... |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 ...

... PHTLOSOPI-IICAL INSTITUTION. ?? Westroacoti delivered his second lecture on sculpture on Friday evening, which compriied a general andL interesting history of the practice of the art from the earliest ages down to the time of Alexander the Great. Thze lecturer said hie would not attempt to prove in whet nation this art bad first arisen, was it was to be presumned that the faculty of imitation ...

... I Frown our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, SATrTEDAy MORNING. The business of the session has commenced in earnest, as you will perceive from the 'amount disposed of for the four nights since the assembling of both Houses. As a prelimi- nary towhat I have to offer, I mast direct your attention to the frank and manly avowal of support of the present Minis- try made by Sir Robert Peel in his ...

... TTIHE, -%OOS-TIlE 12mx OF AFGUST. Thle 12th oFAticust, a 0-tv so- important to sportsmen. Wag. bath foui and lair in, this district. Tim, early part was stornav Wit, windl noid raba ; tolanrds the afternoon) it settle'] into ?? weatheri. FX~,i's Were entt'rttitied that in comparisonI waitl former seas;on!s, grouse wouldl be scarce. This. cerrainle. if tlie case onl some raeors ; bitt not to ...

... ARGYLL CANAL REPORT OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER. 19, Arundel Street, 27th April 1847. Sm-In compliance with the instructions which I had the honour to receive from my Lords Commissioners of the Ad- miralty, under date 1st April 1847, and directing me to examine into the propriety of connecting east and west Loch Tarbert by such a canal as may facilitate the navigation of the adjacent ...

... SI IFBy OUR USUAL EXPRESS, SIX lOTJRS IN ANTTICIP4TION OF THE LONDINOT MAIL. LONDON, WVEDNESDAEY MIOatNiN. The Congress of the Nations has for the last week been in full operation at Brussels. As in the days of the French Re- volution, mankind have met by deputy to discuss first princi- ples. There is, however, no longer question of political theo- rems, but of customhouse regulations. It is ...

... LATEST INE S. BY SI USRAtL EZPRESS H six HiouRS I-N AIN'TICl:PATIO-N OF THE LON DONN MALIL. LONDON, TF_:-EDSESD MrOR-1N-G. The Queen took a drive in a char-a-bane on Mondav. His -goyal EHighness Prince Albert returned from Portsmonth on Mronday afternoon. The royal dinner circle included 'her Roya] Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Hi-rboess Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria ...

... EDINBURGSn GAZETTE. SEQUESTRATIONS. September 17. JoN HEssrts GRaeG, lately writer and insu- rance broker in Edinburgh, presently residing in Dunblane- Creditors meet in the writing-chambers of James Bell, St James's Square, Edinburgh, 27th September and 18th October, ten o'clock. September 17. WVILL1aeL & Tnaotcs GrnMsELL & Co. mer- chants in Glasgow, and at Canton and Honet Kong-Creditors ...