... THE TOWN COUNCIL, To the Editor of the flull Packet. -tSn In thle C ourse of my T'ambIles laItely through- tle tos ave heard it much comnplalined of, that thle town SI d people .nre -in mttuy clase, PerfqC1lY.J1ignorant who nre the ant aldermen and fomna mere: Tcouncille;fu; I wb o is t htt thy re abe or foget who areind'iwho ar tnut memt. berl of that agsbody. To' endeavour to oblvivte thlis ...

... catbontian A£rmurv EDINBURGH. MONDAY, JANUARY 4. THE PAST YEAR. A POLITICAL RETROSPECT. While the good wishes of health and happi- ness to every one, and the bright anticipations of increasing and enduring prosperity to our coun- try, greet appropriately the advent of a New Year, we feel invited to perform another, less flattering, but probably more useful, duty to the public. We would remind ...

... Mr Campbell of Islay arrived at Drinoon at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning. On land- inig from the steamer, he was received by his Chairman of Committee, Mr Macfie. Three hearty cheers welcomed his arrival, and he pro- cceded to Leitch's Inn accompanied by a nume- rous body of his friends and supporters. At one o'clock he appeared on the hustings, at- tended by Mr Macfie, Mr Campbell of Dun ...

... LEITH DOCX COuMISSION. At a meeting of the Leith Dock and Harbour Corn- I mission, beld at Leitha on New Year's Day, the Lord nei Provost in the chair, nor The minutes baving been read, hut Mr Philip called the attention of theI meeting to a mi bei note of the Special Committee, from which it appeared, wo that Mr Howden attended and entered his dissent against tlic the general measusre of ...

... I ,.CJRWUT1TYRAL soCISTV I &N or SCOT LAND. ,f th~is National As- fIIA' ofD this National As- gfl + Inn Aleexange ot lbn -ti trheir Hall on Tuesday last, llr111% it l their ally full ait ?? woe lliS ~ proportion Of the iowrcal lff rank, p'operty, and Oo~a~iintle Esen;s. of Ard~lrn ol qae lO~rrl' e inr Esq- Ainbslic Pcnd the vicinityb lI1 ~ die arql S of L otbian, V ice- 'r ?? 3 t s pportq d ...

... On Saturday an unfortunate female, of the lowest class, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having run away with a coat and waistcoat of a gentleman who was sta- ted to be the brother of a Member of Parliament. The facts were rather odd, as was the complainant himself, who is an elderly, stout, sad-looking?person, and who appeared in a coat and waistcoat which had evidentty been ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-The letter I addressed you under the signature of candor, though for some time unavoidably delayed, at length appeared in your columns, and seems to havi aiousad the bile of several of your readers no less than three doughty champions having appeared two under real, one under false rolouts, in the lists of controversy, or I sholild rather say of ...

... The following account of the severe earthquake in Chili last February is abridged from Professor Silliman's American Journal of Science — One of the most terrific and destructive convulsions with which this devoted country has ever been visited by, com- menced on the 20th February, 1835, occasioned by the irrup- tion of the volcano of Aupico, in about the latitude of Con. ception, and about ...

... CONTEMPORARY PRESS. (From the Times.) A most pitiable person, who signs himself A late Assistant Commissioner of the frisli Poor Inquirv, has sadly put his foot into it by writing a letter with the same view as the Swiss had. The gist of this sin- gular specimen of stupidity is, that the Dublin Found- ling Hospital is closed, that parish assessments (for the support of foundlings) are ...

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... I a . _ At thre taeetiug of the Townrt Cotunlcil of Etilltjtltgi, tl, Ttlier:dy rvech, a letter wit. reml fromt the Lorel Advocate, iti which bi. Lotrdstip stltteni ?? t he bil Ifar ?? ?? ?? s'ettisIL Unirersitius via,,eat yet tr WiIt i, nrt tit butitted tt (tuerncret. eIit, niL itrtoI lieittlytiar tI at rillow I It itI t t Ie ?? the C(inrIeCil tvitar itital. lc ile it:IaniC r ua ...

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