... I - . I a . . . .11 I a , - I t-horn Lists for Sweepstakies vwill be made up in due time for old- those Classes of Stork which may appeal most likely. to meet thehviews of Exhibitors. Ii the- meantime nomii. nations may be made to the Secretary of the Society at siums, Edinburgh, orto Messrs Brnett, Aberdeen. enp tbe GENERAL REGULATIONS. rdeen, 1. The Competition will take place at Aberdeeb, ...

... NE WWORKS. Te sue snA1 ?? -a 1'.r CAinnAl -a co- .4 -o It has been known to her friends for some time oast that AMliss Edgeworth was engaged in preparing for'the ,e!press a new work. The literary world will begladto learn thatit will shortly be published by Alir Bentley, who hag purchased thenew production ofthis now unrivalled writer ye for the sum of L. 100.-Mforniing Herald. ALLAN BRECK. ...

... RESPONSIBILITY OF REPRESENTATIVES: MR ROSS'g ADDRESS TO HIS CONSTITUENTS IN ARBROATH. A fall 'report of Mr Horatio Ross's elaborate Address to his Constituents at Arbroath now lies before us.; but as, owing to its unusual length, we cannot insert it entire, andas any abridgment which we could make would not, owing to the multipli- city of details involved in this very remarkable Cecsipta Rendu ...

... HO4ITSE OF COMjMjON4S-F.b. 13. V. fl-VN - , .. ?? *1,. P -. Mr J. BENETT presented a petitiou from the Pro- testant -Dissenters of the Independeut Chapel of War- minster, complaining of Church rates, and the want of regidmraaion of their births and marriages; also that they cannot bury their dead according to the rites (if their church; and that they are excluded from the ceremony of marriage, ...

... P ?? PL!AWiAXENT~. .11OUSE OF COMMONgS-Feb. 13. A6ltOUtONtED SITTING. Colonel LEITH HAY wisheilto put questions to tire Socretary of the Treasury relating to thelCoommiesion, of whnch the Right Honourable Baronet, the Member for Dundee, isthe head, appointed last-y.ear to examine into the application of the Excise laws. This Commissionhad f already preneeoded in a very laborious, a very ...

... MERCHANT COMPANY, A special general meeting of the Merchant Company was held yesterday to receive two reports, 1. On-the ap. propriation of funds under the management of the Board of TrtsteeS for the Encouragement of Manufactures in Scotland; and, 2. On the new police bill. WIr T. Blaitliwood, in presenting the report of the Committee On the funds for the encouragement of manu- factures, ...

... MR PRITCHARD THE ACTOR.-Rumour, in I the early part of last week, killed out friendE Pritchard, so long known in Edinburgh, and so I long a favourite, both on and off the stage. Hav t ing, however, observed that gentleman's name in the Dublin Theatre advertisement daily, and that he actually performed the part of the Ghost in Hamlet on Wednesday evening last, we are inclined to believe that he ...

... - TIIE INQUIRY. g lie ilouse of Cymmonsi by a majority of 192 -1 has r-antedthe Inquiry demanded by Mr be (,Com c1la~nd ?? named by that gen-b denian has bec. accordingly appointed-to inves- se tigate thle charge made against Mr Sheil, and sc I ther of the Irish Members. The incon of venictce, if not danger, of the precedent which a will thus be establishedi was admitted on all dr an as c had ...

... .. . ._.v -. nfo~l ?? - The following article is extracted from the Dablin Evening Post of Jusunary 16 : and wairure4 lais been for a length of time, andfis now, deriv ngl a COnsiuerble revetsue ro adventhe Un tE Kin agdom. 'ot y is, effected b f .tor empl rovement org- lurid,.of various agents to whnom are uronsi,,-ied large Itty rvosin t the Lotrelnush aen ofSaeLteiP quantities of ...

... p; -AHIE~ PLmicL PFLESS -TirE GRicAT TALisINO NUISANcE. Tlie talk- ing nouistrce has set in for its six months. What a pest.is the Parliament! The Minister dreads it;. the Speaker sinks under it; the drowsy Lis- teners tire of it; the Country disregards its say- ings, dislikes its doings; the Fashionable World votes it a bore; the Press loathes it; the Repor- tershatelit; the Penny-a-liners ...

... ' Loli. |o I at MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17. at The militia and yeomanry are both mentioned as .,1 being included in the proposed reductions ; also. the 3) Exchequer department in the Treasury, theduty rd of which is to be done by the Bank of Ireland, free of expense to the ?? Packet. E e BSTOCXS T[IIS DAY AT TWO O'CLOCK. BankStok- -- 216, hidiaStock. 2i9.' * ThreeperCent.Ited- s IndiaBonldse _ 28 2J ...

... EDINBURGH CLER(;y. We beg to call attention to LI,, l_ We beg to call attention to the du against the p'oposed reduction of Ediiiburghl, which will be found in, eir ,{l iS columns, and which is now in proce5 js in the city aind its vicinity. Therc is a mistake prevalent in reference to thl 6 the inistakc'of looking at ?? 11i pit functionaries. In this view notliig more absurd than having two ...