... More than half a century ago our city was the field of frequent contentions between the Hut- tonians and Wernerians; and Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags, the Castle Rock, and Calton Hill, formed the standing texts for many an animated and eloquent lecture. The matters then in dispute have been long since settled, and common consent now ascribes the formation of the earth's crust partly to fire ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRA MS.1 HAVANNAiT, April G.-Juarez has ordered Ge- TO nerals Pinzon, Galvez, and Negrete to be skot. tb The Spanish Governmcnt are about to send a re- inforcement of 4000 soldiers to Havannah as a precautionary measure. ITALY. GENOA, May 4.-At the anniversary of Gari- baldi's expellition the populationi generally, in- ( eluding the Carabineers and the Workmen's As' be sociation ...

... BY EL ECT[I [C TELEGRA PH. ?Illlptrial V-'arlialnelit. HOUSE OF LOBDS-Tqa;RsDAY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. REGISTER OF' VOTFRS BILL. The House went into committee on the Register of Voters Bill. On Clause 1, which authorises the Court of Quarter Sessions in counties, and the lonal anthn. rities in cities and boroughs, to require an alpha- betical list of voters to be prepared, The ...

... It is said that our own Cabinet and that of Spain have agreed to approve of the condact of their Plenipotentiaries in Mexico. It is added that the latter has been invited to de- clare the Convention of London null and void. The long-talked-of and long-looked-forward- to Consistory was held in Rome on Thursday, when the canonisation of the Japanese martyrs was unanimously agreed to. The ...

... GUIDE TO OBJECTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST : . ,4 IN ANOiNEAR EDINBURGH. b . SOjiE5' LIBRARY, Parliament House -Open ' daily to theb public, free. ANtIQUARIAN MUSEUSI, Royal Institution, Mound- Olien free, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, from 10 to 4 ; and on Saturday evenings from 7 to 9. On Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 to 4 ; admission, Od. AorIOCULTUIIAL MUSEUM, George IV. Bridge-Open ...

... HERIOT'S HOSPITAL AND THE EDUCA- TION BILL. A meeting of the Governors of Heriot's Hos- pital was held ?? Blackadder pro. siding. THP OUT-DOOR SCHOOLS. A motion by Councillor A1aXANDEu-'1That IS it be remitted to Messrs Lorimer, M'Gibb on, and Falshaw, alongwith Mr Chesser, the Sup erintend- ft ent of Works, to examine and report upon the a state of repair of all the out-door sch'jols-was, S ...

... The other night, General Vandenburg of Newf York, who has been engaged for some time in this country with experiments in gunnery, made public the results in. a lecture before the Royal United Service Institution. This result is a new system of artillery, by which a group or cluster of shot are projected, with the highest attainable range and precision to each, the group being such as to sweep ...

... (ERMANY AND THE BALTIC. [FRtoM oUVR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMBURG, May 26, 1862.-The 1 National Verein party of Germany, of whom there are a great many in this city, are not by any means pleased with the speech of Prince Hohen- lo0e at the opening of the Prussian Parlia- ment. The feeling is vary general that, although there is every wish to pay the greatest deference personally to the King, ...

... THE FIGHT WTTH THE REBELS NEAR MING-HONG. (P osI TUE NORTH CHINA Ht3BALD.) Oln Thursday, the 27th of February, Admiral t] Sir James Hope, ?? Commander-in.Chief Of n1 the Nasal Forces in China, proceeded np the rt Wongpoo River above Shanghai in her AMijestys G steam tender Coromandel, with a detachmltent of tb Royal Marines from her Majesty's shilp Impe- n rieuse, under Captain Holland, for ...

... (CommUtNIOATED.] no A meeting of the committee, appointed at the ne Public meeting of last week, was held yesterday theho -Mr William Duncan, the convener, in the ?? chair. cific The CHTAIRMAN said he had to apologise for Althc having called the meeting on the notice of an some hour or two, but it was only that forenoon be watio had ascertained that the Lord Advocate intended sions to leave ...

... SCOTCH PRIVATE BILLS IN PALU'.1AM-,ST. (.E'rORTED YOn rl;i. cxiL 'Z '8i.1 1iA.) OFe be ThEWEl,1'lUERGII V: :!L( [.;W lkdW ?? ;iLI,, ;g HOUSE (o1 ('orMeO>N, Frid1ay Eveslcag. van The cosmnittee n.et to-day at en o' in -tiVn Mlr Mowbray in the chair-ad(t pr.ccn@,letl wii cocl the evidence agailst the BilL. be Couasel hbavinrg hel) eu eavi , The roon i les~ni, aud thIC ColflliltG'W' ?? 1 the ...

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