... yettm to? fig ebitor. THE NEW HOTEL IN PRINCES STREET. Sia,--We request you will correct a mistake you have male in your notice of the new hotel, Princes Street, in your paper of to-day, in which you state our lease expires next year ; and as, in all the circum- stances of the case, an erroneous impression may thereby be made on the public mind, we beg to inform you that our Ilase does not ...

... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOLDIERW INSTIT UT ES. (2rorN THE MONTREAL GAZETTE,.) Letter -rom Florence Nightingale to Lieutoant- Colonel George Wentwortih Higginsoi, Ciief e£ the Staff-Office, Montreal:- L Iondon, May 12, 1862. Dear Sir-MVost glad am I to hear that yoc have begun. a 'Soldliers' Institute ' in Canada. Weare aworking in the sure direction in Englaml, and hoped soon to have either ...

... At last the direct trade between Liverpool and New Orleans has been re-openied, and the pioneer vessel, tahe Antoinette, a flue ship of 800 tons, sailed from the Mersey on Wednesday evening for New Orlcans-the nily clearance within the past eighteen months, The Antoinette had on board a full cargo of salt. She will be succeeded by the Polestar andl other first-class vessels, so that ere long ...

... AD[ERICL THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. (By SPECIAL EXPRESS.) daym WASHINGTON, May 26. da To tite Senate and Ho0use of Representatives- o The insurrection which is yet existing in the milc United States, annd aims at the overthrow of the rece Federal Constitution and the Union, was elandes- men tinely prepared during the winter of 1860 and men 1861, and assumed an open organisation in ...

... INTERNATIONAL EXHIBIIION.-The five shilling r day is to be transferred from Saturday to Wed- o nesday, and Saturday for the present will be a 2 half-crown day; but when the fashionable season has passed away it will doubtless become a shil- ling day. THE Vicznoy or FGYPT.-The Viceroy of Egypt was seized with sudden indisposition on . Wednesday, while leavin3 his yacht and proceed- ing to the ...

... (FRONI THE ATIIENXU01.) One of those long anld picturesque torchlight funerals, which ale so str king to a stranger's eye, as they wind up to the new extramural burial-ground of Florence, among the olives and cypreises of the steep hill of Sanl Maniato, issued from the Duomo a few evenings ago, and took its way at the Ave Maria towvards the Porta Sau IN icolo, followed by a great concourse of ...

... ?? touWt. WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNs 16, Her Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, walked in tha grounds this morning. TUE EDINBUR(H, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1862. TVO u RiRtE PNDENTS. All communications addressed to the Editor should be brief, legibly written, and only on one side of the paper. go notice can be taken of anonymous communications, Whatever is ...

... Early in the afternoon of the 28th ult., a great land-slip took place on the coast between Lyme- Regis and Charmouth. Several men and boys were at work in gardens on and near the spot, and one boy escaped with his life by jumping over the cracks as they opened under him, as in an earthquake. A woman who was near at the time was so terrified that she threw herself flat upon the ground. Her ...

... A Paris letter, in the Journal de Bouen, says: -The report is now in circulation that within a few days after the arrival of the Marquis de Lavalette at Rome, the French Government will forward to its representative a series of proposi- tions to be submitted to the Holy See; they would have for primary object the political and administrative reorganisation of the Pontifical States. ...

... GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIAN PAR. LIAMENT. In the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, on the 3d June, the following letter was read from Gari. baldi to his colleagues in Parliament and their President Terchia, with reference to the recent arrests in Lombardy, and the transactions that had preceded them. Ratazzi immediately de- nied all that the General asserted with regard to the promises he had made ...

... THE EDINBURGH, PERtTH, AND DUNDEE ] RAILWAY. A special general mueeting of the Edilnburgh, rerth, and Dundee Railway was held yesterday in the Company's Head Office, 9 Princes Strlet, for the consideration an4 approval of the folloW - ing Bills iowv pendling in Paliamnent, namnely- first, An Act for Amnalgamnating the North British Railwavy alid the Edinbuvrghi, P'erth, an4 Dttud e Railway, ...

... The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, according to a telegram from Warsaw, is to be appointed as Viceroy of Poland. The names of certain others of his Administration are given. The news, it is added, has met a most favourable reception throughout the kingdom. The Shrewsbury election resulted yesterday in favour of Mr Robertson, Liberal. The other candidates were Mr Oakley, Conservative, and Mr ...