... AGRfCULTUIRAL REPORTS. 4 atam LOTHIAN. Barley, and tlhe earlv species of oats, are ia a for.ard ;t:ate . aed, should we imset fasaesthble wehtser till tiefs Laid. did of August, they wrill, il many ittstance', by that time be reedy for the sickle. Wheat, fromn the thinesess of the emip. e ,sill not be ?? so early. Little or noc. of tits idesrfiptioi of crop calr be ready far at least three, or ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ON IRISH VAGRANCY, I _ Jar TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MEECUtRY. Le is SIR-I am astonished that any difficulty should be found Ca, n in preventing that influx of Irish vagrants, with whom the Le. i western counties of Scotland are at present oppressed and De 1- which, if not speedily checked, will soon spread over the La It waekingdom. L 'U Those who may wish to know the regulations on ...

... i=ONDON. 'see fra Ti-iE NEW PREMIER aisec hae he (rom I/re Times.) -Cosnine1 'We hieteisportorct intelligeence this doe tn cntrttis-- his crier nchaoe, that L~ord Gederich has been directed hr his Ateo. able shin jenty-we Ought not to say to farm a new Admninistration, cessive- but-to esuppiy, as much as may. le outafehe existing asee- ttn~lioni tees, the lass of tire departed Minister and ...

... WEST LOTHIAN REPORT FOR JULT. (For the Caledunian Mercury.) I.-AGRtICULTUtRE. Auct The dripping wanmweather. sshieh haspheva.iled through edal ?? July, hill greatly adl55flrd tebecrops.; and although Se- PO t'erely rakled by the gafle 0Fl'tl tilt and 10th they bane Still- raon kept pushing on; With ?? trifling exceptions till sorts of Piet -white corn ace fully-shot oar. Wheaa, aS ...

... (Concluded hfrn mur paper of Thursday last.) ?? sonnet sans sdefut vcool Seol tun fony poeisr. Boileaiu. The superiority of Petrarch to the rest of the Italian sort. not writers, in the tender style, isso obvious and acknow. ledged that we shall confine our extracts, in this deprtmcent, abrtost easitely to his sonnets. di lstands alone amidst the crowd of cotemporarics and successors, for ...

... MONDAY-AUGUST 13. WIsnnosot, AuG. ?? King yesterday went in a private manner to Virginia Water, where his Majesty dined and spent the evening after which he returned by the in- clored ride through Chapel Wood and the adjoining planta- tions, to the Royal Lodge. A messenger arrived at the Royal Lodge at a late hour last night, with dispatches from the Cabinet Courcil, which were immediately ...

... ON TtIE MEANS OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND INCREASING THE QUANTITY OF FOOD. Even country which depends chiefly on potatoes far food u. moust het frequently exposed to scarcity, because the surplus: elm1 of one year's crop cannot he preserved to supply the deftiv- o ciency of another, an in the ease of grain. 'Kite extrerne~ kept poverty of our people has compelled them to subsist almost whit, ...

... The following particulars are extracted from a let- agt I ty ter dated Alten, received on Monday last:- 16 to Captain Parry was but fourteen days on his ?? u- from London to Ilammerfest, and weieere mush pleased lope t; with him and his officers; they have, however, in the opi- 110 Mr 9r, nion of the Hammerfestians, but little chance of accomplish. form ;ing the object they have in view. Had ...

... - _ ?? at - ?? - I Under the administration of my humane and at benevolent friend the Hla.atshee-lashce, the duties of the at office were exercised in a manlier on oild and liberal, that hi the period of three years, during which he held this office, triny be called the goldett age of the rayahs in Constanti. bj eopie and its dependencies. I found him one of the most of etlighteced 'Turwks in ...

... E NGLAND. (From the Former's Journal.) As this Is the period ofthe year when that most inmnrt- ant branch of agriculture, the harvesting the grain, is in full operati., me shall offer a few remarks upon the crops. From all we can learn wheat will be an average crop, and no more. On good land, or on that near. turnpike roads, and cansequently within reach of strong oanunres, it makes a show; ...