... (FROM THE DAILY NEWS.) The prospectus of the expected Portuguese cl Loan was issued on Saturday evening. It is for pi £5,000,000 stockin Three perCent. Bonds. The vs price of issue is 44 per cent, with dividend from tl the 1st instant. Five per cent. is to be paid on application, 5 per cent. more on allotment, and E the remaining payments are arranged in easy in- o stalments so as to extend ...

... We have been favoured with the following passage, from a letter addressed by a gentleman in Dunedin, Otago, to a friend at Blyth Bridge. It is dated May 14 :- The city, as it is called, is built at the head of an arm of the sea, nine miles from Port Chalmers. Being bailt on a rising ground sloping up from the shore, itpresentsa picturesque appearance from the bay. The population in ...

... .rk eviduot vost-offirt. Boxnsa CLo81. MAnLS. Delivered G a 'ral I6eV'Bg p n Ir P.O. Housea Leiti- lis 'Aberdetn ..o 10 . Or l Do.(OnSundaysat4v..) O 741 7 4 -Berwtelt.7. . '.S.10 OF,10 ll S1, *Do. Includg N.iS DI- I Pt 1 tlI I ° - Der vision ?? 51.i a ai, s 7404 Dalkeilb, &C. . 1 at It .1 1 ' 12 Itrto Do (ontSundayat7 15 a u) 7 i5A 10 Or to 7 404 * 'b1 1ito & b. ol Ireland . 41 ., , Or 40, Do ...

... A telegram notices the departure froni certain towns in Italy of several bodies of young men for Genoa, thence it is believed, for Palermo. The Patie throws some light on this by assert. ing that Garibaldi has resolved to disembark with 6000 men on the Roeman coast. To prevent this, the naval authorities at Toulon are ordered to send six war steamers to cruise between Civita Vecchia and ...

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... iCt, EI)ONINTL AI ERCURY. 0EONT0D EDITION. TI'i'lt':S~tu, Elevoti o'elo 1I. FIZaAN'E. :ta c(iuitts of thu ?? are more. favour. 1.V(; Y1PT. A i UX 'ie to tS ree'i vi t' fro r ],a nge, j 'lilli W0'1,8 i, iitiille to 1ho ?? OIL T;ho biclwikltvr at Port Said, Which 0 ?? i kl: 'ii'i 'Illtivs, is Inow eomillletedl, allil . to ?? tgliitl ecal-ous ?? all ?? Tit- ~ti~ivs :;lodlg tll. lihiereot ...

... omerit Ntilliollit. The Speaker gave his annual dinner to the clerks and principal officers of the House of Com- mons on Wednesday evening. At a meeting of the Hartley Relief Committee, st held at Newcastle on Wednesday, it was stated m that the total amount paid to audit was £79,750, and a balance of £15,025 still remaining in the hands of the treasurer. An order for the invest- ment of a ...

... PE'RISHABLE STONE. To the eye and to the touch, writes the ('Uty Press, stone suggests the idea of imperishability, and though marble, sandstone, granite, have their several peculiarities of susceptibility to de- cay, the fact is certain that there is no stone so hard or so homogeneous in its character but the tooth of time will sooner or later pierce it, and the unrelenting lingers of the ...

... LOED PALMERSTON ON CANADA. The following is the speech of Lord Palmerston tsupplementary to telegraph) made on Friday f, aight, during the debate on the defences of t} Canada:- cl Lord PALHERSTON-I agree rather with the 0 right hon. gentleman who has just spoken than T Writh the right hon gentleman the member for t( ?? Staffordshire in the view which he takes 5' with respect to the connection ...

... Orlierall PttIligelict.. The Grand Jury have returned a true bill against William Herdiman, for the wilful mur- der of the late John Herdman, of Belfast. It is announced that M. Louis Venillot, the doughty Ultramontanist champion, is about to marry a great Iady-the Marquise de Champayne. The Chevalier da Silva Cabral, Secretary of the tioT Portuguese Legation, has just left Paris ?? Bill to ...

... OAfEDON1AN MERCURY. 3 00ND EDITION. MgltRcuY OPFP101E, FfiuAvy, Eleven o'clojk, Tae House of Comn' ns sat till three o'clock this n rniu3, in cnsequ-nce of the warm contest on the night Poachiag Bill. There were nine div isions, The Ministerial W;hitehait Dinner will take place o Welnedt iy next, aa l Parliauiant will pro- bl be proro)gted on Tttes3:ay, August 5. SUEZ CANAL-The Times thinks it ...

... DESTRUCTIVEflIRE IN MONTROSE. On Friday afternoon, shortly before six o'clock, a fire broke outin Balic Street, Montrose, in premises occupied as a saw-mill, joiners' work- shop, and wvood.yard, by Mr.Charles Brand, il-a- way contractor. Only three men were in the place at the time, the others being employed at the Links on the erection of the grand stand and other things necessary for the ...