15 JANUARY 1859, page 6

Scotland.

LORD PANIICHE ON WHIG PRINCIPLES. The good town of Brechin presented its Provost on Monday with a piece of plate as a testimony of the respect of Brechin for Provost- Guthrie.......

French Administration.

Sir Stafford Northcote delivered a lecture last week at the Exeter Literary Society on the system of administration in France. It is of importance that the English should get......

Fortigu Nut( Ulouint.

f ThUr.—The excitement caused by the remarks of the French Em- peror to M. Hubner has been rather increased than allayed by subse- quent events. The journals, notably the......

Ireland.

An influential deputation from Belfast, in furtherance of the move- ment set on foot there to found intermediate schools, waited on Lord Eglinton on Thursday. It included the......