... -GARDE.ING. : Ffo.owE GAmDEN.-Dahlias, if so far injured by frost-as to be, no longer, ornamental, may be eut down preparatory to their being taken -ulp in. a few days' time. .Tigridias and other summer bulbs may be taken up and laid.in a 6ol dry shed till they will part easily fromn their haulm. USlvia pateas should be taken up and potted, or planted in a frame of inoderately dry soil, where ...

... EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE DUKE OF IARGYLL.. (Frorn the London Record.) THE excommunication of the Duke of Argyll! This ap- Pears rather a-strange announcement in the present day. But it is not less strarie tha4 true. . The actor 'on- the Oc-, cirsion is the Rev. J. Wi. Trower, late the overseer of a little parish in Sussex of about sixty families,- but now, by the eletio ofnieten Eisopa, mniters ...

... CoMmIIr crAiL LZIB , , . FOn THE WEER1 ENDING ISONDA4 LAST. - EXPORTS. HALIfAAX.-I pipe linseed oil,3 boxes tobacco pipes, I cae containing stationery, brushes, beads, ornamented tapes and small wares, sand-glasses, and cutlery, G. Forbes; t- 7 boxes tobacco pipes, A -Leslie: 60 boxes starch. lo ts casks soda, D. Pirie* 8i bags Scotch barley, J. Glennie; 8 4 casks plain British spirits, Begg & ...

... WMM 2 EKL Cao DIPEBND X v. Lord Dalhousfe has contributed £500, and Lord Gougle l£40, for the vidows and orphans of those who fell at Chil- lianwallab and Ramnuggur. Three Egyptian youths have arrived in the Clyde to b-4 in- structed in themaking and building of marine encines. Two are to he educated in Messrs Scott's foundry at Grcenock, ,and one by the well- known Napier, of Glasgow ...

... ROMAN CATUOLIC RELIEF BILL. ON Wednesday last Mr Anstey proposed, in the House of Commons, the second reading of a Bill, of which the ob- 0 ject is the same as that introduced last session, but with- out success, by Mir Watson; that object being to relieve t the Roman Catholics from the few disabilities under which they still labour, by the total or partial repeal of certain statutes. The Acts ...

... PROPAGATION OF PELARGONIUAIS. The old plants of these flowers which have been so gay in the window lately, have now for the most part shed their bloom, and mu;t be submitted to the treatment best adapted to the propagation of young plants, and to render themselves handsome another year. The first thing required is to cut them down to within a few inches of the pot, the operation to be ...

... MISC ELLANEO US, NWE' LIGHvs.-Some fanatics have been preaching at Exeter to immense audiences, announcing that the end of the world is :fxed for the I ath of October next. VALUE or Exoi-.Esus.-We hear that the p rice of engineers has so advanced in the market, that Sir John Itennie is to have .tioo per week for che survey of a Dew line in the north.-liera- paths. Account, of Mlay 21, from ...

... Soreion 3intelligenue. I ere )P- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ase cl The Paris journals are occupied with railway speculations and on d etaih but in other respects their contents are uninteresting. ',he The C, nstitastional gives some curious details of the progress of ~irthe Jesuits, who appear to have circuscrilled their former mis- l;sionIIary etrrises, and to have choslern EUroPe ds the special iend of their ...

... IND IA. THE semi-monthly mail has been received, with advices to the dates following:-Calcutta, Feb. 9; Madras, 14; Bombay, 16; and Hong Kong, Jan. 31. The intelligence presents no incidents of unusual in- terest. Now that peace seems to have been firmly esta- blished both in the Punjaub and in Scinde, it is not to be. expected that the accounts from India should possess that important ...

... It is rumourel that the v ommittec on railways, appointed at the instance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, have agreed upon some inportant recommendations, awiong t which are the enlarging the period of complethin railway works, thereby enabling the respective boards to defer (-Uls, and the empoweringcomupanies who have passed the standing I orders this session to proce~d next session ...

... omettic 3Inuteligrence ENGLAND. ELECTION oa Loawn MAYOR-FrY AL CLOSE OF THE POLL.- The poll of the livery finally closed at four o'clock on Tuesday, when the numbers were as follow:-Carroll. 1653---Wood, 1644 --Hooper, 324. Majority for Alderman Sir G. Carroll, nine. THE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.-A Court of Aldermen 4as held onThursday. Aftersome speechesand motionsregard- ing thereturn of votes ...

... -IAMSCHAL COLLEGE AND.UNIVERSITY, - - ABERDEEN. ' : 6Ijday the 7th April, the Degree of A.M. was con- :erred on the folloindg Candidates, after examinations in -the Evidences of Christianity, Latin. Greek, Natural His- s Mathematics, Natural hilosophy, Moral.Philosophy ajd iie druring sovendays-- John F. White, Aberdeen, Robert Keith, Aberdeen, Jiames Altan Rothiamay, Honourably Alexander ...