... TIlE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. Thle following im portlant case was tried before L.ord 1Ro- ?? and a jury, on Wednesday aend Thursday loot:- It 'OLONET, MATHOEW STEWART, OF CATRONE, v. ADAM AND CHtARLiES BLACK, IIOOKSELtLIRS AND PUBtLISHtERS IN EDINDUiRt55I. 14In this aetion t[he pursuer, as in riviht of his father, the bite Professor Dlugald Stewart, sought to recover dlamages from the ...

... n!lriculturr, ,Vc. SUGGESTIONS FOR SMALL FARMERS. The necessity of attending to the cultivation of the land, arid the policy of admitting a cottier to be occasion- ally withdrawn, or to absent himself from a permanent, though comparatively reinotet reproductive work (such as draining anti subsoiling), to be employed in reproductive of an iwnrediate, and though temporary, of the most rioces. ...

... TnE tidings from India arc decidedly those of economy and peace. The accounts from all quarters coincide in this respect. The Cashmere insurrection against Goolab Sing proves not to be a serious one; that of the Chief of Moultan against the Maharajah of Lahore more a financial higgle, than political resistance. The Nieam has at length appointed a Vizier of our choice, and Nepaul no longer ...

... VJNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY Evr-niING. By the arrival of the John (i. Coster at this port fronm Now York, we have adviecs from that city to the 3d instant inclusive. Tie papers that have reached us (lo not, however, add any intelligence worth noticing to the accounts brought by the Acadia. 'l'be lateA dates from Washington are to the 3d instant, but they are totallv devoid of importance. ...

... FAMINE and 'outrage still form the sad burden of Irish intelligence. In the poorer and more barren districts deaths by starvation are of such frequent recurrence, that somo of our more eloquent cotemporaries tell us, that coroners and coffins are as much wanting as fool for the people. The descriptions of the distress in those districts are so ghastly and appalling, that it is impossible to ...

... Bristol, Dec. 28, 1846. The following report from Mr. Brunei has been printed for circulation amongst the proprietors of the Great Wextern Steam-ship Company : 18, Duke-street, Westminster, Dec. 14, 1846. Gentlemen, —According to your request I have, as soon my engagements would allow of my leaving London, paid visit to the Great Britain, and X now beg to report to you the state in which 1 ...

... IRELAND- OLD' AND YOUNG- BIG AND LITTLE.,, Trae celebrated controversy recorded by Dean Swift, in one of his inimitable satires; between the Big-endians and the Little-endians, was no inexact typo of the battle now raging between i' big and little Ireland. Irish dis- content, or rather, the popularity and profit to be made by it, is the egg, and the only difforauce between the ...

... NEW TREASURY MTINUTE.-ENCOURAGENIENT FOR TEE IMPROVEMENT OF LAND. Is a former paper wve noticed thc fact, that government, actin onr the judicious sriggostions of influential mnn of all parties, had made one of its most decilel and happy ad- vanecs to meet the cmr'gency of theso tirns. 'I'lrorv is hope, now, that the country will bo recuod. Means atre put within tho power ofeverylarrdowner of ...

... THIE WEATHIILR-THIE PARBE Although there was on Solidity eveninL every appetiranct of a thaw, the trost duringr the ea rly tirt of yesrerday nioriling' wits so severe that, at seven o'clock, tbe therot4- meter of the Royal Hlulmarne Society at the reeeiving-hoose Hyde Park, was down to '4 degrees, being eibhtdegreesol frot. During the day the mercurv was not higher tt~ai 31 degrees. Last ...

... I 7, Ederi-quay, Dublin, 18ib Dec., 1846. i SiR-As it is the privilege of every member of the com- munity thus to convey his opinions on matters of public concern, I beg to submit a matter of, I believe, inestimable importance at this stage of the condition of this country. There is no question now as to the entire loss of the hi potato crop and the want of seed to restore it. For such ge- tj ...

... (From the Sligo Champion.) .. EMIGRATION.-This very week several poor creatures sh left this port for Englend there to take shipping for G America; they were nearly all destitute of clothes, money, or sea stores; and how they will be able to make their way Im to the Uuited States, is indeed, a mystery. But the fact of WI people leaving the country in the very depth of winter, on vs the eve too ...

... All i .5;nv 1 1,111 co Ito. U U ttsp* rerl U;6 Ir A remark of Sadi, the Persian poet, was- I nevcr complained of' my coidition, but once, when my feet were bare, and I hadi nut money to buy shoes; but I met it man without feet, and .r becanic coniteinted with mly lot.' 'r A poor taerl, iatNorwichl, personating Grainger e in thc flrco of WVho's the Dupe ?Vl on his benelit v iig ht, wihich ...