... - . The Lammas Show. of.tihe Fettercairn 1armers' Club was held- on Monday. The number of animals. brought forward was less than on many previous occasions; uti the specimens exhibited were decidedly good of their kinds. The judges-Messrs Anderson, Inchock; Smith R-inbleth month; Knowles; Mondynes; and Stewart, albarake- after a very car-ful inspection, awarded the premiums as follows:- Brood ...

... I I HER IMAJESTY'S DEPARTURE FROM ARDVERIKIE AN0D ARRIVAL AT FORT WILLIAM. FoRT WILLIAM, Friday Evening. This, the morning of the day on whilch her Majesty, as i arranged, was to leave Ardverilie, dawned, as usual, in mist and rain. In the course of the forenoon, however, a artial clearing up took place, and fair and foul alternated Kuring the remainder of the day. The metropolitan police took ...

... CITY ELECTION-CAPTAIN FORDYCE'S. I MEETING. I A Meeeting aF the Electors, called by CaptainFordyce, was held or Wednesday in the Court-house, which was 6rammed to suffocation. Captain Fordyce came into the' room a little before three an wvas received with great enthusiasm; He proceeded directly to Colonel Sykes, who was present on Capt. For- dyee's invitation, and both cordially shook. hands ...

... l T-; very Reverend the Provincial Synod of Aberdeen met st B=ff, yesterday, when an able and eloquent sermon was preahledlv the Moderator, the Rev. Dr Pirle, from 1 Cor. Li. 14, verse 40, Let all things be done decently and in ° eT~resafr, the roll having been made up, the Synod pro- eded to elect a Moderator, for the ensuing half-year,when the ev. 3,. W. Grant, of Boyndie, was unanimously ...

... On Tuesday week, a public preliminary meeting of the Health of Towns' Association was held in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institution-Sheriff Watson, President of the Society, in the chair. The attendance was numerous. The Chairman, having shown that the object of the Asso- ciation is to promote both the social and physical health of the community, and would chiefly interest the working classes ...

... The following letter, from a correspondent of the Times, dated ' Camp. Deccan, Sept 20, regarding the abolition of Suttee. under the administration of Lord Hardinge, will be read with interest:- Probably the most remarkable feature in the rule of Lord Hardinge will be the cordiality which has been exhibited by native Princes in regard to the abolition of Suttee. During the past two months the ...

... NEWt' Biras ANT) THE STANDING ORDERS.-How will the applications for new bills be affected by the early meeting of Parliament ? is a question that has been asked, and some dif- } ficulty has been found in giving an answer. The standing orders run thus:- That in the months of Oetober and No- vember, or either of them, immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which application for the ...

... |ROYAL INFIRMARY-APPLICATION OF ETHER. Yesterday the ether was again resorted to, in the operating theatre, and with various success. Professor Syme bad to per- form the excision of the elbow joint-the patient being a man of colour. On the first attempt at the inhalation, the appara- tus broke; it was tried a second time, but without the desired effect, so that the operation had to proceed in ...

... IRE LAND. In the workhouse of Lurgan, one of the principal seats of the linen manufacture in the county of Armagh, the deaths have increased to an :alarming extent. In the first week of January they amounted to 35-but last week the deaths in the workhouse, containing less than 800 persons, amounted to ninety-five! We learn that the Central Board of Health held their first meeting on Monday at ...

... FRAN CE. |THE PRASLIN INIRDEtR. i The Gazette des T iWuAaux, of Friday, gives the following C additional intelligence in regard to this dreadful murder, a full account of which appears in another part of our paper On Thursday the investigation was resumed, whilst I f. Gannal was embalming the body of the Duchess, which, da- ring the night, was attended by two cleraymen. The first cir- ...

... EDINTBURGH INFANT SCHOOL SOCIETY. A meeting of the subscribers to this society was held on Saturday in the Council Chamber, to consider the expediency of transferring the model school in the Vennel to the kirk session of the New Greyfriars' Church. Mr Win. Chambers in the chair. The Secretary (Mr John Leishman, ?? read a report by the directors, which stated that the school in the Vennel, ...

... (Fronz our Special Correspondent,) LONDON, SATURDAY MoaNiJNd. The Easter recess has commenced, and nearly all the Mi- nisters have left town to rusticate for a few days, not however before they exhibited to the country tlhe success of their la- bours from what has passed of the session, and which it must be admitted is in the highest degree creditable to them. The pressure of Irish legislation ...