... Base Csrown .Pieceas.-In a recent publication 'we quoted a paragraph fromi a contemporary staitig that spu'olon s crown pieces were circulated to a 00s51 lerahle extent i)n Alazichester, and added0 that similar counterfeits had been detected in Glasgow. The following incident will Illus- trate the enode of operation adopted by the utterers of the bad coin, and may serve as a salutary caution ...

... Osborne Hoa0use.-Unon the arrival of the Courtin the Isle of Wight nest weeik, the planting of several thousands of trees, consisting of oak, elm, and chesnut, will take place upon the grounds around Osborne House, and at Barton, under the immediate superintendence of her Ma- iestv and Prince Albert. Various additions will also be made to the ornamental shrubberies in the immediate vicinity of ...

... INTERCOURSE WITH NEW ORLEAS AND THE GREAT VALLEY OF THE WEST. ( From the Liverpool Times. I A plan is in course of execution for improving the corn munication of New Orleans, the sole outlet of the great valley of the Mississippi, with the sea, which, when exe- at euted, will be attended with many advantages to the IaT rapidlv-increasing commerce of that city and the region I Lk of which it is ...

... SCEtNE AT THE SEA OF MARMORA. (Feoe a c; . Db2aa , by Clirisaia AnderseW ) We steered over towards the coast of Asia and the great City of the Dardanelles, on the fortress of which one great cannon was ranged by the side of the otber,-they did not n Salute US. Soldiers in E aropean uniform, yet with red, h high-crowned fez, peeped forth from between the port- holes. Boats, with Turks and ...

... FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMNBER 20. The late accounts from Portugal have been of more 1 l than usual interest. The armies of the Queen and of the | t - - - 11 .. insurgents were gradually approaching each other, and a body of 600 troops detached by the Duke of Saldanha had, according to report, defeated the Cintra Guerillas [ with considerable loss. Thus far, in every conflict which has taken place ...

... ,,WAIm L\ 'A-Y COMaIISION- . In terms of adjournment, th.e Commissioners appointed hy Gorern o atot~tu investigate and report upon the several railwaY ?? fo. crossing the Glyde, and forning zt General Central 'errninasuin .Glsgow, ni t on Monday in t.ile Mterchaents' BUI-, iluteiatul belreet, when Mr Terant, writer, On tile part of the Glasgow, Blirrheal, anid Neiiston direct Line, also, the ...

... Mction in the Fifteenth Wnrd. cnnqenrient ke The Election in the Fifteenth Ward, consequent upon the parity of votes between Messrs. Edmiston and Gemmill at Tues- o- day's poll, took place in the BaroniaL Buildings, Gorbals, on Sa- ts turdaylast. The contest was one of the keenest which has ever taken place in the Municipal or Parliamentary experience of the Y city, and yet the majority of the ...

... -UPERSTITIONS OF THE SLFTLANDERS. (Froln, r.7e ~ .lnr;l (Frola Fraser's Aragazine.) Novh,'re in Scotland, perhaps in Europe, aretiters more habi- tations, of -leeper awe remaining of unclean spirits than in the 1510011 of S letland. All these,' as I observed, had their origin in MvtliOL cv of the ancient Scatcidinavians ; and when C'hristi-anitv th7sitv;sitecd our shores, a very firm belief in ...

... THE NORTHERN FISTIERIES. (From tie Correspondesnce of e MwForaiag Chronicle.) Both in Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland the existing dearth has proceeded from one and the same cause. In both these sections of the empire the lower orders have almost exclusively relied upon the same capri- dious esculent for subsistence. That failing them, they starve. It is a happy circumstance, however, ...

... THE AlIIIY BREVET. Sulrnleent to the London Gazette- 2esd, Norn- inr sin Supplement to the Londona GaucIe, Tuesday, XbVremnber ID. M%~a OFFICE, Nor. 9. Hecr Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following officers to take rank Cr brevet ais undermeorioned. The commissions toi he dated N or. 9. 1846 :- Ge-neral Sir Georgee Nugent, iiart.,andG.C.B. ; General Thos. Grosvenor ;General Henry ...

... T FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUSDY I At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of October, 1846, pre- sent the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, this day the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. and the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, were, bh her Maiestv's coT1mand, sworn of her Majesty's Most HEnograble Privy Council, and nook their respective ...

... THE ?NAVY BREVET. - k - . I r .. I (From ttie Snppienteet to the Lcendor Gazette of Tuesday.) ADninen,.-rv, Nov. 9 This nlay, in pursuance of her 'Majesty's p'essure, the following Flag Officers of her 3lajesty's fleet %were promoted, viz.:. ADMIRAL OF rliE RED. Sir George Martin, ?? G. C. St, M. and G., To he Admiral of the Fleet. ADMIRiilALS OF `leE WHISTE. Phi:ip Stephenls. Ere. Sir William ...