... 1) I'Mttr ta tbt abitar. ?? :, BOTANIC GARDENS. SiR,-I have read Mr Alex. Stewart's letter in your impress on of to-day; and, with your leave, I beg to inform him that I never meant that lie personally was to move the amendment referred to. I spoke of him Pimply in his official capacity as secretary to that band of distinlluibhed citizens who are at present moving heaven and earth, not to ...

... TRIALS UNDER THE AMENDED PUBLIC- HOUSE ACT. IMrORTANT DECISION BY SHERIFF HALTARD. I Yesterday morning, at the Police Court, the 1 trial of club-keepers for contraventions of the ?? Act was resumed before Sheriff Hallard. P The case of Margaret Purvis, which had been 1 delayed till yesterday at the request of Mr Linton, was first called; and Mr Grant, who appeared for r her, ?? entering upon ...

... 'Raval Rely I'Viffarg. An officer on board her Majesty's ship Black Prince, in describing her passage out, says, in a letter dated the 8th inst. :- We left Portland on the morning of the 1st; on that and the two following days we were knocking about the Channel. On Saturday, the 4th, we encountered a heavy sea, and rolled considerably; but the weather was fine. This morning before break- fast ...

... The following items of intelligence will be most w acceptable to all who are interested in African w exploration :- News travels very slowly from gi the lake regions of Negroland. The latest com- munication received from the East African expe- T dition up to the 5th of September 1861, was a b note from Captain Speke, dated the 13th of si December 1 SGO, addressed to Lieutenant-Colonel st ...

... CALIEDONIAN MERCURY MERCURY OFFICE, THnUsDAY, Eleven o'clock. FRANCE. A Paris letter of Tuesday says, a report of Ge. neral Iorey's death -was current to-div. It is not knownv upon what authority, but it is under- stoo(l that the .news from Vera Cruz is deplo. raml,. The French soldiers are dying wholesale, anti the journals are forbidden to speak on the AMERICA. 'l 'e Tiu';rs' City Article ? ...

... The following are extracts from the paper# brought by the Arabia:- THE LOSSES BY THE LATE BATTLES. The following official report of the late battles, in Marylaud had been received in Washington from Gcneral MlClellan NEAR SHAEsBinBo, Sept. 29, 1.30 P.m., 1SG2, t Major-General H. W. Halh ck, Genesal-in-Chief of the United States Army. i General,-I have the honour to report the fol- lowing as ...

... The King of Italy yesterday signed a decree granting an amnesty to Garibaldi, and those who took part with him in the late events resulting in the affair of Aspromnnte. A Turin paper states that the Chamber of Deputies has been convoked for November, and that it is not true, as alleged in some quarters, that there is to be an immediate dissolution. It is reported that considerable ...

... !AZZINI'S ADDRESS TO THE ITALIANS. ,be following is the address in full by Mazzini to the Italians, to which reference has been. made with~in the last few days by the Continental ag TO THE TTALIAN5. w TeRoyal bullet that wounded Garibaldi has bu ?? lnof the contract entered into by. W 15Rcpllcans with Monarchy. Freeing myself an ?? vr obligation towards the Govern- hii ment in all that related ...

... A meeting of Town Council was held yastel- day-the Lord Provost presiding. THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTh. The minutes of last meeting having been read, Mr JOHN HOPE moved the disapproval of the minutes in so far as they regarded the appoint- ment of.an officer of health. This he did for the following reasons:-lst, That the duties of the officer of health are far too important to be effi- ...

... LIr11Cp COLEINSC'S :REJEC'TION OF THE I;!)KS OF MUSES. (rnoM'.1 -11 : ICOSIIO'N i 1 ?? It is no Ilo g'r a secret that the Bisholp of Natal is the pruelate pointedl at ?? our dailv aud t weckly joarni s as a candidate for the crown of mirrdeiolii in the caluse of b''terodloxy ThcE pub] ic is II C nie toglow ?? tostart'li ng feals acculmlisihe;l b~y some of the multitudintoi' I lu;ls s n it ...

... The following is an extract from a letter from Frederick Douglass to a friend in Leeds, dated Rochester, United States, September 22, 1862 : I regret the eagerness with which some of our anti-slavery friends in your country, as well as in America, seize the opportunity afforded by our civil war to drop the anti-slavery work. In the New Testament, He who knew the hearts of men was careful to ...

... SERIOUS DISTURBANCE BY SOLDIERS IN THE 111GF1 STREET. A disturbance of a most serious character, arising in the first place from disorderly conduct on the part of several soldiers belonging to the 25th Regiment, occurred last night in the High Street. It appears that the conduct of several members of the regimentiduring the last few weeks has been anything but creditable. Three or four of the ...