... FIRM THIE LONDON GAZETTE. ST JAMSS PALACE, JUNE 30. IS27. Tl-e King eas ehis day pleased to confer the honotr of D Keightbood on John Pleter Grant, Esq. OFFICE' OF ORDNANCE, Anc. 2. 1-27. Voyal ?? Lieutensant Horace n DlathiSs no'be First Lieutenant, vice Blackiston, resigned; ,dated 191t July IS27. c Ol3NSfANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. C First Ass=istant-Surgeon James.Veeling, M. P_ to be Str- t ...

... EDINBURGH NEW:CONTINUED. fnistern On Friday, the Senate of the University of Glas- from Gowe conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on the by Br Reverend Hugh Ralph, pastor of the first established taking congregation of ?? Presbyterian communion in and an Liverpool. was o MAsoNIc BALL.-The brethren of Dunbar Castle still n Lodge, with a view to assist in alleviating the distress Las of the ...

... ARRIV.AL OF CAPrAIN F1tANK-1IN. ,vL.oeearinn ns J Ire hate th farther satisfaction of announcing to-day the ceiol of cur adven turoos countrymaan Captain Frank- Al-o n his &ardous and castrepnising exploratory researches rir Ihr Areeic circle is America. Jr as oat a little earl- ts,.,:threitnem of both our'heroei vapaitors should have bdl~storoous. On the same day thor Captain Parry .eldlroh ...

... calebloniell Olercurp. EDINEURGIL SPATURDA 'Y-SEPTEMBER 20. The direct reply of the Divan to the Ultimatum of the Allied Powers has not yet been received; but the Reis Effendihas ineffect announced its deternmination, by declaring that tite Porte will give no other answer than what is con- tained in the anticipatory Manifsto of the 9th July last, issued on discovering the import of the Treaty ...

... HORT CULTURA SOC..X t.,. At a meeting of thc Committee, held ots the ilh instant, der IL the follow-iltg prilee werett rled:- d He v, A mnedal to AMr George Btrosco, gardener to the Hart of it. 9 Lauderdale, at Duba, e Houe, for trh best brace of cu- on wa c6cirhera, n theie history. They were the white Prihkly ehaeg kind;- 'Frnch variety, early, anid a great bearer. Norbi A mnedal to Mr ...

... TilS i)UkiE Ok ' it (COURT CIRCULAR OF THUXISDAY.) r- A silver plate is to be fastened on the leaden coffin ~of the a-royal Dukie, havieg thle tame inscription as that on the toplate which is to he fixed on the state collie, a copy of which gvinolast. lie e flateDke, till within tim last three yeses, iwas a re. El* markably ?? and strong man, beieg scarcely ever ini- 'ddisposed. His Royal ...

... BOTANY-UNIVERSITY OF EDINBUlGH. Monday Dr Grahram terminated the University Course of Lectures on Botany, when the following Prizes were award. ed-- To Mr Edward Mioore, of Plymoauth, a Gold Medal, fer the best Essay on the Plouts which are poisortrrss, either to man or thee iferioranimals, and lreegro ttheB irislr Flora, swith various cirumstranees (as stated in the intimation given last year ...

... .rCIcLTUSAL SOCIETY. rr f the C1o edfiv.n flothi. onain -tk. Thurnnd.v. it, th ef he alsloin Knll I Ge'ci twoo'lock on Thursday, ira the 4irtmrrhe d t E in the chair, when neve- V d .iSc' byaballetand reports from wo,',ritc ere read, from the d oe in the competition of the isu-.a' bit ?? beno-ared as sUnder: tgehidie6 ef Penebros, firomtopen motto, rior shin 0r Fsort, with their names.. (a~ ...

... to On Satr ayna theseting of 'the Comosissioners under the FT ly art fo carryin these eprovemenesi inot efbect, wao held I soin the Council Chamber, the Lard Provost in the Chair, nit fur the Purpose of receiving sloe report from the Committee IY ?? on the 9th instant. is The Lo~ni PROVOST stated that the Committee had n, not been idle in she interval which had elapsed since lost go s- meeting ...

... THE IMP'EOVE&MENTS. There ses a meeting of the Ceonittce on Plans held hr the Couecil Chamber on Friday, at which, we understand, it seas agreed that thce thondation stones of the new bridges, over the road at the back of the Castle and tha Cowgatc. shoald be laid en the lnth of Anguststhe day on which nor mest ?? Sovcreign landed in Scotland in 1822. It is understood that t:here 'till be a ...

... DINNEfR TO DAVID WILICIE, ESQ. IN.A., I AND LIMNER tO HI1S MAJMSTY FOR OC.OTI.ANI. Ewe are muchi disappainted at Leing deprivert of tire saj mt-tioeio of laying the folloiviog account iif thle dhnner gi- '-ii to Mr Wiikie at llama ebirre the prberd thrit thc intentions of the writer should hare hiers reidereri abortive. We! are at a loss to know, saher thle bloarr lays ; but tire fol-f ...

... THE AR3My. The private, of the 24dh a4al ?? reg in Lime sic e geerteon have applied B~ bardladoic~~ry Colonelslat to raear nnournirg on the left arm, in memory of the te Dolke of York. D Thbe ?? grey l and royal artilry also wear crapc round the left'arom-. - The 73d regiment etatiinned at Wraceford, attended divine Is servicc on Sunday last, the o ticerl and men wearing eaped on their capsi ...