop Iu ioatland this year, I think, Wil 'ba oats, aud it will exceed an average. Beans a nd potatoes are - generally blesahed, though I observed many excellent fields oE turnips. A great deal of hay everywhere is unseoured, and consider- able portions are atill in the hand coil, It Ismuah ...

... MALT.-The number of bushels of malt charged with duty in the year ending 31st March, 1861, was 37,368,716; being 7.196,32f less than In the preceeding year. Expoiras or BRIlISH AND IRSHn SPIRITS.-The number of gallons of British and Irish spirits exported from the United Kingdom in the year ending 31st March, 1861, was 2,15,031, compared with 2,054,2;34 gallons in 1860. The exports in 1861 ...

... LiFE .EALTH, AND MORALS IN THE :. MIDLANDS , . I Amidst the, lamentatioi s of Beigraviaa mamina over the increasinig difficulty of g husbande for tbeir daugbtevs, and the ohorns of like complalats theft is heard on every hand from the oisa ibelow them, ib ie gratifying t6 learn, from 'the anngalf'blue-book of 6ta Registrar Generali -that th' rati- ?? marriages to po'pulation in 1859' bas ...

... POp- THE opening meeting of the National Association for thei Promotion of Social Science was held an Wednesday in the a ninat- King's Room, Mansion House, which was occupied by moin - irner, bers, assosiates and other friends of the Society, to the ,, arner, number of nearly 2000. His Excellency the Lord-Lieuten- n the ant the Duke of Wellington, several other Peers, and liti hr persons ...

... I il re- - -e from Ardgour . W. Wells, Esq. :cep- Arldverikie . Lord Henrv Bontinck. f his Aviemoir .. John Philips, Esq. fet lie of Anchanault .. Colonel Hicks. it Balmacaan Earl of Seafdeld. fre ebel- Ballogie J. D. Nicol. Esa,, and party. it Blairidmy ..,.,Messrs Caldwell and Newell. th b Rirkhall John Clark, Esq. ...

... BY; ELECTRIC TlELEGRAP.e; [REUTE3R'S T ELEGRAMS.]a 'FRANCE. .'adns PARIS, Tutesday.-2The Patrie comments in not I very measured language upon the fact of the Eng- Ant lish ship Exmouth having landed her nnarines at ilS Castellam are, where, by permission of the Gover. all 1 nor, they went through their evolutions. ce PARIS, Augast 20.-Tlie Pay1s of this evening o says :-Tl e report published ...

... ; By the, Arabiawre have very little news ofin idr .portance beyond thie iten's already 'telegraphed. 'tr ,From a Washlington despateb, in the Nfew York' I' ,IHerald, we take the following: AGfi1,EMEiNT SETWEEN CENEFRAL 5'CLELLAN'AND 'P1 . ''THE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.' Mi The: represeiitatives of the newspaper'Press at .Washin gton'' recently held 'a conshitation with Maj orxGen'eral ...

... GBRAT WRSTERN RAILAIVAY The half-yearly general meeting of the abare- holders ins this company war held at the Paiddingtorc Station Thereprt nd esonts whch aveiready easpeere The ~tesiu inthe arler prtin of the r-eport, aillusion was wade to the redueed dvidend which the, board unfortunately felt it to he their duty to be obliged to re- commnsid, and it was hut niaturail that the proprietors ...

... TliE FLAX CROP OF iJ8f1. WEt hove received from the Regisirar-General a re- turn, which will be round elsewhere in our columns, and which shows the ektent of ground under flax in Ireland in 1860 and 18;1. It is pleasant to find that everywhere in Ulster, cxcept in Donegad, there is an increased acrcage, and the total increase in Ulster for the year is no less than 19,6ti2 acres. The crop, too ...

... LATEST NEWS, NEIKS-LETTER OFFICJ-, Thursday Morning. [BY MAGNETIC TELEGLIAPH.] YESTERDAY'S .{)ESPATCH-IES. THE AFFAIRS OF TURIKEY. The fall of the Ministry of Finance is expected very shortly. A change has been ordered in the unifbrm of military officers, Important army reforms are in progress. The arrears of the garrison at the capital are about to be paid in cairnes. A commission has been ...