... FRIGHTFUL CONFLA4GRATIONIN NORTH : GRAY'S CLOSEA EDINBURGH. (-trom the Edinburgh Conrant.) On Thursday nightthe public of Edinburgh were again awfully startled by the outbreak of a fire in the densely crowded and populous group of houses between the lower part of the High Street and Physic Garden and between Carrubber's and Chal- mer' Closes. At 10 minutes after 10 o'clock a great I blaze was ...

... EXTBAORDINARY DESTRUCTION OF FATAMI PROPERTY BY FIRE. (From tle Scot-man.) The numerous destructive fires that have recently occurred on farm-steadings in this and adjoining ! counties are now exciting much attention thrnygh- out the district. Commencing with Friday the 28th of last month, we have to recall the occurrence on that day of a disastrous conflagratiun on the farm of Harelaw, ...

... GLASGOW ESTABLISHED PRESBYTERY The ordinary monthly meeting of this reverend Court washeld ?? Jamieson, Moderator. COLLECTO IN All OF THE FUNDRS OF THEFMARY. DrRuscnansuggestdthatthePresbteryshould app~oist a collection to be niade in all the churches and chapels within the bounds, in aid of the fands of th Infirmay, on the sec4nA1Bba~hofA ?!7ovemnher. He ?? the members were all impressed, ...

... tREAMENT (F [ENAICT -Although the 'trhatment, of the ?? hiss so greatly mprovedtnmder official ,inspection, and is still- improving, there are' from tixaeto time diklosnrea of great mismanagement, neglect, and malractice yet continuinv and hard- to -be eradi- cated. The ?? Luncy avow themaselves -started to find last year at the Colney- hatch asylum a&practice prevailing of placing certain ...

... THEE FENIAN OUT RAGE. 'IN MANC.E_.TE_! OPENING OF THE SPEiAL OOM39SSIONi (From our own Corespondeantl The Special Commission appointed to try the 26 prisoners who are charged with the murder of Sergeant Brett, of the Manchester police force, on the 18th of September last, was opened at the Assise Courts, Manchester, on Saturday after- noon, before Sir John Mellor, Justice of the Court of ...

... TIM HON. COLONE-. H.-LWDSAY, M,., ON :OTHE VOLUNTEER SERVICE.r.{. The-ollowing ;emarks:wereimde :by ColonelC.. H. Lindsay, commanding ?? George's Rifles, at the Maidenhead-Agricultural Banquet on the 8th instant : -- - ' He'said ?? soldier foir many yearA of-his life e weliknew howhighanshonourit was to be cale- upon ?? the British army on publihoocasions,;n dhe said so because at wana pro- ...

... BY oBDI/A.RY-TEZE'RA PH. F O -IOGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S' TELGRA MS.] e :FRAINE.: Paris,Oct. 18 (Evening). - The Papl Ndunco visited' the Emperor teoday at. St Cloud. A Council of Ministers wSV1 be held to-morrow. . Te Paris -sbxhibitoniili finally close on the 31st lust, BEL-GIUM. Brussels, Oct. 1&. Baron Pycke, the newly-appointed Belgian Minis- tei.to the Papal Court, has been ordered to ...

... i ~, Q. TH SCLLR TO-T E I.AD AC -o the Editor of the Glasgow Hcrald. . Srs,-Allow me to relate the following episode iu the eventful history of te -ero of your yesrteday's paragraph,, headed-as iboye, ..About the lt~read of. Augut las3t t he sal &,disit f captain called upo.. n eno our, mst reaspeetg able bookselle'i357-0ad on en~teiig th~ shop, he in. quired '5If this ?? 0Q4cd&C;,ambridge,' ...

... 3iDuCATiOoN-,vKE -FORTHCO.M.G G ENSUS. ,. Mr Flint, registrar of ' the EdncatiozsCommission of 1839, writes to tthe Times:- An extraordinary, umnnecessary, and very expensive-undertaking is about to- be entered 'upon'by two of our public de- partmnents or Government offices, which, I .renture to think, ought previously to receise the ssndtion of the House of Commons. It seems that' the ...

... THE WORKING MEN ok ANX MR DISRAELI. ?? - To ?? tke ?? .; i | SR,-InonrImpr~ession' ofs T7hr ears a paragraph Iere a *pnbartha working men ase dep0d5P cellor of the Exche eadres ted e th an address from the workin Ch; thanking him for hdis xrio -rad ..eesof rage. Ihe report oftthiz sob tue, lb resemblance tosim arathe tsn ar ion 5Oh c I appear thwt worige n are of iesc i e;1 communieate with ...

... THE EXAMINATIONS BY THE GENERAL I COUNCIL OF Pl'ROCURA1TORS OF SCOT- i LAND. IIA Practitioner, writing to the Courzant in re. fereuce to the Generall Council of Frocurators of Scotland, ?? body, including tventy-three local Faculties, representing eleven hundred practi- tioners, was constituted by their general consent with the main object of raising the standard of com- petencyinthe ...

... S C: v t v ?? (FRom the tanceti We announced last week verybriefly a large -in-. portation of scurvy into -the port, of London that took place on Thursday the 26th ullt. Itappearathat ,whenthesurry-lienship in question arrived at Calcutta twelve:tew hands were shipped, nine of whom we're' from one, and triee' sdverally' from as many oehclveisels. -It'is to'b.. bsd.vedtha-t the i: nie men ...