... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... MONDAY-AuousT 6 Mon -acteI Sir Herbert Taylor arrived in town on Friday morn - dayi ing, from attending the King, at his Royal Lodge in Fdid 'Winsor Park, where Sir H. Taylor had been staying since Wednesday afternoon. About two o'clock in appI the-afternoon, Sir Herbert held a levee at the office of his r the Commander in Chief, in the Horse Guards, which and, was attended by fifty military ...

... ;aletionian ;Mcrcurp. f- yet 2e EDINBURGH.. hisl mu! :1_ TVHURSDAIY-AUGUST 23. refe l fs~ e At the sug estian of several of our Lorri Friends, a le, Pto ahpies of the Caledonian Mercury will be left on Sale the In at the SHOa of Mi, ALLARDICe , BooXSELLana, ToLasTo Pa !d WysD, on the mornings of publication. -i 3e The latest advices from Lisbon, which come down as far csp Mr lo as the 2d ...

... UN'VERSITY OF tDINBURG[T. Yesterday the Senatls Academicus of the Uliver- sity of Edinblrgh conferre1 tle detroe of Doctor o! Mrdieine on] tle fol~lrieg genstlemen, IGO in number; after baving gone through tlsealippintod examinations, and publicly defended hleir inaugural dissertations.- This is by far tbe greatest nuimber of gentlemen who ever graduatetd at this University: 0ti SCOTLAND. ...

... I- -40ny 0w Cl - THE DINNER : in tht - -A Up~At ?? the evenin,,, the Commissioners, with theimpattat . men andgentlemeo, commnemorated of an eleganltditnrodiogso the~day, byvartaking together the oegan Toner andW dessert, preparleda by Mr Gi b, in was in the Cl,.-ur0 , on which ocasion the Lord Provost Forbes, Lord Nf o tt e right and left by Lord mairal Sir ld 'roe, the lollourahle W. lorbes, ...

... JusTME or PEACE Co( ?? Short time rgo, a thea gentlemsan took a seat in one ofnthe Portabello stage coactes Ness under an aogreement that he was to be taken up in Waterloo Place;,but no particular house or number having been n'ever men tioned,- the conach passed wit hout being observed by him. table Upon discovering this, he immediately hired a chaise, for whet the expence of''wbich be ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... NORTHERN TAiCHT CLUB. 4I0JiI.-t11cZI;IN t ,Ui.t1 ULU1I. 'This associative commenced its meeting in the Clyde an Monday. The Yacht Club now consists of-lf0 mambern, and its tonnage amounts to nearly 600 tons, and receiving annually an sccession of about 12 members and several vsC- sels, its importance wtill soon greatly increase. Having rendezvoused in ll thsoy Bov on Monday morn- ing, the ...