... connected with the same subject. (A laugh.) The Clerk then read a letter from Mr William Scott, junior, behalf of another party interested the rebuilding of the South Church, asking the Council to lend them the plans, &c., of the new South Church, prepared ...

... forthwith commence its important duties. In this exercise of their patronage, the Council have been guided the opinion of parties eminent in the Church, who have had ample means of forming right estimate of Mr Pirie's talents and acquirements. Mr Pirie's ...

... fair; and with the exception, therefore, of the desperate little mechanic convicted of sheer malice against Dowton, the wbole party were dismissed— or, we should rather have said, were sent about tbeir business. Thus terminated this thimble emeute. The tailors ...

... practice. We find a curious instance of this in our contemporary, the Glasgow Courier of yesterday. We know nothing of the parties, but the following correspondence sufficiently explains itself— TIIE KEV. JONATHAN ANDERSON ONCE MORE ! We some time since ...

... Advices from Madrid of the 21st ultimo bear that a party of officers in the garrison were so incensed at a violent article published in the Eco del Commercio, reflecting on the Queen Mother, Maria Christina, that twenty of them, covered with their cloaks ...

... declared to have made an offer of £1100 to the Harbour Trust, at per cent, interest; whereas they had made no such offer. A party did make offer of the above sum to the Board at the rate specified, and it was mentioned by more than one member of the Trust ...

... after Smeaton's body was disinterred, it was inspected by them ; but the result of the investigation has not tr.inspired. The parties suspected are still in jail. Salmon Fishing in the Tay —A local contemporary lately inserted a paragraph to the effect, that ...

... seconder of the motion, then took up the pen ; but was also unable to do justice to Tait's wishes. The failure of both these parties in embodying the words of the motion, created much laughter and amusement among the meeting, which was put an end to by the ...

... an illustration of the working of this frightful plot against the rights of native industry. To this plot there are many parties. Our freetrade-loVing manufacturers *our shopkeepers, of the stamp of Wills and Davy*our benevolent Jews, of the order of ...

... Drs M'Farlan and Gordon pitch-forked them—the cause of Christianity had been extinct from Cumberland to Cornwall. Various parties were degraded the eulogies, and honoured by the abuse of the reverend crusader. The chief subjects of his eulogy—as if to ...

... of the cleaver. A battle instantly commenced, when the roaring of the lion and the howling of the dog called forth a large party of all sorts. For some time the victory was doubtful, but at length the dog, by a singular manoeuvre, threw the lion on his ...

... year 1844 has been ushered in in Dundee with the usual rejoicings among our citizens ; and we understand that the number of parties first fitting' was greater than has been the case for some years back. This would lead us to believe that the cause of t ...